Anatomically modern humans have been fighting nature and each other for around 300,000 years. Times haven’t changed much for a fair number of descendants. Around 13% of the developing world is starving this very minute. They lack food security in some of the most severe circumstances imagineable. Moreover, only ten countries on the planet are […]
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Sandra Knauf has worn many hats in her garden writing career—she’s been a “Colorado Voices” columnist for The Denver Post and her work has appeared nationally in publications that include GreenPrints and Mary Janes Farm; she’s shared her work locally here on USR and on Colorado Springs’s NPR affiliate radio station KRCC. In 2011, she
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She pulled one last handful of breadcrumbs from the paper bag and tossed it to the ducks floating near the edge of the pond. Then she sat next to her grandfather on the park bench, grabbed her sketch pad, and finished a drawing of the ducks she had been working on. “When we get home,”
Buildings collapsing all around me, my apartment swaying back and forth at weird angles, and when the earth stops shaking, we all bear witness to a city in chaos— no power, natural gas, or phone service, everything closed, traffic jammed, emergency crews, sirens, cops and soldiers everywhere. Flights are coming and going, and I have
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Downtown Colorado Springs and the area immediately around it are undergoing a sequence of transformative urban infill projects. Needless to say, growth inspires change. In this case, the city is slowly but surely moving toward world-class status. However, a few proposals deserve more attention given that poor planning can do serious damage to any community’s
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Something interesting just happened in the world of UFO disclosure. On December 16, 2017, the New York Times ran an article covering some salient UFO-related topics. First, the authors mentioned the Defense Department’s admission of the $22 million Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program designed to investigate UFO reports. The program, facilitated by former Senate majority leader Harry
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