Boulderganic
Carbon offset not a free pass
If you’re an eco-conscious commuter, the holiday travel may grow your carbon footprint a few sizes — but if you’re also an eco-conscious gift-giver, then ’tis the season to consider carbon offsets in your holiday shopping...
Balancing recreation and conservation
Roger W. Toll stands tall in dirt-crusted work boots. He places his large, weathered hand on the brim of his forehead to shade from the sun, setting his gaze on the expanse before him: a broad formation of earth that gradually rises to sheer stone, guarding the ...
Growing momentum
In June, Sweden’s largest pension fund, AP7, sold off its investments in six energy companies that it says are in violation of the Paris...
The future of wind energy in question
Each year that the wind Production Tax Credit has been allowed to expire, the wind energy industry has seen major declines. This year, wind energy faces that possibility for a fourth time in the credit’s 20-year life span...
Climate research struggles to find funding
With the crisis of global heating now widely recognized as one of the most challenging issues facing the world today, you might assume that...
Vanishing ice; Planting trees
Putting numbers to vanishing ice
A paper published in Geographical Review in July announced the development of a database for all research about sea ice...
Conservation for All, even renters
Energy conservation and efficiency programs tend to benefit people who own their homes. But a new program in Boulder aims to make home energy...
Reacting to climate change; Banning fracking in Latin America
How species could react to a changing climate
New research from scientists at the University of Wisconsin Madison and Aarhus University in Denmark shows where...
Gettin’ down with the farm
It`s high noon at Frog Belly Farm near Longmont, and the interns are busy tending newly born goats, chasing escaped piglets, checking beehives, picking and washing herbs and vegetables — in addition to all the other daily chores, such as milking cows and goats, ...
A darker shade of snow
As the Dark Snow Project reached the end of its inaugural year, its director was feeling anxious...
Taking life into your own hands
Last November, outside of Craig, Colo., Brazilian-born Leo Zacharias removed a loaded .45-caliber pistol from his belt and handed it to his girlfriend, Colorado native Stephanie Loveless. If the strange man she was being left behind with tried anything, Zacharias ...
Grant helps communities kick-start zero-waste efforts
Boulder County is launching a nifty initiative that will help eight rural communities and townships, as well as a couple of rural homeowner associations have a chance to offer greater resource conservation opportunities to their constituents...