Boulderganic
A quarter-century of environmental reporting and no end in sight
Boulder Weekly has always made environmental reporting a top priority. Looking back through our archives paints a striking picture of just how much has...
Collaboration at its finest
Farming is an artform unto itself, but not necessarily one that can be put on display in galleries. That is until now. Firehouse Art Center and Arts Longmont have teamed up in their latest exhibit FRESH: Art Farm, which explores the art of farming through the eyes of...
The dirtiest way to get clean
Who knows how it started? Maybe a young Roman soiled himself in his sleep and awoke to find that the previous night’s wine stains had miraculously disappeared from the midsection of his toga. Either way, it was the beginning of dry cleaning, and it came from a dirty ...
Where’s the beef (coming from)?
Panelists discuss the world’s increasingly industrialized food supply at Conference on World Affairs The costs of dishing up mechanized meals by the plateful is on the table for some Conference of World Affairs panelists, whose panel on the industrialization of the...
Report criticizes EPA oversight of injection wells
Federal environment officials have failed to adequately oversee hundreds of thousands of wells used to inject toxic oil and gas drilling waste deep underground, according to a new congressional report...
ReSource going mainstream
What does 3.8 million pounds look like? It could look like three Antonov An-225 airplanes, the heaviest planes ever made; or like a massive...
Fracking’s future is in doubt as oil price plummets
There’s no doubt that U.S.-based fracking — the process through which oil and gas deposits are blasted from shale deposits deep underground — has caused a revolution in worldwide energy supplies...
Former NIST director and notable physicist Katharine Gebbie dies at 84
Dr. Katharine Blodgett Gebbie, former director of the Physics Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and mentor to four Nobel...
Hitting on all cylinders
"But aren’t all farms solar?,” Lynne Wesenberg asked herself as she and her husband, Dave Dell, drove by a sign for a solar farm...
