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Renewable energy forum growing greener
Helping solve the nation’s
energy crisis the driving
force of four-day summit
By Dorothy M. Atkins
Aspen Daily News Staff Writer
Addressing the growing energy crisis is an 11th hour
attempt, which has created a sense of urgency among environmental leaders to undo the damage that’s been done
and prevent more of it from happening in the future.
That approach is echoed each year when organizers of American Renewable Energy Day (AREDAY)
in Aspen plan the four-day event, which ends today.
When local resident Chip Comins held the first-ever
AREDAY in 2004, it was a last-minute effort. The
event was organized in less than eight weeks, after
Comins approached Aspen Mayor Helen Klanderud
about creating a city-sponsored event that focused on
renewable energy. The city offered financial support
and two months later, AREDAY held its first event,
which was comprised of a one-day expo on the mall.
“When we first started nobody knew what a carbon
footprint meant,” Comins said.
Since then, the planet has experienced rapid population growth and the increase of carbon emissions into
the atmosphere, making it that much more imperative to
change the nation’s approach to energy, Comins said.
In 2006, AREDAY transformed from an expo into a
summit after current co-director Sally Ranney brought
former Colorado Sen. Gary Hart to speak here. In 2008,
AREDAY attracted billionaire Ted Turner, who is a
philanthropist in the world of environmental causes.
Since his involvement, the conference has made it onto
the national circuit of environmental forums, alongside
AREDAY ON PAGE 3
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Ted Turner, left, jokes with the crowd and fellow panelist Tom Steyer during a Saturday evening program on
“The Business of Philanthropy.” Preceding the discussion, Steyer was awarded the “AREDAY Stepping Up
to the Plate Award” for his commitment to energy reform.
Bears attack two campers near Crater Lake over weekend
Wildlife officials on the
hunt to put animal down
By Carolyn Sackariason
Aspen Daily News Staff Writer
After two bear attacks in the MaroonBells Snowmass Wilderness in the past
two days, wildlife officers and specialized hunters on Saturday were searching
the area of Crater Lake to locate and kill
the animal.
Two men were attacked in separate
incidents early Friday and Saturday
mornings while camping near Crater
Lake. Both men were bit in the leg and
were able to hike out of the backcountry.
One camper, who was bit seven or eight
times in the lower leg, required surgery
at Aspen Valley Hospital. The other
camper didn’t require medical attention,
according to Pitkin County Sheriff’s
Deputy Jeff Lumsden.
The first incident occurred at approximately 5:30 a.m., Friday when a bear
jumped on a tent housing two men near
Crater Lake. One was bitten on his left
side but was not seriously hurt.
Those men reported that they saw the
bear raise up on its hind legs, then stomp
the tent. The man it landed on lay still,
but when he moved, the bear bit him,
causing small puncture wounds. Those
campers started shouting and the bear
ran off.
In that incident, the two campers reported that all food items were properly
secured, hanging in a tree, at least 75
feet from the tent, according to Colorado
Division of Wildlife spokesman Mike
Porras. They reported that there were no
food items in the tent.
The second, more serious attack occurred about 1 a.m. Saturday. John Stewart, 51, who lives on the Front Range,
was attacked by a bear while sleeping
in his tent alone above Crater Lake. He
was awoken from sleep when the bear
ripped into his tent. The unprovoked attack occurred in a backcountry campsite
in the Minnehaha Gulch area above Crater Lake, approximately 14 miles southwest of Aspen. Stewart, one member in
a climbing group of three, was staged to
climb North Maroon later in the morning,
according to the sheriff’s department.
After the bear made entry into the
tent, it repeatedly bit Stewart in his lower right leg, through his sleeping bag. He
was able to fight the bear off and call to
the other nearby members of the group
for help.
The bear lingered around the campsite
after the attack, despite many efforts to
scare it away. The campers threw rocks at
the bear and even lit a fire, which eventually
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Environmental solutions start from local level
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Jeff Rice, utilities efficiency manger with the city of Aspen, demonstrates energy-efficient light bulbs to Mike and Marianne Paris. Exhibitors taking part in the
AREDAY EXPO in Wagner Park showcased green practices and renewable energy technologies.
AREDAY FROM PAGE 1
other high profile ones like the Clinton Global Initiative conference in Chicago, said Comins.
