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Quiet, efficient, and carbon-neutral, the lawnmowers used by this
Colorado startup are charged throughout workday by specially
mounted the solar panels.
Greening up from
conventions to lawnmowers
From lawn care to the Democratic
National Convention, the zeitgeist is
very definitely a shade of green.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was
recently in Denver, challenging del-
egates to the national convention
this summer to offset their carbon
impact of traveling to Denver. At the
other end of the spectrum, a lawn
care company is working to reduce
Inside the
Cherry Creek
News &
Central Denver
Dispatch
• Cherry
Creek North
improvements page 3
• Dante’s Inferno Revenue
Service page 4
• Exercise as life metaphor
page 8
• British Soccer Camp page 18
• Jaida’s gift page 21
 April 18, 2008
both air pollution and energy use in
a very local way.
“The 2008 Democratic National
Convention, like our great party, is
about the future--the future of our
country and the future of our plan-
et,” said Speaker Pelosi. “That is why
we are ensuring that this Convention
will be the greenest, most sustainable,
most successful political Convention
in history - and the Green Delegate
Challenge is a critical part of that
effort.”
As part of the challenge, delega-
tions with the highest percentage of
members offsetting their carbon will
be recognized in their seating section
on the floor of the Pepsi Center dur-
ing the Convention. Each delegate,
alternate and super delegate from
that state will also receive a “green”
prize. Progress will be tracked on
DemConvention.com, with the win-
ning state or states recognized on the
website in August.
Through the DNCC’s partner-
ship with Native Energy, delegates
may obtain their carbon offsets from
a number of domestic community-
based clean energy projects including
the community-owned, utility-scale
Wray School District Wind Turbine in
Wray, Colo.; a Focus the Nation Wind
Turbine on a family farm in Rosedell
Township, Minn.; a fourth genera-
tion family dairy farm methane proj-
ect in Rockwood, Pa.; and the Des
Plaines, Ill., Landfill Gas-to-Energy
Project. During the coming months,
the DNCC will add more carbon
offset projects to include additional
see CARBON REDUCTIONon page 7
Lowry News
p. 22
Blueprint Denver fulfilled in
rezonings
by the Cherry Creek News beacon for the direction Denver is likely
In the six years that have passed to be going in protecting older neighbor-
since Denver’s master planning docu- hoods.
ment, “Blueprint Denver,” became law, The rezoning, which woud change
little has happened to enforce some of zoning in two areas of West Highlands
the plan’s prime goals. The master plan and Sloan’s Lake from R-2 to R-1, is
identified neighborhoods as “areas of hoped by proponents to stop scrape-
change” or “areas of stability.” But the offs of single family homes which are
City, with a very pro-redevelopment being replaced by duplexes and triplex-
Hickenlooper administration driving es. Opponents say the re-zoning harms
the agenda, has done little to protect private property rights.
areas designated for stability from Significantly, Councilman Rick
widespread changes in density and Garcia successfully asked the Council’s
character, as scapeoffs have changed the Blueprint Denver committee to add lan-
landscape. In many areas, duplexes and guage to the rezoning bills, extending
triplexes have replaced single family the effective date until January 1, 2009.
homes, and big scrapeoffs dominate the According to Garcia, the eight months
scale of Denver’s traditional housing would allow projects in motion to be
stocks. Design standards haven’t been concluded. It would also allow a prop-
implemented to protect neighborhood erty owner who have said they have
character, and new zoning hasn’t been plans for a scrape-off to begin. Garcia
created to maintain single-family areas. indicated that those changes were nec-
Jennifer Moulton, the now dead essary to meet objections raised by those
planning director who crafted Blueprint on City Council.
