Colorado's wind industry is thriving but far-flung
By John Young
A windmill near the Pawnee Buttes at Pawnee National Grasslands. (Denver Post file)
PEETZ — A tumbleweed darts across the highway. By most definitions, this heralds one's arrival at nowhere. Instead, in this case, ...
Colorado's water demands conflict with efforts to preserve the Yampa River
By Susan Bruce
The Tiger Wall above Warm Springs Rapids on the Yampa River got its stripes by trickling water and oxidation. It's tradition for boaters to kiss the wall for good luck before entering the rapids downstr...
Solar-powered light bulb is one Denver inventor's brilliant idea
By Jason Blevins
The Denver Post
Colorado native Stephen Katsaros wants his bulb to brighten up places without electricity.
When he was 7, Stephen Katsaros took apart the box fan in his bedroom and reassembled it using ...
By Sarah Newman
Since I started this holiday tips tradition a few years ago, the sustainable food movement continues to transform fields of corn, soy and CAFOs to more verdant, bountiful lands filled with organic produce, heirloom greens and pasture-raised livestock. Countless more school and ...
New research suggests that high levels of BPA, a chemical in many plastics and canned food linings, might raise the risk of miscarriage in women prone to that problem or having trouble getting pregnant.
The work is not nearly enough to prove a link, but it adds to "the biological plausibility" that...
Companies in Colorado are using dead trees and wood waste to energy
By Steve Raabe The Denver Post
Xcel Energy wants to pursue a demonstration project that would deliver electricity made from forest waste, according to a filing made Monday to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission.
The demonstr...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will study a remote island used as an airstrip in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands that is often littered with plastic debris, the first step in a process that could eventually place it on the list of the country’s most hazardous sites.
In a let...
Google Inc. plans to invest $80 million in six utility-scale solar facilities in California and Arizona as the tech behemoth continues to put money toward alternative energy projects.
The Mountain View, Calif., company will partner with solar developer Recurrent Energy and private equity firm KKR &...
The Obama administration’s executive order on global warming ignores strong scientific evidence that the earth has not warmed in the last 15 years.
Increasingly, media outlets have been reporting that global warming has been on hiatus since about 1998, causing climate scientists to scramble for an ...
Video - Buy Local
A short animation of the importance of supporting locally owned, independently operated business.watch the video here...
If the people of an average American city were to shift 10% of their spending from chains to local businesses, it would br...
Read about how Colorado is regulating oil and gas emissions.
By Bruce FinleyThe Denver Post
Weld County is leading a state boom in oil and gas drilling. Colorado now has more than 50,000 oil and gas wells. (RJ Sangosti, The Denver Post file)
State health officials rolled out groundbreaking ...
The culmination of the five-year project has been the development of an integrated action planning toolkit on wetland conservation and management, which can be adapted to help provide bespoke solutions to protect valuable ecosystems around the globe.
Launched today at events in China, India and Vie...
When the U.S. Navy sailed an imposing fleet near Hawaii that was powered in part by algae and used cooking grease, environmentalists weren't the only ones who were thrilled.
Executives at bioenergy startups in the San Francisco Bay Area, Chicago and elsewhere — and the venture capitalis...
When the rain stopped falling in Texas, the prairie grass yellowed, the soil cracked and oil drillers were confronted with a crisis. After years of easy access to cheap, plentiful water, the land they prized for its vast petroleum wealth was starting to dry up.
At first, the drought that took hold ...
The year 2013 is currently on course to be among the top ten warmest years since modern records began in 1850, the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said today, adding that melting ice caps and glaciers have contributed to a record high in global sea levels.
“Temperatures so fa...
Here is some ways you can help the elephant
6 ways to help elephants
With the elephant poaching epidemic in Africa running rampant — and renewed ivory lust growing worldwide — experts fear the survival of the species is at stake.
By
Melissa Breyer
Wed, Sep 05 2012 at 1:35...
As elephants become endangered, I am proud of Denver for getting involved and making a difference in this international cause! Please read more about this issue.
As feds crush ivory in Denver to curb poaching, Kerry offers $1M reward to stop elephant killing
By Bruce FinleyThe Denver Post
U.S. au...
When he's not exploring the backstreets of Portland by bicycle with his wife and daughter, Todd Roll is busy leading tours for his bike tour company Pedal Bike Tours. Todd's new book "Pedal Portland, 25 Easy Rides For Exploring The City By Bike" comes out next April.
My Darling Portland,
I can't s...
There's more plastic floating around the ocean than any other type of marine debris—that we know. What's harder to figure out is just how much is out there. A recent survey of marine plastic debris found something surprising: Nearly 99% of it was missing.
"We were expecting values in excess of one ...
