Boulderganic

Heating up alternative energy

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Colorado is primed to be powered by solar thermal energy, but one big challenge stands in the way: No one seems to know about it...

4-H: It’s not just for farm kids anymore

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Although most of my life was spent in a California valley where the term “agribusiness” was coined, I didn’t live on a farm and I assumed that the 4-H organization was only for kids who did...

El Nino and the Colorado; India’s solar program

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Colorado River below average despite strong El Nino Water levels and rainfall for the Colorado River basin were below-average in January and February, and will...

ONE WOMAN, ONE FARM

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Audrey Levatino is a self-sufficient farmer — she has to be since, she runs it singlehandedly. So when it came to using a chainsaw, she knew she had to overcome her trepidation...

Harvest the rain: Know what’s legal

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In the state of Colorado, those with water rights already have dibs on the rain that falls on your property, unless you have your own well (and even that has limits...

Can the state water plan bridge the gap?

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When Colorado’s earth cracked open in the great drought of 2002, it may have also cracked open a new corner of consciousness about the finite nature of the state’s water supplies. Spurred by the drought, Gov. Bill Owens and Department of Natural Resources chief Russ ...

In the name of freedom

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Carol Walker of Longmont can tell a wild horse by the look in its eyes, an expression of the untamed vastness of the once wild West. For Walker, the author of Galloping to Freedom, a photographic documentation of the plight of wild horses in Wyoming, there is a sense...

Homegrown and recycled

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There`s something special about innovative products made of recycled materials that are created by people challenged to turn their eco-convictions into a business. Especially when those products are Colorado-produced goods, because that kind of industry supports...

Global warming meltdown in the Rockies?

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Anyone who tackles a tough summit like Tenmile Peak, above Frisco, probably is already tuned in to the risks of the high alpine zone — rockfall, changeable weather, equipment failure. But a snowboarder who was injured in a May 2010 avalanche on the peak may add a new...

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...

eco-briefs

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EXXON VALDEZ RESPONSIBLE FOR CONTINUED COLLAPSE OF ALASKAN FISHERIES, STUDY SUGGESTS...

Local author personalizes sustainability

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From the outside looking in, there is a lot to learn from centenarians, people who live to be one hundred years old or older....