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Growing up the greener way
After a long and in some ways challenging winter that began with a deluge that saw flooded gardens wiped out early, gardeners are likely eager to be getting their fingers back into the soil this spring. Our Boulderganic is focused, first, on providing some ...
Corporate gardening for a sustainable world
CorpCROP is on a mission to get you off your chair and out into the sunlight. With the rise in health issues due to sitting behind a desk all day, people like Jennifer Klafin, founder and managing director of CorpCROP, are figuring out ways to help keep office ...
Zero-waste checklist
• Reusable shopping bags — Eco-Cycle recommends the ChicoBag because it is made from 99 percent recycled materials and because plastic shopping bags are bad for the environment when they are manufactured and disposed of improperly...
2012 Student Guide | It’s your education, choose wisely
An institution like the University of Colorado Boulder has a diverse range of programs and courses for students to package together into a learning plan. Yet even amidst all of that diversity, from accounting to Yiddish, there is one constant: the Faculty Course ...
Looking closer at ‘local’
Breaking news: You’re in Boulder. Or Longmont, or Lafayette, or Nederland, or Louisville. Now that you’re aware of it, spend like it, says local entrepreneur Richard Fleming. “You’re in Boulder to have the unique Boulder experience,” Fleming says. “You don’t go to ...
Secret practice
There´s a new kind of technology in town, and it’s subtle enough to walk past on the street, but strong enough to change your life. Or, at least, that’s what the people who practice kundalini yoga will tell you...
Can we stop loving Mother Nature to death?
"A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain...
Speeding toward fitness
"A seven-minute workout can be efficacious,” says Glen Cordoza, co-author of Power Speed Endurance: A Skill-Based Approach to Endurance Training, a book detailing Crossfit founder and triathlon coach Brian MacKenzie’s revolutionary short, intense approach to training...
The buzz about bees
During summer, Boulder resident Julie FinleyRidinger is busy. Her vegetable, fruit and flower gardens are overflowing, and she awaits honey from her 14 bee colonies...
Student Guide 2010: Things to do without ever leaving campus
What was that? You’re bored? Bored? Considering how much there is to do without even leaving campus, we’re not even sure how that’s possible. Maybe you just don’t realize all that CU has to offer. Allow us to learn ya a thing or two. The UMC...
Real athlete diets
Paying attention to how your body feels after eating is an exercise worth pursuing. Adjusting your diet accordingly is the way to honor what...
