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Kent Butts will present a lecture at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Colorado College entitled Environment and Security: Greening the Military.
Butts, director of the National Security Issues Branch, Center for Strategic Leadership at the U.S. Army War College, will discuss restructuring systems and operations in the U.S. Department of Defense to make […]

In this month’s Reed Construction Data report about the Rocky Mountain region, comes news that Colorado Springs Utilities is ready to appeal a November water line ruling of Pueblo District Court Judge Dennis Maes to the Colorado Court of Appeals.
CSU plans to build a $1 billion pipeline to […]

Whole Foods Market is getting rid of disposable plastic bags at checkout stands across all its 270 stores in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
The goal is to be plastic-bag free by Earth Day, on April 22.
The natural foods grocer is also declaring today “Bring Your Own Bag Day.”
The […]

The Associated Press
Defense contractor Raytheon Co. is selling technology to a large oilfield services firm that hopes microwaves will someday become a key tool in unlocking the vast but hard-to-extract oil reserves in the West’s underground shale deposits.
Much as a microwave oven heats food, Raytheon’s technology relies on microwaves to […]

Colorado Springs is the site of the state’s celebration of a biofuels milestone: the 50th station opened in the state.
The station is at Western Convenience, 2775 Briargate Blvd.
The opening also means that Colorado has met the U.S. Department of Energy’s goal to quadruple its number of biofuel stations.
Southern Colorado has more than 20 […]

The American Solar Energy Society estimates that as many as one out of four jobs – close to 40 million jobs in the United States – could be tied to renewable energy or energy efficiency industries by 2030.
The organization’s “green collar jobs” report shows that these industries already generate […]

China has boosted its steel output during the last three years through energy subsidies, said the Alliance for American Manufacturing.
Total Chinese energy subsidies for steel reached $27.1 billion during the last seven years. Despite the country’s entry into the World Trade Organization – which deems subsidies on steel illegal – the subsides continued to grow, […]

If you haven’t thrown out that Christmas tree yet, there are still a few places in town that will recycle your tree and turn it into mulch.
Tree recycling will be available at the following locations between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Jan. 5 and 6. A fee of $5 is charged for the recycling and […]

If it seems to you that more and more people are moving to Colorado every year, you’re right.
The U.S. Census Bureau reported yesterday that that state’s population grew by 2 percent, or 95,267 people, between July 1, 2006, and July 1, 2007.
That puts the state’s population at 4.8 million and ranks it as the 22nd […]

The Australian Tunarama competition to see who can throw a frozen tuna the farthest will be missing something next year — the fish.
In an effort to further the country’s “green” environmental policies, Tunarama officials said they have stopped using real fish, because for one, it was a waste of perfectly good […]