Author: Elaine Shannon
Website: http://www.enviroblog.org/2009/10/state-of-the-rockies-studi…
If you’re a Westerner - and what American isn’t, really? — Colorado College’s State of the Rockies Project is a must-read, must-bookmark web destination.
The project’s mission — to conduct “state-of-the-art research to help Rockies residents clearly see their communities, environment and economy, so they can better shape their own future” — is strikingly like Environmental Working Group’s detailed, hyper-local data and analysis.
This year’s topic, food and agriculture, is a natural fit with EWG’s work. CC students, guided by economics professor Walter E. Hecox, an economics professor, are using EWG’s farm subsidy database to help document how the economics and demography of farming are changing the physical and cultural landscape — and how its traditions and economic and demographic pressures are shaping agriculture and ranching.
Last week, I traveled to the CC campus to preview EWG’s new AgMag for a State of the Rockies symposium on the politics of agriculture. …
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