Boulderganic
Growing wild
Throughout the prairies and foothills of Boulder County, there’s a plant causing concern and debate.
To the layperson’s eye, cheatgrass is barely distinguishable from...
The psychedelic renaissance
If you were a teenager in 1967, Berkeley was the place to be. The Summer of Love was beaming with a newfound madness, and...
Geo-engineering can stop global warming, at least in theory
Climate scientists now know that geo-engineering — in principle at least — would halt global warming and keep the world at the temperatures it...
Binational partnership calls on the Canadian Pension Plan to divest from...
With pleading eyes and a serious tone, idyllic English countryside in the background, several British teenagers take turns addressing teachers from Ontario, Canada. They...
‘Climate change is a health issue’
When Dr. Jay Lemery gives presentations on climate and health, one of his slides has two pictures with an arrow between them: one with...
Boulder County’s reported ‘80 percent’ farm failure rate doesn’t tell...
When the hail came, it was from the west and it was without warning. The June sky darkened, a cool breeze picked up and...
CSU research links another disease to Flint, angering Michigan officials
An outbreak of Legionnaires’ Disease (LD) among residents of Flint, Michigan in 2014 is directly linked to the city’s water contamination crisis, according to...
Fermentation: the culture of cultures being cultured
For my 22nd birthday, my college roommate gifted me a jar of gourmet kimchi. This was after I’d decorated our fireplace mantel with eight...
CU Athletics wants water back in the Colorado
Every year the University of Colorado Boulder athletic department, CU Athletics, uses 12 million gallons of water in the locker rooms, keeping the fields...
Reduce, reuse, recycle and… robots?
At Alpine Waste and Recycling in Denver, “Clarke” uses its suction cup arm to sort through cartons from the conveyor belt alongside his fellow...
Rancher has radical ideas about water
If Jim Howell, a fourth-generation rancher in Western Colorado, has a guru, he’s Allan Savory, the champion of intensive cattle grazing even on semi-arid...
‘Free Heat’
The home Matt Brill and Eric Moore are building on Forest Avenue in North Boulder doesn’t look much different than any other home construction...
