Tag: Boulder

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  Boulder Votes to Go Clean Energy On Its Own

  Boulder, Colorado, voted last week to create its own utility to help break away from coal.

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  Boulder, Colorado Voters Approve Measure to Break From Xcel, Establish Municipal Utility

  Election day in Colorado yesterday, with the most-watched ballot issue in Boulder was whether voters would allow the city to establish a municipal electric utility. Turns out that voters did support the initiative, though fewer wanted to pay for it.

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  Xcel Energy Threatens to Cut Solar Rebates & Efficiency Programs for Boulder Customers

  The company is threatening to cut Boulder customers off from energy efficiency incentive programs if residents vote to create a municipal utility.

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  Bike-Friendly Boulder Awards Bike-Friendly Businesses

  Boulder, Colorado is a pretty dreamy place for cyclists. It's the fourth-most bike-friendly city in the world according to some, but living here, you get to see how the city doesn't view being 'bike-friendly' as a

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  Google Donates $25K to Boulder B-Cycle

  Looks like Google was feeling generous toward Boulder—and toward bike-sharing—this week! The company gave a $25,000 donation to B-cycle "as part of Google's commitment to support innovative ways for using

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  Medical Pot Sold In Boulder Colorado Must Be Grown With 100% Renewable Power.

  Boulder Colorado City Council has

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  Fast, Sustainable, Organic, and Now Humane: Frozen EVOL Burritos

  Guest blogger Cara Smusiak is a journalist and regular contributor to NaturallySavvy.com's Naturally Green section.

• Boulder's Gigantic Wind Turbines: Are Those People!?

  They might not be quite the scale of the 6MW wind turbine that Justin wrote about in Germany, nor the concept for a 9MW vertical axis wind turbine that the Scottish reportedly

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  Bike Backlash from Boulder to Long Beach But a Big Day at SF City Hall

  You would think that car drivers would be happy that cyclists reduce the number of vehicles they have to grapple with, but it just ain't so. The more bikes on the road, the safer it is for cyclists, but also the

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  Back Lane Intensification by Pyatt Studio

  Many older cities have infrastructures with back lanes, relics of an era when streets were for people, and you kept the horses and the cars in the rear. It worked well; you could put the houses on narrower lots, and the garages were

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  Boulder, Colorado Achieves Platinum Bike Status

  Comprehensive Pro-Bike Planning Pays Off From contraflow bike lanes to bike-thru banking, it's no secret that the folks at StreetFilms are huge fans of Boulder, Colorado. Now they have a huge reason to celebrate, as Boulder becomes the third community

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  Bike-Thru Banking: A Boulder Bank's Cycle-Friendly Teller Window

  Bank Welcomes Bicycles Financial institutions are not in most people's good books right now, but as I noted in my post on a top UK banker who travels in a chauffeur-driven G-Wiz, when a little humility and responsibility is shown, we're much more likely

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  StreetFilms Visits Boulder's Contraflow Bike Lane

  Boulder Bike Path Goes Against the Flow of Traffic There are not too many people who would spend their time making videos about bike lanes, and even fewer people who can do so and make those videos interesting. But Clarence and the folks at StreetFilms

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  Greenland Ice Melting at Record Rate

  Speaking at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Konrad Steffen of the University of Colorado, Boulder, painted a grim picture of Greenland's current state, describing the amount of ice it lost over the past year

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  Droughts Found to Hinder Carbon Dioxide Uptake

  A study carried out by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has reaffirmed a link between the droughts that have plagued many parts of the U.S. and climate change - though not the one you may have

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  Al Gore Warns of Crises Facing World's Oceans

  Speaking at Oceana's 2007 Partners Award gala in Los Angeles last Friday, former Vice President Al Gore warned of the global implications of increased ocean acidification and of the impending melting of the Arctic

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  REI To Open New Prototype Green Store in Boulder

  The green team at the outdoor gear co-op, REI (Recreational Equipment Inc,) can't be getting much sleep of late. They seem to be rolling our some new eco-endeavour every month. In August it was their Eco-Sensitive product labelling. Last month we

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  Solar Row: Sustainable Housing In Boulder

  Every time we show a "green and sustainable" house being built in the middle of nowhere or with 6,000 square feet in it, we wonder where people with normal incomes and bikes instead of cars will raise their families. Perhaps the Solar Row in Boulder,