Reusing in a big way By Charmaine Ortega Getz It was sorrow that compelled Rosalie Bianco to act. “I was in Grand County a couple of years ago,” she recalls. “It was breaking my heart to see all the trees dying from pine beetle infestation, and then watching all the dead trees logged and burnt, [...]
Loving to grow By Charmaine Ortega Getz It’s a little pocket of greenery, an unpainted fence, a worn driveway leading off the west side of Boulder’s North Broadway, up a slope to a strip of scruffy industrial buildings. But don’t drive that far, or you’ll miss it. Which would be a shame, since the I [...]
Tips for keeping summer eco-sweet By Charmaine Ortega Getz This week’s column has a particular summer focus on all things environmental, sustainable and organic. Keeping the stink out — If you participate in Boulder County’s alternate-week curbside compost pick-up you may have noticed the collection bin can get especially odorous in the summer. Marti Matsch, [...]
Getting in (recycled) gear for the outdoors By Charmaine Ortega Getz Climbing, hiking, biking, camping, scuba diving, surfing, fishing, kayaking — enjoying environmental recreation to the fullest often means there’s a lot of gear that goes with it. And it’s the kind of gear that can wind up in landfills or incinerators when it’s made [...]
Thorne Ecological Institute celebrates new solar energy system On Thursday, July 29, a dozen local youth participating in Thorne Ecological Institute’s Renewable Energy Summer Camp hosted an event to celebrate Thorne’s new 10kw Solar Photovoltaic system. Each summer, Thorne hosts a week-long camp on renewable energy. This year, Thorne’s students, ages 5 to 11, have [...]
Boulder institution makes a comeback By Lauren Duncan Along with Boulder landmarks like McGuckin Hardware and the Boulder Book Store, Alfalfa’s grocery remained a local standby for 13 years. Locals were crushed when the store, which pioneered the model for natural foods supermarkets, was bought by Wild Oats in 1996. Nearly a decade and a [...]
Homegrown and recycled By Charmaine Ortega Getz There’s something special about innovative products made of recycled materials that are created by people challenged to turn their eco-convictions into a business. Especially when those products are Colorado-produced goods, because that kind of industry supports our economy, keeps more of us employed, and keeps our landfills from [...]
Discarded, but not broken-arted By Charmaine Ortega Getz Behind a blank facade in one of North Boulder’s industrial strip malls is a room vibrant with color, conversations and the noise of artisans turning out small, quirky masterpieces of recycled goodness. This is Sweetbird Studio, creative home of a Hygiene resident who says art transformed her [...]
Whether it’s genetics or zeitgeist, I felt compelled last year to start a vegetable garden. My younger son, now grown, helped me plant a test garden of sorts, haphazardly sowing veggies amid our flowers and opening up one vegetable bed, in which we planted green beans, broccoli, peppers, cucumbers and squash. It was an exciting time, as we both crept out to the garden each morning to see what had sprouted. Though we didn’t plant that much, we got so much food out of that last-minute agricultural experiment that we decided it was time to become full-blown urban farmers.
Here at Boulderweekly, we practice what we preach: Live local, sustainable and green. As part of that lifestyle, we have our own company garden (organic of course!). You don’t get much more local than right outside your own front door. What projects have you been working on lately? A garden of your own? Solar panels [...]
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