Boulderganic
‘The biggest case on the planet’
When Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, Mary Wood, law professor and faculty director of the Environmental and Natural Resources (ENR) Law Center at the...
The leaders of today
As part of our COP21 coverage from Paris, Boulder Weekly is partnering with the Boulder nonprofit Global Greengrants Fund to tell the stories of environmental youth activists from around the world...
Ill winds paint dusty picture for Colorado snowpack
Along with sandhill cranes and antelopes, snow-weary mountain dwellers often migrate en masse to warmer spots in the spring, heading to the Desert Southwest to take a break from skiing. But in the past few years, the desert has come to some ski slopes long before ...
Dark undercurrents of consumer culture
There is an element of concealment in the installation art show Material Nature by Katie Caron, on exhibition at Longmont’s Firehouse Art Center, a...
Boulder County Girl Scouts greening the globe
As a Junior Girl Scout, my troop’s walk to a manicured suburban park was called a “hike.” We were taught how to bake cookies from packaged mixes and what to do for someone who’d fainted. And, of course, we sold those famous boxes of cookies mass-produced elsewhere...
50 years of wild and scenic rivers
The river had dropped two feet in as many days prior to our excursion, our guide told us. But the water in the Cache...
State lawmakers take baby steps to address wildfire threat
With smoke from some of the Colorado's biggest and most destructive wildfires still lingering in the air, a panel of wildlife experts last summer called for communities to meet the growing threat head-on by adopting specific building codes, requiring the removal of ...
Opening doors
There’s a new set of doors cut into the side of the Eco-Cycle warehouse in Boulder, the region’s most comprehensive center for hard-to-recycle materials....
What happened after Congress passed a climate change law? Very little
Congress did something unusual last year. It passed a bill that acknowledged that sea levels are rising — i.e., that climate change is happening...
Day-long party coming to east Pearl Street
There will be many reasons to celebrate life at Boulder’s newest neighborhood event this Sunday, starting with a parade honoring firefighters...
Conservation for All, even renters
Energy conservation and efficiency programs tend to benefit people who own their homes. But a new program in Boulder aims to make home energy...
