Archive for the ‘Uncategorized’ Category
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From beetle-kill pine to pellet stove fuel
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
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, [...]
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A garden of earthly delights
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
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 [...]
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Local businesses work for the environment
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
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 [...]
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New life for old junk
Friday, July 23rd, 2010
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 [...]
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Show off your projects!
Friday, July 16th, 2010
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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Western Aluminum Recycling
Friday, July 16th, 2010
Keeping recycling in the family By Charmaine Ortega Getz After he retired from masonry construction in 1989, Robert Barlow decided he’d use his free time for a little business, buying and selling cans and other discarded aluminum. The modest Boulder business soon expanded to cover other kinds of metals, but it has the same name [...]
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Recycling the hard-to-recycle
Thursday, July 8th, 2010
What to do with those odds and ends By Charmaine Ortega Getz Whether you have a recyclables pick-up service or you use a collection center, there are probably still times when you wonder, “Where do I recycle this?” Like that box of old paint cans, or out-of-date textbooks that not even thrift Charmaine Ortega Getz [...]
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Local and growing
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
Boulder-based Eco-Products expands leadership team New vice president of marketing and chief financial officer strengthen brand focus and financial leadership BOULDER, Colo. (July 7, 2010) – Eco-Products, the nation’s leading brand of food service ware made from renewable resources and recycled content, recently announced two new key additions to its team, Andy Burgess, vice president [...]
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Bike share pedals into Boulder
Thursday, July 1st, 2010
Two companies offer proposals to the city by Katelyn Feldhaus A city that has more than 300 miles of bikeways is a cyclist’s dream. Now the bike-friendly city of Boulder has decided to create a bike-share program that gets people out of their cars and on the seat of a bike. According to Marni Ratzel, [...]
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Reap what county farms offer
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
By Charmaine Ortega Getz Think you’ve seen everything Boulder County farms offer at your favorite grocery store or farmers’ market? As you read this, boxes of fresh, local farm products are being picked up or delivered to people who have memberships in a community supported agriculture program. Generally, in exchange for an advance fee, a [...]
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