Denver, described “areas of stability” Garcia said he expects a “legal pro-
thusly: “primarily residential neighbor- test” of the re-zoning to be filed. A legal
hoods and their associated commer- protest, if certified, would require ten
cial areas, the goal is to identify and council votes to pass the bills.
maintain the character of an area while
accommodating some new develop-
The re-zoing is “symbolic as to how
we are going to deal with the imple-
ment and redevelopment.” Indeed,
“existing stable neighborhoods should
mentaton of Blueprint Denver (the city
comprehensive plan),” said Garcia.
be reviewed for possible character- The measures are expected to find
preserving improvement and re-invest- stiff opposition from Councilman
ment.” Stability doesn’t mean stagna- Charlie Brown, who previously jammed
tion. But proposed developments must through changes to make rezoning of
be character enhancing, not character this sort nearly impossible. Brown has
changing. teamed with developers, many who are
A test of the City’s willingness to from outside Denver, to stymie neighbor-
protect “areas of stability” will be before hood activists who oppose scrapeoffs.
council this April, as a wide-area rezon-
ing seeks to slow changes in two swaths
of North Denver. The issue is likely a
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The Origins of Economic Distress:
Apex and Foundation
Imagine our economy in three parts.
The first is the foundation, upon which
everything else rests. In the modern age,
that foundation is energy- the vast enter-
prise by which resources are taken from
the earth (and increasingly the sun and
sky), refined, transported and used. The
third, the apex, is the financial sector—
the creation of capital and credit, and its
exploitation. Everything feeds the apex,
every credit card and check transaction,
every major purchase (home, car, educa-
tion) puts a percentage into the financial
sector, however small. Finance is largely
parasitic, feeding off value and trade creat-
ed elsewhere. The middle ground between
the apex and foundation is our productive
economy, where labor and capital com-
bine to create value and benefit.
This metaphor is purely subjective—
there is no value judgement in putting
banks at the top and oil drillers at the
bottom and everyone else in the middle.
But it is helpful to understand how these
segments interact.
Most Americans don’t recognize this
structure and the cracks that threaten
the stability of the productive economy.
Our leaders, when aware, won’t discuss
it. Interests, from corporate, to labor, to
environmental, to bureaucratic, fear a real
debate about our common needs. The
media, generally too depthless, won’t dare
to tell the story. Academia is too fractured
and secularized to grasp the long view
round it.
Regardless, the problems are real.
Some measures of it are visited upon
the vast majority of American families.
Real wages (adjusted for inflation) in the
United States are stagnant over the last
seven years, only 0.8% higher in January
2008 then March 2001.
Inflation is said to be contained. But
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the reality? Energy prices leap ever higher
daily. Health care costs inflate at double
digit rates. Even food prices threaten the
effective standard of living. The dollar is
so weak that it may not be the world’s
reserve currency much longer, a possibili-
ty that could literally bankrupt the nation,
leaving no buyers for the prodigious debt
we create month in and month out.
At its peak, the apex, the American
financial sector is in miserable shape,
despite extraordinary efforts by the Federal
Reserve to maintain stability. Highly lev-
eraged in every market by speculation,
from credit card debt to municipal bonds,
we are seeing a gigantic house of cards
crumble. American prosperity is an illu-
sion of debt. We borrow, and create money
through leverage, far in excess of the
cumulative value of economic production
(GDP). At every turn, from mortgages, to
bonds, we put a fraction down and prom-
ise to pay later. A hedge fund, Carlyle
Capital, related to the private equity fund
the Carlyle Group, failed last month-- it
was leveraged 32 times to one. In plain
language, it took $1,000 in collateral and
purchased $32,000 worth of mortgages--
good old government insured mortgages,
to the tune of $27.1 billion. No bank or
credit union could ever have done this
32-to-1 trick, but a variety of pseudo-
banks have done the same, essentially
creating phony money through leverage.
And many of them, including the giant
investment bank Bear Stearns have now
failed. That phony money is now gone,
taking some $18 billion in shareholder
value with it.
We now have seen three financial bub-
bles arise and two burst in an astonishing-
ly short period of time. The first was the
internet/tech stock bubble, which blew
up, vaporizing some $7 trillion. Next
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was the housing bubble, in which home
valuations rocketed up 50% while GDP
increased 14%. Eric Janzen, writing in
Harper’s, put the inflated value of hous-
ing due to the bubble at $13 trillion, using
the Federal Reserve’s Flow of Funds. One
good way to recognize a bubble? When
the cost of an item (like a home) is increas-
ing far more quickly than people’s ability
to buy the item. And now we are in the
midst of a commodity bubble, with gold
and oil leading the way, but also includ-
ing grain, uranium and copper. The com-
modity bubble is currently being inflated
by two factors-- the plunging value of the
dollar, which automatically creates price
increases in commodities valued in dol-
lars, and the massive asset rotation out
of stocks and into commodities. Simply
put, when stocks and bonds look risky
and none-too-profitable, investors switch
to another asset class or type of invest-
ment. The stock market has been flat for
a decade, measured by the S&P 500, so
investors have put their money into, or
speculated with, oil, gold and the like.
