Boulderganic
Getting smarter about sustainability
On Earth Day in 1970, a group of dedicated students on the University of Colorado Boulder campus did something unprecedented. They created the first-ever student-facilitated and -organized environmental center. In years following, CU-Boulder students would continue ...
Pharmaca powers up with new solar technology
The 1970s oil industry crisis and shortage of fossil fuels inspired a surge of enthusiasm for new solar technology that put gigantic, chunky, photovoltaic panels on many a U.S. home...
A bright future outside plastics
When Michael SanClements set out on an eco-dare to create no plastic waste for two weeks, he says it changed the way he saw the world by opening his eyes to just how prevalent plastics are. In his book, Plastic Purge: How to Use Less Plastic, Eat Better, Keep Toxins ...
All’s fair in love and war (and industrial agriculture)
In Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes wrote, “Love and war are all one … It is lawful to use sleights and stratagems to … attain the wished end.” Simply put, all is fair in love and war. In America, for more than a decade, a war has been waged on the public’s right to ...
Genetic change in hatchery fish; new Xenoturbella
Fish hatcheries cause massive genetic changes after a single generation
A study by Oregon State University and the Oregon Department of Fisheries and Wildlife has...
Let worms eat your garbage
Tired of having to turn that big ol’ pile of compost over and over? ’Cause if you don’t, it’s going to stink worse than it does when you do? There’s an app for that. It’s called earthworms. Yep, those little red wriggly guys that surface after a rain. They’ll ...
Women living near pesticide-treated fields have smaller babies
Women in Northern California farm towns gave birth to smaller babies if they lived within three miles of strawberry fields and other crops treated with the pesticide methyl bromide, according to researchers...
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...
Putting your money where your meal is
Many people in Boulder already invest in the development of the local food economy by participating in Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs, frequenting the Farmers’ Market and shopping at grocers that carry goods, produce, meat and dairy that are produced ...
