colorado
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This Super-Efficient Building High In The Rocky Mountains Has No Central Heat
The quest to build the world’s most energy-efficient buildings largely plays out in temperate regions or in big, heat-generating cities. That’s what makes this new building in Colorado so impressive: It’s located at high elevation in a location that gets about 229cm of snow per year — yet, amazingly, it uses no central heating at…
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The Hotel From The Shining Wants You To Design Its Scary New Hedge Maze
You’ve probably heard of the Stanley Hotel. This century-old landmark in Estes Park, Colorado is the spooky spot that inspired Stephen King to write The Shining after he and his wife stayed there*. Now, you can design a giant hedge maze — inspired by the giant hedge maze in The Shining — on the Stanley…
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Demand For Drone-Hunting Licences Overwhelms Tiny Town
Back in July, everybody chuckled a little over Deer Trail, Colorado’s half-baked plan to issue drone hunting licences and pay a bounty to any sharp shooter who bagged a flying robot. Some took the opportunity pretty seriously though, leading to over a thousand applications and a big headache for city hall.