Boulderganic

NREL aims to change the way we commute

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Colorado’s cars alone emit an average of 23 million metric tons of carbon dioxide annually. And in 2013 the state’s transportation sector accounted for...

Colorado grappling with greenhouse gas inventory

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Tallying up greenhouse gas emissions may not be quite as easy as counting your fingers and toes, but it’s a necessary step toward taming the global warming beast, according to experts who have been working hard to complete an updated greenhouse inventory for Colorado...

Ivory poaching rears its head

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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...

Cricket is the new cow

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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...

Boulder County’s reported ‘80 percent’ farm failure rate doesn’t tell...

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When the hail came, it was from the west and it was without warning. The June sky darkened, a cool breeze picked up and...

Taking a wide-angle view of the world

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The environmental world is ripe with buzzwords, and it’s normal to doubt their significance. But if the pioneer of the local food movement, Gary Nabhan, says Bioneers put on the most innovative conference in the world, then the word “bioneer” and ideas behind it ...

Running up for air

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On Wednesday, March 6, a cloud of brown haze descended upon Denver. “Highly elevated pollution levels will continue for large sections of the northern...

eco-briefs

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RESEARCHERS TAKE A STEP FORWARD IN THE QUEST TO CREATE A USABLE, HIGH ENERGY BIO-FUEL...

An unbalanced equation

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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 ...

Eco-briefs | Fuel efficiency in vehicles continuing slow increase

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FUEL EFFICIENCY IN VEHICLES CONTINUING SLOW INCREASE...

Report criticizes EPA oversight of injection wells

Federal environment officials have failed to adequately oversee hundreds of thousands of wells used to inject toxic oil and gas drilling waste deep underground, according to a new congressional report...