Boulderganic

Boulder company comes clean on green

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When Greg Macchia of Boulder told his wife, Courtney, that he was going to start a cleaning business, she laughed...

Living with fire

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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...

Boulder’s Global Greengrants Fund helps Serbian group fight incinerator

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In a world where climate change regularly makes headlines, news of environmental victories are a welcome relief. For a group of activists in Belgrade,...

Slowing the flow

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Lavender and lilacs — what Alice Hartman dreams of planting in her backyard next spring. Lavender, fresh and soothing; lilacs, ornamental and sweet-smelling. The...

Meet the recycling queen

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Marjie Griek came to Colorado for the first time when she was 15 years old. It was the ’70s, and the recycling movement in...

A healthy shade of green

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The “greenbelt” of Boulder County has long protected the foothills from urban sprawl and provided a natural open buffer between places like Niwot, Longmont...

Talking about the environment

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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...

Colorado tops the list for e-cigarette use among youth and the...

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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...

Preserving the past and paving the way for the future

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On Aug. 17, two dozen people — some sporting dresses and white sneakers, others cowboy hats and leather boots — lumbered into an open-top wagon...

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...

NREL aims to change the way we commute

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Colorado’s cars alone emit an average of 23 million metric tons of carbon dioxide annually. And in 2013 the state’s transportation sector accounted for...

Slow-moving disaster reaches Longmont

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Longmont is joining Boulder in a hotter future, with more pollution and potentially worse floods at the hand of a tiny, jewel-colored insect. The emerald...