Boulderganic
Climate change or global warming?
More Americans say the term “global warming” is bad news than take that view when the term “climate change” is used instead, according to a recent study from the Yale Project on Climate Change Communications and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change ...
Ivory poaching rears its head
Uhuru lay in a clearing surrounded by acacias, far from any roads, legs bent as if ready to run. He was headless, and whatever glory he had when he was alive had bled from the open wound...
Governor’s Water Plan could ignite water war
“This plan reads like a river-destroyer’s manifesto, not a science-based public policy document.” —Gary Wockner, director of Save the Poudre...
Filipino youth raise voices at COP21
As part of our COP21 coverage from Paris, Boulder Weekly is partnering with the Boulder nonprofit Global Greengrants Fund to tell the stories of environmental youth activists from around the world...
An unbalanced equation
Shortly after Ben Barres, a professor of neurobiology at Stanford University, gave a speech about his discoveries regarding nerve cells at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998, an MIT faculty member was overheard saying, “Ben Barres gave a great seminar ...
Changing the conversation
Kendra Tupper is out to change the conversation around sustainability. Recently hired as the first Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) for the City of Boulder,...
Harm to Table creates conversation about local food
As temperatures rise and ecosystems change, many plants are in danger of rapid decline. In the foothills around Boulder, the osha plant, wild sarsaparilla...
Alternate routes
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...
Toxic trout for dinner?
You may want to think twice before frying up that batch of fresh trout from your favorite Rocky Mountain lake. Federal scientists say they’ve found high levels of toxic mercury in fish from many remote lakes and streams around the West, including Rocky Mountain ...
eco-briefs
ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS PROTEST BLM OVER PLANS TO INCREASE FRACKING ON FEDERAL LAND...
The art of having a green Christmas
Seeking that locally produced, eco-conscious, recycled, one-of-a-kind, incredibly creative and affordable gift for the person who really should get something special...
