Boulderganic
Tips for keeping summer eco-sweet
This week’s column has a particular summer focus on all things environmental, sustainable and organic. Keeping the stink out — If you participate in Boulder County’s alternate-week curbside compost pick-up you may have noticed the collection bin can get ...
IT’S UP TO US
While the nations of the world were putting the final touches on the historic Paris accord on climate change, I stood below the Eiffel tower gripping a 100 meter long banner with a simple, salient message, “It’s Up to Us to Leave It in the Ground.” The second “It” on...
Smart fashion: Clothing ethics under the microscope
No need for the herald: It’s a well-known fact that American society is a consumerist culture. Americans are known for gobbling up marketing messages, spending unnecessarily just to catch a deal and extreme couponing. The rate at which we are consuming goods has put ...
First Nations Families Exposed to Industrial Chemicals
Mothers and children of a First Nations tribe living in one of Canada’s most industrialized regions are highly exposed to estrogen-blocking chemicals, according to a new study...
Climate data gives mixed message on storm forecasts
Keep calm and hold on to your hat. The atmosphere will not become increasingly stormy as the planet warms and the climate changes...
Conference puts food economy on table
Transition Colorado is the reorganized, combined version of nonprofits Transition Boulder and Boulder County Going Local...
Eco-briefs | Fort Collins bans fracking
Following in the footsteps of Longmont, the Fort Collins City Council voted to approve an initial ban on hydraulic fracturing within city limits...
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 ...
Co-existing with wildlife, part II
Nylon bags of human hair or soap bars hung in trees, scarecrows, motion detectors that turn on lights or create movement, cayenne pepper sprinkled in flower beds, moth balls tossed under plants. Any of these things may work to deter our hungry critter neighbors ...
The trickle-down effect
The American West has always been an arid place, often only supplied with water running down from Colorado. But while the supply chain is the same, mounting population, as well as economic and environmental pressures, have inspired a film with a comprehensive ...
Eco-briefs | Greenland´s ice cores may map future warming
A study released by a team of international scientists indicates that Greenland’s ice core layers, which date back 100,000 years, may shed light on the future of global warming...
