Boulderganic

Will El Nino bring more flooding misery?

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It all begins far out over the Pacific, where giant bubbles of moist air rise off the warmest parts of the ocean and become entrained in writhing atmospheric streams moving west to east across the Northern Hemisphere...

Eco-briefs

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CONSERVATION EASEMENT NONPROFIT EXPANDS TO BOULDER...

Keeping recycling in the family

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After he retired from masonry construction in 1989, Robert Barlow decided he’d use his free time for a little business, buying and selling cans and other discarded aluminum. The modest Boulder business soon expanded to cover other kinds of metals, but it has the...

Open streets, open minds

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City planners across the world are struggling to imagine a new paradigm where city streets are not just avenues for gas-guzzlers, but places where people gather, where community is fostered and where the use of cars is actually minimal...

A batty battle

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Near dark iron gates that cover cave openings in the Flatirons, a sign explains that the caves have been closed because white-nose syndrome has already killed more than 5 million bats. Local author and cave expert Richard Rhinehart informed the City of Boulder’s Open...

Study reveals Coloradans’ take on public lands; Planned dams in South...

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Conservation study reveals Coloradans’ take on public lands A survey released Monday by the Colorado College State of the Rockies Project revealed Colorado voters support...

BIFF 2013: Buying some time for a climate change movement

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Tim DeChristopher was a 27-year-old University of Utah economics student who’d spent five years teaching at-risk kids and was just beginning to get involved in activism around climate change when he found himself at a Bureau of Land Management land sale bidding on $1...

Bike share pedals into Boulder

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A city that has more than 300 miles of bikeways is a cyclist’s dream. Now the bike-friendly city of Boulder has decided to create a bike-share program that gets people out of their cars and on the seat of a bike. According to Marni Ratzel, bicycle/ pedestrian ...

Old King Coal is sick — but not yet dying

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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...

Fire mitigation tangles with marketplace

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Some 9,000 homes sit just west of Boulder city limits in Boulder County’s fire zone number one — the area most vulnerable to wildfire...

Who’s heard of HERS?

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Walk onto any car lot and you’ll find every vehicle’s fuel economy rating plastered to its window, just like you’ll see a yellow EnergyGuide tag on every large appliance in any department store. Whether for cars or fridges, these tags showcase simple numbers that ...

Beetle-mania

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After suffering more than 15 years of a mountain pine beetle outbreak, Colorado’s forests are now facing another bark beetle epidemic. Last year, 183,000 acres of Colorado’s forests were infested with the spruce beetle, bringing the total acreage affected by spruce ...