Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis @ LOHAS: 2009. Video.

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Jul 3, 2009

LOHAS—Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability—is an amazing green/yoga/health/wellness business to business conference that, each year, pumps a kazillion much-needed dollars into elephant's hometown, Boulder, Colorado. Even more importantly from a save-the-planet and have-fun-doing-so perspective…

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Biking to Boulder!

By Todd Mayville on Jul 1, 2009

Last year I set a goal to ride my bike out to Boulder (I live in Thornton), and for various reasons, it didn't happen. BUT... this year, it did happen, and it was GREAT.…

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Boulder, Colorado—ranked the fittest, smartest, most bikeable city in the US—is lookin’ pretty good for 150.

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Jun 30, 2009

Boulder, Colorado, turns 150 years old. 1859 ~ 2009... ...And we're just getting started. I was born and raised in Boulder...and then, like so many hometown yahoos, never thought I'd come back once I…

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GMO Beets on Boulder, Colorado Open Space, anyone?

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Jun 27, 2009

GMO Sugar Beets on Boulder County Open Space via Jonathan Rademaekers jonathan@bigtreeclimatefund.com Living in Boulder, Colorado, the so-called "cradle of green," it surprised me to no end when I learned from a colleague that…

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Review: Jimmy Gleacher’s “Silly Little Rich Girls”, via Pam Uhlenkamp.

By elephantjournal.com on Jun 27, 2009

Review via Pam Uhlenkamp, elephant's designer (and designer of Jimmy Gleacher's cover, above) I love road trips. This story is the ultimate cross country that treks from the deep south, to the northwest, to…

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In Boulder? 10 things to do.

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Jun 27, 2009

This post was originally written for the LOHAS conference in Boulder. Our hope is that the recommended 10 Things To Do in Boulder apply to equally well to all visitors. Update: all of Boulder is…

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Want to eat real food? Michael Pollan says: Less than 5 ingredients.

By elephantjournal.com on Jun 27, 2009

The below article comes from Boulder-based Udi's, a great "natural" products company that provides granola, and the yummy bread I buy every Wednesday and/or Saturday at my local farmers' market. The below story details…

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Movement Boulder Climbing & Fitness - a solar-powered Climbing Gym?

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Jun 27, 2009

We'll add more info later as we learn it, but for now you gotta check this out: a new climbing gym is coming to Boulder (we only have two, or three or four depending…

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Can Boulder, Colorado close its old school Valmont Coal Plant?

By elephantjournal.com on Jun 24, 2009

We think we're green, but we got big jai-normous smoke stacks sticking out of our Great Plains horizon to the east of our otherwise greener-than-some Boulder, Colorado. If there is no such thing as…

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Boulder Celebrity Commuter Contest. Car (share) vs. Bicycle vs. Bus vs. Segway vs. Walking.

By elephantjournal.com on Jun 23, 2009

Bike vs. Segway vs. Carshare vs. Bus...it's the Boulder "Celebrity" Commuter Challenge! Take all the modes of public transport, including car, segway (!), bicycle, bus and walking...which is most practical? That's what the Boulder…

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Ode to Mattie Dean Garden.

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Jun 22, 2009

A Neighbor's Lament: Don't we have better things to do with our bad-economy-pinched US tax dollars than run a gas-guzzling lawnmower over a beautiful, wild, ecologically-diverse park that was willed to be left in…

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Only in Boulder Moment #123276.

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Jun 21, 2009

From the Only in Boulder files: a tree falls and smashes two...light green hybrid Toyota Priuses, which just happen to be driving along one after the other. But was the wood from the beautiful…

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Michael Pollan, on Swine Flu—3 years before it happened.

By elephantjournal.com on Jun 15, 2009

Great article with the following excerpt from Michael Pollan's 2006 Omnivore's Dilemma. Excerpt: Reading Michael Pollan's 2006 book The Omnivore's Dilemma. The author is, it would seem, a prophet. Or maybe just a real journalist. Stop me…

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Why is our Green City so White?

By elephantjournal.com on Jun 14, 2009

Today, I posted a Boulder/green/LOHAS-related blog to Facebook and received the following "riddle." LN at 12:08pm June 14 what's the definition of a boulderite? someone who would rather hug a tree than a person of…

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elephant, Gaiam & LOHAS host tweetup at Happy Noodle House in Boulder.

By elephantjournal.com on Jun 14, 2009

Update: Gaiam just posted a blog on our tweetup. Updates:  (in Twitter language): RT @elephantjournal: just back from @happynoodle in #boulder where @gaiam @lohasforum & elephant hosted party, raffle, networking. Fun, savvy, beautiful peeps. RT…

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Smart Grid City. Who’ll be the first?

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Jun 11, 2009

Who's the Smartest City of them all? Via Huffington Post GREEN comes this instructive writeup on the five cities that are racing to be the first "Smart Grid City" in our 21st century US…

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Make Your Own Legends.

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Jun 4, 2009

Update: The Spot Climbing Gym is hosting a fundraiser this next Tuesday 6/16 from 5-8pm. Check out the kajillions of generous donations, and if in Boulder, come honor Jonny Copp, Micah Dash and Wade Johnson. Free entrance with donation…

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At least one Boulderite thinks we should have made Kiplinger’s “Best Cities” List

By Liz Benson on Jun 2, 2009

  Boulder has perennially been a main stay on those "Best City for this or that" lists -Best City for Cycling, Best Places to Retire , 10 Best Places to be Steeped in Tea-but this time…

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Hypnotist Collector: The Alchemy of Harry Smith.

By elephantjournal.com on Jun 1, 2009

Harry Smith is known mostly through his seminal collection of American folk tunes from Folkways Records, The Anthology of American Folk Music, which earned him recognition after its original 1952 release and, again later, with…

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What is Xeriscape? by Boulder Landscape Architect Thomas Rutherford. Photos: Rusty Ralston for elephantjournal.com.

By elephantjournal.com on May 29, 2009

A (Very) Brief History of Xeriscape by Thomas Rutherford, of Mosaic Garden Design in Boulder, Colorado. Photos by Rusty Ralston ...of Thomas Rutherford and family installing a Xeriscape landscape at Hotelephant, a "green" renovated…

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