Time

We're trying to weave some history into our Web site without making it a snoooore. When it comes to environmental issues, many people lack a big-picture view because they're not familiar with how things came to be the way they are - suburban sprawl, our nightmarish automobile infrastructure, land development, pollution, etc.

We could weave these histories in through focusing on several generations of Americans, interviewing and profiling some of these folks, and tracing their outlooks, habits and assumptions about the environment back to the era they grew up in and the philosophies that dominated at the time.

For example, we could find an undergrad from the millenial generation from, say, the midwest, who has differing notions of public transportation and recycling than her contemporary who grew up in Boulder.

We'd talk to some people in their 60s who lived through the Wilderness Act, the development of the EPA, Earth Day, the Reagan Administration. How do they make sense of Boulder's Carbon Tax and other environmental issues facing us today?

Our worldviews and leanings are shaped by our experiences and environments. We would talk to people with strong feelings and opinions about the environment and do a sort of taxonomy of those feelings and opinions. Might be too wishy-washy, but the idea of making it generational has potential.