Health clubs pumped up by wellness trend.([CORPORATE
WELLNESS])
As employers grow increasingly interested in employee waistlines,
health clubs across Colorado are rolling out the red carpet for
Corporate America, offering group discounts, free club . . .
Guaranteed Recycling Xperts Inc.(SPOTLIGHT)
SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES:
Guaranteed Recycling Xperts Inc. saves between 900,000 and 1
million pounds of electronics waste a month from being dumped into U.S.
landfills and hazardous waste . . .
Nanotechnology will mean big business for renewable
energy.([ENERGY])(Brief article)
Al Gore has thrown down a challenge to the American public: Produce
100 percent of the country's electricity from clean, carbon-free
sources within 10 years.
In July, Colorado hosted the first . . .
[On the record].
"THE QUESTION IS WHETHER THE PRICE POINT WILL BE THERE FOR THE
LARGER SHARE OF THE POPULATION. I HOPE TO BE ABLE TO FINALLY GET TO THAT
PRICE POINT WHERE I CAN AFFORD IT. THAT'S GOING TO BE A . . .
Business needs to be a watchdog for school reform.(GUEST)
During the Public Education & Business Coalition's 25th
Anniversary luncheon last April, Joe Blake, president of the Metro
Denver Chamber of Commerce, succinctly summarized the key lessons
business . . .
Growing west: Greeley stretches toward Loveland, dusts off
downtown as residential lags.(WHO OWNS)
"Go West young man, and grow up with the country,"
newspaper editor and Greeley, Colo., namesake Horace Greeley is alleged
to have said. That's exactly what Greeley has been doing - moving
west.
. . .
Workplace wellness surge: health-care costs spur companies to
invest in preventive programs, lifestyle guidance.
When the clock strikes 8 a.m. for employees, of PCL Construction
Enterprises, don't expect to find them huddled around the coffee
and doughnuts in the break room.
Instead, the company's 165 . . .
Colorado not ready to crack down on carbon: the Ritter
administration is watching--but not joining--a regional cap-and-trade
pla
THE MARKET-BASED CAP-AND-TRADE mechanism for reducing carbon
dioxide and other greenhouse emissions is coming rapidly--perhaps as
soon as 2012 in the West.
Colorado is on the sidelines, taking . . .
CSU launches environmental school to push research and
jobs.([EDUCATION])(Colorado State University)(Brief article)
Colorado State University is upping the ante on its campaign to
become known as a "green" university by creating a school
focused on the environment that will drive research and prepare . . .
Peach crop plump, sweet--and pricey.([AGRICULTURE])(Brief
article)
Colorado's peach crop took its time this year, with fruit
growing plump and flavorful thanks to an unusually long, cool spring.
Although fruit is ripening 10 to 14 days later than normal, . . .
All hopped up but still a ways to grow: surging sales in
Colorado's beer industry tempered by price spikes for
ingredients.(VINE
Last year, Colorado's breweries faced a unique situation. Big
brewers merged, craft brewery sales surged, but ingredients--from malts
to hops to glass for the bottles--went through the roof.
. . .
We are not in climate crisis.(GUEST)
Implementation of the cap-and-trade carbon dioxide policies
presently before Congress on greenhouse gas reductions would lead to a
substantial slowdown in the world's economic development and, . . .
Mercy Housing CEO shepherds Denver nonprofit's growth to
19,100 affordable units nationwide.(SISTER LILLIAN MURPHY)
Sister Lillian Murphy will never forget the mother of four who fled
to Decatur Place, an affordable housing development in Denver operated
by Mercy Housing.
"She told me, 'I finally left the . . .
2008 top company finalists; What's it take to become a top
company?(COLORADO'S MOST COMPETITIVE BUSINESS AWARD)
Pretty much everything you should aspire to be as a business
enterprise.
Top Company is Colorado's most competitive business awards
program, judged on the basis of financial performance, . . .
On ColoradoBiz TV; Sunflower chief finds good timing leads to
serious growth.(Interview)
With the costs of energy and commodities driving up grocery prices,
being positioned as a discount store is a good place to be. Mike
Gilliland, founder and CEO of Sunflower Farmers Market, chalks . . .
Rooms with vineyard views: new hotel aims to boost Western Slope
wine tourism.
RISING FROM THE VINEYARDS of Palisade is something as important to
the Western Slope wine industry as grapes--a new $8 million hotel
designed for guests who want to savor wine country around the . . .
Top 250 private companies.
Last year, Englewood-based engineering giant CH2M Hill took over
the No. 1 spot in ColoradoBiz magazine's Top 250 Private Companies
ranking when former No. 1 Swift & Co. was bought by South . . .
Dairy's battle reflects conflicting views on organic:
'Locavore' movement gains ground.([PLANET-PROFIT REPORT]
ORGANICS VS. LOCA
FORTY MILES NORTH OF DENVER where residential real estate has yet
to completely overrun agriculture, Mark Retzloff shows a visitor around
his 400-acre Platteville facility. It's the hub of Aurora . . .
[By the numbers].(contract between Alliance for Sustainable
Energy and Department of Energy)(Brief article)
$340 million.
Annual value of a five-year contract signed by the Alliance for
Sustainable Energy with the U.S. Department of Energy to manage the
National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden. . . .
Correction.(Correction notice)
In the August story on the 2008 Best Companies to Work for in
Colorado, a section about Boulder-based Aztek Networks contained
incorrect information. Some of the material was inadvertently . . .
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