Last spring First Lady Michelle Obama and local schoolkids started an organic farm at the White House. Okay, they called a garden, but let’s not quibble. Like millions of women farmers around the world, the First Lady was breaking ground … Read More…
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At a panel on climate change this morning at Chautauqua’s rather pompously named “Grand Convergence,” Bill McKibben joined five of Boulder’s brightest minds on climate change to strategize together about energy use, global warming, and what ordinary people can do … Read More…
One of our local treasures, Susan Solomon, gave a presentation last night to a standing-room-only crowd at the theater of the Boulder Public Library. Susan is a National Medal of Science winner, and she cochaired the UN Intergovernmental Panel on … Read More…
A couple of years ago, my first spring in Boulder, I found myself doing something I abhor—mowing the lawn. It wasn’t the workout I minded, though I could have done a lot more fun things to get some exercise. And … Read More…
March is National Women’s History Month, and this year the theme is “Women Taking the Lead to Save Our Planet.” The National Women’s History Project website celebrates 100 women who have worked in ecological projects ranging from starting nonprofits to … Read More…
Okay, it may not be spring yet, but here in Boulder we’ve been having a two-week warm streak. Yesterday, in 70 degrees, I hung laundry on the line strung across our second-floor deck while house finches trilled in the pines … Read More…
When I was a child, the indisputable sign of spring was my father triumphantly announcing, “I saw a robin today!” We lived in the Great Lakes area, west of Toledo, Ohio, where the damp cold of winter seeped into your … Read More…