Boulderganic

A quarter century of music and environmental hope at eTown

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Environmental news is notorious for doomsday messages from climate change, to drought, to mass extinctions, but one Boulder-based radio show has been delivering positive...

Gimme all your gas money

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The state of Colorado has filed a complaint against the ConocoPhillips Company alleging that ConocoPhillips has profited from the state’s fund for pollution cleanup at service stations by taking $70 million in state funds for clean-ups its insurance company later ...

A life less plastic

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Part of the problem with plastic — as much as we enjoy clear plastic wraps, resealable food containers, and infant incubators — is that plastics, once created, don’t ever go away. Scientifically speaking, plastic polymers do not break down to their basic minerals, ...

A not-so-grand experiment

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With the passage of Senate Bill 19-181 at the Colorado State House this spring, Dana Bove from Front Range Nesting Bald Eagles (FRNBES) was...

Solar thermal offers alternative to natural gas

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You might call it “the other solar power” — the kind that won’t be affected no matter what happens with Xcel Energy’s debated rebates for photovoltaic panels...

Can Divestment help fix PERA?

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There’s a growing movement both in Colorado and around the world calling on investment managers to rid their funds of coal and other fossil...

Boulder company comes clean on green

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When Greg Macchia of Boulder told his wife, Courtney, that he was going to start a cleaning business, she laughed...

Between art and destruction

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In 2010, the Fourmile Canyon fire raged through Boulder County, leaving more than 160 destroyed homes and almost 6,200 charred acres in its wake....

Going local to grow jobs

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The end is coming. Famine, war, the horsemen and their antiquated and inefficient means of transportation — whatever you believe in, there’s an apparent solution. United Way, trees, not eating shellfish...

Breakthrough in magnesium processing could revolutionize the auto industry

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Engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder have developed a more efficient spin on an old method of processing magnesium, and it could have...

Unsubstantiated organic health claims

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It´s been almost a year since USA Today broke the story of yogurt giant Dannon’s overzealous marketing of its product as a miracle health food. The makers of Activia and DanActive yogurt had to pay a whopping $21 million fine to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC...

eco-briefs

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EXTREME WEATHER ENDANGERS PUBLIC SAFETY...