Boulderganic
Dressing your home for winter weather
EnergySmart wants you to bundle up this winter. No, not with a coat and gloves. EnergySmart is running energy audits around the county, and advisors have found Boulder homes consistently under-dressed for the winter — in spots that surprise some homeowners...
Gimme all your gas money
The state of Colorado has filed a complaint against the ConocoPhillips Company alleging that ConocoPhillips has profited from the state’s fund for pollution cleanup at service stations by taking $70 million in state funds for clean-ups its insurance company later ...
Breakthrough in magnesium processing could revolutionize the auto industry
Engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder have developed a more efficient spin on an old method of processing magnesium, and it could have...
New lines for the battlegrounds
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 ...
Creatively building community
Though the general rule is not to play in the street for fear of cars, the pedestrians of Boulder will have the opportunity to take over a vehicular domain and do just that this coming weekend...
Van life
By the time Dave Walsh built out his third van, he had reached a turning point. What had begun as a single backyard project...
Taking life into your own hands
Last November, outside of Craig, Colo., Brazilian-born Leo Zacharias removed a loaded .45-caliber pistol from his belt and handed it to his girlfriend, Colorado native Stephanie Loveless. If the strange man she was being left behind with tried anything, Zacharias ...
Wind turbines may lure bats into fatal errors
Scientists might just be about to answer one of the great puzzles of biodiversity and renewable energy: why one of nature’s most agile flyers, a creature with the most sophisticated ultrasonic tracking system, should be so fatally attracted to wind turbines...
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,...








