Posts Tagged ‘energy’
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 [...]
Policy Innovations | The paradox of efficiency
Several thousand officials from 194 countries just gathered in Cancún, Mexico, for yet another global climate summit. Dissatisfied with the pace of climate diplomacy, many individuals are now wondering what they can do about climate change on [...]
2B Continued
Energy and excitement were generated at the “Boulder’s Energy Future” public education and strategy session co-hosted by the 2B ballot measure volunteer campaign group, Citizens for Boulder’s Clean Energy Future (CBCEF), and non-profit Clean [...]
Power to the People!
Paul Fenn, the co-founder of Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) and president of Local Power, Inc., explained at a PLAN-Boulder forum on the evening of November 8, 2010 that CCA is an alternative to both municipal power systems and investor-owned [...]
Vote for 2B to Keep City Services Strong
Voting Yes on Boulder City Ballot Issue 2B will maintain the revenue for public safety, library, parks, human services and other important city services. Issue 2B would approve a Utility Occupation Tax to replace the franchise fee --$4.1 million in [...]
2B: What’s It All About?
The City of Boulder decided earlier this year to not to sign a new 20-year franchise agreement with Xcel Energy. After more than a year of negotiations, Xcel would not agree to move quickly to replace coal burning with renewable energy. While Xcel [...]
Center for American Progress | Idea of the Day
Getting to greater energy security and a more sustainable and prosperous economic future will test our resolve and ingenuity. And getting there while treating our land resources in ways that sustain rather than deplete and degrade them will test [...]
Colorado Independent | Colorado leading nation in solar energy jobs growth
Released today, a new survey from Environment Colorado and the Colorado Solar Energy Industries Association indicates Colorado is sixth in the nation in solar-related jobs and is expected to increase that number by 23 percent in 2011. Entitled [...]
Ocean Thermal Energy: The unseen sea opportunity
This article is to suggest that there be some strong grassroots support in Boulder and across America clamoring for prompt federal action—by Congress and the Obama Administration—to make ocean thermal energy a reality. Although ocean thermal [...]
2B Campaign Launch Party
Come to a fabulous party and support Boulder’s next step for a cleaner energy future! RenewablesYes.org is hosting a 2B kickoff party this Friday, September 17th, from 5-7 p.m. at the Rib House, 1801 13th Street in Boulder. We'll feature [...]
