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Jeff Cutter
The cool of the fdge ,s a feint memory, under the
assault of the 9 0 * plus Colorado jum m er
The election
season is gearing up - prim aries in August and we re
going to have some Interesting times this gear
I take a short tr ip to Buena Yista in the central
mountains, a place celled the South Park are«, where
the Collegiate Pe«k mountains dominate, mostly
“fourteenere", the term wa use for the one» over
14 ,0 0 0 feet high As the song sags, Winnebagoes and
road c o n s trx tio n everyw here, as sure a sign of
summer in Colorado as the Columbine, cougara in our
neighborhood following the young deer, and the
Kentucky Bluegrass lawns turning brown from lack of
water
D ark, forbidding clouds, d ry lighting, but not
much tra ffic once out of the metro area on this weekday
other than semi trucks I run through rain and sun -
the clouds produce big drops for a half m ile, then give
way to sun for another rm le, then appear again, the big
expansive sky full of them, all the way to the
mountains In the near distance
Mot enough rain for the
vegitation or the forest - the fire fig h te r's nightmare,
this d ry lighting, and our newspapers are fu ll of the
probably upset our Founding Fathers After three
recounts, the Republican vas seated, and has proceeded
to ect from hie conservative Chriatian agenda, as we
expected Vigilance is the price of lib e rty , folks -
believe me, many of us won t be fooled agem
We heve a new challenge to Amendment Two in the
Colorado Supreme Court - and we 11 see what happens
I regret all of Colorado has to suffer for the bigotry of
many, there are times when m a jo rity rule doesn't
seem lik e such a good idea after all
There are people everywhere you tu rn w ith a handful
of petitions for the cigarette tax, term lim its , teacher
pay equity, and others too numerous to mention
and fra n k ly , when they spend days and days debating a
produce slander b ill (can't tell people when th e ir food
contains chemicals, now can we - It might frighten
someone (and hurt agrib usin ess)), I can see what they
mean
But, if we re not w illin g to get involved in the
process, we deserve what we get
Until next time -
K c trc a t By T h e 5<a J
Buena Yista is a quaint little town, only showing the
firs t signs of upscale-ness The e arly morning
Unique rustic cedar home fo r sale
S tro ll quiet lanes to serene beach
Gulls cruise tall pines
Flowers to die fo r
Huge private sunbathing deck
$ I ay.ooo
mountain a ir is crisp and cool, different from the
Boulder, Front Range, flatland p ra irie stuff that I left
This has always been
a vacation area, the hiking, fishing, riv e r rafting in
the summer drawing lots of people
I
seems like folks don t trust th e ir legislators any more,
Glenwood Springs tragedy
behind - you can almost drink it
This y e a r, there
a r t lots of folks who want m b stives on our ballot
C all
You can see how the
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town evolved around the railroad that bisects I t , once
( o a n c il I ira. on I ’c r m a c u llu r t
at Wanderland Rainforest near the Oregon coast
the weekend of October I 2 A chance fo r people
interested in the practice of perm Aculture fa rm in g
to share stories problems and solutions w ith like
minded fo lk Free B rin g donation o f food a n d /o r
firew ood For more in fo rm a tio n call VO 368 6389
the m ajor lin k of the Arkansas Yelley w ith Denver end
the Front Range
The town h a ll. next to the tracks, was
a hotel, the old tra m station is gone, unfortunately, and
only the RYs end cars occupy the d irt between the
tracks and the beginning of the 1 9 0 3 -e r a buildings
that line the main street of town This area had the
unfortunate honor of being named one of the ten best
places to r e tir e , by Money magazine, so stay tuned
The town is filled w ith e arly morning riv e r ra fters,
resplendent m th e ir red life jackets
They re brought
into town by the expedition outfitters to be put in the
Arkansas riv e r at the east edge of town, end fished out
la te r this afternoon ten to twenty mtles downstream
The Arkansas is threatened w ith dams - and the same
bumper sticker is for sale that was seen several years
ago - "Frankly my dear, I don't want a dam "
Some of the rafters are buoyed by an e arly morning
latte
"Can't give the stuff away to locals," says
M arlene, the proprietor of Cache, the only coffee shop,
as she mixes my tall decat
"They like their regular
coffee I even have a hard time selling the different
v a rie ty of bear» The Europeans who come through in
the summer asked about espresso so much, we just had
to make the investment - and only the folks like you
from the Front Range (th at's Boulder, Denver, etc )
W « jm 4 c
She won't let me take her picture w ith the
machine, though
On my bike, I head west, out of town
Mount
and only 5% is recycled
8q Km Bott»
ask for it In the w in ter " Mice to know that there are
some parts of this old LfSA where dishwater coffee still
reigns
S fr ta m Reduction
In 1 9 9 , the Oregon State Legislature mandated in
When considering the purchase of products the
Senate B ill 6 6 that by 19 9 5 m unicipalities w ith a
following guidelines may help you become more
population over 4 0 0 0 must decrease their solid waste
consumer conxious and reduce the waste stream
-Educate yourself on recycling is s « s and consumerism
Princeton looms Im pressive, along w ith the rest of the
tonnage by 2 5 %
Collegiate peeks only a dozen miles ewey
recyclers agree that this benchmark is achievable
■ Avoid excessive packaging
w ill be ominous clouds and lightning over this imposing
According to the Motional Solid Waste Management
- Buy recycled & recyclable packaging
giant
and the fire fin h ters wait nervously for the call
association, Americans product 18 0 m illio n tons of
