Boulderganic
The boy and the buffalo
Shortly before dawn on a rainy morning in early March, 20-year-old Comfrey Jacobs, born near Gold Hill and a recent official resident of Montana, handcuffed himself to a bright orange barrel filled with cement and scrap metal at the center of the gates in Yellowstone...
Put your money where your mouth is
At the most recent University of Colorado open Board of Regents meeting, Katie Raitz took the opportunity during open comments to talk fossil fuels, fossil fuel companies and why the University of Colorado should divest from them. “After demonstrated student support...
Mosquito control
It’s an unfortunate fact of life that along with those endless dog days of summer — perfect for barbeques, biking, hiking and swimming — also comes the height of mosquito season. While these blood-sucking members of the fly family are often little more than nuisances...
Global warming meltdown in the Rockies?
Anyone who tackles a tough summit like Tenmile Peak, above Frisco, probably is already tuned in to the risks of the high alpine zone — rockfall, changeable weather, equipment failure. But a snowboarder who was injured in a May 2010 avalanche on the peak may add a new...
Fight for your right (to know what’s in your food)
Larry Cooper describes he and his wife Tryna simply as “concerned citizens” — proud grandparents seven times over, owners of a meeting and event company. Their concern over the safety of American food became so great, however, that the couple placed themselves at the...
Eco vehicles difficult to integrate
Despite the City of Boulder’s ongoing efforts to install charging stations, zero-emissions vehicles still have a long way to go to catch up with their gas-fueled competitors on the highway of American automobiles. But last year, the Electric Drive Transportation ...
Climate change or global warming?
More Americans say the term “global warming” is bad news than take that view when the term “climate change” is used instead, according to a recent study from the Yale Project on Climate Change Communications and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change ...
Will El Nino bring more flooding misery?
It all begins far out over the Pacific, where giant bubbles of moist air rise off the warmest parts of the ocean and become entrained in writhing atmospheric streams moving west to east across the Northern Hemisphere...