More buyers mean higher prices, yes?
Some observers, like William
Fleckenstein, put the bubble blame
squarely upon the Federal Reserve, and a
sustained monetary policy that drove the
cost of money to nearly zero for a fifteen
year period. Cheap money also chan-
nels money from the productive sectors
of the economy into financial specula-
tion, widening the cracks in the apex.
Fleckenstein’s book, Greenspan’s Bubbles,
is a lengthy tour of the effects of the Fed’s
actions. Speculation is fueled by cheap
money and leverage, and while regulators
have turned a blind-eye to widespread
and creative use of leverage, cheap money
is purely the result of monetary policy.
It seems, however, that bubbles and
leverage are only a portion of the prob-
lems besetting the apex of the economy.
The Chinese are purchasing the debt
of the United States at the rate of $1 bil-
April 18, 2008
lion daily, totaling some $1.5 trillion so
far. As James Fallows has reported, that
means the poor of China have purchased
$4,000 in U.S. debt for every man, woman
and child in America. Put on hold for a
second what that means in geo-political
terms. This represents a huge risk for
both China and America. For the Chinese,
this is an investment risk. As the dollar
suffers, the commodities that they use for
manufacture and the energy they import,
get more expensive relative to their huge
asset base. As some point, the Chinese
will have to diversify (just like your 401k),
and unwind this giant dollar position, or
risk getting clobbered as everything they
import goes sky high in pricing. For the
U.S., this is a debtor’s risk. If the Chinese
call our loan, or begin to sell off their
devalued dollar investments, we will be
badly hurt. They will be selling into a fall-
ing market, risking a run on Treasuries.
Simply put, the interest cost to taxpayers
will skyrocket, crippling our ability to deal
with Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid,
not to mention everything else the federal
government spends money upon. This is
an arrangement that simply can not be
sustained.
China also invests in America through
Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF), and they
buy much more than just treasury bonds.
They are giant investors in private equity
funds, which increasingly, own American
corporations, including many companies
you are a daily consumer of.
As the American financial sector
cratered this January, Sovereign Wealth
Funds from Singapore, China, Abu Dhabi
and Oman raced to the rescue. Or was it a
firesale? Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Morgan
Stanley, Bear Stearns and UBS, the cream
of the American banking industry, took in
a total of $30.5 billion from SWFs, accord-
ing to CFO Magazine. It’s unclear exactly
who all these investors are, and what their
real stakes may total.
see FINANCIAL on page 4
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Cherry
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improvements
contracts
In November 2006, businesses
and property owners in the Cherry
Creek North Business Improvement
District narrowly approved $18.5 mil-
lion in bonds. The issue was strongly
opposed by many small, indepen-
dent businesses in the District, which
lies between 1st and 3rd Avenues,
and encompasses some 300 busi-
nesses. The bonds were for a largely
unspecified set of improvements to
the business district’s infrastructure.
The delay in issuing
bonds will ultimately
cost taxpayers
millions in additional
interest, and the
municipal bond
market is in a near
crisis state after the
meltdown of
subprime mortgages
strangled credit
markets.
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While no bonds have yet to be
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getting underway seventeen months
later. The delay in issuing bonds will
ultimately cost taxpayers millions in
additional interest, and the munici- host to events, ice skating and mov-
pal bond market is in a near crisis ies in the past.
state after the meltdown of subprime Answering past criticism has been
a part of the job for the District’s
mortgages strangled credit markets.
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for $2 million worth of consulting launched a newsletter and monthly
contracts for the design of improve- meetings in an attempt to keep busi- 86% Relief
ments and project management. The ness owners in the loop.
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Dante’s Inferno Revenue Service
Listen closely. Hear that noise?
A low, ominous rumble, growing
in volume and intensity, like an
approaching tornado. What is it?
