Boulderganic
Unfair share
Don Feusner ran dairy cattle on his 370-acre slice of northern Pennsylvania until he could no longer turn a profit by farming. Then, at age 60, he sold all but a few Angus and aimed for a comfortable retirement on money from drilling his land for natural gas instead...
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...
The dirtiest way to get clean
Who knows how it started? Maybe a young Roman soiled himself in his sleep and awoke to find that the previous night’s wine stains had miraculously disappeared from the midsection of his toga. Either way, it was the beginning of dry cleaning, and it came from a dirty ...
Unsubstantiated organic health claims
It´s been almost a year since USA Today broke the story of yogurt giant Dannon’s overzealous marketing of its product as a miracle health food. The makers of Activia and DanActive yogurt had to pay a whopping $21 million fine to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC...
Eco-briefs | Mars on the mind
NASA has announced that a recent rock sample taken from Mars indicates the planet could have once supported living micro-organisms — just as the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado announced it has crossed another milestone in ...
Making green work for you
Editor's note: Radon kits can be purchased at the Center for ReSource Conservation, 2639 Spruce St., Boulder, Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for $15. For more info, call 303-999-3820 or visit www.conservationcenter.org...
Eco-internships give career seekers green boost
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 ...
Boulder nonprofit educating Africa’s next leaders
 A year shy of graduating from Boulder’s Fairview High School, Eric Glustrom went to Uganda in 2002 to make a documentary about the plight of thousands of refugees from surrounding warring nations. He met an orphaned youth about his age, Benson Oliver, whose one ...
Eco-briefs | GMO documentary to screen at eTown Hall
GMO documentary to screen at eTown Hall...
Eco-briefs | City offers events on water and weeds
The City of Boulder is holding two events on May 18 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the East Boulder Community Center, 5660 Sioux Drive, to cover some summer concerns: water restrictions and a noxious weed eradication program...
ECO BRIEFS | Week of Jan. 30
REMOVING LIONFISH ALLOWS FOR SUCCESSFUL RECOVERY OF NATIVE FISH POPULATIONS...
