Boulderganic
The science of how nature positively affects our brains
Early in her book, The Nature Fix, Florence Williams writes, “ think of nature as a luxury, not a necessity. We don’t recognize how...
Not exactly running toward sustainability
Runners leave a lot of footprints, but there’s one that running shoe companies are starting to pay more attention to: the one on the environment. Running shoes are made with plastic, polyester and synthetic glues. All of those products take energy and oil to produce...
The possibility to reverse global warming
With each passing day, global warming seems more like a death sentence for the Earth. Rainforests are shrinking, carbon emissions are rising and many...
Temporary nature
The world as we know is changing. As temperatures soar, ice melts and water levels rise, artists like Tom Rice are striving to capture the final moments of these landscapes to preserve for the future...
Critics: EPA used out-of-date research to defend its chemical testing of...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has concluded that current testing of hormone-altering chemicals is adequate for detecting low-dose effects that may jeopardize health...
A quarter century of music and environmental hope at eTown
Environmental news is notorious for doomsday messages from climate change, to drought, to mass extinctions, but one Boulder-based radio show has been delivering positive...
Conference puts food economy on table
Transition Colorado is the reorganized, combined version of nonprofits Transition Boulder and Boulder County Going Local...
How the coronavirus is reshaping the recycling industry
The sky is clearer these days, as mountain views come into full focus. Air traffic has dropped significantly, production of some industries has ceased...
Bill McKibben leads divestment campaign to Boulder
Three figures were all author and environmental activist Bill McKibben needed to fuel his national roadshow. Do the Math, put together by McKibben, president and co-founder of 350.org, will follow up on McKibben’s breakthrough Rolling Stone article “Global Warming’s ...
Climate research struggles to find funding
With the crisis of global heating now widely recognized as one of the most challenging issues facing the world today, you might assume that...
Dark undercurrents of consumer culture
There is an element of concealment in the installation art show Material Nature by Katie Caron, on exhibition at Longmont’s Firehouse Art Center, a...
