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The Colorado River is sending a message

by Gary Wockner

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t feels like an apocalypse in the Southwest — wildfires, floods, drought, heat, smoke. This was not the norm when I moved to Colorado 35 years ago. Climate scientists may have predicted the arrival of these extreme events, but many admit their predictions have come true faster than they expected.

One outcome they pinpointed was the impact of heat and drought on water flows in the Colorado River. For the last 20 years, this new climate, combined with booming human population growth, has parched landscapes, drained reservoirs, and incited talk of water wars across the region.

Lake Powell on the Colorado River, and Glen Canyon Dam, which creates the reservoir, have become casualties of this strained environment.

Lake Powell is the second largest reservoir in the United States, but in the last year alone its water level has dropped 52 feet and the reservoir now sits at 31.4% full.

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If you’re a pessimist, that’s more than 68% empty. Water managers are already imposing cuts in water deliveries in some states; all their choices are filled with political pitfalls.

A further complication is that the federal government operates a hydroelectric plant at Glen Canyon Dam that provides cheap electricity to parts of the Southwest. The day is coming when the hydroelectric turbines will stop for want of water to spin them.

To save the lake and generate electricity, the government needs water. But where will that water come from?

Upstream of Lake Powell, in Utah, Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico are millions of acres of irrigated farms and ranches that suck massive amounts of water out of the Colorado River before it reaches Lake Powell. If those farms and ranches quit taking water and instead ran that water downstream, the lake and its electricity could be saved. To ensure that outcome, the federal government has hatched a plan it calls “demand management,” which proposes to buy or lease massive amounts of farm and ranch water to prop up Lake Powell.

On the one hand, the farmers and ranchers would get paid for the water, and likely paid very well. If I were see WRITERS ON THE RANGE Page 8

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SISTER CITIES As a modest proposal, in light of the swelling numbers of Afghan evacuees, the homeless, and climate and economic refugees clamoring at the gates, it would be a noble gesture for Boulder to offer itself as a sister city with facilities for those in need.

Apartments are being built daily (Google and the University could open parts of their real estate holdings), the City could fulfill its goal for greater diversity and vacant jobs would be filled. CU also could lend a hand with educational facilities. On the other hand, our bubble world is unlikely to cede its place of privilege without a bloody, kicking and screaming fight.

Robert Porath/Boulder REFUSING TO DO WRONG Imagine this for governments at all levels across America — federal, state, county, municipal, and other (e.g., school boards): If any employee’s superior orders her to do something she has good reason to believe would be illegal, she can refuse that order without fear of being fired or punished in any other way. If she suspects the order is unlawful but isn’t sure, there’s an office to which she and/or her boss can reach out in confidentiality, with experts who can be consulted for determination of the order’s legality.

In such government, every supervisor will understand that their subordinates have responsibility to follow the law at all times and will not carry out instructions which would cause them to break the law. Those supervisors of good intent will be glad to know that, should they issue an unlawful order, their employees will point out their mistake when refusing to do what’s been requested of them. Supervisors with ill intent will be deterred from attempting to use their authority to set in motion plans for corruption, rights violation, or other illegal aims, knowing that they likely won’t be able to accomplish the wrongdoing and may well be exposed in the process.

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realize the dream of good government in which all employees and contracted workers are educated, encouraged, and supported to do the right thing by refusing to do wrong. Currently, we’re focused on promoting “refuser protection” legislation in the Colorado legislature and Congress. E-mail us at sworntorefuse.info@gmail. com. For more information, visit our Facebook page at facebook.com/ sworn2refuse Matt Nicodemus/Boulder DON’T BUG US, WE’RE WORSHIPPING During this ongoing pandemic the churches are performing somewhere between unevenly and quite badly.

Some of the earliest and worst spreader events were at regular or annual-type meetings held almost to spite authorities.

Then, when stricter policies were enacted, churches cried First Amendment foul and even sued to be relieved of the large gathering guidelines they were subject to. They wanted to be treated like the God-favorite citizens it has always been clear to them they are.

This is a strange record for a western religious tradition linked heavily to high achievement in medicine, underscored by the personal public health leadership of figures like Moses, Jesus and Muhammad.

Churches today refuse to let go of theology even for a minute in order to survey what they might learn from history, law, health, and science.

In the very old days, before the teachings of the great prophets dried up like dew on a blade of grass, religion made an effort to encompass and explain everything: nature, nurture, and nations. But gradually, as the world just got too complicated, the churches narrowed their purview down to a few things whose reality can be known (like love and kindness), and others whose reality is less obvious (like the efficacy of sacraments, the substance of miracles, and the society of the afterlife).

How is it, then, that we will ever banish ignorance and violence, given that [Utah] lacks ethics, and the church lacks science?

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a rancher who owned water, I’d sit Electricity can be replaced; farms comfortably until the offering price and ranches cannot. for my water made me even more As we grapple with these comfortable. tradeoffs, it’s important to rememOn the other hand, lots of people ber that even lower water flows are and businesses beprojected for the lieve that irrigated future, plus more farming, ranchheat and ever stood severe ing and outdoor drought that will recreation are not become the “new near Glen Canyon Dan only central to the normal” for the and its hydropower region’s economy, Colorado River but also to its and the entire plant, you can’t help culture. Should region. Lake Ornotice that it’s surroundthat economy — oville, California’s ed by millions of acres and the soul of second largest the Southwest reservoir, now has of dry, sun-drenched — be sacrificed to inactive hydro landscape that would save a manmade turbines because reservoir and its make a great place for a there’s not enough hydroelectricity? water to turn solar electricity farm.

I’m torn by them, its dusty this dilemma. If lakebed a harbinfarms and ranches ger of what’s to are dried up, more water flows down come for Lake Powell. the river. More water in the river benLet’s also remember that Glen efits fish and the environment. But Canyon Dam was finished in 1963 there’s another solution: We can save and it and Lake Powell are only 58 farms and ranches and instead drain years old. The region lived without Lake Powell, freeing the Colorado them before, and it can live without River to flow free through 169 miles them again. Now, nature is forcing of a drowned and beautiful place our hand, telling us that it’s time to called Glen Canyon. breach the dam and let the Colorado There’s always the “save hydroelec- River run free . tricity” argument, but it’s a red herGary Wockner is a contributor ring. There are other ways to generate to Writers on the Range, writersonelectricity, including wind and solar. therange.org, a nonprofit dedicated to In fact, if you’ve ever stood near Glen spurring lively conversation about the Canyon Dam and its hydropower West. He is a river-protection activist plant, you can’t help noticing that it’s based in Colorado and runs the nonprofit surrounded by millions of acres of dry, Save the Colorado. sun-drenched landscape that would This opinion column does not make a great place for a solar electric- necessarily reflect the views of Boulder ity farm.

