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June 17, 2022 / kiara

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This Year’s Earth Day Celebration Comes With Added Urgency

April 22, 2022 / Rossana Longo-Better

Today is Earth Day and Sustainable Resilient Longmont will celebrate its 8th annual Longmont Earth Day Celebration. The programming includes a free environmental expo and activities for children and families. KGNU’s Rossana Longo-Better speaks with Ryan Shutz of Sustainable Resilient […]

A Community-Based Research Project Monitor Air Quality Around Suncor

April 21, 2022 / Rossana Longo-Better

The Suncor oil refinery in Commerce City has been operating for nearly 100 years, encountering relatively little regulatory pushback when it comes to permit renewals and emissions. But that’s changed recently. The Environmental Protection Agency notified Colorado health department […]

Industrial Pollution Makes Bad Air Quality in Denver Even Worse

August 27, 2021 / KGNU News

The Front Range has been under air quality alerts more often than not this summer. Lawmakers and community activists held a meeting this week to discuss Colorado’s increasingly dire air quality issues – and a new way of monitoring them. […]

The November selection for the Radio Bookclub is Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America’s Edge by best-selling author Ted Conover.

In May 2017, Ted Conover went to Colorado to explore firsthand a rural way of life that is about living cheaply, on your own land—and keeping clear of the mainstream. The failed subdivisions of the enormous San Luis Valley make this possible. Five-acre lots on the high prairie can be had for five thousand dollars, sometimes less. Conover bought his own five acres and immersed himself for parts of four years in the often contentious culture of the far margins.

This edition of the Radio Bookclub will be recorded live on Wednesday, November 2nd at 6:30pm at Boulder Bookstore. Catch the interview on KGNU on Thursday November 24 at 9am.

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