"The honey," says Brook Levan, co-founder and executive director of Sustainable Settings, "is just a byproduct of what we're keeping the bees for. We're really after the ecosystem services they provide."

I think we can all agree that it feels good to do good, can’t we? That might help account for the scores of nonprofits that call the Roaring Fork Valley home and the robust spirit of volunteerism that defines the valley’s citizens. I mean, sure, it’s nice to know that what we’re doing is hel…

For the life of me, I can’t figure out how snoring has survived all these eons, in an evolutionary sense. You’d think that back in the day, when our earliest ancestors were trying to avoid predators, snorers would have given their positions away and made for easy snacking. Thus, natural sele…

This fun debut novel from Miller is also the first in a planned series called "The Philosopher's War," and I, for one, am looking forward to further installments. The tagline on the cover of the book is "Half science, half magic – entirely fantastic," and that sums it up pretty well. 

Right now is a good time to be a creative young person in Basalt. Buoyed by the ascendance of The Art Base downtown and the birth of The Temporary last year in Willits, midvalley youth have seen their opportunities to display and perform their work multiply. This weekend in particular shows …