Boulderganic

Starting the conversation

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Historic floods. Severe drought. Record wildfires. Since the turn of the century, Colorado has experienced extreme weather events made worse by climate change, resulting...

Sharing abundance

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As projections call for continued population growth in Colorado — adding the equivalent of another Denver by 2050 — current residents bear witness to...

Changing lives with freshwater access in South Africa

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When Norman Mthethwa arrives back to his village in South Africa, he’s got a tight schedule and a lot of work to do. After...

Protecting the Environmental Protection Agency

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) turns 50 this year. For its birthday, the Trump administration continually tried to destroy it — or, at least,...

Guess what: It’s no longer ‘appropriate or necessary’ to regulate mercury...

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On April 16, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ruled that it was no longer “appropriate and necessary” to regulate coal-fired power plants in the...

Spreading the good word of sustainability

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Stewardship of the Earth is a religious tenet of almost every faith. In Christianity, mankind was given care of the Garden of Eden to...

The boy and the buffalo

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Shortly before dawn on a rainy morning in early March, 20-year-old Comfrey Jacobs, born near Gold Hill and a recent official resident of Montana, handcuffed himself to a bright orange barrel filled with cement and scrap metal at the center of the gates in Yellowstone...

Untapped potential: Boulder’s Food Waste Audit

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Food retailers in Boulder, like most eateries in most cities around America, are in desperate need of education on the subject of food donation. A...

Alternate routes

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Ask people in the cannabis industry what their top priorities for marijuana sustainability are and you’re going to hear a lot of talk about...

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...

Politicians, not markets, slow new energy dawn

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Often blamed for society’s problems, politicians have now been brought to book for the slow take-up of renewable forms of energy. These are now so...

Bus operators race to ditch dirty vehicles

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In 2013, the Regional Transportation District (RTD) faced a big decision. Advancing technologies, combined with a boom in natural gas production, presented an opportunity...