Posts Tagged ‘smart regs’
Blue Line Poll: Smart Regs
Landlords clashed over the likely effects of the City of Boulder’s proposed SmartRegs (which will be debated by the City Council at a second reading on July 6) at a PLAN-Boulder County forum on the subject on June 21. Francoise Poinsatte, a [...]
New Era News | SmartRegs Part 2
After a little thinking break, the Boulder City Council re-engaged the issue of SmartRegs at Tuesday's council meeting, voting unanimously in favor of moving it forward to a second reading. When SmartRegs first broke into the council's agenda [...]
Dithering Against Climate Change
In the US, buildings are responsible for almost half (48%) of annual greenhouse gas emissions; globally, the percentage is even greater. Since all of the buildings in the entire world are existing, if we do not make significant reductions to [...]
New Era News | PART 1: SmartRegs Gets its Legs, Takes Some Heat
Boulder City Council began its first reading of the much-discussed SmartRegs proposal at their meeting on May 18. In witness of an over-capacity meeting hall, Mayor Susan Osborne said it was, "the most important issue we'll tackle this year, and [...]
Write City Council to Support SmartRegs!
SmartRegs is a potential city policy that will create minimum standards for energy efficiency in rental units, such as sealing gaps in windows, installing programmable thermostats, low-flow shower heads and insulation. SmartRegs has already [...]
Smart Regs and Quality of Life
Sitting On the Three Legged Stool With the current debate swirling around SmartRegs, I support them, professionally and personally. However, there are some details in the regulations that need correction and further work. As is often stated, the [...]
Boulder Reporter | $25 million for “Two Techs and a Truck”
In celebration of Earth Day, Congressman Jared Polis (D-CO) applauded the announcement of $25 million in Recovery Act funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Retrofit Ramp-Up initiative, for the “Two Techs and a Truck” retrofit program in [...]
Smart Regs: Another Landlord’s Perspective
The Smart Regs proposal, which would require energy upgrades in over 19,000 Boulder rental properties, is likely the single most important opportunity to reduce carbon emissions in Boulder to date. The implications of climate change [...]
Smart Regs: A Conflicted Landlord’s Perspective
I own two small buildings within the Mapleton Hill Historic District--both acquired over 30 years ago with the intention that the income from them would support me in my old age (having neither a husband nor a corporate retirement plan). With that [...]
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 [...]
