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Tag: Boulder
Boulder shrouded in smog as mountain Fourmile Fire still burns
BOULDER-- Roughly 1000 homes in the mountains above Boulder have been evacuated as a Labor Day blaze continues to burn. What is being called...
Polis touts ‘carbon neutral’ Boulder home, pushes for more retrofits
BOULDER -- U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, D-Boulder, and local renewable energy leaders gathered on the rooftop patio of a "carbon neutral" home in Boulder...
Undocumented Colorado youth feel trapped, call for change
BOULDER-- As the immigration debate rages across the nation and heats up in Colorado, undocumented youth here, frustrated by a sense of powerlessness to change their situation, have formed a political advocacy group called VOICE or Voices of Immigrant Children for Education Equality. Here are some of their stories and thoughts on immigration policy reform.
Boulder weighs exiting contract with Xcel
BOULDER-- The state's famously progressive college town is rallying around what it sees as a rare opportunity to seriously cut into its carbon footprint. Boulder's twenty-year franchise agreement with Xcel Energy is set to expire at the end of this year and community members are looking to exit the contract and cobble together new deals to make a major shift toward renewable clean energy sources like wind and solar power.
This is not a post about ugly Baptist group that craves...
That Kansas-based Christian group that protests at the site of gay hate crimes, U.S. military funerals and pretty much anywhere there might be someone...
New Era knocks on doors for SmartRegs in Boulder
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 through efficiency upgrades.
Boulder ranked third-most bike friendly city in the U.S.
Bicycling magazine ranks Boulder No. 3 in a Top 50 list of the most bike-friendly cities in the country. The editors only considered...
Levy’s solar garden bill advances after stormy start
Community solar gardens got a boost last week when the The Colorado Solar Energy Industries Association (CoSEIA)y forged a compromise with Claire Levy, state...
Defending anti-gay school policy, Chaput takes dig at tax code
Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput posted a defense of the decision by Sacred Heart parish in Boulder to expel the children of a lesbian couple....
Levy to sow seeds of ‘solar gardens’ with bill aimed at...
State Rep. Claire Levy, D-Boulder, always legislatively active on the renewable energy front, will introduce a bill this session to legalize community “solar gardens,”...