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鈥楽tand Up for Climate Change鈥� event on March 17 to fuse the sober topic of climate change with the unifying power of humor.

There probably is not a more suitable location for one of the world鈥檚 first interdisciplinary certificates in Arctic studies than the University of Colorado Boulder.

For decades in the post-World War II era, it鈥檚 fair to say that the diet of most Americans became less and less local. With innovations ranging from the interstate highway system to affordable home refrigeration and freezing systems, it simply became easier to eat food that came from a state 鈥� or even a country 鈥� far, far away.

When politicians actively seek to gum up or slow down the legislative works in an effort to throw up obstacles to governors or presidents, they often increase the power of executive-branch bureaucracies or courts to make the rules. The result can be a less-informed citizenry, researchers find.

Think of Robert R. 鈥淏ob鈥� Crifasi as a kind of Zelig or Forrest Gump when it comes to water in Boulder, Denver and northern Colorado鈥攈e spent a quarter century getting his hands wet, both literally and figuratively, in countless ways. Crifasi, who earned bachelor鈥檚 degrees in geology and chemistry and master鈥檚 degrees in geology and environmental science from CU-Boulder, has served on the boards of鈥攁nd often, pitchforked weeds, trash and the occasional dead skunk for鈥�11 Boulder County ditch companies.

Boulder鈥檚 public open-space system was launched 50 years ago, and an event at CU-Boulder will bring together experts who will discuss the lay of the land in the next half-century.

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder recently examined the aftermath of two catastrophic conflagrations and found an unexpected ally in wildfire-education efforts, the 鈥渃itizen entrepreneur.鈥