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Hemp: The fiber side of cannabis
Correction: The Hemp Industries Association was mistakenly referred to as the Hemp Initiative Association in one instance in this story...
A bird’s eye view of the forest
Brian Howell has seen every tree in Colorado. As manager of the U.S. Forest Service’s aerial survey program, Howell spends hundreds of hours each...
Rewarding energy-efficient schools with solar
ReNew Our Schools, a Center for ReSource Conservation program, is...
Best of East Boulder County
It's that time of year again! Vote for your favorite East Boulder County businesses in Boulder Weekly's Best of East Boulder County. Voting begins...
Hunting for more meaningful meat
Food systems contribute 19 percent to 29 percent of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, according to a 2012 study by scientists from the University of Copenhagen, Oxford and the Natural Environmental Research Council. Of that amount, agriculture production...
Is school food better than it was five years ago?
After the implementation of the controversial Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, which updated food nutrition standards in public schools for the first time in 30 years, Boulderganic decided to travel to Douglass Elementary School to see how the Boulder ...
Urban herbs
If a full-fledged garden sounds like too much work, consider scaling back and springing for an herb garden. Find a sunny windowsill, or plant them alongside a bigger plant and enjoy fresh herbs instead of store-bought ones...
Recipes on the range
As spring arrives, most foodies’ thoughts turn to the local produce making its way to area farmers’ markets. To help usher in the fresh produce season, Boulderganic asked three county farms to share a favorite recipe that makes the most of their bounty. OLLIN FARMS...
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...
A community mission
Boulder’s first food co-op, The Second Kitchen, is trying to make a bigger difference when it comes to quality and sustainability of food distribution, while not forgetting their humble beginnings. The organization’s name is a tribute to those humble begins, when co-...
We’ve all got to go some how, so why not go...
Religion and tradition aside, the idea of my fully dressed dead body spending eternity in a sealed wood-and-metal box lined with fabric has always...
Vote No on 71 to protect direct democracy
Citizen access to our last vestige of direct democracy — the statewide ballot initiative — is under attack. As organizers of recent ballot initiatives...