AREDAY is a summit held at the Hotel Jerome that
features over 100 renewable energy leaders who speak on
topics related to the world’s energy crisis. The idea of the
conference is to create a forum where members of different sectors of the energy and environmental community
can find solutions to the nation’s environmental woes.
This year’s summit featured sessions with Turner,
billionaires Tom Steyer and T. Boone Pickens, as well
as actress Daryl Hannah and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) administrator Dr.
Jane Lubchenco.
The solution is local
The running theme throughout the four days of keynote speakers, roundtable discussions and panels is that
the solution to energy and environmental problems can
be solved locally.
A panel discussion held on Thursday titled “Think
Global, Act Local” featured Nathan Ratledge, direc-
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(CORE); Piper Foster from CORE; Lauren McDonell,
the environmental initiatives program manager for the
city of Aspen; Holy Cross Electric’s Steve Casey and
Alice Hubbard Laird, director of Clean Energy Economy for the Region (CLEER).
Their discussion focused on how through legislation, grants and community willingness the Roaring
Fork Valley has become a leader in energy efficiency.
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make in their daily lives to be more energy efficient, said Laird, and not get
overwhelmed by the end goal.
On Friday night, Steyer echoed that
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grassroots efforts to effect change.
“Everyone wants to throw the bomb
at D.C.” he said. “But we need to look at
it regionally and locally.”
Steyer drew the comparison between
the Civil Rights movement and the green
energy push, saying that people need to
organize locally as they did in the ’60s
and ’70s to change the cultural mindset
about consumption.
Comins agreed that one of the summit’s end goals is to have regional and
local politics direct the national government toward environmental awareness. He noted that particularly in
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LOCAL
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Chip Comins (left), director of AREDAY, together with the event’s co-director Sally Ranney and former Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter during the four-day forum held at
the Hotel Jerome.
AREDAY FROM PREVIOUS PAGE
How green is AREDAY?
Like other conferences that take
place in Aspen, AREDAY organizers
pride themselves on the intimacy of the
event, the accessibility of the speakers
and the networking opportunities that
arise because of it.
Walking around the Hotel Jerome on
Saturday afternoon, Turner wandered in
and out of the hotel’s ballroom waiting
for the beginning of a session on bridging the gap between popular culture and
science, which featured Hannah.
A table was set up in the hallway
with a smorgasbord of environmentally
informative handouts: flyers advertising green energy products were placed
in between educational packets on clean
power and atmospheric trust litigation,
while an AREDAY attendee feedback
form sat to the side.
Pitchers of ice water were spread
around the room with compostable,
corn-made plastic cups next to them.
Above the trash cans were signs saying
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Aspen, it’s more apparent with all the
natural beauty surrounding people that
they are in danger of losing it. That fact
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“All bottles will be recycled.”
Two or three of the speakers attending the summit
flew into Aspen on private jets — one of them being
Turner, said Ranney. She was hopeful however, that in
the next few months Turner would be the first owner of
a private jet that runs off biofuels.
AREDAY offset the summit’s carbon footprint by
purchasing credits produced from renewable energy, according to Ranney. AREDAY organizers also decided
not to offer plastic water bottles to attendees or speakers,
and most of the food offered was sourced locally. Also,
the shwag bags were made of organic cotton.
As for Ranney, she goes back and forth between
her three homes in Aspen, Denver and Argentina, one
of which is off the grid. She flies coach, drives a hybrid
car and makes an effort to purchase only used clothes.
“You try to do as much as you can,” she said. “But
the system isn’t there yet.”
AREDAY differs from other local forums
In cost and attendance, AREDAY stands out from other conferences held locally, like the Aspen Institute’s Ideas
Festival. At around $1,800 a piece, about 200 full passes
were sold this year for AREDAY. This year, the Ideas Festival sold about 1,200 full passes at $2,750 for four days.
AREDAY was open to the public and offered locals discounted full pass rates at $400 to encourage
laymen to attend, said Comins. While other forums in
Aspen attract an older, retired demographic, attendees
of AREDAY is a mixed bag of professionals representing nonprofits, NGOs and small businesses.
AREDAY organizers made additional efforts this
year to effect change by having the end goal of producing a road map — a list of suggestions and conclusions
that have come from the discussions — to be passed on
to other conferences and government officials so that
they can use it as a guideline.
