Steel City to Green City: World of Recycling and Management Services village >

Isaac Medrano
DUSA Blog
Aug 4, 2009

The beacon of green light is shining bright from the city of Pueblo. Pueblo is located in Southern Colorado and is known as one of the largest steel producing cities in the United States. Now it will be known as one of the pioneers of the green ecolution.

Green industries, Green gatherings, and Green activists are coming out of the wood works creating a bastion of opportunity and collaboration that is the fire behind the green movement in Pueblo, CO. In order to make green jobs a reality while addressing the triple bottom line; a pipeline must be created.

Pueblo, CO is a city that does not have a recycling program. One group has emerged to lead the pack the Sustainable Economic Environmental Consortium or SEEC.

The SEEC is the union of non-profits, eco-activists, local government, for profit entities, and entrepreneurs. The Happy Worm Herders, directed by Carolyn Kelly, answered the call of duty to create the enterprise that brings recycling and a new green manufacturing industry to Pueblo, CO.

The twenty-year vision pins Pueblo, CO as the recycling and remanufacturing hub for Southeastern Colorado and neighboring states and making Pueblo a zero waste city! Currently plans estimate that 150 Green jobs that will create the following industries:

– Home heating wood/organic pellets

– Rubber mulch and other rubber products

– Alternative Daily Cover (ADC): cloth, paper, cardboard

– Hydroseeding mix

– Plastics: lumber, fencing, building materials, park benches, other plastic products

– Other consumer goods made from recycled materials

The Eco-lution is alive and well in the hub of Southern Colorado and as one for the founding members of the Sustainable Economic Environmental Consortium I look forward to making the “Dream ReBorn” a reality in Pueblo, CO. The city that was founded at the confluence of the Arkansas River and the Fountain Creek now stands at the confluence of bridging the old gray economy to the new green collar economy.

Isaac Medrano

Green for All Fellow

Colorado State Director

Democracia USA