Updates from our Alliance

December 4, 2020

Clean energy: The shift is happening

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December 4, 2020
Temple Grandin

Dr. Grandin’s recipe for the food chain

On October 20, Western Colorado Alliance’s Local Food and Agriculture Committee members had the opportunity to meet with Dr. Temple Grandin. Dr. Grandin revolutionized the meat […]
December 4, 2020

After 40 years, our eyes are still on the road ahead

As 2020 draws to a close, our Alliance is reflecting not only on a historic year, but 40 years of grassroots organizing across Western Colorado. And […]
December 4, 2020
Keynote Speakers

Our 40th Anniversary Conference: Weathering the Storms

In September, Western Colorado Alliance organized its 40th Annual Conference. What was initially planned as a giant, two-day event in Montrose had to be scaled back […]
December 4, 2020
Mountainfilm

Mountainfilm On Tour rocks — even “virtually!”

Hundreds of Western Colorado Alliance members and other Western Colorado residents enjoyed Mountainfilm On Tour – Grand Junction — during the weekend of November 20, in […]
December 4, 2020

Hiking at Hope Lake

On October 15, a group of people engaged in some "socially distant" hiking in the San Juan Mountains.
December 4, 2020

Drawing lessons from a relentless year

Relentless: [rəˈlen(t)ləs] Adjective – oppressively constant; incessant Pretty much sums up 2020, doesn’t it? From the global pandemic to climate disasters, from a reckoning with long-standing […]
December 2, 2020

A Historic New Chapter for Rural Colorado Energy

In 2019, Western Colorado Alliance members passed state legislation that, for the first time ever, required Tri-State Generation & Transmission to answer to the people of […]
November 23, 2020
A New Day!

COGCC Approves Mission Change Rules to Protect Public Health & Safety and Wildlife

Today, the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) unanimously approved a series of new rules to update its mission and protect public health and safety […]