BMP community conversation to begin soon
February 26, 2008
Best Management Practices are one of the most discussed landscaping topics at Lake Tahoe. To help homeowners, specialists and officials come to a common understanding about how to encourage and regulate them more effectively, OurTahoe.org is facilitating a BMP forum this spring.
Click here to watch a video of participants talking about this project. (Flash player installed needed). Read more
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Announcing Green Rewards
February 20, 2008
Register today to win lift tickets at Sugar Bowl and Kirkwood ski resorts, beer from New Belgium Brewery and wine and coffee from Java Jungle Vino. All you have to do is join us at LifeMoreNatural.com in a conversation about the environment, recreation and what we as individuals can do to keep outdoor lifestyles sustainable.
The Green Rewards program is our attempt at LifeMoreNatural.com to get people more involved in protecting our environment through conversation, storytelling and volunteering. Green Rewards is a points competition with weekly and monthly prizes, which encourages readers to interact with our Web site by contributing content in the form of comments, photos and stories. You earn points with each contribution but also by volunteering with an environmental or recreation based organization.
“There’s a natural connection between recreation and conservation,” Daniel Pistoresi, Kirkwood ski resort’s marketing communications manager said. “We at Kirkwood want to be a part of that. People who play outdoors do so because they love it, so we have a vested interest in protecting the environment.”
“Sometimes you just do something because it’s the right thing to do,” Greg Murtha, marketing director for Sugar Bowl ski resort said. Sugar Bowl is happy to support doing the right thing when it comes to the environment, he said.
So register today and start getting involved in conserving our environment and recreation opportunities and win yourself some cool prizes by doing it.
Here’s How To Win:
- First you need to Register so that we can keep track of who’s doing what and notify you if you win.
- For each verifiable Volunteer activity that you engage in related to the environment or recreation you will earn 50 Green Rewards.
- Volunteer opportunities are not limited to the one’s listed in our guide, if you get involved in one not listed, add it to the database for an extra 5 Green Rewards.
- For each feature story about an environmental or recreation issue that you contribute to this site you will earn 20 Green Rewards.
- For each description that you contribute to the Recreation Guide or the Volunteer Database you earn 5 Green Rewards.
- For each substantive comment that you post on one of the stories you will earn one Green Reward.**
- Lift tickets from our sponsors at Kirkwood and Sugar Bowl ski resorts will be awarded as weekly prizes to the top four points earners.***
- A pair of lift tickets from Kirkwood and Sugar Bowl ski resorts will be awarded to the top two points earners for monthly prizes as well as a case of beer from New Belgium Brewery to be awarded to the third place points earner.***
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Join the community
February 18, 2008
What does living or playing at Tahoe mean to you? Share your photos, videos, and stories by joining the ‘We Love Tahoe’ community and show the world what being a part of the Tahoe community means to you.
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Understanding diversity
February 18, 2008
There are few things more intimidating or terrifying than living in a foreign land, a stranger to native customs and unable to speak the language.
I know. I did it.When I was 21, I moved to Ecuador to live for 18 months as a missionary.
I was greeted at the airport with a friendly, “bienvenido.” (It means “welcome,” but to me it sounded like nothing more than gibberish.) Sí, I replied. Perhaps it is because of this experience, or maybe just because. But I’m interested in understanding the transition immigrants must go through when they come to this land of plenty.
I wonder, too, how that will shape our future. As the immigration debate continues, it seems the gap between American-born citizens and immigrants, particularly Hispanics, widens. I want to see if there is a way to bridge that gap.
So I’ve come up with an idea. Perhaps nowhere is the division so obvious as it is in Incline Village, where the rich are really rich, and the poor equally so. And the economic division is typically drawn down lines of ethnicity.
As my project for this semester in the journalism graduate program at the University of Nevada, Reno, I will be working with middle school students from Lake Tahoe.
My plan is to work with a dozen seventh-graders, equally split down ethnicity, and teach them the basics of journalism. They’ll photograph and write about their own lives, then work with each other to edit their work.
In the process, I hope, they will learn something from and about one another. What it’s like to walk a mile in each other’s shoes, or zapatos, so to speak. And as they learn from one another, maybe we can learn something from them.
Check back here to see their work and progress. I’ll be posting regularly here and on my blog: Nevada Journalist.
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Why we love Tahoe
February 16, 2008
People who live, work and play at Tahoe know this place is special. We all have photos, stories and memories of our favorite moment at the Lake.
Share your photos, videos, and stories by joining the ‘We Love Tahoe’ community and show the world what being a part of the Tahoe community means to you.
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BMP compliance is low in Tahoe Basin
February 12, 2008
For many Tahoe residents, lake clarity is the most important environmental issue in the basin. Yet, landscaping practices designed to prevent run off and erosion and keep the lake blue are not popular among Tahoe homeowners. More than 80 percent of residential properties in the Tahoe basin have failed to be certified as compliant with BMPs.
Click on the image to watch soundslide on North Lake Tahoe Demonstration Garden. Read more
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Latest Headlines
- Hearing planned in Incline tree-felling case - The federal trial for an Incline Village woman charged with hiring a tree-cutting company to chop three Ponderosa Pines from her Lake Tahoe property has been canceled and a change-of-plea hearing scheduled May 1.
- Truckee man takes torch to North Pole - A Truckee man who reached the North Pole this week carrying an unlit torch for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games plans to discuss his experience and environmental issues Saturday by audio and video transmissions with participants at a Lake Tahoe festival.
- Quake pattern watched closely - As earthquakes continue to shake Reno, two reports released this month give new insight into the likely characteristics of a temblor at Lake Tahoe.
Winds are North at 6 MPH. The pressure is 30.17" and the humidity is 23%. The heat index is 75. Last Updated on Jul 5, 10:55 am PDT.
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