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Thursday, June 13,2013
Therapy and better eating
YMCA of Boulder Valley and Growing Gardens offer seniors organic gardening classes
Boulder-area seniors are soon gaining another way to get involved with the community, eat better and improve their quality of life: taking organic gardening classes.
Thursday, June 6,2013
Taking a monkey wrench to climate change
Renegade naturalist Doug Peacock on saving ourselves from a bleak future
While the grizzlies near his Montana home hibernate, Doug Peacock retreats to southern Arizona to a town near the Mexican border where he can wander 100 miles before hitting another town. The self-described desert rat honed his wilderness affinities under legendary conservationist Edward Abbey, author of Desert Solitaire, and was the inspiration for George Hayduke, the eco-saboteur central to the The Monkey Wrench Gang.
Thursday, May 30,2013
Diesel program cutting emissions, but funding to be slashed
More than 50,000 high-polluting diesel engines have been cleaned up or removed from U.S. roads in a federal program designed to reduce smog and greenhouse gases, according to a new Environmental Protection Agency report to Congress.
Thursday, May 23,2013
Home, home on the grange
Many people, when they hear the word “grange,” think of a ZZ Top song, or, at best, something about a farm.
Thursday, May 16,2013
The other oil import
Why palm oil is key to cutting the carbon emissions from our food system
Deforestation is at the top of the CIA’s list of environmental issues facing Indonesia, and much of it can be attributed to the creation of palm oil plantations, built to satisfy demands of the American market, which has increased the import of palm oil by 485 percent over the last decade.
Thursday, May 9,2013
A batty battle
Local, federal agencies accused of 'caving' to special interests
Near dark iron gates that cover cave openings in the Flatirons, a sign explains that the caves have been closed because white-nose syndrome has already killed more than 5 million bats. Local author and cave expert Richard Rhinehart informed the City of Boulder’s Open Space and Mountain Parks (OSMP) office of an inaccuracy on the signs.
Thursday, May 2,2013
Beetle-mania
Is Colorado ready for a new beetle infestation?
After suffering more than 15 years of a mountain pine beetle outbreak, Colorado’s forests are now facing another bark beetle epidemic. Last year, 183,000 acres of Colorado’s forests were infested with the spruce beetle, bringing the total acreage affected by spruce beetles to just under 1 million since the initial outbreak in 1996.
Thursday, April 25,2013
Putting your money where your meal is
New philanthropic fund aims to invest in local food system
A nonprofit fund called Soil Trust, which will be officially launched at Slow Money’s upcoming National Gathering in Boulder on April 29 and 30, aims to enable local citizens to up the food sustainability ante and put their money where their meal is — or, rather, where it comes from.
Thursday, April 18,2013
Smart fashion: Clothing ethics under the microscope
H&M set to open in Boulder while shifting towards conscious trends
No need for the herald: It’s a well-known fact that American society is a consumerist culture.
Thursday, April 11,2013
Forest Service says when trees die, people die
Study explores intersections of forest health and human health
Forest Service researchers have used the emerald ash borer, a beetle that has killed more than 100 million trees in the eastern and midwestern U.S., to study the correlation between human health and forest health. They conclude that counties severely impacted by the emerald ash borer also had higher human mortality rates.
