Eco-Briefs
Eco-briefs | Driving home your environmental self-image
Driving home your environmental self-image...
Eco-briefs | Study measures sea rise caused by glaciers, ice sheets
As the world’s glaciers melt, the runoff contributes as much to sea rise as melting ice sheets, according to a study led by Clark University in Worcester, Mass., and the University of Colorado Boulder...
Eco-briefs | Coffee production could be shaken by climate change
The world’s most consumed coffee species, Arabica, could be pushed to extinction in the wild in 70 years by the hand of climate change, according to a new study...
Solar energy program creates opportunity for low-income families in Lafayette
Energy bills are no small matter for families with low income. According to a study by the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, these families have gone from spending 12 percent of their after-tax income on energy costs in 2001 to 21 percent in 2012. ...
Eco-briefs | Boulder engineer competing for grant to jumpstart water reserve...
There are only five finalists left from a field of thousands of competitors in the GQ and Ketel One “A Gentleman’s Call” competition, which is handing out $100,000 to the winning business concept. Tom Rachlin, a 27-year-old engineer from Boulder, is one of the ...
Eco-briefs | GMO documentary to screen at eTown Hall
GMO documentary to screen at eTown Hall...
Eco-briefs | Greenpeace continues to detox retailers
The presence of toxins in various clothing brands has met its opposition, and it is growing by the thousands. Greenpeace’s Detox campaign, launched in 2011, was created in an effort to get the fashion industry to eradicate toxins from its products by 2020...