The sound of millions of mutinous
taxpayers, voices raised high, clam-
oring for relief from taxation with-
out limitation. Dutiful citizens who
once coughed up what they owed
with minimal complaint now carry
torches and pitchforks. Squeaky
clean rules-following good folks
who once obediently entered their
daytime phone and Social Security
numbers on their checks, who
would never staple those checks to
their returns, these people now buy
assault rifles in bulk.
Why? What’s going on here?
What has brought formerly peace-
ful, compliant citizens to the brink
of violent rebellion? Eight decades
of additions to the tax code, that’s
what. We’re talking impenetrable
maze here. Most people would
rather attempt to crack the genetic
code than wade through the con-
fusing, conflicting hodgepodge of
forms and instructions delivered
to our doorsteps each year. After
all, the largest chromosome in the
human body is a mere 220 million
base pairs long, considerably short-
er than the instructions for Income
or Loss From Rental Real Estate
and Royalties. Really, why don’t
government agents just stick guns
in our faces and take our money?
It would be infinitely quicker and
easier than navigating the rocky
shoals of IRS regulations.
Yes, taxpayers are in Hell, suf-
fering agonies akin to those expe-
rienced by the condemned in “The
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Divine Comedy.” Dante Alighiere’s
epic medieval poem accurately
foreshadowed our present-day tri-
als and tribulations. Open your
tax preparation booklet and aban-
don all hope ye who enter here.
When it’s midnight April 14th and
the kitchen table is strewn with all
manner of receipts, bills and can-
celled checks, when beleaguered
mere mortals are struggling with
mountains of paperwork and inde-
cipherable instructions, they must
truly believe they have entered the
bowels of the netherworld, never to
return.
What might Dante expect to find
in a 21st century tax inferno? In the
first circle of Hell, he would encoun-
ter the EZ filers. They lack com-
plications: no investments, mort-
gages or dependents. They simply
plug in their salary, withholding
and standard deductions, sign the
form, enclose a check and they’re
done. They are not punished in an
active sense, but rather grieve only
separation from their money, with-
out hope of refund. In the second
circle are the 1040s, whose souls are
blown to and fro by violent storms
of itemized deductions, residen-
tial energy credits and nontaxable
combat pay, without hope of rest.
Further down, in the third circle, are
the tormented independent contrac-
tors, condemned to forever lie in the
mess of their own self-employment
tax forms which they shredded in
utter frustration.
In the fourth circle, this group
must forever labor beneath the
crushing weight of Schedule D,
Capital Gains and Losses. In the
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April 18, 2008
fifth circle, in the
swamp-like waters of
the river Styx, doomed taxpayers
drown in depreciation and amorti-
zation schedules. In the sixth circle
are hapless sufferers trapped in the
flaming tomb of Farm and Nonfarm
Optional Methods. The seventh
circle contains those unfortunates
torn at by the Harpies of Foreign
Accounts and Trusts. In the eighth
circle are the accursed, boiling in the
lake of Profit or Loss from Business
or Profession. And finally, in the
ninth and worst circle of Hell, in the
domain of the hideous Alternative
Minimum Tax, the souls here are
encased in ice, immersed so only
half of their faces are visible. As they
cry, their tears freeze and seal their
eyes shut, denying them even the
comfort of tears.
Agonized taxpayers can only
hope that, like Dante, their suffer-
ings will eventually come to an
end and they will make their way
up through the seven terraces of
Purgatory to the tax-free shelter of
Heaven.
—Teresa Keegan
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Financial mess spurs downturn
continued from page 2 rapid cuts in interest rates. At some point,
How active these SWFs will be as the world will no longer need the dol-
investors, we don’t know. But just as small
businesses know, when hometown banks
lar, at least as a reserve currency (the
currency assets are held in). And since
America has outsourced its manufactur-
get gobbled up and decision-makers move
to far away cities, loans get harder to come
by. If Americans believe that folks in Abu
ing base, increasingly outsource it high-
value service industry, and is eroding its
Dhabi and Singapore have their best inter- status as financial titan, what will be left?
ests at heart, they may be in for a nasty Hollywood? Video games? Not a very
surprise down the road. But what we do pretty prospect. With our low savings rate
know is that the American economy no and high consumer debt levels, we will be
longer has the strength or the flexibility to hard pressed to find the funds to invest in
support its own banks and brokers. technology, the area we still hold a global
Increasingly, the dollar is creating a edge in.
new set of hazards for our financial apex. Next month, the cracks in the founda-
The weak dollar hampers our competi-
tive position in the financial sector. No
tion and what you can do
—Guerin Lee Green
.