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The e-scooter in flux

Boulder launches Lime e-scooter pilot program east of 28th street to gather data on how it will reduce the city’s carbon footprint.

by Will Brendza

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n the morning of Aug. 18, a fleet of 200 Lime electric scooters was deployed on the streets of Boulder — brandnew “generation four” e-scooters for shared use, anywhere within the City’s designated pilot area east of 28th Street. You’ll notice them parked in groups near BCycle stations or scattered independently wherever riders leave them.

It’s part of the City’s recently launched “Shared Micromobility Plan” that aims to help Boulder achieve its ambitious climate and transportation goals.

However, it’s still uncertain whether Boulder will welcome commercial e-scooter operators permanently, and to what extent, according to David Kemp, the City of Boulder transportation planner. If this pilot program shows promise and the data collected shows sustainability potential, it could mean a new era of shared micromobility e-transportation is dawning in Boulder. In such a case, shared e-scooters like Lime’s could become as omni-present in this city as they are in others, like Denver.

If the data isn’t as compelling as both Lime and the City hope, it’s back to the drawing board.

“We’re testing this mobility option out to understand how it functions,” Kemp says. “Then we’ll do an evaluation over the course of a year and report back to [City] Council with recommendations on whether to expand it, whether to keep it the same or whether to terminate the program.”

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has been looming over Boulder for two years now. Nico Probst, the director of government relations at Lime, says they’d been eyeing Boulder since they launched in Denver in 2018.

“Boulder has always made sense as a next step in our micromobility program,” Probst says. “When we see cities like Boulder that have really great cycling communities and really

good bike lane infrastructure, that in and of itself tends to be a very good indicator of a city that’s ready for this new mode [of transportation].”

Boulder, however, was not ready at the time. In the summer of 2019, Boulder City Council established a temporary “emergency moratorium” on e-scooter operators like Lime.

“We want these micromobility solutions in Boulder,” then-councilmember Sam Weaver told Boulder Weekly in June of 2019. “But we want to do it in a way that avoids some of the downsides that other communities have seen as they come in.”

For example, when e-scooters arrived in Denver, it happened without any real warning, according to Cindy Patton, the strategic advisor at the Denver Public Works Office of AUGUST 26, 2021

Policy Legislative Affairs and Special Initiatives. Lime notified them on a Wednesday, Patton recalled, then dropped 300 e-scooters that Friday throughout the Mile High City. A week later, Bird followed suit — likewise deploying its scooters without warning or consultation. By the end of 2018, there were five different e-vehicle and ride-share companies operating e-scooters in Denver and there were thousands of the dockless vehicles scattered throughout the city.

It sent Denver scrambling, according to Patton. She said in a 2019 interview, “We were definitely in reactive mode, and that was not ideal.”

Even today, two years later, Denver is still ironing out some of the kinks caused by that sudden e-scooter invasion. Just this WILL BRENDZA May, the Denver City Council passed a resolution limiting the number of e-scooter operators to two (instead of five), limiting them each to 1,500 e-scooters, and establishing specific areas for commercial e-scooter docking and charging throughout the city.

Denver’s experience with Lime made the City of Boulder leery.

Between the city’s concern for sustainability, environmental-consciousness, and, perhaps most enticingly, its customer base of University of Colorado students, it seemed obvious that e-scooter operators would want to come to Boulder. But the City wanted to do it their way — so Council established the emergency moratorium, legally blocking operators from obtaining business licenses in the city and opening up time to make a plan.

Then, in Sept. 2020, after over a year of deliberation, the City finally removed its moratorium, announcing the launch of its shared micromobility plan and putting out a Request for Information (RFI) for prospective e-scooter operators hoping to get into Boulder.

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provide bikes and scooters as part of this shared mobility program,” says Kemp. “Through that RFI process, we received a number of responses and then two of the responses really rose to the top.”

Those being Lime and BCycle LLC — whose bicycle system was already operating under the nonprofit Boulder Bike Share. The two micromobility operators teamed up and pitched the City with a partnership: BCycle would take over the Boulder Bike Share’s role, refurbishing the BCycle stations, expanding the program and upgrading the fleet to fully electric bicycles, while Lime handled Boulder’s e-scooter operations.

It was a win-win, Kemp says.

“These guys were the logical choices, and they have good products,” Kemp says. “They were chosen through that competitive (RFI) process to provide these services for the community.”

The City Council consulted their stakeholders and decided to run the pilot program in a restricted area — east of 28th St., and between Jay and South Boulder Roads — a test zone geofenced to contain Lime’s e-scooter fleet. There, they can be accessed by residents, students on CU’s East Campus and professionals working in the area. For now, the scooters won’t be able to travel beyond the parameters.

Kemp explains that over the course of the next year, the City will be collecting data from those e-scooters to see how much of an impact they actually have on local transportation. To do so, he says the City will be looking at safety data, parking compliance, the number of rides taken, the distance of those rides, demographics of use, responsiveness to operational concerns and, perhaps most importantly, how many people use e-scooters instead of a regular vehicle. All of that data will be compiled and analyzed to help guide and inform the City of Boulder’s Shared Micromobility Plan.

“The data is really going to tell us how well [the pilot] is operating,” Kemp says. Based on what they see, he says they’ll make decisions on how to proceed with e-scooter operators like Lime.

Among the biggest factors in that decision is the gross environmental impact this new form of micromobili-

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ty has in the community. Recently, the City updated its Climate Action Plan, setting some ambitious goals, like reducing Boulder’s Carbon emissions by 50% by 2030, and becoming a carbon positive city by the year 2050. That’s partly why Boulder ended its nearly two-year moratorium and put out its RFI, Kemp says.

