Over the past month, we asked Denver Post readers and our staff to help us come up with a list of people in Colorado who should be recognized for their extraordinary accomplishments or ideas that either occurred or came to fruition in 2013.
Click for the complete list of this year’s winners.
Environment
WINNER:
Adam Brock, executive director of in the Elyria-Swansea neighborhood of Denver. The GrowHaus is a non-profit indoor farm, marketplace and educational center with a goal of providing healthy, affordable food for the surrounding community. In 2013, Brock, who calls himself an urban permaculturist, presented a on locally appropriate agriculture.
HONORABLE MENTION:
, environmentalist and author, who died in 2013. In 1984, he co-founded the nonprofit Community Office for Resource Efficiency in Carbondale. More recently, Udall played a critical role in development of a clean-energy alternative, an electricity plant using vented methane from a coal mine. The Aspen Times quoted Udall as saying: “We have been living like gods. Our task now is to learn how to live like humans. Our descent will not be easy.”
