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Climate research struggles to find funding
With the crisis of global heating now widely recognized as one of the most challenging issues facing the world today, you might assume that...
Old King Coal is sick — but not yet dying
A global investigation into every coal-fired power plant proposed in the last five years shows that only one in three of them has actually been built...
The chemistry of personal care
Phthalates linked to health effects down in some products, up in others...
eco-briefs
CROWD SOURCING PROGRAM WILL AID BIOLOGISTS IN THE FIGHT TO SAVE THE CALIFORNIA CONDOR...
Untapped potential: Boulder’s Food Waste Audit
Food retailers in Boulder, like most eateries in most cities around America, are in desperate need of education on the subject of food donation.
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Food out of water
Mickey Mouse has never been known for his green thumb, but a ride dedicated to aquaponics at Disney’s Epcot Center (surely a death-defying thrill) highlights the public curiosity for this growing trend. While an increasing number of people take an interest in ...
State lawmakers take baby steps to address wildfire threat
With smoke from some of the Colorado's biggest and most destructive wildfires still lingering in the air, a panel of wildlife experts last summer called for communities to meet the growing threat head-on by adopting specific building codes, requiring the removal of ...
U.N. calls lethal Brazil dam burst a crime
The latest Brazil dam burst happened on Jan. 26 in the town of Brumadinho in the central state of Minas Gerais, less than a...
Eco-briefs | Greenpeace continues to detox retailers
The presence of toxins in various clothing brands has met its opposition, and it is growing by the thousands. Greenpeace’s Detox campaign, launched in 2011, was created in an effort to get the fashion industry to eradicate toxins from its products by 2020...
All’s fair in love and war (and industrial agriculture)
In Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes wrote, “Love and war are all one … It is lawful to use sleights and stratagems to … attain the wished end.” Simply put, all is fair in love and war. In America, for more than a decade, a war has been waged on the public’s right to ...
Short film, big message
They all agree: there was more work than time to do it — the students of Damian Tate’s Career Digital Arts program and Heather Riffel’s Urban Agriculture program at Arapahoe Ridge High School had seven weeks, from Jan. 6 to Feb. 21, to make a short film about how ...