Potentially, e-scooters could have a significant positive impact on Boulder’s carbon footprint.

There are still lingering questions about some of the environmental impacts these e-scooters bring with them. As noted in a May 2019 memo from Boulder City Council, the average lifespan of a standard e-scooter was just 30 days — the result of widespread use, abuse and vandalism, which resulted in a lot

of waste.

“The early generations of e-scooters that came out were junk,” Kemp admits. “They couldn’t last within a shared environment.”

Since those WILL BRENDZA early days, though, the technology has come a long way, according to both Kemp and Probst.

Now, these e-scooters are significantly more durable, last much longer, are made with more replaceable, repairable pieces, have longer battery lives and soon, they’ll even have swappable batteries. Probst says they’ve seen lifespans expand to well-over two years with their newer e-scooters.

“Right now we’ve got the latest and the greatest on the ground,” Kemp says. “This is Lime’s generation

The sunk cost of blood and treasure Two local experts weigh in on U.S. departure from Afghanistan.

by Caitlin Rockett

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reg Young is a professor of political science at CU Boulder and a veteran of the U.S. Navy. As a teenager in turkey, where his father was stationed during military service, Young developed an interest in the Middle East. His research on uncertainty and counterinsurgency has made Afghanistan a primary area of focus for him. We spoke with Young about the history of this region that has been called “the graveyard of nations,” and how he thinks the U.S. removal of troops will impact women in Afghanistan and the international community.

Boulder Weekly: Can you give me a primer on Afghan government and politics?

Greg Young: There are 14 recognized ethnic groups: Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras, Uzbeks, Balochis, Turkmens, Nooristanis (Pamiris, Arabs, Gujars, Brahuis, Qizilbash, Aimaq and Pashai), and I don’t know how many languages they speak. And there

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four [e-scooter]. It’s the cream of the crop.”

That won’t change as e-scooter tech continues to improve. Soon, Lime’s e-scooter with a swappable battery will replace the generation four e-scooters currently operating under Boulder’s pilot program. Probst says that will help reduce their carbon footprint even more, because they won’t have to collect e-scooters every night, drive them to a charging warehouse, and then drive them back out to be distributed again the next day.

They’ll simply bring charged batteries to used scooters and swap them out.

Eventually, those e-scooters will be replaced with generation five, six and so forth.

“I think Boulder really benefited from their slow and judicious approach here, because the industry itself has made big strides in really ensuring that the lifespan of our vehicles is sustainable,” Probst says.

“They’re way above and beyond what the early [generations] were.”

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are 60 million of them that have absolutely no sense of nationalism. There is a book by a British gentleman, Rory Stewart, called The Spaces In Between (2004), and after the fall of the Taliban, he took it upon himself to walk across Afghanistan, Herat to Kabul. In doing so, he was testing A) Islamic hospitality: Would they take him in in all these little villages? And B) he was also testing what did they think about the Taliban? Do they care about Hamid Karzai (the new president the Americans had kind of installed, but he was ultimately elected)? In most of these villages, people had never been more than 25 miles from their village in their life, they had no idea what was going on in Kabul. They cared more about their poppy crop. And the hospitality was in fact fine — he spoke one of the languages — but very often these people have no sense of what it is to be an Afghan.

And there’s this huge debate about how did this happen so fast? Well, the Afghan army has never been effective. The kids joined the Afghan army not because they have a belief in the central government, but because they want a job and they want to learn how to read and write.

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program pours in over the next year, the City will get a better idea for how commercial e-scooters fit into Boulder and what the actual impact on transportation and sustainability could look like.

“It is definitely an experiment in the transportation and social realms,” Kemp says. “There’s a lot of people that really like [e-scooters] and there’s a lot of people that just flat out hate them. I don’t want to call it a polarizing issue, but you really can get different perspectives on this.”

Polarizing or not, Probst says that improved and expanded forms of micromobility are becoming a necessary piece of the sustainability puzzle — and a necessary part of our future, if we’re trying to build more sustainable cities with smaller carbon footprints.

“Getting as many people to look for alternative forms of transportation has got to be a big focus for cities in the next few years, as we’re facing a pretty daunting uphill climb in the battle against climate change,” Probst says.

ed the government to change sides. And so the idea that somehow or another [the U.S.] can go in and nation build... the United States military delivers kinetic force with incredible velocity and precision, but that’s not how you protect women’s rights.

That’s not how you build a Western-leaning democracy. That’s not how you change a tribal system that has been in place for a thousand years.

BW: What makes Afghanistan “the graveyard of empires”?

GY: I would say the diversity, the lack of a national sentiment, the illiteracy, the lack of communication, the tough climate, the fact that it’s not really contained within the borders that we consider Afghanistan, the fact that Afghanistan is the largest producer of opium in the world and that finances the Taliban insurgency as well as some money laundering banks in Europe. And the fact that the United States is the most powerful military in the world, but we have historically not been particularly good at counterinsurgency. Counterinsurgency is more political than military. It’s about winning hearts and minds. And it’s very difficult to use our high technological weapons on people who have AK 47s and RPGs, and don’t communicate via any kind of electronic intelligence. see AFGHANISTAN Page 12 11

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BW: There’s international fear mounting about what’s going to happen to women in Afghanistan. How valid is that concern?

GY: It’s certainly valid.

But it’s been difficult to believe that 20 years of American military intervention in Afghanistan have really improved the lives of the people there. Probably more women and girls are going to school in Kabul, but I would say that’s not true about the countryside. And I’m not saying that’s something we shouldn’t care about, but by and large, if we want to do that, that’s going to take way more troops than we were willing to put in. … Protecting women’s rights is not really the mission of the U.S. Army and Marine Corps delivering women’s rights at the point of a gun. It requires aid and economic development, as well as trying to influence the Taliban with regard to women’s rights, but you’re not going to do it at the point of a gun. We should have invaded Saudi Arabia if women’s rights were our concern

20 years ago. I don’t believe that 20 more years of American military occupation would help women’s rights any more than change them on the margins, but it’s an issue and it is something we should care about.

It’s not for the military to do. It’s a political issue, not a military issue.

BW: What does the reemergence of the Taliban in Afghanistan mean for international relations — how does it affect the world?

