Table of Contents

Foreword by Mayor John Hickenlooper
Introduction by Beth Conover

Part One: Culture and Consumption

• Auden Schendler: Climate Revelations
• Stephen Trimble: Next West
• Todd Hartman: Salvation for the Climate
• Laura Pritchett: The Universe on Blacktop (My Day of Saving Sixty-Six Million BTUs)
• David Akerson: Urban Chickens—Locavorism and Its Discontents
• Mark Eddy: Climate Tourism in Kilimanjaro
• Lisa Jones: Taking Vern Home—A Carbon-Neutral Eco-Travel Journal
• Sean Kelly: Cooking for the Climate
• Jackson Perrin and Dev Carey: Coyote Commons – Beyond the Proverbial Lightbulb
• Diane Carman: Eco-Consumerism

Part Two: Natural Resources

Science

• Michael Jamison: Glacier National Park—Portrait of a Place, an Agency, and a Climate Scientist
• Kirk Johnson: Climate in Geologic Time and My Lifetime

Snow and Water

• Peter Heller: The River Dry
• Marc Waage: No-Regrets Strategies for Climate Change
• Eric Kuhn: Managing the Uncertainties of the Colorado River System
• Brad Udall: Water in the Rockies: A Twenty-First Century Zero-Sum Game
  Land
• John Daley: Zephyr to Zion—Responses to Climate-Change Disruption in the Rockies
• Susan Moran: It Ain’t Your Father’s Farming—New Mind-Sets and New Practices in the Age of Climate Change
• Jim Robbins: Dead Trees
• Hillary Rosner: Grand County—Mountain Pine Beetles Are Infecting Every Aspect of Daily Life
• Michelle Nijhuis: What’s Killing the Aspen? The Signature Tree of the Rockies Is in Trouble
• Tim Sullivan: The New Imperative—Land Conservation and Climate Change
• Ken Snyder and Jocelyn Hittle: Country in Overdrive—Transportation and Land Use in the West

Part Three: Commerce and Industry

• James R. Udall: The Big Bonfire—What Colorado Can Learn from the Samso Experiment
• The Staff of Holy Cross Energy and Energy Analyst James R. Udall: Running Down an Up Escalator—Reducing Colorado’s Electric-Sector Carbon Emissions
• Todd Neff: Getting the Fear
• Catherine Greener: Pioneering Sustainable Business
• Martha Records: Green Spark: Adventures of a Venture Capitalist
• Josh Radoff: First, Do No Harm—Green Building and the Precautionary Principle
• Matthew Brown: The Changing Rules of Energy Finance
• Susan Innis: The Colorado Carbon Fund—Tapping into the Voluntary Green Market to Reduce Greenhouse-Gas Emissions
• Mike Beatty: It’s a Wonderful Life—Natural Gas as a Bridge to the New Energy Economy
  Steve Andrews: Oil Scarcity and Climate Change

Part Four: Policy and Politics

• Jill Hanauer, David Winkler, Lisa Grove, Melissa Chernaik, and Andrew Myers: Red, Blue, and Green—The Western Political Realignment
• Chip Ward: Homegrown Security
• Florence Williams: Retool for Your Next Mission
• Heidi VanGenderen: Lessons from Across the Pond
• Jason Salzman: Journalism and the Scientific Consensus on Global Warming
• Beth Conover: Green City Leadership

Afterword by Governor Bill Ritter
Acknowledgments
Contributing Artists