• Avoid plastics
In a few m iles, the planted trees give way to the native
varieties - pi Aon and other pines The landscape takes
commercial and residential waste per year and only
- Read labels to determine what is in a product
2 3 5 m illio n tons or 1 3% of this wastestream is
• Avoid p ro d x ts that contain CFC's
- Buy in Bulk
Later there
Motional,y most professional
on a Southwestern, almost Mew Mexican look, w ith the
low h ills , native trees, and the earth colors of the
landfills or combustion plants would be reduced by 45
- Buy local p ro d x ts
Southwest now revealed
m illio n tons
-Encourage your grocer to buy l x a l l y to cut down on
There are lots for sale out
hare, too - end im m igrants from C alifornia to buy
them
L ate r, as I take my le is u rely soak at the Cottonwood
recycled
If 2 5 % were reclaimed the tonnage to
Oregonians produce more than 5 0 0 0 tons
of garbage daily, enough to cover one acre of land 8 feet
deep
In I 9 8 9 when the City of Cannon Beach assumed
responsibility for the recycling program it reduced its
transportation, pesticides end re frig e ra tio n
- Reduce your use of electrical or motorized p ro d x ts
and t r y hand generated tools and appliances
Mot Springs, four miles west of town, I admire Mt
landfill tonnage by 9% and has continued to decrease
- Buy p ro d x ts that w ill last
Prtnceton as a few raindrops rip p le the surface of the
»he volume each subsequent year
-Avoid dlsposible Items
outdoor hot tub
- Use cotton diapers instead of disposable diapers
Clothing is optional, but few of us
patrons today seem up to it
This resort is old, funky,
-Avoid impulse buying
and comfortable - a good place to stay tf you don't want
Recycling Is defined here as a three step process,
1 Separating reusable m aterials from trash
to be in town
2 Processing them to replace v irg in materials
• Repair broken p ro d x ts
3 Returning the reprocessed m aterials to consumers
-Volunteer your services to conservatton efforts
On the way home, I stop at Leadville - named after
-P u rc h a s e d use e n e rg y-e ffic ien t p ro d x ts
its p rim a ry industry and the Climax Mine which
provided all the jobs and the destruction of a lot of the
People often wonder If an individual can make a
surrounding environment
difference and I believe that Waste Stream Reduction is
an area where the grass roots efforts of an individual
It s cold here at ten
thousand feet, despite the sunny day - "A typical
perfect day," rem arks the lady tending the w ildflower
garden In front of the W ildflow er Cafe
The beauty of
w ill make that difference
For an effective Waste
Stream Reduction program to w o rk , each of us must
the quaint old downtown section end the mountetns in
take a look a, our own behaviors regarding consumption
the background contrast w ith the boarded up buildings
and recycling The waste reduction tried asks us to
reduce our use, reuse whet we have, and then recycle
end abandoned trainyard on the edge of town, mining
has only racently stopped here, end the are« hes been
declared a Superfund stte
All Colorado ,n two partes divisa es, - The Denver
what we can , reuse
f a r too often we concentrate on
recycling end forge, the fir s t two principles of use
reduction and reuse W h ile adapting our behavior isn ,
M etro are« and my own People's Republic of Boulder
glamorous to the average consumer 1, does offer us
p rim a rily Democratic, the rest p rim a rily Republican
Health care? Dems yea, Repubs ney - Anti -gey
rewards
have taken less out of and given back some of what we
have taken from the environment is enough, while
- and so it goes, pretty much across the board We had
an interesting development in the lest »lection - a local
others need more tangible rewards such aa community
Boulder County assembly seat held by the Democrats
you to manifest consumer behavioral changes is your
was contested by the conservative C hristian candidate
best choice
recognition or financial savings
W hatever motivates
dislike tnelr p ro d x t and its packaging
For additional inform ation on recycled p ro d x ts and
services c o n tx , the following resources
Seventh Generation C atalo g« and Co-Op American
A lternative C atalo g «, 12 6 Intervale Road, Burlington
VT 0 5 4 0 1 ( 8 0 2 ) 6 5 8 - 5 5 0 7
Ecco Bella, 6 Provost Square,Suite 6 0 2 , Caldwell,
MJ 0 7 0 0 6
(2 0 1 )2 2 6 -5 7 9 9
Shopping for a Better W o rld , I - 8 0 0 - U CAN HELP
M etro Recycling, 2 0 0 0 SW F irs , A v e n « , Portlond,
OR 9 7 2 0 , ( 5 0 3 ) 2 2 4 - 5 5 5 5
D E Q ,8 1 , SW 6 th , Portland, OR 9 7 2 0 4
(5 0 3 ) 2 2 9 -6 0 4 6
Just before the election, the Democrat incumbent
dropped out, much to the consternation of the
One way to make a difference es e consumer is to take a
Democratic party in general and yours tr u ly in
look at what you buy and how it is packaged Packaging
accounts for 5 0 % of all paper manufactured in the
A certain Do,tie Lamm ran for the Dems as
- W r it e to companies A tel, them why you like or
For some the in trin s ic knowledge that we
bigotry. Amendment Two style? Repubs yea. Dems nay
particu alr
- B uy used p r o d x t s
The Mature! Choice, I 3 6 5 Rufina C irc le , Santa F t,
MM 8 7 5 0 1
1 -8 0 0 -6 2 ,-2 5 9 1
a w r it e - in , hoping to block the Republicans, and
United States, 1 1 % of alum inium and 9 0 % of glass
received more votes I Unfortunately, our Secretary of
Packaging is responsible for 5 0 % of the volume and
Reel Goods C atalo g « , 9 6 6 - f Mazzom S tre e t, Ukiah,
3 0 % of the weigh, in land fills
CA 9 5 4 8 2
State ruled that many of the w r ite -in s were invalid.
For every dollar you
spend in the grocery store ten cents offsets the
packaging expenses
6 0 % of the 2 0 0 pounds of plastic
consumed by the averag e A m e ric a n is used in packaging
1 -8 0 0 -7 6 2 -7 3 2 5
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