Three Drop Thursday
Friends of Confluence West -
Welcome to Three Drop Thursday, a snapshot of what we’ve been paying attention to this week.
Below: A terrific resource for journos and bloggers, dissing Glen Canyon, and the fun place to be this June - certainly interesting, and maybe even hopeful, times in the American West.
For the West,
Kimery
Calling all journos, bloggers, et al.
Who generally gets quoted in western water and climate change news stories? Primarily white men - to a lesser extent, white women. This is even though people of color are the majority in many western states.
Journos and bloggers (and all you editors) – want to shake up the status quo? Here’s a terrific resource – the Color of Water searchable directory of people of color experts in all things related to water.
Dissing Glen Canyon
Most of us have for years been rolling our eyes at the (seemingly wacko) idea of decommissioning Glen Canyon. Now, climate change may be making fools of all of us. Case in point: Reclamation issued its six alternatives to keeping power generation going. Five of those alternatives really suck, requiring huge sums and possibly impossible engineering. The sixth calls for using wind and solar power (!) to augment the hydro. More on the usual good piece @byianjames
The fun place to be this June
Where? Running the Grand Canyon? Scoring big at Nordstrom’s half-year sale? Nope! The real fun will be at the Colorado River Basin conference June 8 & 9, Uni of Colorado, Boulder, co-hosted by the Water and Tribes Initiative. The fun (or not fun): a BOR ROD summer and, maybe/maybe not meaningful engagement with tribes, enviros, and cities, and/or a joint proposal from all Basin states. Agenda and registration info to come.
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