Boulderganic

Hands-on help for gardening, beekeeping

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Didn´t you resolve that this would be the year you’d finally give vegetable gardening a try, maybe even do a little beekeeping? Or maybe it’s your kids who have been campaigning for one of these projects...

Boulder’s sustainable stake in global palm oil

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In recent years, a wave of companies have committed to improving the way they source one of the world’s most popular, most environmentally destructive, most...

Reacting to climate change; Banning fracking in Latin America

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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...

Fire rebuilders keep eye on green goals

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Doug Parker, building sustainability examiner for Boulder County, is working with many of those who are determined to build anew after last year’s Fourmile Canyon fire...

The coldest place on Earth

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Dirk Hobman wants to take people on a journey through time, drilling down through frigid layers of history, past the era of the first...

Betting on conservation

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Twenty years of wishful thinking by lottery ticket buyers all over the state has made all the rest of us winners when it comes to living in Colorado. For the last two decades, revenue from the Colorado Lottery has been used to build parks and trails, create open ...

Bike share pedals into Boulder

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A city that has more than 300 miles of bikeways is a cyclist’s dream. Now the bike-friendly city of Boulder has decided to create a bike-share program that gets people out of their cars and on the seat of a bike. According to Marni Ratzel, bicycle/ pedestrian ...

Methane leaks are far more common than previously thought; Studies show...

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Methane leaks are far more common than previously thought The massive methane gas leak at a storage facility near Los Angeles has raised public health concerns...

Eco-briefs | Colorado third among top LEED states

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The U.S. Green Building Council has announced the top 10 states for new Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certifications in 2012, and Colorado landed third on the per-capita list...

Pumping seawater onto Antarctica won’t work

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Sea level rise is likely to be a problem too big to handle. Geoengineers will not be able to magic away the rising tides,...

The psychedelic renaissance

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If you were a teenager in 1967, Berkeley was the place to be. The Summer of Love was beaming with a newfound madness, and...

Co-existing with wildlife, part II

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Nylon bags of human hair or soap bars hung in trees, scarecrows, motion detectors that turn on lights or create movement, cayenne pepper sprinkled in flower beds, moth balls tossed under plants. Any of these things may work to deter our hungry critter neighbors ...