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The Nation | How Walmart Helped Make the Newtown Shooter’s AR-15 the Most Popular Assault Weapon in America
"Lewis thinks the gun sales will soon be a new front in the activist campaign against Walmart. 'You’re going to see it more and more and more as folks organize against Walmart,' she said. 'One of their vulnerabilities is their stance on guns. [...]
Radio Golden | Mayor Sloan on the National Stage: Mayors Against Illegal Guns Press Conference
"Kudos to Marjorie for being a strong voice for sensible reform, kudos to the entire Golden City Council for offering their voice as well, and congrats to the entire Mayors Against Illegal Guns organization for already having a real impact on the [...]
Alpine Works | Life Above Treeline – an interview with Bill Briggs
"The more time Tony and I spend researching fun, interesting lines in the mountains around Boulder, Colorado the more we hear the name Bill Briggs – Bill time-trialing the flatirons, Bill speed soloing Gerry Roach’s top ten flatiron classics, [...]
MetroPulse | What’s ‘Historic’—And Who Says? Nine Practical Reasons To Save Old Buildings
“'That’s Not Historic!'” "A lot of good and honest folks roll their eyes when they hear that adjective applied to a building they’ve never heard of. Angry anonymous bloggers leave posts, and old men grumble. A building can’t be [...]
Forward | Wrestling With Details of Noah Pozner’s Killing
"Nine days after Veronique Pozner’s son, Noah, was killed in the Newtown schools shootings, I interviewed her and other members of the family about their grieving process. The family had just finished observing the official Jewish mourning [...]
Switchboard | As good and important as it is, LEED can be so embarrassing
"A third charge leveled at the system is that LEED has become pro forma, more about earning points than achieving actual environmental performance. The two are not unrelated, of course, but there is a belief that applicants and their consultants [...]
WATCH: Obama on Gun Violence Prevention
In case you missed it: "Along with our freedom to live our lives as we will comes an obligation to allow others to do the same. We don’t live in isolation. We live in a society, a government of, and by, and for the people. We are [...]
The Green Economy | Retrofits for Energy and Cultural Preservation
"One of the lessons the green building industry is learning is that old buildings often outperform new ones — even those built to high green building standards. Though it depends on the era in which a building was designed and constructed, several [...]
The Atlantic Cities | What It Really Takes to Foster an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
Boulder V.C. Brad Feld 'The openness of Boulder to weirdness is well known and other Coloradoans often refer to Boulder as '25 square miles surrounded by reality.' This combination of smart, independent, and weird is a beautiful recipe for an [...]
