BOULDER, Colorado, Dec. 1 -- The Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences issued the following news: On a moody cloudy day, 75 eighth graders exited two large red charter buses at the wildfire-scarred Fern Lake Trailhead in Rocky Mountain National Park. The 8th graders were visiting from STEM Launch, K-8 public school in Thornton. They made it just in time for the start of fall: The jagged snow-dusted peaks were obscured by dark clouds, and stands of golden aspens lined the   more

BASALT, Colorado, Dec. 1 -- Rocky Mountain Institute issued the following news release: Today, RMI announced the Sustainable Aluminum Finance Framework, the first climate-aligned finance framework for the aluminum sector, designed to help banks align financing decisions with their own decarbonization targets. This framework provides banks with the tools they need to measure, benchmark, and disclose the climate alignment of their aluminum lending portfolios in line with a 1.5 C scenario. The fra  more

BOULDER, Colorado, Nov. 30 -- The Sunrise Movement issued the following news release on Nov. 29, 2023: Last night, the Boulder Valley School District Board of Trustees, which leads a district of over 30,000 students, unanimously passed a student-drafted Green New Deal resolution after a months-long campaign by students at Fairview High School. It marks the first win for Sunrise Movement's nationwide Green New Deal for Schools campaign. In passing the resolution, the school board is redoubling   more