Danish Plan
COPOUT 21
The United Nations is going to hold a big climate conference in Paris starting next Monday (and droning on until December 11) during which the world is really gonna get a handle on this global warming thing, by golly...
The Cutter incident: A cautionary tale for Operation Warp Speed
The Trump administration is calling its push for a coronavirus vaccine “Operation Warp Speed.” If you don’t find the name cringe-worthy, you’re not old...
What one Republican would do about climate change
Kelly Sims Gallagher, director of the Center for International Environment & Resource Policy at Tuft University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, recently told Public Radio International that if the Republicans don’t like President Obama’s approach to curbing ...
Think globally and frack locally
Think globally and act locally? Some do it better than others...
Thoughts on the Fourth of July
It’s 11:17 p.m., July, 4 2015. The illegal fireworks are still going off. It’s been a constant cacophony since 5 p.m. as God intended it to be...
The first marathon
When Michael Phelps won his 13th individual Olympic gold medal last Thursday night, he eclipsed a 2,168-year-old record for the largest number of individual...
Boulder’s latest green dreams
The Boulder City Council has formally adopted a series of climate targets that, among other things, call for Boulder getting 100 percent of its...
War on fracking
Hands down easiest prediction for 2012: Boulder’s hyper-active activists will take time out from their busy schedule of sabotaging American food production to sabotage American oil and gas production...
Nixon’s take on Bolton and Bernie
The Idea Fairy and me were polishing off our latest plate of edibles when there was a knock on the door. It was Richard...
Pot legalization day in Colorado more orderly than Black Friday
On Nov. 9, 1989, BW marijuana columnist Leland Rucker and I kicked back on his couch, cracked a couple of Buds, fired up a spliff, and waited for the Berlin Wall to come down...
Pot at the tea party
The Boston Tea Party, the original one, occurred on the night of December 16, 1773, when the Sons of Liberty, some cunningly disguised as Ward Churchill, threw 342 chests of British East India Company tea into Boston Harbor. But truth be told, as a date to hold ...
The green whine over U.S. gas exports
When Russia took over the Crimea at the start of the month, there were widespread calls in Congress and among the chattering classes (including from me) for the U.S. to fast-track the export of natural gas and oil to Europe in order to lessen Europe’s dependence on ...