GY: I would say already we’re seeing openings for China and Turkey, who are trying to come in for maybe economic systems for construction projects, but not military intervention.

I think we’re already seeing the Taliban trying to put on, at least in Kabul, a better face for the international community. But you see out in the countryside, what’s going on in the villages, retribution and women getting beaten up or shot for not wearing

Let’s try and decrease maternal mortality rates, decrease infant and under-five mortality, because those are serious issues in Afghanistan. Some took much more of an Islamic feminist approach and what it says in the Quran about women’s roles and Islam. Some took a more... Marxist isn’t quite the right word, but more of a community-based, working-together approach. Some organizations were raising money to run shelters for women who had run away from their families or abusive partners.”

Flouri is currently leading research on how the U.S. withdrawal of troops and resurgence of the Taliban are affecting women’s leadership roles in the country.

“One of the things I hope [the U.S. doesn’t] do is just fetishize and focus on the veil and the burka,” as symbols of women’s rights in Afghanistan, Fluri says. “That’s not the issue. It’s more about what women’s positions in society are going to look like going forward, and how they dress isn’t

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e spoke with CU geography professor Jennifer Fluri more specifically about women’s rights in Afghanistan. For the last 25 years, Fluri has studied — often in the field — how feminist organizations in the region mobilize and operate, initially the internationally known Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), and later, after her dissertation, a number of other women’s rights groups.

“There’s a lot of diversity in these organizations,” Flouri says. “Some, because they’re so driven by international donors, tend to take a liberal feminist, add-women-and-stir, if you will, approach; have women work outside the home to provide them with economic opportunities.

Some take much more of a healthcare approach:

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a headscarf. That certainly makes news, and I don’t know how widespread that is, but I would say you’re going to see the Taliban trying to put on a better face to the international community to maintain their aid that they’ve been getting. Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries in the world, largely because of 40 years of conflict. The international community is still going to try to influence the Taliban with regard to opium production. They may be able to get some quid pro quos, but I don’t know how effective that will be...

There’s a lot of people feeling like their time in the military, that their time in Afghanistan was wasted because, ‘I lost a friend, I lost a colleague, I lost an arm, and now look what we’ve done.’

It’s a similar feeling post-Vietnam. …

But there comes a time when the sunk cost of blood and treasure is not worth any future blood and treasure.

AFGHAN WOMEN in Kabul protest in support of women’s rights, Aug. 18, 2021.

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as important to women as what they do or where they’re able to go. Right now it’s just so chaotic — for both men and women.

What’s going to happen to the infrastructure and healthcare and all these people who had jobs? Are they no longer going to have jobs because they were dependent on international funding? Will women be in the government in any way, shape or form? What voice or influence will they be able to have? Those are, I think, the questions we should be asking.”

Fluri suggests two organizations to donate to support Afghan women: Women Globally Working to Protect Afghan Women: Organized by Denver resident Patricia Cooper, a multi-hyphenate feminist rights advocate, gofundme.com/f/protect-women-leaders-in-afghanistan Rubia: Founded by Rachel Lehr, a co-collaborator of Fluri’s, Rubia has helped raised funds for evacuation and resettlement of Afghan families over the last 20 years, rubiahandwork.org/donate

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“Why are there no Indian reservations on the Front Range of Colorado or around the Eastern Plains?” Williams asked the Pagosa Daily Post.

“It’s because one word: genocide.”

The first of these proclamations directed “friendly Indians” to gather at specific locations, threatening violence against those who refused. The second authorized citizens to kill and steal property from Native Americans whom colonizers deemed “hostile.”

“Because we wouldn’t give up our land, they decided they were going to kill us however they needed to do it,” Williams said.

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Weld County recently initiated “Operation Reset,” intended to allow residents with low-level warrants to pay outstanding fees without being taken into custody.

“It’s not worth missing work, potentially losing your job or having your kids placed with child protective services over a misdemeanor or traffic court warrant,” Sean Standridge, sergeant of the Weld County Sheriff ’s Office Strike Team, said in a press release. “In a lot of these cases we can get people into the jail, processed and on with their lives in just a couple of hours.”

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We looked for some of the hottest places in California.

We found climate injustice in a nutshell.

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he first time ProPublica traveled to Thermal, California, in June 2020, the temperature happened to be 114 degrees, and we felt stupefied, literally unable to think.

Everyplace, here in the eastern Coachella Valley, looked gorgeous … for 20

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minutes at dusk. Nothing was beautiful at midday. The difference between the watered and unwatered fields was disorienting. Standing in the sun among green growing things and standing alone on the gray parched earth felt like the difference between hope and despondence, even terror; between vibrancy and doom.

Why Thermal?

We came out to the Eastern Coachella Valley because we’d looked for the darkest of the dark-red spots on California’s heat projections and climate health screens, the maps produced by crunching the data of where climate change is going to be the worst and cause the most human suffering. When we arrived, we found not just the poverty that comes from living on farmworker wages but also, as if driven by a perverse twist of Newtonian law, an equally extreme and

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entirely opposite economic phenomenon: luxury development pushing east from Palm Springs. Combined, the two formed a graphic and alarming illustration of the climate gap, a term used to describe the outsize and disproportionate suffering the climate crisis is causing the poor and people of color in relation to their more privileged peers.

We decided to make a film and write a story documenting this.

Does anybody here talk about climate change? we asked Lesly Figueroa, a community organizer with the Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability who’d grown up nearby with a farmworker father.

The question sounded ludicrous as soon as it left our mouths.

“It’s, like, all this jargon, right?” Figueroa said. “You think, ‘Oh, climate change.

Oh, energy and whatever sustainable alternative fuel.’”

Instead of the climate crisis writ large, people here worried about daily needs and infrastructure: access to clean water, safe and stable electricity, air conditioners and the money to run them.

Figueroa and her colleagues had been meeting with residents from Oasis Mobile Home Park, a sprawling, unpermitted configuration of decades-old trailers in Thermal where a well had run dry and the backup well had arsenic levels far exceeding the regulatory limit. The water here was just one of a litany of problems.

