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A new shade of green
Note to Boulder County citizens who care about the environment: the Americas Latino Eco-Festival is not an event intended solely or even primarily for Latino audiences. While the festival is hosted by some of the most respected and well-known leaders of the global ...
Ending the campaign of disinformation
The woman behind Americas Latino Eco-Festival isn’t your typical environmentalist. Irene Vilar is not rallying citizens with battle cries over a megaphone or leading large-scale petition initiatives. The Puerto Rican-born writer and publisher’s environmentalism comes...
Latino immigrants change cities from the inside out
When Latinos move to the U.S., they bring with them their own beliefs, their own food, their own community. Integrating that amalgam of culture and opportunity into the American cityscape is what city planner James Rojas is trying to do...
A lifestyle worth sustaining
To Carmen Vidal-Hallet, an architect and urban planner based in Chicago, a sustainable city revolves around the community...
Why Latinos care about the environment
Data indicates that Latinos care more about the environment than non-Hispanic populations in the U.S. Because of this, Latinos possess the ability to transform environmental policy on a scale that has never before been seen in this country...
The couch cleanse
Distorted science. Fabricated watchdog groups. False testimonies. Decades of public deception. It’s the stuff of a summer blockbuster — but truth is stranger than fiction, they say...
Helping hands
A waterfall crashes into a river. There is a crowd on the riverbank. In the river there is a drowning child, fallen from the top of the waterfall. The people in the crowd link arms and create a chain. The chain pulls the child to safety. Then another child falls in. ...
Your next roadside attraction: Carbon storage
As you watch the miles roll by on family road trips this summer, look just behind the guard rails to see what some scientists believe is a significant untapped resource in the battle against climate change...
This buzz kills
A dangerous drug with an innocuous name is making the rounds right here in Boulder County. Because it cannot be detected in many drug screens, it is often the only recourse for drug users on parole that crave marijuana. And because of its availability, it is ...
Local humanitarian group gives Boulder City Council action plan for helping...
Boulder Rights Watch has submitted recommendations to Boulder City Council that it believes will greatly help the city’s homeless community. The group, which formed in response to Boulder’s decision to reinstate jail time for minor, municipal offenses committed by ...
Alone on the moon
It was as though he had walked on the moon, and spent the rest of his life looking up in the sky, knowing he could never get back there. Chet Carman was a 17-year-old teenager from Colorado Springs, shuttling between separated parents and an older brother. In 1964, ...
