Boulderganic

Jumping the power lines

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Forget the grid. For the developing world, forget the power lines and the coal-fired electricity they deliver. In developing countries, renewable energy sources are the answer to getting people online, powering up their cell phones and running computer labs in ...

Paving the way for electric vehicles in Boulder, and across the...

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Public opinion polls tend to show Americans overwhelmingly think electric vehicles (EVs) are better for the environment. A new study, led by the U.K....

Tiny homes and tiny roadblocks

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Welcome to the Aspen 24-footer...

Will El Nino bring more flooding misery?

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It all begins far out over the Pacific, where giant bubbles of moist air rise off the warmest parts of the ocean and become entrained in writhing atmospheric streams moving west to east across the Northern Hemisphere...

Fracking’s future is in doubt as oil price plummets

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There’s no doubt that U.S.-based fracking — the process through which oil and gas deposits are blasted from shale deposits deep underground — has caused a revolution in worldwide energy supplies...

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 ...

Can Divestment help fix PERA?

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There’s a growing movement both in Colorado and around the world calling on investment managers to rid their funds of coal and other fossil...

Filling gaps in our food system

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Colorado’s Grain Chain highlights community over commodity

Fried fish, smothered fish

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First thing every morning, Ryan Votta walks across the Durango Fish Hatchery campus and over to the isolation unit. Before stepping inside, he disinfects...

Slow-moving disaster reaches Longmont

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Longmont is joining Boulder in a hotter future, with more pollution and potentially worse floods at the hand of a tiny, jewel-colored insect. The emerald...

Open streets, open minds

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City planners across the world are struggling to imagine a new paradigm where city streets are not just avenues for gas-guzzlers, but places where people gather, where community is fostered and where the use of cars is actually minimal...