By Coloradoan Staff
Original Story – 12-13-2011 – Coloradoan
The Larimer County commissioners have announced the 2011 Larimer County Environmental Stewardship Awards:
- The Fort Collins Bicycle Co-op for its comprehensive actions designed to make bicycles and bicycle riders sustainable: Those include safety education programs and refurbishing bikes that were abandoned and returning them to the community.
- RB+B Architects for its Sustainability Management System: Principle elements of the plan relate to carbon emissions, health and well being, waste reduction, sustainable materials, and culture and community.
- Redstone Mitigators for its example of how a community can work together to achieve common forest management and wildfire safety goals: Community members work every Saturday from Novem-ber to February to cut down and stack trees marked for removal. Funds from a Colorado State Forest Service grant are spent in the spring when a contractor with heavy equipment chips the wood waste onsite.
- The Growing Project for its efforts to connect community members to each other, their food, and their land through urban agriculture and community gardening: The project has implemented a series of efforts ranging from community gardens to a .Glean Team. that cooperates with farmers to harvest food that might otherwise be wasted for delivery to the Food Bank for Larimer County.
- Irene Little for her efforts on behalf of recycling opportunities in the Estes Park area: As chairperson for the League of Women Voters community recycling committee in Estes Park, Little has worked on a number of projects, including the introduction of cardboard recycling, the promotion of reusable shopping bags, and a community recycling program in Bond Park.
The environmental stewardships awards have been given annually since 1995.