In the climate crisis, communities like this face a combustive, destructive “confluence of vulnerabilities,” as Zachary Lamb, an assistant professor of city and regional planning at University of California, Berkeley, explained: where they’re located (often in places prone to floods, high winds, wildfire, etc.), how the

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housing itself is constructed (particularly older mobile homes), and the infrastructure that services them (often private).

The coming planetary catastrophe will not fall equally upon us all. This fact is now in the news regularly. Everywhere, every day we spent in the Coachella Valley, we could see that disparity on display.

Just six miles from Oasis is The Thermal Club, a car-racing country club where, as Detour magazine put it, members are “shrugging off the $3 million-plus joining costs as if it were parking change in the ashtray of their Bentley.”

Federal agencies have struggled to address the needs of Oasis Mobile Home Park’s residents.

Rep. Raul Ruiz, a Democrat from Palm Desert, is considering holding hearings to systematically review how the Bureau of Indian Affairs has handled unsafe conditions at Oasis, which sits on tribal land.

“I’m very disappointed in the long history of the BIA allowing illegal, unpermitted businesses to continue on tribal land,” Ruiz said. “It’s their responsibility to make sure that does not happen.”

The Bureau of Indian Affairs did not return requests for comment on prior to publication. However, in previous correspondence, the agency has indicated that closing the park would result in a “humanitarian crisis,” as affordable alternative housing does not exist for all the residents of Oasis Mobile Home Park.

Meanwhile, organizers continue to advocate for change.

“Funding is there to help address so many issues in the Eastern Coachella Valley,” said Nataly Escobedo Garcia, water policy coordinator at Leadership Counsel, in a statement to ProPublica.

“All that is missing is political will and a commitment to authentically engage community voices and follow their lead.”

This story was originally published by ProPublica.

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Relieving the tension with a punchline Diné comedian Joshua Emerson gears up for the second Colorado Native Comedy Showcase

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The DeadRoom crew all moved to Denver after gradudians from the initial ation and have been working the local comedy scene ever Colorado Native since.

Comedy Showcase, “I mean, I still have a day job, and so do they, but held on July 10, the idea that you can get good in Denver and then follow 2021, from left to through on it ... I’m addicted to it,” Emerson says. “I love it. right: Wolf Brown, And because of that I want to be able to buy a house, you BK Sharad, Adrianne know, support my family doing the thing that I love. I feel Chalepah and Joshua Emerson. like I’m just gonna keep banging my head against the door until it opens.”

Emerson’s got some help breaking down the door for Natives in comedy, both locally and regionally. Earlier this year, comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff released his book We Had a Little Real Estate Problem (based on the advanced comedy as an art form, despite being denied representation in the industry.

And new TV shows Rutherford Falls and Reservation Dogs, on Peacock and Hulu respectively, offer viewers a wholly Native perspective.

“Culture sharing I think is the fancy buzzword,” Emerson says. “Rutherford Falls and Reservation Dogs ... those are going to inform people about Natives in an entirely new way because they come from Native show writers and show runners and actors.

Even the way that the actors are using their lips to point at things, I think it’s all going to be new to the mainstream audience. I love that because when it comes to Native issues like sovereignty, you really want to culture share as much as possible, because it creates empathy and allows people that are different from you to see themselves in you. Culture sharing is absolutely one of the biggest things that people can do in terms “Maybe that’s a little bit pretentious,” Emerson adds with a laugh, “but it’s important to me.”

Joining Emerson on stage at the Colorado Native Showcase are ShaNae Ross (Denver, originally from Oklahoma), Shishona Livingston (Los Angeles by way of Canada), Wolf Brown (Phoenix), George Delgado (Denver) and the token white guy, Geoff Tice.

“There’s just a hunger, I think, for Native talent right now,” Emerson says. “People standing that it’s more than ‘I just want my land back,’ but that I have thoughts that are complicated and varied.”

And yes, uncomfortable moments are part of the process for Emerson’s sets.

“I love white guilt,” he says with a laugh. “I like when Caucasians feel guilty around me, just historically. … There’s a lot of tension in Colorado around Native issues because of things like the Sand Creek Massacre. In comedy, I love that uncomfortability.

You create tension with the joke and then you relieve that tension with a punchline.”

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Watershed Days Festival.

Noon-3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 29, LaVern Johnson Park, 600 Park Drive, Lyons. the 2021 Watershed Days Festival. Friends and families are invited to learn about and celebrate our watersheds with live music, dance performances, engaging activities, giveaways and prizes! Interactive booths include: Stream table, aquatic mammals, bird forest restoration, games, trivia, community science, and more.

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1 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 29, Scott Carpenter Park, 1505 30th St., Boulder. Free, playboulder.org The annual Great Boulder Duck Race returns at Scott Carpenter Pool in a bid to support Boulder’s Parks and Recreation Department. The community is invited to watch the unleashing of hundreds of “adopted” rubber ducks to Spavia, Mountain Standard Clothing, RovR, McGuckin Hardware, Gateway Park, Pellman’s Auto, Woodhouse Day Spa and Backcountry Access, to line and prizes will be awarded to the winners. Entertainment will include a live synchronized swimming performance by 5280Synchro and a Rocky Mountain Neptunes water polo demonstration. A Sweet Cow truck will be on hand to serve ice cream and family games can be played poolside. To adopt a duck, please visit: play-boulder-duckrace.square.site/fundraising-teams. see EVENTS Page 24

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Author Talk: Acharya Shunya — ‘Sovereign Self,’ in Conversation with Ishani Naidu.

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‘The Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange (CIPX)’ — Photographs by Will Wilson.

Sept. 1-Oct. 29, east window, 4949 Broadway, Unit 102-B, Boulder.

In his photographs, Will Wilson (Diné) observes that American culture remains enamored with one particular moment in a photographic exchange between Euro-American and Aboriginal American societies: the decades from 1907 to 1930 when photographer Edward S. Curtis produced “The North American Indian” photographic series. For many people, even today, Native people remain frozen in time in Curtis’s romanticized and stereotypical portraits. Wilson’s CIPX project intends to challenge the documentary mission of Curtis from the

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Tim Whiten: ‘Tools of Conveyance.’

On view through Dec. 18, CU Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder.

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MUSIC KEB’ MO’

Thursday, Aug. 26

Keb’ Mo’ Band. 7 p.m.

