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eco-briefs

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PROTECTING EXTINCTION WITH TECHNOLOGY...

The future of wind energy in question

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Each year that the wind Production Tax Credit has been allowed to expire, the wind energy industry has seen major declines. This year, wind energy faces that possibility for a fourth time in the credit’s 20-year life span...

Geo-engineered crops may help — and harm

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Proposals to tackle climate change that rely on geo-engineered crops show neatly the double bind that can await remedies which try to do too...

Untapped potential: Boulder’s Food Waste Audit

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Food retailers in Boulder, like most eateries in most cities around America, are in desperate need of education on the subject of food donation. A...

Powering Puerto Rico with solar microgrids

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During the weeks following Hurricane Maria, the category 4 storm that wiped out Puerto Rico’s electrical grid, dozens of messages flooded the email server...

A CLIMATE JUSTICE REACTION TO THE COP21 AGREEMENT

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What is the most important thing you’ve done in your life? Be a good parent to your kids? Adopt an abused animal? Be a teacher...

Fish on the line

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When it comes to fresh seafood, many of us consider sushi the grand master. But these days, with the health of the environment pushing us to make more sustainable choices when it comes to what we put into our bodies, texture and flavor are not the only criteria we ...

A new place for old waste

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After 15 years of planning and three years of compiling surplus furniture from other county offices, the new Boulder County Hazardous Materials Management Facility opened on April 20...

What happened after Congress passed a climate change law? Very little

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Congress did something unusual last year. It passed a bill that acknowledged that sea levels are rising — i.e., that climate change is happening...

Natural guidelines

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For 3.8 billion years, nature has been working hard to hone processes and designs to evolve efficiently. As humans, we borrow from what nature has perfected. That’s how products like Velcro (based on burrs) and highly efficient wind turbines (with propellers designed...

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...