Boulderganic

A quarter-century of environmental reporting and no end in sight

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Boulder Weekly has always made environmental reporting a top priority. Looking back through our archives paints a striking picture of just how much has...

Eco-internships give career seekers green boost

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It’s an old complaint. You can’t get a job without experience, and you can’t get experience without a job. Even in today’s newer green-related industries, teenagers discover this on their first round of job applications, and so do many adults when they try to ...

Public schools on the path to food waste reduction

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As the new school year begins and Colorado kids return to classrooms, Region 8 of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has an action plan...

A high-powered mom

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Heather Bailey is Boulder’s new czar of municipalization, and she knows a thing or two about regulatory agencies and cities running their own electric utilities...

If a tree falls in Boulder County…

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This story starts in Asia. The main character is a tiny metallic green insect, known to English ears as the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB)....

Dive to survive

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Under a full moon on a frosty December night, two advantageous Boulderites make the most of a hole in the system.   “You wouldn’t believe...

CSU research helps remediate Superfund contaminated by mining operations

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Despite its decline in the past 100 years, mining continues to impact communities around Colorado as contaminated effluence from abandoned mines leaches into local...

Vanishing ice; Planting trees

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Putting numbers to vanishing ice A paper published in Geographical Review in July announced the development of a database for all research about sea ice...

U.S. ivory laws; Aerial seed bombing

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Most ivory sales now illegal in United States  On June 2 President Obama signed a measure introduced by the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) that...

eco-briefs

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FEDERAL JUDGE STOPS CLEAN WATER RULE IN 13 STATES...

Re-endangering gray wolves

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Wolves aren’t just back in Colorado, they’re recently back on the endangered species list—what does that mean for the state?

The best possible compromise

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After years of requests from the wind energy industry, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) will now be able to issue wind energy...