Boulderganic
Beyond brick and mortar: The Green Home Tour
Accessibility to sustainable residences is an important part of mitigating climate change. In the U.S., residential buildings account for 21 percent of all domestic...
Mosquito control
It’s an unfortunate fact of life that along with those endless dog days of summer — perfect for barbeques, biking, hiking and swimming — also comes the height of mosquito season. While these blood-sucking members of the fly family are often little more than nuisances...
The economic potential of solar energy
Catching the Sun, a new documentary by Shalini Kantayya premiering in Denver on April 19, starts with a bang. Thick clouds of smoke shoot...
New exhibit plants viewers in the world of seeds
Environmental concerns have been ingrained in multimedia artist Sybille Palmer since she was 10 years old. Palmer spent her teenage years in Leverkusen, Germany,...
Boulder by the sea
Despite being an entirely landlocked state, Colorado is home to the sixth largest population of certified scuba divers in the U.S. This may be...
Amendments to Boulder County’s Land Use Code approved
On Dec. 13, at a near-empty board meeting at the Boulder County Courthouse, proposed amendments to the County’s Land Use Code got the rubber...
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...
Water rights in Aspen; Lawsuit in Peru
Damming the beauty of Aspen
Faced with concern over a growing population and rising temperatures due to climate change, Aspen City Council recently voted to...
Balancing Earth’s energy checkbook
The balance of how much energy the Earth receives and emits tells scientists a lot about the state of this planet’s climate.
Peter Pilewskie, a...
RYSE youth council takes action
On April 8, U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas Coffin in Eugene, Oregon handed down a victory for young environmental activists. Twenty-one young people from across...
Geo-engineered crops may help — and harm
Proposals to tackle climate change that rely on geo-engineered crops show neatly the double bind that can await remedies which try to do too...
Faith in going carbon free
For many people, religion offers a path to a better life. Mt. View United Methodist Church has developed a different kind of path that...


















