Boulderganic

What’s up with microgrids?

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Dr. Peter Lilienthal has been in the renewables business a long time. In 1979 he started selling wind turbines from “the first small wind...

Summer food drive and concert series

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Conscious Alliance has a simple slogan: “Art that Feeds.” With the help of bands, music venues and concertgoers, the Boulder-based nonprofit provides hunger relief...

Eco-briefs | The Second Kitchen food co-op plans to expand on...

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The Second Kitchen Food Buying Coop, which was created two years ago by three University of Colorado students, has outgrown its current location at 1076 Grant Place and announced plans to try to move to a bigger space. The co-op is trying to raise enough money by ...

Business takes baby steps in eco-entrepreneurship

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Lisa and Glenn Cratty were looking for a better quality of life when they relocated their young family to Louisville from Los Angeles in 2009. But while looking for another job in her field of corporate management, Lisa realized that the dream could still elude her...

Getting rid of the Harmful 7

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Pesticides, trans fats, high fructose syrup: Our modern lives are surrounded by ingredients that many argue are undermining our health slowly but surely. While...

Ivory poaching rears its head

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Uhuru lay in a clearing surrounded by acacias, far from any roads, legs bent as if ready to run. He was headless, and whatever glory he had when he was alive had bled from the open wound...

Climate outlook; The Ogallala Aquifer

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Climate outlook projects warm, wet spring likely for much of Colorado and the West After announcing that February 2016 was “probably” the warmest month globally...

Permaculture puts humans in nature’s scale

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Permaculture is one of the greenest buzzwords in sustainable living these days. It’s about land design, urban or rural, that mimics nature’s patterns of achieving environmental balance...

More countries opt to phase out oil production

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A growing number of governments are choosing to phase out oil production, reasoning that cutting the availability of fossil fuels can help cut the...

Getting in (recycled) gear for the outdoors

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Climbing, hiking, biking, camping, scuba diving, surfing, fishing, kayaking — enjoying environmental recreation to the fullest often means there’s a lot of gear that goes with it. And it’s the kind of gear that can wind up in landfills or incinerators when it’s ...

Genetic change in hatchery fish; new Xenoturbella

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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...

Mobile methane detection

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Bruce Vaughn is behind the wheel of his pickup, and I’m cradling an iPad in the passenger seat. The screen shows a GPS map of our location and a colored line behind where we’ve traveled...