Archive for the ‘Sustainability’ Category

• Local farm loses the battle against local government

  Thursday, May 17th, 2012

  by Hadley Vandiver After years of fighting Boulder County land use codes and regulations, Zia Parker is selling her farm and moving with her husband to Ecuador in hopes that running a permaculture farm will encounter fewer obstacles in the South American country. Parker’s farm, Willow Way, is a permaculture herb farm and herbal CSA [...]

• 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 From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 22, all revenues from Half Fast will be used to make the outdated restaurant more green.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 [...]

• Conserving Colorado’s golden goose

  Thursday, April 5th, 2012

  The American Great Outdoors Initiative is a nationwide conservation plan to get more Americans outside, not only to instill in them an appreciation for open and wild places and a desire to protect them, but to create outdoors-related jobs and stimulate tourism. Colorado’s Front Range turns out to be the testing grounds for that new plan.

• Just a little loan

  Thursday, April 5th, 2012

  Microloans boost sustainable businesses at home in addition to overseas by Tate Zandstra Organic, local, sustainable food seems to be a growing trend in America, but it’s also a trend that almost inevitably means higher prices. When most people think of microfinance, likely what comes to mind are images of the developing world: very poor, [...]

• City, Xcel square off over solar, wind programs

  Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

  The latest skirmish in the municipalization battle between Xcel and the city of Boulder revolves around solar and wind energy programs.

• Safe spring cleaning

  Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

  Odd things tend to turn up when you tackle the task of cleaning out your closet, from old paint and cleaning supplies to moldy food and frayed clothing. The question is, what do you with it all? For those who want to remain environmentally friendly when tossing out the trash, here are a few tips.

• Eating your legislation

  Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

  This year’s farm bill has a chance to support local, organic food systems by Clay Fong Federal farm bills are the 400-pound gorilla of American agricultural policy, setting direction for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), if not the entirety of domestic farming. The last one was passed in 2008, and consisted of 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.