Denver makes it easy to be green in 2012. The first full weekend of the year provides a variety of ways to put your best carbon footprint forward. Here are a few examples.
- Tour de farm market. Get the best of the winter farmer’s market at the Denver Urban Homesteading Indoor Farmers Market 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays at 200 Santa Fe Dr. Meet local farmers and food producers. The market has heirloom vegetable starts, yummy pies, organic pumpkin seed oil and diatomacious earth useful in hydroponics, just to name a fraction of the wares.
- Serious chickens. Denver Urban Homesteading holds a monthly chicken swap the first Saturday of each month. The Jan. 7 swap is 10 a.m. to noon at Earthdog Denver, 370 Kalamath St. It’s a great place to gather information, as well as buy and sell chickens, geese, ducks, turkeys, goats and other small animals.
- Tour de gardens. Snow is forecast, but the first Saturday of the month is a great time to tour behind the scenes 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York St.
- Sample Biodiesel. Learn how your car can run on biodiesel during the monthly meeting of the Denver Biodiesel Cooperative, slated at 2:30 p.m. Jan. 7 p.m. at the Mercury Café, 2199 California St.
- See the Sea in 3D. The IMAX film at Phipps IMAX Theater has a serious side for the soul yearning to be green, but this is a great adventure. Visit exotic underwater locales in Southern Australia and New Guinea, under the narration of Jim Carrey. Beware the undertones of global climate change. Theater located on the east side of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Film can be seen daily at 2 p.m., also Fridays and Saturdays at 6 p.m., until Jan. 26.
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