Boulderganic
Where’s the beef (coming from)?
The costs of dishing up mechanized meals by the plateful is on the table for some Conference of World Affairs panelists, whose panel on the industrialization of the food supply is expected to cover the human gains and environmental costs of the changes in how we ...
Natural Habitat Adventures to offset air travel emissions for all clients
When Court Whelan isn’t leading zero-waste adventures through Yellowstone, watching polar bears from a rover in the Canadian Arctic, or taking teachers and curious...
The full reach of addiction
Humankind’s relationship with psychoactive substances can be traced back thousands of years to religious trances induced by specific plants and fungai. But some substances are more addictive than others, and opium, caffeine and nicotine have become commonplace, in ...
2016 could be the year for industrial hemp
In 2015 U.S. consumers bought over $500 million in hemp products, buying everything from food, cosmetics, fabrics and paper to construction material, insulation and...
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...
Aligning plant with plant
So those can be pretty bad,” Ben Searchinger says, talking about the Russian-doll-like packaging system that encloses a box of edible gummies at Drift...
Saving Rudolph
Not too far from the North Pole, Norwegian trains have killed more than 100 reindeer in a recent three-day period. Train companies claim the...
eco-briefs
Bark beetle kill causes increase in stream flow and affects water quality in Colorado...
Up Your home grow game
Master grower Chris Baca shares tips, tricks and hacks for taking cannabis home grows to the next level.
Taking a monkey wrench to climate change
While the grizzlies near his Montana home hibernate, Doug Peacock retreats to southern Arizona to a town near the Mexican border where he can wander 100 miles before hitting another town. The self-described desert rat honed his wilderness affinities under legendary ...
Rivers in wintry cities remain salty year-round
As winter sets in across the northern United States, the road salt that keeps people out of ditches is flowing into rivers at levels that could harm fish and other creatures...
Toxic turtles
From the moment they are born, sea turtles fight to survive. Buried alive, they dig themselves out and evade hungry crabs and birds as they crawl to the ocean, where they begin a long and treacherous migration. One out of 1,000 will survive into adulthood. And those ...

















