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Protecting the Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) turns 50 this year. For its birthday, the Trump administration continually tried to destroy it — or, at least,...
Initiatives lose battle, but Colorado water war rages on
If two water initiatives die before they have a chance to reach the ballot in November, do they make a sound? If they did, the sound you might hear is the collective sigh of relief from the Colorado oil and gas industry, the agricultural industry and other opponents ...
Paving the way for electric vehicles in Boulder, and across the...
Public opinion polls tend to show Americans overwhelmingly think electric vehicles (EVs) are better for the environment. A new study, led by the U.K....
Rooting for change
When Elizabeth Black was a kid growing up in Hawaii, she spent her days running without shoes between the banyan trees, sometimes as large...
BIFF 2013: A final watery frontier
Nearly seven years ago, John Weller and Peter Young traveled to the southern tip of Antarctica and started filming The Last Ocean. By capturing the pristine beauty of the Ross Sea, Weller and Young were documenting one of the last intact marine ecosystems on earth...
Mobilizing the ‘outdoor state’
A Boulder nonprofit and an innovative solar company join forces to offer clean energy solutions to outdoor enthusiasts
Eco-briefs | Religious organization commits to divesting from fossil fuel companies
Religious organization commits to divesting from fossil fuel companies...
‘The biggest case on the planet’
When Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, Mary Wood, law professor and faculty director of the Environmental and Natural Resources (ENR) Law Center at the...
Grant Farms offshoot revives CSA on limited basis
A remnant of Grant Family Farms, the large Wellington organic farm that declared bankruptcy in late 2012, has revived its community-supported agriculture (CSA) program, but on a much smaller scale...
Home, home on the grange
Many people, when they hear the word “grange,” think of a ZZ Top song, or, at best, something about a farm...
Open streets, open minds
City planners across the world are struggling to imagine a new paradigm where city streets are not just avenues for gas-guzzlers, but places where people gather, where community is fostered and where the use of cars is actually minimal...
Not exactly running toward sustainability
Runners leave a lot of footprints, but there’s one that running shoe companies are starting to pay more attention to: the one on the environment. Running shoes are made with plastic, polyester and synthetic glues. All of those products take energy and oil to produce...