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An easy vine for us to grow is the
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or klemat’ is. Either is correct depend-
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such things. The word
comes from the Greek
word klematis meaning Down the These are all hybrids
“a kind of vine.” Garden path and will not bloom as
There is one variety
that is not a vine but a
shrub that grows four to five feet in
height. It’s called clematis recta and
blooms most of the summer.
Today we are primarily concerned
with the vining types. The flowers
have no true petals. Its beauty lies
the colorful sepals. It’s hardy and has
few to no insect pests in our area. The
diseases that affect this
plant in other areas don’t
occur in our climate.
The oldest favorite
and the hardiest clema-
tis is jackmanii. It must
be pruned early in the
spring. If you have a
mature vine and haven’t
pruned it yet, do so now.
Cut old stems about eight
inches from the soil level
and give the plant nitro-
gen and phosphate. The
jackmanii is a vigorous
grower so you’ll have to
watch it throughout the
summer. Left alone it will sprawl on
the ground and ignore your trellis or
whatever you are training it on. The
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NATIONAL Choosing to improve

QUILT FEST rather than move
Denver National
With the mortgage industry more
volatile than at any time in recent
memory, the job market uncertain,
and housing prices flat, for most peo-
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property they already own.
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modern house. And yet, for those liv- going to have a job next week,” says
ing in an outdated home, it can still be Suzanne Klemp, one of the founders

May 1 - 4
dreary looking at dated fixtures and of MillTech, Inc., a company that spe-
trim, and feeling like extras in an epi- cializes in custom woodwork design
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Thursday ~ Saturday 10 am - 6 pm at upgrading the home you already and more customers who are calling
have - and indeed, in the current econ- us looking for ways to upgrade and
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and consumers appear to be spending continued on page 7
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Redesign reigns amidst
shaky market
continued from page 6
We’re still doing a lot of new con-
struction, but there’s less construction
happening, so we’ve started to shift
focus a little.”
At their 80,000 square foot facility
on the edge of Denver, there’s little
sign of any diminution in the market.
A gigantic green machine
continues cutting and
assembling standard and
custom-designed doors,
using expert calibration to
match each door exactly
to the specifications of its
future home, and, in row
after row, wood, trim, win-
dows, hardware, and mate-
rials truck in and out of
the warehouse with an effi-
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has his own workshop in
one corner of the facility,
where he designs anything
from custom mantels and
doorframes to recently, of
all things, “dog gates.”
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Klemp. “It’s pretty rare
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With offices in both
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Carbon footprint shrinks with
travel and lawn care
continued from page 1 A University of Washington study
providers supporting domestic offset found residues of common lawn
projects. insecticides in toddlers’ urine.
Closer to home is a company Clean Air Lawn Care is a lawn
making lawn care greener. The com- maintenance company that uses
pany seeks to make commonplace an clean electric and biodiesel powered
alternative to noise, pollution - even equipment. The vehicles hauling
chemical applications. They’re seek- this equipment have mounted solar
ing to get rid of obnoxiously loud panels which charge the electric
motors and the smell of burning equipment during the workday. The
gasoline, even closing the door on equipment is clean and quiet; the
spraying toxic chemicals to control business is carbon neutral. Now a
weeds and pests. national franchise, the business was
Air pollution, noise pollution, started in 2006 in Fort Collins, CO.
chemical warfare…. ahhh… spring In addition to mowing, this year
in Cherry Creek. It is ironic the Clean Air Lawn Care is able to offer
amount of pollution we emit caring service that further protects our
for our little piece of nature. families and environment - organic
The EPA estimates that 5-10% of treatment. There is now a complete
all air pollution comes from lawn alternative to conventional lawn care
equipment. protecting our families, pets and the
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• Renewable electricity generation capacity reached an estimated 240 gigawatts
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percent of global power capacity and 3.4 percent of global power generation.
