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Growing your own food and preserving the life cycle of your outdoors is critical for those eager to adapt into an active green state of mind. Making the effort to start practicing sustainable gardening begins with utilizing organic methods for growing plants and vegetables.

Reclaiming Sustainability

In 2013, an alarming piece of released governmental data revealed how Colorado had become a central target in contributing to the threat of climate change. Between the years of 2000 and 2010, the state was recorded having one of the largest decade increases in carbon emissions in the country, according to federal Energy Information Data. A big culprit was Colorado’s residential sector, where emissions rose nearly 15 percent. This posed a grim outlook for the future and sustainability of continued home construction in the state.

Home Grown: The Beautiful Challenges of Urban Gardening Along the Front Range

Urban gardening can be a fruitless process, literally. But the benefits can outweigh the frustration. Growing food can aid the environment, bring families together, and help the hungry.

Hardscapes: Gentle Retreats

It’s understandable how many people tend to dream big after purchasing a brand new home. One of the initial fantasies that more than likely arises is envisioning how to transform the barren front and backyard into a beautiful haven of an outdoor living space.

Hood Guide: Green Peeps

It's often said that one person truly can make a difference. There are so many examples of people who have had the courage and the determination to follow through with their ideas and passions to spark real, lasting change in the world.

Hood Guide: 8 North Metro Neighborhoods

New Urbanism,” much like art movements or political philosophies with hybrid names — Postmodernism or Neoconservativism, Classical Realism or ProtoFascism —is a compound “ism” that would likely lead to blank stares if you dropped it matter-of-factly in casual conversation. But just like those other movements, New Urbanism’s main conceit is easily distilled: Walk more.