Posts Tagged ‘energy’
Know Your Power
A Public Forum When: Thursday, June 2 Time: 6:00-8:30 p.m. Where: East Boulder Community Center, 5660 Sioux Drive Boulder's 20-year franchise agreement with Xcel Energy expired last year, giving our community a chance to determine the best [...]
What Can Boulder Learn from Green Energy Pioneers?
At a PLAN-Boulder forum on the evening of May 16 two members of Professor Bruce Goldstein’s graduate planning studio class at the University of Colorado-Denver summarized case studies it conducted of three energy localization programs in various [...]
The Power of the People
Attending Power Shift 2011 in Washington D.C. was an empowering and unforgettable experience for me and the 32 students and campus affiliates from CU Boulder. Power Shift is a clean energy and climate justice convergence that attracts over 12,000 [...]
The Colorado Independent | Dems blast bill that would make dramatic changes to Governor’s Energy Office
“But it also strikes wherever it’s ‘renewable energy’ and it’s now ‘innovative energy,’ which is code for coal, oil and gas, so it’s a drastic change in direction for the state. It turns us 180 degrees and has us marching straight [...]
The Colorado Independent | Renewable energy falling in price and becoming more readily available
"The reality is that all forms of energy are subsidized. Some are subsidized through tax credits. Some are subsidized through their externalities,” he said, citing the pollutants of nitrous oxide, sulphur dioxide and mercury, all of which are [...]
Sustainable City Network | Portland Energy Retrofit Program Goes Statewide
"The Portland pilot program has been successful in supporting new jobs in the community, expanding the market for energy efficiency products and services, and is serving as a model for other communities looking to adopt home energy efficiency [...]
NYTimes.com | The Price We’re Willing to Pay for Oil
When oil prices are high, Americans like to say that the oil markets are broken, driven by speculators, detached from reality, driven by conspiracy. When prices are low, we do not have complaints about the oil markets. Then we say the “markets are [...]
Finish This Book
A review of Van Jones’ “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems" I thought I would just skim this book. I thought I would just hit the high points, enough to write a credible review and throw a few [...]
Fast Company | WikiLeaks May Have Just Confirmed That Peak Oil Is Imminent
It's getting more and more difficult to deny that an oil supply crunch is just a few years down the road, especially now that WikiLeaks has released cables revealing that Saudi Arabia's oil reserves have been exaggerated by as much as 40%, or 300 [...]
Energy Slam!
The expiration of the 20-year Xcel franchise at the end of 2010 has given the City of Boulder a unique opportunity to determine its own energy future. Citizens for Boulder’s Clean Energy Future, a group of citizens passionate about reducing our [...]
