Boulder’s Bioneers sets out to conquer fears of something much scarier than the typical Halloween mask: Visions of a post-peak-oil apocalypse, pictures of the collapse of the world food system, the dismal view of a country run by corporate monopolies.

Occupy Boulder is shaping up to be a movement as diverse in age as it has been in message. This Saturday’s rally saw infants in arms with signs clamped to their fingers, and seniors, all of them to say, basically, the status quo isn’t working out.

Alexi Murdoch does his own thing. It just happens to be getting picked up by the mainstream and put on national TV. In a U.S. tour that includes just six stops before jetting back to destinations like Helsinki and Rome during a two-month period, Murdoch will grace the Fox Theatre with his presence.

At Occupy Boulder events later this week, the messaging may struggle to stay on target. Signs could relay a medley of wants and wishes from the government, endorsements on current ballot issues for Boulder County, and tried and true calls for peace.

Twenty-eight years after her stepfather began sexually assaulting her, Tracy Ross took her stepfather back into the mountains where the assaults began, Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains, and confronted him. She wanted the answers to the big four questions: When did it start? When did it end? How many times did it happen? And why?

If you slice open a strawberry, it still looks like a strawberry, whether it’s genetically modified or not. If you slice open the recent decision by the Cropland Policy Advisory Group on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and organic crops in Boulder County, it looks less like a decision and more like a complicated system of checks and approvals still open for revision.

Prepare to be amazed. Or surprised. Or jealous. This year’s Tour of Sustainable Homes, formerly the Tour of Solar and Green Homes, has planned a day of programming designed to let you get acquainted with more than your neighbors’ solar panels.

EnergySmart wants you to bundle up this winter. No, not with a coat and gloves. EnergySmart is running energy audits around the county, and advisors have found Boulder homes consistently under-dressed for the winter — in spots that surprise some homeowners.

As if projecting rock climbing routes — the multiple attempts climbers put into mastering a particularly tough route — weren’t enough of a challenge, local filmmaker, artist and rock climber Craig Muderlak has set a goal to visually represent more than the physicality of climbing. He wants to capture the climbing life, and to represent, in his art, that life as a work of art.

Boulder´s brand-new roller derby league is having its debut September 10 at a “Derby-tante” Ball. The Boulder County Bombers will be hosting an event that’s part meet and greet, part dance party.