At the end of the summit, a team will come together
to produce the road map, said Ranney.
“And from there we can link with others who are
on the same direction,” she said. “So that we can really
move policy.”
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BEARS FROM PAGE 1
was enough to send it away.
Using first aid supplies on-hand, the
bleeding was controlled and the group
began a slow descent back to the trailhead at Maroon Lake. The Pitkin County
Sheriff’s Department was first notified
of a problem by an emergency transmission originating from a personal GPS
transmitter. Members of Mountain Rescue Aspen immediately deployed into
the field, meeting the injured man along
the trail and escorting him back to the
trailhead. He was able to walk out under
his own power, and was transported to
Aspen Valley Hospital. By Saturday evening, Stewart was on his way back home
to the Front Range, Lumsden said.
Stewart told officials that he had
Chris Council/Aspen Daily News
Chip Comins, director of AREDAY, with Daryl Hannah, actress and environmental activist. Hannah participated in two panel discussions: “Shooting for the Moon with Clean Technology” and “Can Hollywood
Bridge the Gap Between Science and Popular Culture.”
an empty wrapper of freeze-dried food
in his backpack in the tent, which may
have attracted the bear.
“That certainly is enough to attract
the bear,” Porras said. “It was a very determined fashion to get into that tent.”
Porras said wildlife officials are concerned that the bear now sees tents as an
opportunity for food.
DOW officers are working with
hounds that track the scents from the
campers to locate the bear, as well as relying on the assistance of USDA Wildlife Services, which part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. If located, the
bear will be put down.
“These situations indicate that the
bear is associating tents with food and
has become dangerous to even campers
that are doing things correctly,” said Per-
ry Will, area wildlife manager. “We’ve
got lots of good camping weather left
this summer and it continues to be important for everyone to do their part to
keep wild bears wild.”
Porras said the DOW contracts with
USDA Wildlife Services, which employs
specialized hunters for matters such as this.
“They are good at it; it will be done in a
humane way,” Porras said of euthanization.
“We don’t feel like we have any choice.”
Last Monday, a third bear attack happened at the Difficult campground close
to Aspen. In that attack, campers saw a
black bear attack an unoccupied tent and
they scared it away.
After the sighting, the Forest Service
put an indefinite ban on tents and softsided campers at the Difficult campground, but did not close it.
About a half dozen employees of
the Forest Service were going through
the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness Area on Saturday to tell hikers and
campers about the attacks.
But as Porras noted, people have a
better chance of getting struck by lightning or being bitten by a dog than attacked by a bear.
Regardless, hikers and campers were
being given information about alternate
camping areas if they choose to leave.
There is plentiful natural food for bear
in the area, but Forest Service employees were being frank that bear attacks
remained a danger.
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report.
Hanging Lake crowds too large, managers fear
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as part of the $1 million trail improvement project done
by the Forest Service in 2010, but new signs had to be
dropped from the project last year because of a budget
shortfall, Doak said.
The Forest Service budgeted funds for new signs
this year, Doak said.
“A local contractor is working on them right now,”
he said.
The new interpretive signs will have new text and
illustrations more focused on Hanging Lake, rather
than the more generic themes of the old signs.
“We also wanted to get more of a conservation message in there, about why you shouldn’t swim in the lake,
bring your dog, or fish,” Doak said.
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Crowd control has been handled by the Forest Service, State Patrol and Colorado Department of Transportation. The Hanging Lake rest area parking lot holds
only 116 parking spaces.
Officials say that the popular trail, improved in
2010 with better railings and switchbacks, needs a new
management plan to retain its beauty.
Hikers are wading into the lake, walking out on the
lake’s iconic floating log, swimming, fishing and bringing dogs on the hike. Wildlife officials say the activities
that can quickly turn the crystal clear lake into a polluted, muddy mess and threaten its native cutthroat trout.
There are no signs in place at the lake asking people
to refrain from wading or to leave their dogs elsewhere.
The old, worn-out cautionary signs were removed
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GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. — One of Colorado’s most spectacular hikes is too popular. Authorities at Hanging Lake Trail in Glenwood Canyon say
they’re turning away hundreds of vehicles on weekend days because there’s not enough parking to accommodate all the hikers seeking to climb to the crystal-clear lake.
