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Congressional Field Hearing
The City of Boulder, in coordination with Congressman Jared Polis, are sponsoring a Congressional field hearing on energy titled: Strengthening the Economy and Protecting the Environment: A 21st Century Community Approach! Looking through the [...]
Boulder’s Power Supply: What are GHG–offsets and RECs?
"Boulder’s Power Supply: What are GHG–offsets and RECs? What’s the value of carbon reduction and offset mechanisms? Is there an Optimal Mix for Boulder?" Featuring Invited Guests: Wiley Barbour, Vice [...]
What’s Up at Washington School Part II: The New Normal
Defining the “New Normal” Local author and environmentalist David Wann describes in his new book, The New Normal, how the economic recession together with the rapidly escalating global warming and resource depletions are driving us to rethink [...]
What’s Up at Washington School Part I: The Background Info
At the Washington School site, the old maple trees have seen quite a few seasons since being the center of city and neighborhood attention several years ago. The children's art has been carefully taken down and will find a new home, if not at [...]
Portraits of Mass Consumption
In Edward Tufte's book, Envisioning Information, ideas are laid out about how to communicate information in "flatland" and escape the inherent two dimensional limitation of paper and computer screens. Tufte also warns against using "chartjunk" a [...]
Doing Things the Old-fashioned Way
Upon our arrival home a few moments ago, we found the following note by our front door included in a nice little gift: Hello Youngs! I snuggled in bed yesterday a.m. longer than usual, enjoying the warmth of the down; but also thinking about [...]
Casey and the Dead Zone
What's a neighborhood school without the sounds of kids playing on the ball fields? Once upon a time before a $24.7 million dollar renovation, paid for by taxpayers, Casey Junior High had two ball fields. The fields emanated sounds of girl's [...]
