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Wired Science | Need to Create? Get a Constraint
"One of the many paradoxes of human creativity is that it seems to benefit from constraints. Although we imagine the imagination as requiring total freedom, the reality of the creative process is that it’s often entangled with strict conventions [...]
Boulder County Business Report | High-end home inventory up for debate
"Scott Remmert of the Remmert Group of Colorado Landmark Realtors said it's frustrating to not have more homes to show prospective buyers, while James Simpson, with Fuller Sotheby's International Realty, said it can work in a Realtor's favor. 'A [...]
The Atlantic Cities | Jane Jacobs and the Power of Women Planners
"Too many people today claim they plan according to Jacobs' precepts while embracing Robert Moses’ pursuit of big, bold visions. Jacobs, of course, thought big too, but in a different way from Moses – not big demolition and car-based projects [...]
The Colorado Independent | State’s draft fracking disclosure rule skewered for ‘trade secret loophole’
A Boulder-based conservation group is pushing for much stronger language in a draft rule by the state of Colorado requiring oil and gas companies to disclose chemicals used in the controversial drilling practice called hydraulic fracturing, or [...]
GOOD | How Biking Can Save Cities Billions of Dollars in Health Expenses
Last week, the journal Environmental Health Perspectives published findings from a study by scientists at the University of Wisconsin on the economic and health benefits of switching from a car to a bike for trips shorter than five miles long in 11 [...]
The Energy Collective | Case Study: Boulder Colorado Takes Action On Climate Change
The Boulder vote should send a message to utilities around the country as well as other communities that are tired of inaction on climate goals. In Colorado, while Xcel is on track to have 25% renewable energy in their portfolio by 2020 (a [...]
Miller-McCune | Vehicle-to-Grid: A New Spin on Car Payments
For 15 years, Kempton, who directs the University of Delaware’s Center for Carbon-Free Power Integration, has pushed the idea that fleets of electric vehicles — rather than being another big draw on the electric grid — could provide valuable [...]
Eugene Weekly | Road Overkill
Two months ago an obscure but powerful local committee held a hearing on $1.5 billion in government spending, but no one testified. The hearing before the Metropolitan Policy Committee MPC, an intergovernmental group of local elected officials, was [...]
American University Radio | Is Local Better When It Comes To Our Food?
"Conventional food travels an average of 1,250 miles before getting to its final destination. So why does anyone fly in food – sometimes from half a world away - and use up all that fuel when they can get lettuce or goat cheese from the next [...]
Denver Green Streets | Power To The People: Boulder’s Struggle for Local Control
Distributed power generation at the point of load such as solar panels on roofs minimize the need for transmission lines in contrast with huge centralized power plants. Xcel owns both transmission lines and power plants, so alternatives such as [...]
