Rick Crawford I have been in the sustainability field for more than a decade. More specifically, I have been in the renewable energy field as a solar installer, the alternative energy field manufacturing biodiesel and a green building consultant working for software start-ups. These days I am grateful to be living my dream marrying fly…
Category: Sustainability
The Sustainable Angler Podcast: NREL’s Sherry Stout
In this episode of The Sustainable Angler, I interview National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL) Sherry Stout. NREL “advances the science and engineering of energy efficiency, sustainable transportation, and renewable power technologies and provides the knowledge to integrate and optimize energy systems” and Sherry is the Arctic Strategic Program Manager and Senior Research Engineer for NREL….
Guest Blog: An Angler’s Firsthand Account of the Impacts of Climate Change on Colorado Trout
The Fryingpan, Roaring Fork, and Colorado Rivers are each fly fishing destinations in their own right, with all of them supporting wild fish populations and legendary fishing. Whether you’re a 2 weight dry fly purist or an 8 weight streamer slinger, there’s a trout for you in one of these three Colorado streams. To me…
We are Stoked to Announce 2021 Sustainability 101 Workshop at Tailwater Lodge!
According to the IPCC we must halve global greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and be carbon neutral by 2050 to avoid the catastrophic effects of climate change. However, we are already seeing the effects of climate change. For example, Hoot Owl Restrictions in Montana and multiple stream closures across the American West due to low…
Climate Change Widespread, Rapid, and Intensifying – IPCC
GENEVA, Aug 9 – Scientists are observing changes in the Earth’s climate in every region and across the whole climate system, according to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report, released today. Many of the changes observed in the climate are unprecedented in thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years, and some…
Shyanne Orvis Becomes Colorado’s 1st Carbon Neutral Fly Fishing Guide
Climate change is one of the greatest threats to fish and fisheries on the planet, and according to the Intergovernmental Panel in Climate Change (IPCC), the world would have to curb its carbon emissions by at least 49% of 2017 levels by the year 2030 and then achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 in order to…