Feb 2, 2025 · Aspen Journalism's nonprofit newsroom reporting on water, environment, social justice, history and data from Aspen to Marble to upper Colorado River Basin.

2 days ago · Margarita Alvarez stands inside her French Pastry Café in the Aspen Airport Business Center on Feb. 6. Alvarez, who also owns the Local Kitchen & Coffee Shop in Glenwood Springs, joined many other other business owners in the valley who closed their doors on Feb. 3 in solidarity with the nationwide protest, “Un Día Sin Inmigrantes,” or “A Day Without Immigrants.”

Jan 25, 2025 · Lincoln Creek was orange just downstream of the mineralized tributary in July 2024. A team of scientists from the University of Colorado Boulder found that a mineralized tributary is also contributing rare earth elements to Lincoln Creek, …

Aspen Journalism is a nonprofit, reader-funded newsroom providing communities in the Roaring Fork watershed and upper Colorado River basin with independent, investigative, data-driven reporting on complex issues of water, environment, social justice and history — coverage that is unique in our local media landscape.

Aspen Journalism is a nonprofit journalism organization based in Aspen, Colorado. Our mission is to produce investigative and in-depth journalism for those with a stake in the Aspen region, by virtue of their living, voting, owning, working, recreating, or visiting here. Our area of geographic concern radiates outward from Aspen to include Pitkin, Eagle and […]

Jan 30, 2025 · Thank you for your support of Aspen Journalism! Your support made this work possible. Thank you. After years of studying and experimenting with pilot programs, the future of Colorado River management will almost certainly include a permanent water conservation program for the Upper Basin states ...

Chautauqua “In Search of Community” December 12, 2024 | Morgridge Commons, Glenwood Springs. Community Builders and Aspen Journalism seek to engage the community in a conversation that expands on the idea of the interrelatedness of …

Feb 6, 2024 · Reservoir along Thompson Creek voluntarily canceled. A company that was seeking to extend its nearly 60-year-old conditional water right for a reservoir tied to oil-and-gas drilling that would be sited along Thompson Creek near Carbondale backed away from its application in water court, after Water Desk Editor Heather Sackett broke the news last month that the application was proceeding.

Jan 19, 2025 · “Do good for the pure love of the good.” – Albert Schweitzer From his keynote address, Goethe Bicentennial, Aspen, 1949 The high ideals of Dr. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) represent the greatest challenge and opportunity Aspen has ever faced. “A man is truly ethical,” wrote Schweitzer, “only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life […]

Apr 18, 2024 · The community I am searching for extends more than 80 miles, from Aspen to Parachute. This contiguous, linear city clusters along Highway 82 and Interstate 70, and has a population of about 90,000 – roughly the size of Longmont — and that’s before counting the second homeowners and tourists.