Joshua Zaffos

B-schools Get Their Green On

7. September 2010

Two years after the financial meltdown on Wall Street and across the nation, a number of graduate business-school programs have shifted some emphasis to ethics and environmental consciousness and, as with all things green, Colorado is at the forefront. I wrote about the green MBA movement on the Front Range in my July 1, 2010 column for the Northern Colorado Business Report.

Robo Rooter

31. August 2010

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Forget Wall-e. Matt Cole is already building bots to clean up the worst nuclear waste around the planet. The May 2010 issue of Wired carried this profile in its Alphageek section.

Return of Superfund?

28. June 2010

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For a decade and a half, the U.S. government's toxic-cleanup program, Superfund, has neither been super nor much of a fund. Now, Superfund might finally earn its name again.

Summer Diversions

21. June 2010

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What I'm doing this summer when I'm not doing what I'm supposed to be doing (and other recent bad habits and personal obsessions).

Slick Mapping

20. June 2010

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Take note, Gulf Coast: After the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, coastal managers embarked on an ambitious mapping project to monitor and protect the state's shores. A short article from Nature Conservancy Magazine, Summer 2010.

Back to School for Green Jobs

12. April 2010

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Colleges in Colorado are fine-tuning curriculum to attract green job seekers, including returning veterans. Can higher ed teach old dawgs new-energy tricks?

Uranium mill for the River of Sorrows?

22. February 2010

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The first new U.S. uranium mill in three decades could be coming to Colorado and the rugged valley of the Dolores River in the southwestern corner of the state. The river — originally named Río de Nuestra Señora de los Dolores, or River of Our Lady of Sorrows, by Spanish priests in 1776 — and [...]

Clustershucked!

10. February 2010

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More than 80 percent of oyster reefs are in severe decline due to overfishing and habitat loss, which spells bad news for coastal water quality and marine life, not to mention our future appetites on the half-shell. A short article from Winter 2009.

Zinn and Ludlow

10. February 2010

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Howard Zinn Among the many recorded moments of American history impacted by Howard Zinn, who died at age 87 in late January, one of the most significant is the Ludlow Massacre, a 1914 labor skirmish between Colorado’s militia and the families of striking coal miners. Calling Ludlow a skirmish is putting it gently: In April [...]