• Renewable energy generated as much electric power worldwide in 2006 as one-
quarter of the world’s nuclear power plants, not counting large hydropower. (And
more than nuclear counting large hydropower.)
• The largest component of renewables generation capacity is wind power, which
grew by 28 percent worldwide in 2007 to reach an estimated 95 GW. Annual capacity
additions increased even more: 40 percent higher in 2007 compared to 2006.
• The fastest growing energy technology in the world is grid-connected solar
photovoltaics (PV), with 50 percent annual increases in cumulative installed capacity
in both 2006 and 2007, to an estimated 7.7 GW. This translates into 1.5 million homes
with rooftop solar PV feeding into the grid worldwide.
• Rooftop solar heat collectors provide hot water to nearly 50 million households
worldwide, and space heating to a growing number of homes. Existing solar hot
water/heating capacity increased by 19 percent in 2006 to reach 105 gigawatts-thermal
(GWth) globally.
• Biomass and geothermal energy are commonly employed for both power and
heating, with recent increases in a number of countries, including uses for district
heating. More than 2 million groundsource heat pumps are used in 30 countries for
building heating and cooling. (data 2007 - REN 21)
 Page 8 Cherry Creek News & Central Denver Dispatch April 18, 2008

Exercise as a metaphor
for life
by Angela Sasseville, MA,NCC took mental stock of the setbacks that
At the time I started Jazzercise, I had occurred in my life that week, the
was struggling with the recent death situations that had required courage
of my brother, Jake. His terminal or tenacity. Then something would
illness left me disconnected from shift as my body and my attitude fell
the fact that my physical body was in sync with one another. I would
still alive and still vital. As a mother step into the knowledge that I hadn’t
of two very young children, find- given up at class or in life because I
ing time for myself for things like had more strength and determina-
exercise was a constant challenge. tion than I had recognized. I left each
There was a dialogue going on inside class feeling confident and alive.
my head, one voice telling me to be In the field of psychology we call
patient and appreciative of my post- these “mastery tasks.” Any hobby
partum body, and another voice beg- or form of exercise that we partici-
ging me to find my way back to my pate in with regularity allows us to
fit pre-motherhood body. My busi- observe our own improvements and
ness was brand new and required proficiencies over time, increasing
intense amounts of labor and invest- our self-esteem, connecting us to the
ments without many rewards. In knowledge held inside our bodies.
short, my stress level was high and Adults and children alike can apply
I became discouraged from time to this self knowledge to other areas
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Dining Detective: Pasquini’s, of the juices as the pork cooks, giving

a really delicious, moist and smooth
pizzettas. It’s a very sterile, fast-food
environment, but that shouldn’t matter
GB Fish & Chips and the Spicy texture. The recipe used at GB’s was if you remember that the reason you
purchased by a soldier posted in Britain choose the Spicy Pickle is for the very
Pickle during WWII. After using it himself for fresh, healthy menu with very generous
decades, he has given it to his nephew portions and very fast service. For the
A trip to Denver’s “Antique Row” nephews visit this is
so that the tradition continues here in antiquer on the go, this is the best option.
is great way to spend a sunny spring a “must stop” location
Denver. It is also the healthiest. The menu is
day, but you will never make it through where they can play with raw bread
The décor of GB’s is extremely casu- filled with fresh breads and vegetables
the many blocks of shops and show- dough while waiting for their individu-
al; with people eating at wooden picnic and nothing fatty or fried. I really
rooms if you don’t stop along the way al kid-sized pizzas.
tables with soccer jersey’s hanging over- enjoyed my chicken and apple grinder
for appropriate sustenance. That’s Adult groups will enjoy Pasquini’s
head. You order at the counter then take on chibata bread although it was more
why I am taking some time to outline original rooms, which have a more
a seat until someone calls your name. about the bread and less about the meat.
what I call the “Antique Row Dining eclectic décor, a hip juke box, and fairly
There are no frills. None. Cement I would have preferred a smaller piece
Trifecta,” three restau- decent prices on beer
floors, Xeroxed signs on the walls, and of bread with more stuffing. The small
rants located at the cor- Pasquini's and sangria. This is
squeeze bottles of ketchup on the tables. salads, though, are HUGE and with a bit
ner of South Broadway
and Louisiana that offer
1310 S. Broadway where we sit when my
parents come to town.
