‘Featured’ Archives
Is Boulder’s Transportation Master Plan Bold Enough?
Boulder has admirably established an aggressive, necessary objective: The community shall achieve an 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) production. Achieving this lofty goal will require adopting effective, historically significant [...]
Apartment Developers Are Busy in Boulder
Violet Crossing apartment complex construction site, north Boulder Boulder residents are likely to have noticed the amount of apartment construction underway in the city. All that development is no fluke; apartments are among the most popular [...]
Securing the US Electric Grid with Distributed Energy and Microgrids
Author's disclosure: Occasionally HOMER Energy pays me to get the word out about their company and that is the case with this story. The local NREL spinoff develops software that allows rapid design and cost comparisons of hybrid renewable [...]
Turning the Dream of a Community-wide Eco Pass into Reality
Resident transit use before and after possessing an Eco Pass. Source: City of Boulder (click to enlarge) For many years, Boulder County and the City of Boulder have been offering financial incentives to businesses and neighborhoods to sign up for [...]
BVSD Makes a Dent in Driving
I’ve finally managed to do something in the world that has an impact. It’s called Trip Tracker. I work for Boulder Valley School District’s Transportation Department. For almost everyone, school district transportation departments mean [...]
Trying to Create a Well Loved Place at Boulder Junction
Boulder Junction existing (left) and envisioned (all images courtesy City of Boulder) At a PLAN-Boulder forum on Friday, February 28, three luminaries from the City of Boulder staff described painstaking efforts to create a welcoming place at [...]
Climate Change Is On the Way, Like It Or Not
All images courtesy Gifford Miller unless otherwise indicated At a PLAN-Boulder evening forum on Monday, January 27, Gifford Miller, a world-renowned geologist, described research about global warming that he and his team have recently conducted [...]
Transportation is Destiny: Design for Happy People, Not Happy Cars
The following is a summary of a talk I was invited to give at a PLAN-Boulder County forum on Friday, January 24. As a town and transportation planner, I cautioned Boulder not to put too much emphasis on easing car traffic flows—particularly by [...]
Ten Lessons for the City of Boulder from the Great Flood of ’13
Fourmile Canyon Creek jumped its banks to the north in several places west of Broadway, wrecking havoc down through light industrial areas (all photos courtesy Elizabeth Black) The “1000 year flood” is media hype; believe it at your peril. [...]
Restoring Wildlands
On Friday, December 6, 2013, Timothy Seastedt, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at CU, a fellow of the Arctic and Alpine Research Institute, and a member of the board of directors of the Wildlands Restoration Volunteers (WRV), [...]
