Once we stop dealing in absolutes for limiting greenhouse gases and allow picking and choosing solutions, we must allow for everyone else to do the same.
Aspen
How global warming will make Aspen wealthier
The actual poor of the world are suffering from global warming, while we Aspenites get richer, says Roger Marolt. This is not a crisis for mountain resorts and likely never will be.
Taking aim at high-energy of mansions
Colorado’s Pitkin County—home to Aspen—aims to tighten the energy belt of its often big houses on the way to net-zero by 2030. Boulder County aims for the same in 2022. But Pitkin County is more ambitious in one way.
Aspen’s Building IQ
The city of Aspen plans to target energy use in its commercial and multi-family building sector in a new program called Building IQ. Commercial and residential buildings in Aspen account for 58% percent of greenhouse gas emissions.
Pearl Harbor altered Colorado’s path after 1941, and Covid-19 will also
Colorado would have had Aspen and Vail ski resorts, a tunnel under the Continental Divide, and water diversions. But Pearl Harbor altered the timing and the players, just as Covid-19 is sure to alter Colorado’s history going forward.
