Community Office for Resource Efficiency

• Locations: News By Olivia Emmer Published Apr. 6, 2022

  CORE seeks to measure escaping methane from Coal Basin

  Scientist Chris Caskey points out thermal oxidizers near the methane power plant in Somerset. These oxidizers, sometimes called flares, are similar to what he is proposing to destroy methane from the abandoned mines in Coal Basin near Redstone. Photo by James Steindler

  On Thursday, March 31, approximately 70 people gathered at the Third Street Center for a presentation about a potential methane capture project in Coal Basin, near Redstone. Coal Basin was once the site of a large coal mining operation that removed an estimated 22 million tons of coal… read more →

• Locations: News By Ken Pletcher Published Dec. 1, 2021

  Report details regional solar potential

  

  An in-depth study issued this fall has detailed the status of and potential for solar power in the tri-county region — Eagle, Garfield and Pitkin counties — and has outlined a series of steps for how to implement its findings. Titled “Three-County Solar + Storage Study and Action Plan,” it… read more →

• Locations: News By Raleigh Burleigh Published Feb. 26, 2021

  Facing climate change

  CORE partnered with artists, scientists, nonprofits, businesses, and municipalities for Imagine Climate 2021. On Feb. 20, the first of three community murals was installed at CMC's Lappala Center in Carbondale. Photo by Raleigh Burleigh.

  The Third Annual Imagine Climate event, hosted by Community Office for Resource Efficiency (CORE), kicks off on March 1 with the completion of three crowdsourced murals decorating Colorado Mountain College (CMC) buildings in Aspen, Carbondale, and Glenwood Springs. CORE created the murals with French artist JR’s Inside Out global art… read more →