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Inspiring Videos
Entertaining Education About Utilities? Yes, Thank You John Oliver!
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver discusses the problem with privately-owned monopoly utilities.
John Farrell of the Institute for Local Self Reliance follows up on Oliver’s report about what can be done to hold utilities accountable.
Big Oil Suffers Setbacks, Forced To Deal With Climate Change — Rachel Maddow Show
100% Renewable: Pathways to Our Clean Energy Future
presented by Sustainable Resilient Longmont and the Colorado Sierra Club
Rethinking Energy — Tony Seba
Community Power Opportunity for Rural Residents, John Farrell
Boulder Landmark Meets LEED Platinum
Courtesy of Bob Carmichael
Four Actions with Impact: Natural Gas Replacement
Courtesy of David & Emily Takahashi
Industry News
5 Reasons NOT to Send a Franchise to the Voters in 2020
August 13, 2020 Want Boulder to Stay on the Path to 100% Renewable Energy? If so, we need to stay
Why is Boulder pursuing a partnership with Xcel when residents have repeatedly voted in support of the muni?
By Matt Cortina Over the last decade, Boulder residents voted to pursue a municipal electric utility six times: First, in
Municipalization: More important now than ever
In many ways I’m surprised and a bit saddened that I actually feel the need to write this explanation for
Opinions/Letters
Cowles: Info on Xcel’s campaign consultant
Dear City Council members, Your council has not yet heard from the community or worked out the final price or
Hoffman: Brief history of Boulder’s votes on public power
Some background: Boulder Has Voted on Over and Over Again in Favor of Municipalization / Public Power 2010: In anticipation of
K.K. DuVivier: Referring a measure to the ballot
August 18, 2020 Dear members of Boulder City Council, I am a relative new-comer to the Boulder power issue (I
Pomerance: Bad process, worse outcome on Xcel ballot proposal
August 17, 2020 Over the last months, Boulder officials had a number of closed-door meetings with Xcel Energy. They appear