Boulderganic
Head in the cloud
In April, Greenpeace released a report showing that the United States led the world in electricity consumption in 2007, with 3,923 billion kilowatt hours (kwH). Following the U.S. are other industrialized countries; China is second, followed by Russia and Japan. The ...
CU prof: Don’t buy the promise of nuclear energy
A retired University of Colorado mechanical engineering professor is challenging a new documentary that espouses the virtues of nuclear power...
The true cost of travel
By paying less than $14, you can offset the carbon emissions you produce from one round trip flight from Denver to Los Angeles in economy class...
Rainbow trout making big comeback in Colorado
There was a time when Colorado’s lakes and streams were full of big, splashy rainbow trout that would eagerly rise to an angler’s lure and put up quite a tussle, breaching the water in a shimmer of green, red and gold...
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...
Eco-briefs | Colorado third among top LEED states
The U.S. Green Building Council has announced the top 10 states for new Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certifications in 2012, and Colorado landed third on the per-capita list...
Between art and destruction
In 2010, the Fourmile Canyon fire raged through Boulder County, leaving more than 160 destroyed homes and almost 6,200 charred acres in its wake....
Gettin’ down with the farm
It`s high noon at Frog Belly Farm near Longmont, and the interns are busy tending newly born goats, chasing escaped piglets, checking beehives, picking and washing herbs and vegetables — in addition to all the other daily chores, such as milking cows and goats, ...
‘Tree hugging and all of that’
In Civic Area Park, just in front of the Boulder Museum for Contemporary Art (BMoCA), grows a large American linden tree with fissured bark...
A harsh realization
Opening up Instagram, my feed is flooded with images of breathtaking locations from around the world. From oceans to mountains, from wedding photographers to...
Rising rivers raise all rafts
"Drought-free” is not a term you see in Colorado news headlines very often. But, after two long, dry years full of wildfires, parched rivers...
Oceans studied and celebrated at second annual Making Waves
“This year’s theme is a little more on what we can do in Colorado to save oceans, so it will go beyond just the water flow we’re getting into some of the issues like climate change and ocean acidification,” says Boulder resident Vicki Nichols Goldstein, founder of ...
