Boulderganic
A healthy shade of green
The “greenbelt” of Boulder County has long protected the foothills from urban sprawl and provided a natural open buffer between places like Niwot, Longmont...
Boulder’s Global Greengrants Fund helps Serbian group fight incinerator
In a world where climate change regularly makes headlines, news of environmental victories are a welcome relief. For a group of activists in Belgrade,...
Meet the recycling queen
Marjie Griek came to Colorado for the first time when she was 15 years old. It was the ’70s, and the recycling movement in...
Boulder company comes clean on green
When Greg Macchia of Boulder told his wife, Courtney, that he was going to start a cleaning business, she laughed...
Living with fire
It starts in flames.
Traffic is bumper to bumper as Michelle Simmons and her kids make their way out of Paradise, California. It’s the middle...
The science of justice
Turn on any channel and you’re quick to find a crime show, be it Criminal Minds, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Bones or...
Tree-free paper is saving forests and farmers in Washington state
In 2013, about 20 wheat farmers gathered at a local pizza joint in Dayton, Washington to hear John Begley, CEO of Columbia Pulp, make...
Talking about the environment
When it comes to environmental issues like climate change, where do you get your information? Unless you’re a scientist, it’s likely that someone is relaying the information to you — say, a newspaper journalist, a TV meteorologist or your Facebook friends...
Preserving the past and paving the way for the future
On Aug. 17, two dozen people — some sporting dresses and white sneakers, others cowboy hats and leather boots — lumbered into an open-top wagon...
Colorado tops the list for e-cigarette use among youth and the...
Out of 37 states, Colorado students rank at the top of the list for e-cigarette use.
That’s according to a 2018 Centers for Disease Control...
Stop and smell the roses
It’s springtime in Colorado, and as the trees, flowers and other plants around us leaf and bloom, will we take notice? That may be...
Moving the green needle
As environmentally responsible as it is to own an electric vehicle, accessing Colorado’s remote backcountry is rarely a two-wheel-drive endeavor. Crawling along old dirt...


















