Boulderganic
The war on wildfire
In 2003, Michael Kodas fought his first wildfire, a blaze ignited by a lightning strike on Wyoming’s Crazy Woman Mountain. The winter before, Kodas,...
More harm than good with climate geo-engineering
Geo-engineering — the untested technofix that would permit the continued use of fossil fuels — could create more problems than it would solve.
By masking...
A threat to ‘America’s best idea’
A thousand years ago, the stones in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico anchored the epicenter of Puebloan culture. They were assembled in great, multi-story buildings with...
Toxic trout for dinner?
You may want to think twice before frying up that batch of fresh trout from your favorite Rocky Mountain lake. Federal scientists say they’ve found high levels of toxic mercury in fish from many remote lakes and streams around the West, including Rocky Mountain ...
The full reach of addiction
Humankind’s relationship with psychoactive substances can be traced back thousands of years to religious trances induced by specific plants and fungai. But some substances are more addictive than others, and opium, caffeine and nicotine have become commonplace, in ...
Discarded, but not broken-arted
Behind a blank facade in one of North Boulder’s industrial strip malls is a room vibrant with color, conversations and the noise of artisans turning out small, quirky masterpieces of recycled goodness. This is Sweetbird Studio, creative home of a Hygiene ...
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...
Collaboration at its finest
Farming is an artform unto itself, but not necessarily one that can be put on display in galleries. That is until now. Firehouse Art Center and Arts Longmont have teamed up in their latest exhibit FRESH: Art Farm, which explores the art of farming through the eyes of...
Peeking in on priceless plants
The doors to a prized collection of plants are opening to Boulder — for just a few people and only briefly. On Nov. 8, the CU greenhouse on 30th Street will allow a few people in to tour the greenhouse and develop a better understanding of the work that happens at ...
Use it or lose it
Whether you consider weed management titillating or not, the control of noxious weeds has been a point of tension in Boulder County for decades,...
Changing lives with freshwater access in South Africa
When Norman Mthethwa arrives back to his village in South Africa, he’s got a tight schedule and a lot of work to do. After...
Wildfire prevention or forest destruction?
Drive along Highway 119 south of Nederland or Highway 9 south of Frisco and you’ll see large swaths of bare soil and scattered slash — including entire hillsides — where once there was forest. These aren’t future subdivisions, but the Arapaho and White River National...
