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The recycling tub paradox

Posted in Commercial, Grow your own, Municipal on October 16, 2009 | 7 Comments »

Recently, the city of Fort Collins adopted changes to ordinances that, among other things, require trash haulers to offer new, larger recycling bins. This as part of a larger plan to meet “diversion” goals that will send 50% of our city’s waste to recycling rather than the landfill.
Great idea. But what do we do with [...]

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Cunningham Corner: A 1970s Fort Collins barn band

Posted in Art, Colorado State University, Grow your own, Modest or alternative living, Neighborhoods, tagged , , on October 13, 2009 | 53 Comments »

Cunningham Corner is a condo complex on the corner of Horsetooth and Shields in Fort Collins. It’s also the name on the yellow barn that sat at that corner before the condos (it’s since been declared a historic landmark and moved elsewhere). And in the 1970s, it was the name of one of the hottest bands in Fort Collins.

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Do we still need the Food Co-op?

Posted in Grow your own, In the news, Vintage commercial on September 10, 2009 | 17 Comments »

Beet Street, an enterprise formed to bring tourist dollars to downtown Fort Collins, recently announced a “Homegrown Fort Collins” event for late September.  It has something to do with eating local. And by that they mean eating at local restaurants, or eating from local farms, or drinking local beer.  But among its partners for the [...]

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Anarchy in the FC: Lone protestor on College

Posted in Grow your own on March 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »

I’ve known about three kinds of anarchists in Fort Collins.
1. Those who break windows anonymously and then claim responsibility anonymously .
2. Those who use  the principles of anarchy for personal gain. But then invoke the legal system as soon as the collective votes them off the island.
3. And those who think gardening and chicken keeping [...]

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The irrigation tell: Snow on Longs Peak indicates water supply

Posted in Annual events, Grow your own, tagged , , on March 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The Big Thompson Project created a system dams and diversions in the late 1940s. It brings water under the divide and averages our rainfall and snowpack. So if there is a man in Long’s Peak, he’s defunct anyway.

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