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The small footprints of craft brewing
Brewing beer has the potential to be pretty wasteful. Without mindfulness in brewing practices, it would be easy to cause harm to our environment. Although most beer is brewed with natural ingredients (water, malt, hops and yeast), it is not naturally occurring. The ...
Plight of the monarch
There are few species on this planet that inspire awe quite like the monarch butterfly. Its migration alone, which spans thousands of miles, is enough to get children interested in science and make adults appreciate the wonders of nature...
What to do when there’s ‘nothing’ to do . . .
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Celebrating Community: Art + Science + Action Partnerships. 5 p.m. Thursday, November 4, Arbor Institute, 1708 13th Street, Boulder
The six projects featured in this...
What Republicans have proposed isn’t health care
The battle over health care is literally a life and death struggle. In a piece in the Washington Post, doctors David Himmelstein and Steffie...
Sessions slams the door on immigrants desperate to escape domestic violence
Recently, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan sharply criticized the government for deporting two ACLU clients — a woman and her child who had fled...
Good to the last drop
Coffee; there are hymns sung about it, altars erected to it and shops dedicated to it on every corner of the globe. Coffee madness has engulfed the United States. With a calculation of more than 400 million cups consumed on a daily basis, Americans hold the title...
Turf war
Editor's note: An earlier version of this story included an account of lethal prairie dog mitigation allegedly used by Boulder County that has since...
Why take an ‘off-ramp’ to nowhere?
In recent months our community has focused on whether or not Boulder should keep its municipal electric option. Voters will decide the issue this...
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...
Revolving time
It’s hard to timestamp one of Stephen Batura’s paintings. While the scenes feel familiar — a river, a field or a construction site — ...
This Weekend: Capital One Celebrates New Denver and Boulder Cafés
Banking Reimagined Tour Hits Denver February 25-26
According to a recent study, four out of five Denver residents agree that they would be happier if...
Ash borers? You can blame Marco Polo’s camels
The story of invasive species goes all the way back to the earliest stages of human development, when bands of hominids dispersing from Africa carried with them the crumbs, seeds and eggs of whatever ecosystems they happened to be passing through. And you can be sure...


















