Archive for the ‘Event’ Category

• Calming Congress

  Friday, April 27th, 2012

  Barbeques, baseball and meditation. That’s right. Congressman Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) meditates for 45 minutes a day says he thinks meditation needs to become the new American pastime.

• Green sandwiches and the invasion of the carrots

  Thursday, April 19th, 2012

  This coming Earth Day, the Carrotmob will descend upon University Hill at Half Fast Subs in an effort to raise enough money to help the sub shop become more energy-efficient. From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 22, all revenues from Half Fast will be used to make the outdated restaurant more green.

• Spring Boulderganic: Got gardening on the brain?

  Thursday, April 5th, 2012

  This time of year, a lot of people are spending time thinking about what they’re going to eat. They’re planning and planting gardens that will yield produce all summer long, providing directives on whether it’s a week for salads, or one for zucchini bread, BLTs or snap peas. In some ways, this issue is a [...]

• Environmental engineers

  Thursday, March 29th, 2012

  A three-wheeled, alien vehicle that can be lifted with relative ease by three or four young men is carrying the hopes of five engineering students at the University of Colorado.

• Planet-friendly fashions

  Friday, February 3rd, 2012

  by Blair Madole CU’s INVST program and Un Mundo are hosting an eco-friendly, sustainable clothing fashion show at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 4 at the Absinthe House.   The proceeds from this event will help students in the INVST community studies program travel to Managua, Nicaragua, this summer to learn about the effects of economic globalization. Proceeds [...]

• A greener MLK day

  Monday, January 16th, 2012

  Across the country today, Americans are honoring the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., by participating in community service projects. (Even the president and his family are doing it.)

• From blight to bike

  Friday, November 11th, 2011

  There are potential bike frames growing alongside the New Jersey Turnpike.

  No, that’s not some Salvador Dali-inspired hipster painting; it’s the truth, in a matter of speaking — you just need to know how to build a bike out of bamboo.

  On Nov. 17, Boulder will get its chance to learn.

• Peeking in on priceless plants

  Friday, November 4th, 2011

  The doors to a prized collection of plants are opening to Boulder — for just a few people and only briefly. On Nov. 8, the CU greenhouse on 30th Street will allow a few people in to tour the greenhouse and develop a better understanding of the work that happens at the greenhouse and the work plants do in our daily lives.

• Beyond green homes

  Thursday, September 22nd, 2011

  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.

• Creatively building community

  Friday, September 16th, 2011

  Though the general rule is not to play in the street for fear of cars, the pedestrians of Boulder will have the opportunity to take over a vehicular domain and do just that this coming weekend.