We ran our fridge intermittently off of our Ioniq 5 battery during a 4-day outage in Colorado, trading an inverter back and forth w a generous neighbor. Doesn’t use much capacity and you can drive to somewhere w power to recharge if needed. We bought our own inverter for next time!
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definitely not sobbing as i sit here and watch this
Last day to speak up for a better Boulder!
More voices are needed in the Comp Plan update. Even if you went to the open house, you can still fill it out - takes a minute!
Link: a-boulder-future-boulder.hub.arcgis.com
(Scroll to the green box!)
#Boulder #HousingForAll #ClimateAction #SafeStreets
two kids biking on their street one is standing on the handlebars.
Youth Mobility + Youth Independence should be our key metrics of success.
This, but with penguins.
Boulder and many other towns are considering eliminating parking minimums as a relic of our suburban past. Join Better Boulder for guest speaker @tonyjordan.bsky.social and follow up conversation at Wild Sage Cohousing.
Good morning to the IRS workers who processed my tax refund in a timely manner during a constitutional crisis, and fuck Chuck Schumer.
Support our Boulder minimum wage workers! 5:30 today at the Bandshell, and bring a friend!
Vienna's Heldenplatz at night. A crowd of thousands stands in the plaza waving flags and signs, surrounded by neoclassical buildings. The blue and yellow stripes of the Ukrainian flag are projected on to the historic Burgtor (monumental gate).
We were living in Vienna when Russia invaded Ukraine, and you, my US friends and neighbors, sent thousands of dollars to fund direct aid for displaced people. That's who we can and should be in the world.
So glad to see you continuing to report on Boulder things!
A table with paper plates containing different types of soil. Children around the table are rubbing the soils between their fingers as an educator demonstrates.
An incubator and light box on a table in a dimly-lit room. Children are gathered around the table as an educator holds a duck egg over the light box to show the embryo inside.
An educator with brown skin speaks with a group of elementary school students in front of a tunnel-shaped display about soil properties and soil chemistry.
I tagged along on a 4th grade conservation and agriculture field trip today, and it's just plain stupid how much we're going to lose by dismantling public science.
Just what I needed this weekend! Thank you for the tickets and the reminder of the beauty people can create together!
JFC
Filing tax returns feels like such an absurd act at this moment.
I‘ve been part of one of these w Boulder‘s co-op houses for years, and it feels like a lifeboat in these times. New members welcome, DM for details!
I’m taking the whole fam to their February concert…give them a follow to get your free tickets, and throw them a little donation for this delightful promo!
There’s been a lot of yelling about unplowed streets in Boulder of late, but this is why sidewalks should be the bigger story.
This is really interesting. Groundbreaking study on the value of libraries and “third places.”
“A whopping 82% of people who used the library’s physical space and 79% of people who physically attended programs reported more optimism regarding the future, compared to only 58% of digital-only users.”
City councils often pay poverty wages, making public service difficult or impossible for many residents.
Boulder Progressives was the primary organization supporting fair council pay in Boulder, which passed an increase for the first time since 1989.
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You’ve been a rock for this community and such a relatable and accessible source for news. Wishing you rest and all the best as you move forward!
Another weary parent for 15-minute cities 🙋♀️
Feeling like I need a Bustang field trip...
...AND I'm salty that years of organizing are essentially being erased in this update. Boulder's co-op ordinance and occupancy fights have burned through a shameful number of everyday activists. And this confirms just how much of their lives we wasted.
A screenshot of a section of municipal code. The text is all red and lined-through.
It's deeply satisfying to see those 8 pages of regulations red-lined out of existence...
Boulder 'legalized' housing cooperatives in 2017, but the rules were so restrictive that only one new co-op was ever formed under them. Groups of unrelated people already sharing housing had to compile book-length documentation and pay heavy fees for the privilege of recognition.
My Planning Board colleagues nudged Boulder one step closer to eliminating family-based residential occupancy limits tonight, including recommending striking all references to cooperative housing from our municipal code. Co-ops have their own chapter there!