A Boulder-area think tank is taking on the world’s nastiest pirates. Pull up a jug ‘o rum and read on. From the September 2010 issue of Denver Magazine.

Revenge of the Landlubbers
By Stewart Schley

Admit it: You’ve got a thing for pirates. One glimpse of Johnny Depp in eyeliner and billowing knickers and you were a goner. We get it. What’s not to like about a badass roustabout storming vessels belonging to capitalistic profiteers with a parrot clenching his shoulder and a bad hangover rattling about in his brain?

Conversely, any look at maritime piracy — the real kind, with harrowing violence and million-dollar ransoms — is enough to shatter our pirate fantasies. And ironically, far from the nearest ocean, the Colorado-based One Earth Future (OEF) Foundation is leading the war against it. OEF is a think tank bankrolled by a former yogurt maven, fueled by some serious intellectual firepower, and fighting pirates from the most unlikely of places: a nondescript office building off McCaslin Boulevard and Highway 36 in Louisville. (more…)