That is because people don’t come here of meat added these would make a great
GB Fish & They say it makes them for anything OTHER than the food. Yes, light lunch. My tip: go with a friend,
three very different but
it is that good. share a sandwich and choose your own
equally pleasing dining Chips feel young.
The last member of the Trifecta is the small salads.
experiences. If you’re a foodie
131 S. Broadway Spicy Pickle deli. This is a chain, yes, So there you have it, three options
For leisurely din- then you will surely
Spicy Pickle enjoy the second mem- but it might be one of the best options for three different dining attitudes:
ing in a great atmo-
for people wanting a very quick, light Pasquini’s for the leisurely, GB Fish &
sphere, the best choice 1298 S. Broadway ber of the Trifecta, GB bite. Like many of the other sandwich/ Chips for the foodies, and the Spicy
is Pasquini’s. This piz- Fish and Chips. This
panini shops, their menu is posted over Pickle for people on the go. Pick your
zeria deserves top billing because of is where you are going to find good,
the counter and features a decent ver- style and bon apetit!***
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ity of sandwiches, grinders, salads and
service. They have been an iconic site perfectly. The fish and chips are the
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creative and inspiring. If you’re look- ingredients, it’s extremely refreshing to
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Low-hanging fruit on the porch
by Julie Connor
How many neighborhood activ-
ists does it take to screw in an
energy-efficient light bulb, thereby
reducing Denver’s carbon foot-
print? Just two, and in pursuing
this easy means to reduce energy
consumption in their own front
yards, Kevin Suchlicki and Sue
Okerson started the Porch Bulb
Project.
The Porch Bulb Project endeav-
ors to take a chunk out of resi-
dential greenhouse gas emissions
by replacing incandescent porch
bulbs with energy-efficient com-
pact fluorescent lamps (CFLs). For
Earth Day 2008, the Porch Bulb
Project, joining with its new part-
ner Groundwork Denver, aims to
distribute 100 porch light CFLs in
the Sunnyside neighborhood.
The Porch Bulb Project evolved
because Okerson and Suchlicki
wanted to take action in reducing
Denver’s carbon footprint. They
noticed lots of porch lights on all
night -- ideal situations for CFLs.
So Suchlicki and Okerson’s bright
idea was to replace incandescent
bulbs in porch lights with CFLs . .
. for free.
Okerson and Suchlicki started
out by donating the CFLs them-
selves. To this generosity, another
300 CFLs have been added from
the City’s environmental sustain-
ability initiative GreenPrint Denver
and the City Council offices of Rick
Garcia and Judy Montero.
Since its inception, over 70 incan-
descent bulbs have been replaced,
reducing Denver’s carbon footprint
by almost four metric tons per year.
April 18, 2008
Although we still have a ways to
go -- a Denverite’s per capita emis-
W e s t w o r d 2008
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ogram
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low-hanging fruit that moves us all
in the right direction. CFLs use 25
percent of the energy an incandes-
cent bulb uses and can last 10 times
as long, consequently reducing
waste, energy use, and the emis-
sions and pollution that result from
that consumption. Additionally,
You wouldn’t settle for
each CFL can save as much as $40
over the life of the bulb.
Groundwork Denver, a non-
last year’s shoe styles.
profit based in Northwest Denver,
will work to further the Porch Bulb
Project’s accomplishments, expand-
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viding information and resources in
want the latest in
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mission is to improve the physical
environment and promote health
and well-being through communi-
ty-based partnerships and action.
The Porch Bulb Project is a com-
ponent of Groundwork Denver’s
Climate Change Program. To vol-
unteer for the Porch Bulb Project, to
donate bulbs or for more informa-
tion about Groundwork Denver’s
Climate Change Program, contact
Program Director Julie Connor
at 303-455-5600 or Julie.Connor@
groundworkdenver.org, or visit
www.groundworkdenver.org.
For more information about
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mation about the Porch Bulb Project,
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