Chautauqua Auditorium, 98 Morning Glory Drive, Boulder.

SOLD OUT. Toney Rocks. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette.

Tickets: $10-$20.

Shamaar Allen and the Underdawgs. 7:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Tickets: $20.

Groove Holiday. 8 p.m.

The Louisville Underground, 640 Main St., Louisville. Tickets: $10-$15.

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The Long Run. 6 p.m. Longmont Downtown Summer Concerts, Fourth Avenue and Kimbark Street, Longmont.

Acoustic Ambush. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder.

Tickets: $15-$18.

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Chris Musial. 3 p.m. Dickens 300 Prime, 300 Main St., Longmont.

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Mojomama. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont. Free.

Strangebyrds. 6 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont. Free.

Opera on Tap at Isabelle Farm: Farm Opera Dinner. 6 p.m.

Isabelle Farms, 1640 Baseline Road, Lafayette. Free. Bring your own picnic.

Taylor Shae Duo. 7 p.m. Abbott and Wallace, 350 Terry St., Suite #120, Longmont. Free.

Paradise Theatre (A Tribute to STYX). 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont. Free.

Funk Knuf. 8 p.m. The Louisville Underground, 640 Main St., Louisville. Tickets: $18-$23.

The Intolerables with Lauren Joy, DJ Sully (Late Set). 9 p.m.

Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Tickets: $15-$18.

Wednesday, Sept. 1

Rodrigo Y Gabriela With David Keenan. 6:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 98 Morning Glory Drive, Boulder. SOLD OUT.

Thursday, Sept. 2

Town Mountain. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder.

Tickets: $15-$17.50.

Friday, Sept. 3

Amos Lee with Mutlu. 6:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 98 Morning Glory Drive, Boulder. Tickets: $60–$75. Second performance on Saturday, Sept. 4.

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BY ROB BREZSNY ARIES

MARCH 21-APRIL 19: Aries mythologist Joseph Campbell

advised us to love our fate. He said we should tell ourselves, “Whatever my fate is, this is what I need.” Even if an event seems inconvenient or disruptive, we treat it as an opportunity, as an interesting challenge. “If you bring love to that moment, not discouragement,” Campbell said, “you will find the strength.” Campbell concludes that any detour or disarray you can learn from “is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege!”

Few signs of the zodiac are inclined to enthusiastically adopt such an approach, but you Aries folks are most likely to do so. Now is an especially favorable time to use it.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20: The brilliant Taurus dancer and choreographer Martha Graham spoke of “a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action,” adding that “there is only one of you in all time.” She added, “It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.” But even if you do this very well, Graham said, you will nevertheless always feel “a divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest” that will fuel you. This is the perfect message for you Tauruses to embrace in the coming weeks.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20: There’s growing scientific evidence that we

make ourselves stupid by complaining too much — or even by listening to other people complain a lot. Excessive negative thoughts drain energy from our hippocampus, a part of our brain that’s essential to problem-solving. This doesn’t mean, of course, that we should avoid dealing with difficult issues. But it does suggest we should be discerning about how many disturbing and depressing ideas we entertain.

According to my reading of the omens, all this will be especially useful advice for you in the coming weeks.

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JUNE 21-JULY 22: Your brain contains 100 billion nerve cells.

Each cell has the potential to be linked with tens of thousands of others. And they are always busy. Typically, your grey matter makes a million new connections every second.

But I suspect your number of connections will increase even beyond that in the coming weeks. Your most complex organ will be working with greater intensity than usual. Will that be a bad thing or a good thing? It depends on whether you formulate an intention to channel your intelligence into wise analysis about important matters — and not waste it in careless fussing about trivial details.

JULY 23-AUG. 22: “You should have a sticky soul,” counsels

author Elizabeth Berg. “The act of continually taking things in should be as much a part of you as your hair color.” I especially endorse that attitude for you during the next four weeks, Leo. Your task is to make yourself extra magnetic for all the perceptions, experiences, ideas, connections, and resources you need most. By Sept. 23, I suspect you will have gained an infusion of extra ballast and gravitas.

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SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: Naturalist Henry David Thoreau wrote in his journal, “I feel slightly complimented when nature condescends to make use of me without my knowledge — as when I help scatter her seeds in my walk — or carry burs and cockles on my clothes from field to field. I feel as though I had done something for the commonwealth.” I mention this, Scorpio, because the coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to carry out good deeds and helpful transformations on nature’s behalf. Your ability to collaborate benevolently with plants and animals and elemental forces will be at a peak. So will your knack for creating interesting connections between yourself and all wild things.

SAGITTARIUS

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: You may have never heard of Sagittarian artist Baya Mahieddine (1931–1998). At age 16, she experienced a splash of acclaim with a show in Paris. Famous artists Pablo Picasso, Henry Matisse, and George Braques came. They drew inspiration from Mahieddine’s innovative use of color, elements from her Algerian heritage, and her dream-like images. Picasso even invited her to work with him, exulting in the fresh perspectives she ignited. But her art never received the full credit it warranted. In accordance with astrological omens, this horoscope is a small way of providing her with the recognition and appreciation she deserves. It also authorizes you to go out and get the recognition and appreciation you deserve but have not yet fully received.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: “Who knows what is unfolding on the other side of each hour?” asked Capricorn poet Juan Ramón Jiménez (translated by Capricorn poet Robert Bly). “How many times the sunrise was there, behind a mountain. How many times the brilliant cloud piling up far off was already a golden body full of thunder!” Your assignment, Capricorn, is to imagine what is unfolding just beyond your perception and understanding. But here’s the twist: You must steer your mind away from inclinations to indulge in fear. You must imagine that the events in the works are beautiful, interesting, or redemptive. If you’re not willing to do that, skip the exercise altogether.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: “Better than any argument is to rise at

LEO

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Rubbing their back when you embrace. 7. Both of you wearing an item that belongs to the other. Dear Libra, I hope you will employ these tender actions with greater frequency than usual in the coming weeks, Libra. Why? In my astrological opinion, it’s a ripe time to boost your Affection Quotient with the allies you care for the most.

