Boulderganic
Water footprints
Costa Rican beer company Imperial made a bold statement last month with the announcement of “the world’s first and only water positive beer.” It’s...
Growing momentum
In June, Sweden’s largest pension fund, AP7, sold off its investments in six energy companies that it says are in violation of the Paris...
Wolves return to Estes Park (for the weekend)
After a massive wolf eradication effort in the United States, the last remaining wolf in Colorado was killed in 1930. But for decades since,...
Plans to dam the Amazon will cost the Earth
Even clean energy could devastate the Amazon, according to new research. A massive increase in hydropower from a series of planned Amazon dams could...
Cricket is the new cow
Along Morrison Road, in west Denver, there’s a 40-foot shipping container that houses 15,000 crickets, give or take — they aren’t the easiest insects...
Reduce, reuse, recycle and… robots?
At Alpine Waste and Recycling in Denver, “Clarke” uses its suction cup arm to sort through cartons from the conveyor belt alongside his fellow...
Requiem for a digester
Neat rows of tanks, each with a capacity of 1.7 million gallons, tower above the plains. Three lagoons border the site to the west...
Building change through changing buildings
On Jan. 26, 2001 the ground of Gujarat, India shook for more than 2 minutes. The earthquake killed between 13,000 and 20,000 people, injured...
Fermentation: the culture of cultures being cultured
For my 22nd birthday, my college roommate gifted me a jar of gourmet kimchi. This was after I’d decorated our fireplace mantel with eight...
The possibility to reverse global warming
With each passing day, global warming seems more like a death sentence for the Earth. Rainforests are shrinking, carbon emissions are rising and many...
Seize the day
This Saturday, May 20 marks the first-ever Colorado Public Lands Day, a holiday created as a non-political celebration of public lands, but whose meaning...
Cutting down consumption
When Laura Douglas and her family bought a new house in Northwest Denver last year, she couldn’t believe all the junk she had accumulated...
