Foreword by Mayor John Hickenlooper -- Introduction by Beth Conover -- PART ONE: Culture and Consumption -- Auden Schendler: Climate Revelations-God, Climate, and Hope -- Stephen Trimble: The Next West -- Todd Hartman: Salvation for the Climate -- Laura Pritchett: The Universe on Blacktop (My Day of Saving 66 Million BTUs) -- David Akerson: Urban Chickens-Locavorism and its Discontents -- Mark Eddy: Climate Tourism in Kilimanjaro -- Lisa Jones: Taking Vern Home-A Carbon-Neutral Eco-Travel Journal -- Sean Kelly: Cooking for the Climate -- Jackson Perrin and Dev Carey: Coyote Commons-Beyond the Proverbial Lightbulb -- Diane Carman: Eco-Consumerism -- PART TWO: natural resourCes -- Michael Jamison: Glacier National Park-Portrait of a Place, an Agency,and a Climate Scientist -- Kirk Johnson: Climate in Geologic Time and My Lifetime -- Peter Heller: The River Dry -- Marc Waage: No-Regrets Strategies for Climate Change -- Eric Kuhn: Managing the Uncertainties of the Colorado River System -- Brad Udall: Water in the Rockies-A Twenty-First-Century Zero-Sum Game -- John Daley: Zephyr to Zion-Train of Thoughts in a Warming West -- Susan Moran: It Ain't Your Father's Farming-New Mind-Sets and New Practicesin the Age of Climate Change -- Hillary Rosner: Grand County-Life among the Pine Beetles -- Michelle Nijhuis: What's Killing the Aspen? The Signature Tree of the RockiesIs in Trouble -- Tim Sullivan: The New Imperative-Land Conservation and Climate Change -- Jocelyn Hittle and Ken Snyder: Country in Overdrive-Land Use, Transportation,and Climate in the West -- James R. Udall: The Big Bonfire-What Colorado Can Learnfrom the Samso Experiment -- The Staff of Holy Cross Energy and Energy Analyst James R. Udall: Running Downan Up Escalator-Reducing Colorado's Electric-Sector Carbon Emissions -- Todd Neff: Getting the Fear.

Catherine Greener: Pioneering Sustainable Business -- Martha Records: Green Spark-Adventures of a Green Venture Capitalist -- Josh Radoff: First, Do No Harm-Green Building and thePrecautionary Principle -- Matthew H. Brown: The Changing Rules of Energy Finance -- Susan Innis: The Colorado Carbon Fund-Tapping into the Voluntary GreenMarket to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions -- Michael L. Beatty: It's a Wonderful Life-Natural Gas as a Bridge to theNew Energy Economy -- Steve Andrews: Oil Scarcity and Climate Change -- Jill Hanauer, David Winkler, Lisa Grove, Melissa Chernaik, and Andrew Myers:Red, Blue, and Green-The Western Political Realignment -- Chip Ward: Homegrown Security -- Florence Williams: Retool for Your Next Mission -- Heidi VanGenderen: Lessons from across the Pond -- Jason Salzman: Journalism and the Scientific Consensus on Global Warming -- Beth Conover: Green City Leadership -- Afterword by Governor Bill Ritter Jr -- Acknowledgments -- Contributing Artists -- About the Editor.