Fort Collins, CO – Residents of Fort Collins can now rely on a new program that helps individuals and families breathe easier. Healthy Sustainable Homes is a free, volunteer-driven program designed to assist families improve the indoor air quality of their homes. Residents can benefit from free, in-depth home health assessments conducted by experts and
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FORT COLLINS, CO. January is National Radon Action Month. Radon is a radioactive gas responsible for approximately 1,400 Colorado cancer deaths each year. It’s a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas that enters homes and other buildings through cracks in the floor or spaces around utility pipes. It accumulates unless properly vented, and long-term radon exposure is
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FORT COLLINS – Help save landfill space by recycling your Christmas tree instead of throwing it in the trash! This holiday season, residents of Fort Collins and Larimer County will once again have the opportunity to recycle their post-holiday, undecorated Christmas trees. From December 26, 2011, through January 17, 2012, residents will be able to
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LAKEWOOD – On January 3, 2012, the City of Lakewood will host the All America City Quilt Exhibit at the Civic Center Atrium in Lakewood. The City of Lakewood has the honor of being one of the 25 finalists who contributed to this project. The Quilt will be on exhibit until January 6th for the
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LITTLETON – The non-profit “Friends of Roxborough State Park” have created the Barbara Fritts Scholarship Fund to pay for transporting economically disadvantaged school children, pre-kindergarten through sixth grade, to the park for a special program by a park volunteer naturalist. Fritts was a Roxborough State Park Volunteer Naturalist from 2003-2011. She was devoted to teaching
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FORT COLLINS – The City of Fort Collins Natural Areas Program asks for feedback from visitors and residents every five years through a survey. Results from 2011 show that natural areas are popular and well-liked. Questions focused on respondents’ familiarity with natural areas, their visitation habits, how good/poor of a job the Natural Areas Program
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Fort Collins, CO – In a novel approach to diverting electronic waste from landfill disposal, the City of Fort Collins is partnering with Greenback LLC to collect laptops computers at the Rivendell Recycling Center. The new, bright green collection box, designed with a special slot opening for depositing laptop computers, was recently installed at the
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The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) and Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) are holding a public hearing next week on the future of Interstate 25 through Pueblo. It is being held on Thursday, December 8, from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Pueblo Convention Center, 320 Central Main Street.  A presentation from 6:30 p.m. to
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FORT COLLINS – Natural Areas Program Awarded Education Grant for Bobcat Ridge The City of Fort Collins Natural Areas Program has received a grant in the amount of $20,000 from the David R. and Virginia D. Pulliam Charitable Trust in support of environmental and cultural education at Bobcat Ridge Natural Area. The money will be
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The City of Fort Collins Natural Areas Program, in coordination with The Nature Conservancy, is conducting a prescribed fire at Soapstone Prairie Natural Area. Weather permitting, the burn is scheduled for the week of September 12th _ 15th, 2011. The burn will involve 47 acres and will take place within a canyon in the north-central
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