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Colorado Independent | New Era knocks on doors for SmartRegs in Boulder
Progressive political activist group New Era Colorado took to the streets this weekend here to gather signatures from the student community in support of proposed regulations that would force rental properties in Boulder to lower energy usage [...]
Boulder Weekly | Your lack of vote counts
If you’re a supporter of the county’s open space or ClimateSmart Loan programs and you didn’t vote, pat yourself on the back for enabling the failure of County Ballot Issues 1A and 1B. Both measures failed by small margins, largely due to a [...]
New Era News | Renters With Benefit$
The city council, representing the citizens of Boulder, passed the Climate Action Plan. SmartRegs is their first measurable step in a series of actions steps aimed at attaining the plan’s goals. Read about it in New Era News.
Boulder Reporter | DERAILED: The long, troubled saga of the Transit Village
If developed as the plan foresees, Boulder will have, over the next several decades, missed a great opportunity to create a vibrant public place, rail or no rail. Property owners and developers will benefit because Boulder’s public officials were [...]
NYT | Neighbors Oppose Green Label for Big House
MITCH KAPOR, the software mogul and philanthropist, has given millions of dollars to environmental groups. Now Mr. Kapor wants to build a 10,000-square-foot house, complete with a 10-car garage, in Berkeley, Calif. via Neighbors Oppose Green [...]
Boulder Reporter | Friday night launch party for “The Blue Line”
About 75 of the Boulder liberal faithful gathered in the home of Steve Pomerance and Allyn Feinberg in the shadow of Chautauqua Friday night, March 12, for a party to semi-formally launch The Blue Line, a new website that’s all about collaborative [...]
Coloradan | Open space
by Lisa Marshall for the Coloradan In 1951 an idealistic Boulder mother named Arlene Wolfe (MBusEd’68) had an epiphany in a Paris park years before the term “open space” would become ingrained in the local Boulder vernacular. Read [...]
Lovins: The business case for climate solutions
As a local Colorado business, Natural Capitalism Inc. urges Senators Michael Bennet and Mark Udall to protect the EPA's authority to enforce the Clean Air Act by regulating CO2 emissions as harmful to human health. Not only are climate solutions [...]
Lombardi: Boulder needs to get serious
The “Blue Line” website is an inspired idea, and I am honored to be asked to write a piece for it. Standing in my backyard in North Boulder seeking my own inspiration at sunset, a movement through the tree branches caught my attention. I’d [...]
Handy Lessons From Overseas on Walking and Bicycling
Tag along on a scan tour of Europe to pick up new insights on how to develop livable communities by making them friendlier to nonmotorized traffic.