“On one Saturday, we turned around 850 cars,” said
Rich Doak, forest recreation staff officer for the White
River National Forest.
The Post-Independent reports that crowds to see
the lake have even caused traffic jams on Interstate 70.
Visits this year are expected to overtake the 80,000 or
so visitors seen in recent years.
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LAKE FROM PREVIOUS PAGE
The 2010 trail project also included work to stabilize
and divert a debris flow on the east side of the lake.
“About five years ago, debris flow shifted its path
and started running back toward lake,” Doak said.
“It actually got into the lake, so where it used to be a
straight drop down into lake, now it’s a gradual entry,
CU mascot selling barbecue?
BOULDER, Colo. — The University of Colorado wants to
know whether a barbecue restaurant is using its beloved buffalo
mascot improperly.
Ralphie’s restaurant near campus shares a name with the
university’s buffalo mascot. The Daily Camera reports (http://
goo.gl/4PhBE ) that the restaurant has a sign featuring a generic
buffalo, with the restaurant’s name is spelled out in a black-andgold font similar to that used by the school.
Ralphie’s is owned by Art Johnson, who played football for
CU in the late 1970s.
which encourages people to wade in.
Forest Service officials are now considering putting
up additional signs in that spot asking people not to
dangle their feet in the water or wade in.
Doak said neither the state agencies nor the Forest
Service have the staff to spend weekends at the rest area
managing the parking lot. He said a different plan to
handle large crowds is going to be needed in 2012 and
University spokesman Bronson Hilliard wouldn’t go so far as
to say that the restaurant is in violation of the school’s trademark
policies. But he said that Athletic Director Mike Bohn and licensing director J.T. Galloway will be swinging by the restaurant after
it opens Monday to talk about the name.
Rare mouse threatens water pipeline
GREELEY, Colo. — A proposed $80 million water pipeline in
northern Colorado could be stopped by a modest creature in its
path — the protected Preble’s meadow jumping mouse.
The Greeley Tribune reports that the city of Greeley wants to
finish a 30-mile water pipeline to Bellvue. But federal officials
are disputing the city’s claim that the final 6 1/2-mile stretch of
the pipeline will not have any adverse effects on the Preble’s
meadow jumping mouse or the northern leopard frog.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says Greeley must take
further steps for the federally protected species. The city says it
is reviewing the Fish & Wildlife rejection of its proposal and may
consider “re-vegetating” some areas.
The pipeline will have the capacity to deliver an additional 50
million gallons per day to Greeley.
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beyond, and called on the tourism industry for help.
“The only way it will work in the long term is to get
some outside assistance. All of these businesses that
want to use Hanging Lake as a selling point have to
step forward and help with the management, because
sending all these people there is just overwhelming the
resource,” Doak said. “We’re going to have to address
it this winter.”
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PINKHAM NOTCH, N.H. — Cycling veteran Ned Overend
has won the annual Mount Washington Auto Road Bicycle
Hillclimb.
Overend, of Durango, Colo., celebrated his 56th birthday by
winning Saturday’s race to the 6,288-foot summit of the highest
peak in the Northeast. His time was 55 minutes, three seconds.
The top women’s finisher was 48-year-old Marti Shea of
Marblehead, Mass., at one hour, four minutes and 12 seconds.
Overend won the first World Mountain Biking Championship
in 1990. He’s won the U.S. national off-road biking championship six times.
Shea won Newton’s Revenge, Mount Washington’s other
bike race, earlier this summer. She finished in exactly the same
time Saturday.
Sponsored by Polartec, with additional support from others,
the race is the primary annual fundraiser for the Tin Mountain
Conservation Center in Albany, N.H.
The wildfire near Monument had burned about 60 acres in the
foothills north of the Air Force Academy by Friday evening. The
cause of the blaze wasn’t immediately known.
By Saturday afternoon, no smoke plume was visible, according to The (Colorado Springs) Gazette.
Firefighters were aided Saturday by a plane and two helicopters that dropped water and retardant ahead of the flames.
More than 100 people were fighting the blaze in rocky and
steep terrain. Firefighters were cutting fire lines to block the
blaze’s advance and trying to use the natural rock formations
to fortify their lines of defense, said Ralph Bellah, a U.S. Forest
Service spokesman.
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