Learn how the City of Colorado Springs has been studying our garbage and laying out a plan to divert a lot of that trash away from the landfill and into recycling and composting. Kurian, the City’s project manager for its new Waste Diversion Action Plan shares study and survey results, and explains next steps in the project.

We also get a festival preview from Music Director Steve Harris about the upcoming MeadowGrass Music Festival, which happens every Memorial Day weekend in Black Forest.

Name the train: the Front Range Passenger Rail District invited the public to vote for their favorite of four finalists to name the passenger rail line planned to run up and down Colorado’s front range. That survey closes the day this episode drops, March 23. We briefly discuss the project. Look for one more public meeting in Colorado Springs very soon.

Independent reporter Pam Zubeck shares background and highlights of her reporting in the Pikes Peak Bulletin on Colorado Springs Utilities.

Also on the table – ways we can trim our gas bills now that a gallon of gas is fetching close to $4.00.

LINKS:

WastelessCOS: https://coloradosprings.gov/WastelessCOS

Sustainability In-Box: COS-Sustainability.SMB@ColoradoSprings.gov

Circular Action Alliance: https://circularactionalliance.org/circular-action-alliance-colorado

Producer Responsibility program: https://cdphe.colorado.gov/hm/epr-program

Waste and Recycling in Colorado – Episode 96 of Peak Environment: https://studio809podcasts.com/waste-and-recycling/

The Garbologists: https://www.lindsayjoelle.com/the-garbologists.html

Name the Train: https://ridethefrontrange.com/namethetrain

MeadowGrass Music Festival: https://meadowgrass.org/

Pikes Peak Bulletin utilities reports:

Data Centers Come Knocking. Are Local Power and Water Supplies Available?: https://pikespeakbulletin.org/news/data-centers-come-knocking-are-local-power-and-water-supplies-available/

Springs Utilities Out $5.35 Million in Settlement With Fiber Project Contractor: https://pikespeakbulletin.org/news/springs-utilities-out-5-35-million-in-settlement-with-fiber-project-contractor/

Utilities CEO Says ‘Gloves Will Come Off’ if Senate Bill Doesn’t Delay Closing Nixon Coal Plant: https://pikespeakbulletin.org/news/utilities-ceo-says-gloves-will-come-off-if-senate-bill-doesnt-delay-closing-nixon-coal-plant/

CSU’s Non-Compliant Gas Lines To Cost Consumers: https://pikespeakbulletin.org/news/csus-non-compliant-gas-lines-to-cost-consumers/

Utilities Reporting Elsewhere:

Exhaust Concerns Threaten $650M Utilities Power Project – by Wayne Heilman: https://socodigest.com/2026/03/04/breaking-exhaust-concerns-threaten-650m-utilities-power-project/

Buffalo Lodge Bicycle Resort 10 Year Anniversary Special – episode 38 of Pedal the Springs: https://studio809podcasts.com/buffalo-lodge-10-year-anniversary/

Colorado Springs State of Downtown Report: https://downtowncs.com/sod

MENTIONED:

PikeRide

Tejon Street Corner Thieves

Vultures

Thrashers

Antivirus

Trepanned

La Foret Conference & Retreat Center

Goat Patch Brewing Company

ALO

Jack Johnson

String Cheese Incident

Kyle Hollingsworth Band

Nershi Hann Trio

Shook Twins

Daniel Rodriguez

Elephant Revival

Sturtz

Banshee Tree

Folk Alliance International

Grant Sabin

Broken Compass

Emily Hicks

Goodnight Moonshine

Rocky Mountain Highway Music Collaborative

Root Center for Yoga and Sacred Studies

Distillery 291

Southern Colorado Business Forum & Digest

Loving the Springs celebrates the best of Colorado Springs and elevates the rest.

Plug into what’s happening in the Pikes Peak region, learn about awesome people, places and happenings, and explore opportunities to make life here even better. Longtime Springs booster Carrie Simison co-hosts with local gadflies Al Brody and Dave Gardner. All three love our two springs – Colorado and Manitou, so they give them the mic in this twice-monthly podcast. Nothing’s off the table – recreation, the arts, government, business, politics – if it touches your life, they’ll talk about it. We’ll invite the movers and shakers, conspiracy theorists, NIMBYs, YIMBYs, yaysayers and naysayers to join them.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts, and give us feedback and suggestions via comments at https://studio809podcasts.com/loving-the-springs or lovingthespringspodcast at gmail.com