Boulderganic

Starting with extremes

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On Feb. 12, as Congress was still finalizing a budget deal for 2018, the Trump Administration released recommendations for 2019’s federal budget, including significant...

A spoonful of drama makes the climate science go down

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Tira Palmquist has written multiple plays throughout her career. Her latest play Two Degrees arose from an unlikely source: a conversation she had with...

Fight for your right (to know what’s in your food)

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Larry Cooper describes he and his wife Tryna simply as “concerned citizens” — proud grandparents seven times over, owners of a meeting and event company. Their concern over the safety of American food became so great, however, that the couple placed themselves at the...

ReSource’s new library of tools

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How often do you really need, say, a posthole digger, a couple of sawhorses or a masonry drill for a project if you’re not a pro? How much space is being taken up in your garage by equipment you rarely use...

Short film, big message

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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 ...

Pro tips on physical distancing from the nonhuman world

Humans are a social species, and physical interaction keeps us healthy. Or, as the late Bill Withers wrote, “The city really ain’t no bigger...

Are the days of Colorado skiing numbered?

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Ski Country U.S.A.” is in a tight spot. While ski resorts across the country market themselves as “environmentally friendly,” many know that business will be hurt even if they achieve 100 percent carbon neutrality — knowledge that brings a big question: how can an ...

Sowing seeds of tolerance in the agriculture industry

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An inclusive workplace environment means everything in a world that grows smaller every day. The U.S. agriculture industry, dominated by migrant workers from all...

With mud season’s arrival comes questions about mudslides

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Geologists and emergency managers are working to improve our ability to predict and prepare for future mudslides in the Front Range region — an increasingly visible issue after September’s historic flooding led to roughly 1,000 mudslides — but there’s still a long ...

‘The market is for me, too’

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"Our mission is essentially two fold,” says Brian Coppom, Executive Director of Boulder County Farmers Markets (BCFM). “One is to support local agriculture and...

Saving bison; Free trade palm oil

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Wild ‘N Free event focuses on saving bison Hundreds of bison are removed every year from the Yellowstone area in what land managers say is...

Dark undercurrents of consumer culture

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There is an element of concealment in the installation art show Material Nature by Katie Caron, on exhibition at Longmont’s Firehouse Art Center, a...