Society is changing at an incredible speed. Twitter is too slow. So Flutter was developed by 2 Sophomores at Stanford. Twitter is microblogging, Flutter is nanoblogging. The name describes the speed of the blog- the rate of flaps of humming birds wings. Regular bird tweets-too slow. Flutter allows only 26 characters in a “Flap”.  Any message too long is automatically edited. They plan to develop an Iphone app. which allows [...]

Barriers to Net-Zero Energy Housing
Existing houses can be retrofitted so they will produce as much energy as they use every year — the technology is available and doing the work would save owners thousands of dollars in energy bills. But most homeowners won’t bother because there are too many barriers in place, a report by [...]

Steamboat celebrates fall with a beer tasting featuring the best breweries in Colorado. Join us from 1:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, September 20, 2008 for the 2nd Annual Steamboat Brewers’ Festival. The festival takes place on the mountain at Torian Plum Plaza, right in front of the Slopeside Bar & Grill. This event [...]

Standing on the championship-distance tee box of Number Four at Haymaker Golf Course, the hole is a distant 457 yards away. If you’re a golfer of my caliber, though, your ball takes a longer and more circuitous route to the green. Slice your shot off the tee and you’re headed toward a wetland between the [...]

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. — As projects in Colorado’s high country and major metropolitan areas are being cancelled due to lack of sales, there is one shining star in the mix from Steamboat Springs: Edgemont. The area’s  newest slopeside community sold $45 million in one day last week with an average sales price of more than $2 [...]

A sampling of green building, sustainable and conservation practices employed at Marabou includes:
- Preservation of a sharptail grouse lek
- Community buildings sided with wood recycled from miles of aging snow fences in Wyoming
- Grazing cattle kept away from the river corridor to allow the recruitment of young cottonwood trees
- Use of solar panels and wind [...]

Steamboat Springs – The log rail fence stretching along the hay and wheat fields on County Road 42 is brand new, but it already has been modified. It was too tall to allow elk to cross it during their seasonal migrations.
“We’re taking off the top rail along the county road,” Jeff Temple said this week. [...]

Steamboat Springs, CO (January 16, 2007) – Less than 6 months after Steamboat Springs City Council approved the development plan for Steamboat Springs’ first master planned residential resort community, Steamboat-based developer, Resort Ventures West now has a final development plat approved, 33 homesite owners and construction underway at Wildhorse Meadows.  The 47-acre site is centrally [...]

Colorado Group Realty on Tuesday hosted a talk with Steamboat 700 project manager Danny Mulcahy. Mulcahy briefly shared his philosophy on affordable housing in Steamboat.
Steamboat Springs – Steamboat 700 is no place for speculation, Project Manager Danny Mulcahy said Tuesday.
Mulcahy delivered this message at a talk hosted by Colorado Group Realty. His presentation drew about [...]

Steamboat Springs – Steamboat 700 developers told city planners Wednesday that they intend to move forward with pared-down development and annexation proposals after their application to extend the urban growth boundary was denied Tuesday night.
“They said they are moving forward, full-speed ahead,” Planning Services Manager John Eastman said.
The UGB is a provision of the Steamboat [...]