Boulderganic
Waste-to-energy or zero waste?
The recently completed gas-to-energy project at the Front Range Landfill in Erie is raising some questions about which approach is better: waste-to-energy programs, or zero waste...
Natural guidelines
For 3.8 billion years, nature has been working hard to hone processes and designs to evolve efficiently. As humans, we borrow from what nature has perfected. That’s how products like Velcro (based on burrs) and highly efficient wind turbines (with propellers designed...
Recycling the hard-to-recycle
Whether you have a recyclables pick-up service or you use a collection center, there are probably still times when you wonder, “Where do I recycle this?” Like that box of old paint cans, or out-of-date textbooks that not even thrift Charmaine Ortega Getz shops ...
CU hosts annual WASH symposium
Access to clean water and sanitation is integral to global health, and yet in some parts of the world it is often considered a...
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...
Taking a monkey wrench to climate change
While the grizzlies near his Montana home hibernate, Doug Peacock retreats to southern Arizona to a town near the Mexican border where he can wander 100 miles before hitting another town. The self-described desert rat honed his wilderness affinities under legendary ...
Aquaponics sustains edible addictions%uFFFD
As a word, “aquaponics” was invented sometime in the 1970s, but as a practice it’s been around since ancient times among the Chinese, Aztecs and other cultures. While it may sound like an aquatic exercise class, the only things swimming in this case could be your ...
Surpassing Earthly politics
Since August 2010, when the Curiosity rover landed in the Gale Crater on Mars, it’s been providing earthlings a close-up look at our neighboring...
Feed your local economy, your tummy, your yard
The question came up about a year and a half ago among the advanced permaculture design students taught by Marco Lam as part of Naropa University’s environmental studies department...
Skipping school
For the first time in more than 20 years of United Nations negotiations, the 2015 Paris Climate Conference (COP21) aims to achieve a legally binding and universal agreement on climate, with the goal of keeping global warming below 2 degrees Celsius and taking ...
From seed to harvest
It’s late April and Polly Ruff pulls a few weeds growing from the outside edge of her raised bed at Living Harvest Garden. The 30 plots surrounding her are in various stages of preparation for the first season of this freshly minted community garden...