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: “I sing like the nightingale whose melody is crowded in the too narrow passage of her throat,” wrote author Virginia Woolf. That was an insulting curse for her to fling at herself. I disapprove of such behavior — especially for you in the coming weeks. If you hope to be in alignment with cosmic rhythms, don’t you dare say nasty things about yourself, even in the privacy of your own thoughts. In fact, please focus on the exact opposite: flinging praise and appreciation and compliments at yourself.

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SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: The blogger at www-wlw.tumblr.com says the following are the top tender actions. 1. Fastening clothes or jewelry for your companion. 2. Letting them rest their head on your shoulder. 3. Idly playing with their hands.

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dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup,” wrote author Wendell Berry. I mostly agree with that sentiment, although I will also put in a good word for certain kinds of arguments.

There are moments when it’s crucial for your psychological and spiritual health that you initiate a conversation about delicate issues that might lead to a dispute. However, I don’t think this is one of those times, Aquarius. In my astrological opinion, picking dew-wet red berries is far more sensible than any argument. For further inspiration, read this testimony from actor Natasha Lyonne: “I definitely would rather take a nap than get angry.”

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20: For painter Vincent van Gogh, love wasn’t primarily a sentimental feeling. Nor was it an unfocused generalized wish for health and happiness in those he cared for. Rather, he wrote, “You must love with a high, serious, intimate sympathy, with a will, with intelligence.”

His love was alert, acute, active, and energized. It was animated with a determination to be resourceful and ingenious in nurturing the beloved. For van Gogh, love was always in action, forever moving toward ever-fresh engagement.

In service to intimacy, he said, “you must always seek to know more thoroughly, better, and more.” I hope you’ll make these meditations a top priority during the next seven weeks.

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BY DAN SAVAGE Dear Dan: I’m a woman who recently went in, but it’s the truth. She’s fantastic. The out on a third date with a man. I invited him challenge is sex. My wife always struggled back to my place and we started making out, with physical intimacy. She doesn’t like to which led to him going down on me. Moments have her neck or ears touched or really any later he took off his pants and to my surprise he form of gentle touch. These were favorites had a micropenis. I was shocked and turned of mine, but we were compatible in other off. I did not want to continue, but knowing how areas, so it wasn’t a big deal. It got worse sensitive men can be, I maintained a poker after our children were born, and now her face, did my best to not let on that I was turned body is almost totally off limits to me and I’m off, and he was able to orgasm. Is there a nice really struggling. I’ve communicated that sex way to let someone know you do not want to is important to me and she makes a good continue to have sex because of their penis faith effort, but it’s strictly intercourse. I miss size? And is there a responsibility on the part of foreplay. I’ve tried to broach this subject and a person with a micropenis to disclose that fact my wife gets very defensive. What are some before sex? I think I would’ve been less turned baby steps I can propose? off if I wasn’t so shocked.

ROMAN ROBINSON —Smaller Men And Lessons Learned Dear TON: There aren’t a lot of baby steps between Dear SMALL: I don’t someone not kissing your believe you, SMALL. I don’t neck and someone kissing think you would’ve been any less shocked or turned off if your wife is willing to get into this guy brought up the size therapy and work on idenof his dick between the start tifying the root cause of her aversion to touch — and there of the third. And if he had, may not be one — there’s not SMALL, you would’ve written much you can do. She might me a letter about this weird just not like it. If things got guy who started telling you worse after the kids arrived, about his small dick and ended your letter perhaps things will improve once they’re with a shocked, “Who does that?” (And I older. And if most of the childcare responwould’ve said, “Guys into small penis humilsibilities fall on your wife’s shoulders, well, iation, because otherwise there’s no reason she might be all touched out by the time you someone would bring that up in advance.”) come for her neck. But if you were sexually Look, dicks are a lot like labia: they incompatible at the start of the relationship come in all shapes and sizes, and you — if you never really clicked sexually — usually don’t know what you’re gonna get that’s a hard-bordering-on-impossible thing when you go to bed with someone for the to reverse engineer years or decades in. for larger or smaller, you should be prepared for natural variance and prepared to roll with it. If you can’t bear the thought of winding up in bed with a guy whose dick is too small for you, SMALL, then solicit dick pics in adyour own: you’re a size queen who requires a guy to be packing at least [however many] inches. But if asking for dick pics and/or disclosing your dick preferences in advance seems too forward, SMALL, you’re under no obligation to fuck a guy if you’re not into his dick. No one is obligated to go through with sex just to spare someone else’s feelings.

We should try to be considerate of other people’s feelings, of course, which sometimes means offering up an excuse, however transparently false it might be. But you can get up and go whenever you like.

Dear Dan: I’m married to a wonderful woman. I know that’s where the BUT comes

Dear Dan: dildos anally that my back pain will go away, or at the very least lessen. I know there are all kinds of great chemicals that get released when a person comes, but is there more to this than that? Is it like acupuncture points, but in my ass? I’ve had physical issues with my back that physical therapy hasn’t been back pain. Any insights?

—Anal Makes Everything Nice Dear AMEN: Maybe it’s physical, maybe it’s chemical, or maybe you’ve stumbled over (and impaled yourself on) a unique version of the placebo effect — only you’re taking dildos, not sugar pills. Don’t waste time wondering why this works, AMEN, just be thankful it does.

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Another roadside cucina The one where Massimo and Vittorio dish fine Italian cuisine at a self-serve gas station in Lyons.

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If I had blinked as I was driving by, I would have missed the tiny sign for Massimo e Vittorio Cucina Italiana. The concept seemed so out of place that I turned around and circled back.

Tucked next to the propane service area and the ice machine, Massimo e

CHEF VICTOR COLUNGA creates one of his culinary specialties, vegetarian lasagna.

presented by a skilled waiter on a linen-covered table with heavy silverware.

I sat at a picnic table under a tarp. While cars, motorcycles and Winnebagos streamed by on the way to Rocky Mountain National Park, I sighed over strands of chewy fettucine robed — not drenched — in an egg-yolky sauce with Parmesan, red onion strands, a little cream and the critical spaghetti carbonara ingredient: guanciale, the ham-y salty Italian cured meat product made from pork jowl. About the only thing missing was a glass of Nebbiolo or Sangiovese.

