Telluride Institute
Motto | "The Telluride Institute fosters the transition to a sustainable world." |
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Established | 1984 |
President | Dan Collins |
Faculty | Nonprofit organization |
Budget | Revenue: $209,603 Expenses: $235,205 (FYE December 2015)[1] |
Address | Po Box 1770 Telluride, CO 81435 |
Location | |
Website | www.tellurideinstitute.org |
The Telluride Institute (TI) was founded in 1984 in the resort town of
The original mission of the Telluride Institute was to organize and promote the first Telluride Ideas Festival, 1985's "Reinventing Work." Participants included
Since then, the Institute has held numerous Ideas Festivals, including 1988's "Perestroika," the first event in the United States to be co-sponsored by a domestic
Major projects
Two Ideas Festivals spawned major projects:
Water
1992's "Water: The Upper San Miguel Watershed" gave birth to the San Miguel Watershed Coalition, now an independent nonprofit group whose 2006 Watershed Report Card inspired the Institute to hold a lecture series addressing the issue that summer. The TI also created three “living classrooms” where students at schools in the area can study the ecology of the watershed.
TeleCommunity
1993's "TeleCommunity" spawned the InfoZone, a project which made Telluride the first small town in the United States not affiliated with a university or corporation to have direct dial-in to the Internet through a dedicated Internet POP tied to a pervasive community tele-computing network.
Other notable patrons of the Ideas Festival include Soviet cultural ambassador
Other projects
The Telluride Institute has expanded to include many other projects since its inception.
In 1997, the TI invented the idea of Greenbucks, printed
In partnership with the Town of Telluride, the TI held its first annual black bear awareness week in 2005. It included lectures, performances and a community celebration on Telluride’s Main Street to educate area residents about the proper way to coexist with the local bear population. In 2006, the institute took over the organization of the annual Telluride Mushroom Festival, a popular event that involves lectures, film screenings, foraging trips, and cooking demonstrations.
In 2006 John Lifton and Pamela Zoline founded the "Centre for the Future" [1] in the Czech border town of Slavonice. The Centre planned to hold, in September 2006, two simultaneous dual-language festivals: “Robot,” a gathering of science fiction authors and artists inspired by science from the US, UK and the Czech Republic, and “Cultural Landscapes,” examining the impact of society on the surface of the Earth and vice versa through panels and exhibits regarding architecture, urban planning, landscape design, land art and new technologies of mapping and representing topography.
References
- ^ "The Telluride Institute Inc" (PDF). Foundation Center. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
- ^ "Names in the News." Associated Press. Aug. 8, 1985
- ^ After 12 Years, Greenbucks Looks to Refine Partnerships and Expand Program. The Watch. 04/15/05