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Public schools on the path to food waste reduction
As the new school year begins and Colorado kids return to classrooms, Region 8 of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has an action plan...
Road Salt Is Imperiling Aquatic Ecosystems. It Doesn’t Have To.
During this unusually snowy year, the rumble of snowplows and salt trucks has become a familiar — and comforting — winter soundtrack across the...
Rainbow trout making big comeback in Colorado
There was a time when Colorado’s lakes and streams were full of big, splashy rainbow trout that would eagerly rise to an angler’s lure and put up quite a tussle, breaching the water in a shimmer of green, red and gold...
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...
A crazy amount of zucchini
When the pandemic hit last March, interest in community gardens around Boulder County skyrocketed. Some people found themselves with the time to garden, perhaps...
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...
The green offensive
Jeremy Altdorfer’s day of delivery was hectic, but successful.
All day on Saturday, Oct. 5 he was zipping around Boulder in his car, which was...
Cricket is the new cow
Along Morrison Road, in west Denver, there’s a 40-foot shipping container that houses 15,000 crickets, give or take — they aren’t the easiest insects...
It’s raining plastic. So what?
It was the colors that caught Gregory Wetherbee’s eye: red, silver, purple, green, yellow — but most of all blue. There was dark blue...
No excuses
Scroll through the leadership team on most national environmental organizations’ websites and a certain trend emerges: the majority of staff members are white. Racial...
Posing new questions
In a world where climate change presents an ever-increasing threat, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and helpless as we carry on in our day-to-day...
A harsh realization
Opening up Instagram, my feed is flooded with images of breathtaking locations from around the world. From oceans to mountains, from wedding photographers to...