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Eco-briefs | Colorado third among top LEED states

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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...

An ocean to learn from

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Journalist and ocean organizer David Helvarg is attending this month’s Colorado Ocean Coalition Blue Drinks to talk about his new book, The Golden Shore. On its surface, Helvarg’s latest book offers a lengthy history of California and Californians’ relationship to ...

Where’s the beef (coming from)?

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Panelists discuss the world’s increasingly industrialized food supply at Conference on World Affairs 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...

Amalgam-nation

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In a video called “Smoking Teeth” on the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology’s website, a man takes an extracted tooth and rubs its 25-year-old amalgam filling with a pencil eraser. A phosphorescent screen in the background illuminates mercury ...

Eco-briefs | Fuel efficiency in vehicles continuing slow increase

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FUEL EFFICIENCY IN VEHICLES CONTINUING SLOW INCREASE...

Spring brings green events

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New vegetation is starting to poke out of the tundra, and upcoming events in Boulder County are heralding a spring full of green interests...

Rally to protest dolphin hunting Aug. 31

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In 2009, the documentary The Cove released onto the world the story of a small town in Japan where dolphins were being herded into a shallow, hidden cove to be hunted and captured. The film won an Academy Award and acclaim at Sundance. But this year, on Sept. 1, the ...

Calming Congress

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Barbeques, baseball and meditation. That’s right. Congressman Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) meditates for 45 minutes a day and says he thinks meditation needs to become the new American pastime. He started a serious practice of meditation and mindfulness in November 2008, six ...

Eco-briefs | Nuclear sensors could be used to predict tsunamis and...

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A network of sensors used to track nuclear weapons since the Cold War could be used for environmental monitoring instead, according to a study published in Science last week...

eco-briefs

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COLORADO RANKS EIGHTH NATIONWIDE FOR SOLAR CAPACITY...

eco-briefs

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Famed actors try to shed light on plight of Colorado River...

New lines for the battlegrounds

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When the lines for the statehouse are redrawn after this year’s reapportionment, more competitive districts could cost Democrats seats in the House, leaving them facing a Republican supermajority. Based on the voting record of the last year, that could make it tough ...