Boulderganic
Photographer James Balog captures glaciers, before they’re gone
For almost 15 years, James Balog has dedicated his time to photographing glaciers. He’s chronicled major change — common occurrences like miles of retreating...
New exhibit plants viewers in the world of seeds
Environmental concerns have been ingrained in multimedia artist Sybille Palmer since she was 10 years old. Palmer spent her teenage years in Leverkusen, Germany,...
Washing away a harvest: Contamination ruins Boulder County crops
This story is part of Our Road to Recovery, our coverage of the 2013 Boulder County floods...
Hurdles of hemp plastic
The current demand for eco-solutions to modern waste issues has generated a swell of green business opportunities.
Companies like The Hemp Plastic Company (THCP) in...
Eyes on the mitigation prize
Boulder County has three extra pairs of eyes helping detect fire.
The eyes, cameras built by Pano AI, use geo satellite data and field sensors...
Growing resistance
The World Health Organization statement on the matter reads like the setup to a sci-fi horror film — a once hypothetical problem has now become a major threat to public health. And no, we’re not talking about Ebola flying home on airplanes. We’re talking about the ...
All’s fair in love and war (and industrial agriculture)
In Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes wrote, “Love and war are all one … It is lawful to use sleights and stratagems to … attain the wished end.” Simply put, all is fair in love and war. In America, for more than a decade, a war has been waged on the public’s right to ...
Requiem for a digester
Neat rows of tanks, each with a capacity of 1.7 million gallons, tower above the plains. Three lagoons border the site to the west...
Taking a wide-angle view of the world
The environmental world is ripe with buzzwords, and it’s normal to doubt their significance. But if the pioneer of the local food movement, Gary Nabhan, says Bioneers put on the most innovative conference in the world, then the word “bioneer” and ideas behind it ...
Rethinking attitudes towards sustainability
Sustainability is an all encompassing concept that affects every part of our lives. It’s not just about science and the environment but also includes...
From seed to harvest
It’s late April and Polly Ruff pulls a few weeds growing from the outside edge of her raised bed at Living Harvest Garden. The 30 plots surrounding her are in various stages of preparation for the first season of this freshly minted community garden...
