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Battle cry issued from 180,000 opponents of Pebble Mine
BATTLE CRY ISSUED FROM 180,000 OPPONENTS OF PEBBLE MINE...
Cricket is the new cow
Along Morrison Road, in west Denver, there’s a 40-foot shipping container that houses 15,000 crickets, give or take — they aren’t the easiest insects...
Stop and smell the roses
It’s springtime in Colorado, and as the trees, flowers and other plants around us leaf and bloom, will we take notice? That may be...
Obama proposes oil tax to fund clean transit; FDA finds three-parent...
Obama proposes oil tax to fund clean transit
In the first week of February, President Barack Obama announced a $10-per-barrel tax on oil imports as...
Wheels, willpower and Way to Go
Twenty-five regional companies are competing to be this year’s first annual Go-Tober smart-commuting winners. At stake: cleaner air, happier employees and $10,000 in congratulatory advertising for the top three companies...
Naropa Eco-Resilience group addresses collective climate grief
It was almost one year ago when researchers, politicians and activists from around the world hiked up a mountain in western Iceland to commemorate...
Dark undercurrents of consumer culture
There is an element of concealment in the installation art show Material Nature by Katie Caron, on exhibition at Longmont’s Firehouse Art Center, a...
Unsubstantiated organic health claims
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...
Striving for a more equitable food system
Seemingly every day Netflix adds a food documentary, another farmers’ market opens and more restaurants offer farm-to-table fare. While some obvious improvements are being...
Drifting toward answers on lost crops
If you shop with any regularity at the Abbondanza stall at the farmers’ market, you might have noticed some gaps in their inventory this fall. Dried beans and winter squash are mostly what Shanan Olson, co-owner, says people have commented on missing. They ask why, ...
Ag nitrogen and tracking deforestation
Nitrogen from agriculture bigger problem than believed
Humans have long known that agriculture contributes to surface and groundwater pollution, particularly from nitrates that run off from...
Old King Coal is sick — but not yet dying
A global investigation into every coal-fired power plant proposed in the last five years shows that only one in three of them has actually been built...
