Boulderganic
Unsubstantiated organic health claims
It´s been almost a year since USA Today broke the story of yogurt giant Dannon’s overzealous marketing of its product as a miracle health food. The makers of Activia and DanActive yogurt had to pay a whopping $21 million fine to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC...
In conversation with PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk
Animals are intelligent, aware and empathetic — far more than we as humans understand. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) founder and...
Asking the big questions
The annual Conference on World Affairs has never shied away from difficult topics, and this year is no different. Several of the panels tackle...
Eco-briefs | Driving home your environmental self-image
Driving home your environmental self-image...
Boulder celebrates its love affair with bicycles
Boulder’s bicycle culture is thriving and lively, and we habitually capture and celebrate it in visual form and as a group. Compare the single man polishing the chrome bumper of his car to the workshop of Community Cycles, which has now graduated 1,000 Earn-a- Bikers...
The future of wind energy in question
Each year that the wind Production Tax Credit has been allowed to expire, the wind energy industry has seen major declines. This year, wind energy faces that possibility for a fourth time in the credit’s 20-year life span...
Drifting toward answers on lost crops
If you shop with any regularity at the Abbondanza stall at the farmers’ market, you might have noticed some gaps in their inventory this fall. Dried beans and winter squash are mostly what Shanan Olson, co-owner, says people have commented on missing. They ask why, ...
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...
Eco-briefs | New bacterium explains symbiosis with insects
NEW BACTERIUM DISCOVERED IS ‘MISSING LINK’ IN UNDERSTANDING INSECT-BACTERIUM SYMBIOSIS...
Growing tasteful turf
When it came to his own backyard, Coulter Lewis went back to an old mantra: You have to meet people where they are, not...
Untapped potential: Boulder’s Food Waste Audit
Food retailers in Boulder, like most eateries in most cities around America, are in desperate need of education on the subject of food donation.
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