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• Dressing your home for winter weather

  Thursday, September 22nd, 2011

  by Elizabeth Miller EnergySmart wants you to bundle up this winter. No, not with a coat and gloves. EnergySmart is running energy audits around the county, and advisors have found Boulder homes consistently under-dressed for the winter — in spots that surprise some homeowners. Boulder homes aren’t alone. Department of Energy officials estimate that more [...]

• Taking life into your own hands

  Thursday, September 8th, 2011

  After a trip to Montana to see her father, where she shot a gun for the first time, Loveless decided she would take the idea of providing her own food a step further. She ate meat, and she realized she needed to know what it was like to kill an animal.

• New lines for the battlegrounds

  Friday, September 2nd, 2011

  When the lines for the statehouse are redrawn after this year’s reapportionment, more competitive districts could cost Democrats seats in the House, leaving them facing a Republican supermajority. Based on the voting record of the last year, that could make it tough for pro-conservation Democrats to pass environmental bills.

• Saving paper, saving time, saving trees

  Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

  Eco-Cycle launches program to stop junk mail Today, Eco-Cycle launches a program to stop junk mail before it starts. Every year 106 billion pieces of junk mail are delivered in the U.S. mail, which is equivalent to clear cutting Rocky Mountain National forest four times a year, according to Eco-Cycle, a local 501(c)(3) that works [...]

• New B-cycle station will provide greater east Boulder access

  Thursday, August 25th, 2011

  Boulder B-cycle has announced the installation of a new B-cycle station at The Village Shopping Center, at Arapahoe, Canyon, Folsom and 28th Street.

• Good ideas getting off the ground

  Wednesday, August 24th, 2011

  The Startups for Good Challenge has announced their finalists in their annual contest for great business ideas to change the world. The winner of these planet-changing ideas could take home $10,000 for their company.

• Pitching ideas for a new planet

  Friday, August 19th, 2011

  Eco-town among Common plans for changing the world By Tate Zandstra “I ask people what level of intimacy they’re interested in,” Chris Davies says. Intimacy, however, can mean so many things. In this case, it is the desire of everyday people to live in a sustainable town of energy-efficient homes clustered around a center of [...]

• The other atmospheric aerosols

  Thursday, August 4th, 2011

  NOAA study finds particles in the air slowing climate change By Elizabeth Miller Increasing particles in the atmosphere may be slightly slowing climate change, according to a study released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. These particles, called aerosols — which have nothing to do with hair spray or spray-on deodorants — have been [...]

• Alternative fuel gaining speed

  Monday, July 11th, 2011

  Bill would offer incentives for natural gas vehicles by Elizabeth Miller Somewhere down the line, after the budget appropriations bills at the top of the agenda for the extended session in Congress this week, is the optimistically named “New Alternative Transportation to Give Americans Solutions Act of 2011,” HR 1380, the NAT GAS Act. It’s [...]

• Bike to Work Day

  Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

  Get in gear and pedal to work

  Tomorrow is the 2011 Bike to Work Day! From 6:30 to 9 a.m., more than 40 breakfast stations throughout town will be serving up free breakfast to those on bike and foot. Some breakfast stations will have mechanics on site offering light tune-ups for breakfast station visitors. Check here for a full list of 2011 Breakfast Stations and find out which stations are offering Repair Stations.