Boulderganic
Can Divestment help fix PERA?
There’s a growing movement both in Colorado and around the world calling on investment managers to rid their funds of coal and other fossil...
Fire rebuilders keep eye on green goals
Doug Parker, building sustainability examiner for Boulder County, is working with many of those who are determined to build anew after last year’s Fourmile Canyon fire...
Raining on the animal parade
Half of the mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles living in Colorado’s mountains are at risk of becoming extinct over the next century, according to a recent paper co-authored by a University of Colorado professor...
Curing cancer; Plant diversity decreasing
Cell division research could stop cancer
According to the National Institutes of Health, 1.5 million people in the United States are diagnosed with cancer each...
Climbing for change
In 2003, while hiking miles through the Himalayas of Southern China, Travis Ramos realized he needed to make a change. He traveled door-to-door through a community of potato farmers known as the Nuosu people, who carve out their homes high on the mountainsides of ...
The marketability of green
In a town where adjectives like “green” and “sustainable” are pretty much required to sell products, it seems as if some organizations may be missing out on a marketing opportunity when it comes to event promotion...
Five years in two months’ time
The most challenging part about spending nine weeks traveling 6,400 miles on a catamaran may not be the sea sickness, but the boredom of...
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 ...
Buying local
Southern Colorado’s San Luis Valley is as rugged as it gets. It’s bordered by the Sangre de Cristo and the San Juan mountains; anywhere...
A life less plastic
Part of the problem with plastic — as much as we enjoy clear plastic wraps, resealable food containers, and infant incubators — is that plastics, once created, don’t ever go away. Scientifically speaking, plastic polymers do not break down to their basic minerals, ...
Environment as experience
Music is spontaneous and very much alive. It is a type of experience. That is, according to David Amram, a prolific composer who has...
