Photo: Denver Cruisers take over shut-down I-25

Brad Evans, founder of the Denver Cruisers, sent us this photo last night of 1-25 shut down to cars — which didn’t stop him and some cyclists from using the highway. He wrote to us, “Who says we can’t live without interstate transportation? Within 20 minutes this photo had 600…

Photos: National Renewable Energy Lab’s newest facility — a sneak peek

In this week’s feature, “Sun Burn,” we explore the progress of Golden’s National Renewable Energy Lab, which for decades has been researching alternative energy. A central part of the lab’s current expansion is the construction of the massive Energy Systems Integration Facility, which will be completed next month. Here, we…

Gates factory: Urban explorers still eager to prowl abandoned plant

For most of its life, the Gates Rubber plant on South Broadway made tires, hoses, fan belts and other industrial wonders. Since the place closed down nearly twenty years ago, though, its chief product line has been controversy. Prospective developers of the site have battled environmental contamination and the financial…

Video: Cory Gardner bugged by beetles, fuming over fires

Cory Gardner is on fire. More than two hundred homes and thousands of acres of forests went up in flames in his district in the past few weeks, and the freshman congressman from Colorado knows exactly who and what to blame. Not drought, not climate change, not even the bark-beetle…

Ken Salazar says feds confident in solar despite Colorado setbacks

Abound Solar has officially gone bankrupt and General Electric PrimeStar is putting on hold a much-anticipated solar panel plant it had planned for Aurora. Both cases are disappointing developments for renewable energy in Colorado — but Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar says these are just minor (and expected) blips…