One month after a 30-year hailstorm in Colorado, our garden in Thornton is on the mend. Gardening here can be challenging, but it also brings us closer to each other and nature. It helps us appreciate nature’s rhythms and more importantly how these rhythms are increasingly being thrown out of regularity by climate change. It was just 10 years ago when we had hummingbirds in the backyard, and we did not even need to turn on air conditioning throughout the summer.

A report by the American Clean Power Association focused on Colorado contains some fantastic statsitics on renewables in Colorado. Check out what the real “sunshine state” has achieved so far and what it has in store.