While some of the best and brightest CEOs, small business owners, and financial experts are attending a Forum on Jobs and Economic Growth at the White House, the folks who can really jump start the economy are not at the table.

They're the micro entrepreneurs, and those...

Each American soldier that President Barack Obama sends to Afghanistan has a price tag on his or her head. Why? It takes $1 million dollars to maintain that soldier for a single year in a war zone.

However, the high cost of war has a low-cost counterpart back home...

David Hoffman's InterNews, a $35 million organization which has helped support the development of 4,800 news outlets in 30 countries, has just opened its 42nd radio station in Afghanistan, and over lunch, Hoffman had an interesting story to tell. It was about the response from the Taliban to this...

Speaking to Chinese students during his Town Hall meeting in Shanghai, President Obama affirmed the importance of protecting children around the world from exploitation and abuse. However, he failed to mention that of the 193 countries who have signed the "U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child," only two...

Can yoga save the world? Two years ago, Deb and Ed Shapiro debated this question over the dinner table. It would make a good book title, they thought. Skilled practitioners and co-authors of numerous self-help books, they decided to write a book about the impact of yoga on human society....

In 2007, within hours of his swearing in ceremony as Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd traveled to Bali to drop in on the United Nation's global conference on climate change. Rudd's presence and his affirmation of Australia's alignment with conference goals made headlines around the world.

President Obama...

I'm an optimist. In these days of pessimistic news about climate change, I like to surround myself with forward-thinking people. One of these is David Johnston, president of What's Working. Johnston recently received the SAM Sustainability Pioneer Award, which is considered the Nobel prize in the sustainability world.

On...

If University of Colorado students had their way, Valerie Mitchell, an unknown candidate running for Boulder City Council, would be the city's new mayor.

Perhaps it was her stellar performance at the mike, seconds after her near death experience on stage. She leapt out of her seat with cat-like agility,...

A few weeks ago, I set out on a boat trip down the Colorado River. My oarsman was Dee Crouch, MD, co-owner of BoulderBoatWorks.com. Dee calls the Colorado his "home" river, and has boated down it more than 100 times.

On the water, we talked philosophy and Indian lore. He...

When the full moon woke me up last night, I found myself starting to sing new lyrics to the old Paul Simon song: "There must be fifty ways to leave your lover."

The new lyrics, by Anne Button and Jason Salzman, were now spreading through my moon-baked brain like...

I took a test drive of the new B-cycle, at the Hill Flea. It's the free bike system coming to Denver next April, and the first thing I said when I returned the bike was: "OK, I'm in. Here's my $50." Then, "How soon can we bring this transportation...

So the Secret Service has discovered that the person who put the "Should Obama be Killed?" poll on Facebook was only a kid, and they've shut the books on the case.

The choices on the poll were "No, Maybe, Yes, and Yes if he cuts my health...

The legendary Rennie Davis, one of the Chicago 7, is on a mission to save the human species from extinction. Right now, says Davis, society is heading toward a mass hysteria that could lead toward extinction. To change course, humans have to change how they think. So he has created...

At the Church of the Café Latte, the Café Trident, in downtown Boulder, a dozen or more slim, trim men and women sit together, sipping their morning joe. Their conversation is as noisy as magpies in a tree, yet this morning it is focused on one topic: their friend Binx...