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TASTE OF THE WEEK: COORS FIELD, DENVER VISITING COORS FIELD options ranging from Helton onion rings and GF veggie quesadillas to barbecue mac and cheese and made-to-order salads. A hot dog seemed de rigeur, but I wanted to upgrade from the regular Rockie Dog, so I stopped by the X-treme Dog booth for a Denver Dog, a fat frank smothered in green chile sauce, shredded cheddar, chopped onions and sliced fresh jalapenos. Overall, it was a hefty meal with a nice hint of heat, but it proved challenging to consume. Without a fork, Diamondbacks. When I got home my email included a missive noting that eating a hot dog may shorten your healthy life by up to 36 minutes. This according to University of Michigan researchers looking at the health burden, carbon footprint and nutritional impact of foods. I decided that my hot dog of the year was worth the half hour I might lose when I’m 96.

By the way, research suggests that baked salmon and bananas each add 13.5 healthy life minutes, but you wouldn’t necessarily want to eat them at a ball game.

What to do with too much squash and eggplant

Local gardens, markets and stands are piled with summer squash reaching gargantuan proportions. Many were surprised by “gifts” on National Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor’s Porch Day, Aug. 8.

This is a great time to get to know the taste and texture range of summer squash varieties available, including zucchini, yellow squash, pattypan, crookneck, Romanesco and Cousa, as well as various shapes of eggplant.

This recipe is adapted from one by chef Colton Wagner shared by the Boulder County Farmers Market.

SUMMER RATATOUILLE

1/3 cup olive oil 1 cup diced zucchini 1 cup diced yellow summer squash 1 cup diced Asian eggplant 1/2 cup chopped yellow onion 1/4 cup chopped fresh garlic 3 cups chopped fresh tomatoes Juice of 1 lemon Lemon zest 1/4 cup balsamic vinegar 1/4 cup kosher salt 1 tablespoon fresh ground black pepper (or red pepper 20 to 30 basil leaves, chopped 1 log chevre goat cheese Heat large pot over medium heat, add olive oil and squash and eggplant, and until they start to brown. Turn down heat and add onions and

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Simmer until about half the liquid in the pan has been reduced. Add vinegar, salt, black pepper, lemon juice and lemon zest and continue simmering until veggies are soft. Add basil and stir. Taste and adjust salt, pepper etc. Serve topped with rounds of local goat chevre cheese and sided with toasted, garlic-rubbed baguette slices.

This preparation also freezes well for winter meals.

… The Boulder Taco Fest returns Aug. 28 at Foothills Park with diverse tacos, craft brews, tequilas, wrestling, live music and kids’ fun. Info: bouldertacofest.com COLORADO FOOD EVENTS TO AVOID As both a veteran food contest judge and a proponent of cutting food waste, I’m generally opposed to eating contests

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• The Great State Tomato War, Sept. 18 in Buena Vista when Texans and Coloradans will throw 2,000 pounds of still edible tomatoes at each other.

• The annual Jalapeno Eating Contest, Sept. 26 at the Pueblo Chile & Frijoles Festival.

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hen a patient comes into an emergency room, bleeding profusely, or suffering from serious burns or other

often administered to help prevent the patient from going into shock: albumin. It’s an essential molecule in modern medicine, used in hospitals everywhere. And over the last two decades it’s been in scarce supply around the world.

can easily draw from. A source that’s organic, plantbased and regenerative: hemp seeds.

“Albumin is a very essential protein for humans, it’s a protein that transports nutrients throughout the body,” says Arthur Jaffee, the CEO and founder of ECS brands. “When it comes to pharmaceutical research, medical research, pharmaceutical development, drug delivery systems, it’s pretty crucial.”

ECS Brands is a hemp extract company that Jaffee started in 2018. They make for large hemp extract companies. They’ve extracting hemp seed oil in order to isolate the edestin and albumin proteins they contain, which could revolutionize access to this essential medical protein.

“In terms of plant-based albumin, hemp is really the only one,” Jaffee says. Until now, though, it’s been cost-ineffective to extract it on any kind of large scale.

He explains that the conventional means of extracting oil from hemp seeds to isolate these proteins involves taking whole seeds (the shell and the nutrient containing “heart” within), and cold pressing them with a

Seeds of albumin

out. Unfortunately, during that process, that the chlorophyll from the crushed shell leeches into the oil — giving it a dark green color and accelerating the product’s oxidation rate.

“It basically just completely ruins the extended shelf life of [a commercial product],” Jaffee says.

The process is also expensive, he adds.

Novel hemp seed oil extraction method from Boulder’s ECS Brands offers new source of plant-based protein that could revolutionize medical supply chains

by Will Brendza Because, until now, there have really .only been two viable sources to extract albumin from: human blood plasma and egg whites. However, Boulder-based company ECS Brands, there’s now a third source of albumin the medical community

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to be a viable source of albumin at scale.

ECS brands has found a way around that, though — using its patented algae-derived biopolymers. They titrate those biopolymers in a water base, creating curves in the polarity (the PH) of the solution, Jaffee explains. In manipulating that polarity “up and down” over the course of about eight hours, the shell of the seed opens up “like a clam,” he describes.

“With a very, very mild agitation, we can separate seed [hearts] from the shell,” Jaffee says.

“In that same step, we are creating a separation of the oil that’s contained in the seed.”

The oil that’s left over is a bright golden color, instead of the dark green oil that is produced through the compression-extraction method, and it’s got a much more stable shelf-life. From that oil, ECS brands can then isolate the plant-based protein as a whole, and separate the two proteins contained in the hemp: ediston and albumin.

“What has challenged the pharmaceutical industry for a while is that they were harvesting albumin from other blood ... And much like everything else, the ethics of it started impeding on that process,” Jaffee says. “And even with egg whites ... it’s still not plant-based. So, there’s still ethical and animal rights considerations there.”

By comparison, hemp-derived albumin is plant-based and regenerative (and it’s also organic from ECS Brands). Not only does that negate any ethical concerns with the collection and distribution of regular albumin, it also means there’s a reliable source that can be generated at scale.

That could revolutionize the medical community’s access to albumin, Jaffee hopes. Which, in turn, could help save lives in emergency rooms around the world.

“I think pharma companies and pharmaceutical development researchers are going to get [a lot] of excitement from this,” he says.

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