BOULDER A group of Boulder County restaurants are among the first to join the newly launched Restore Colorado program aimed at raising funding to help farmers implement regenerative farming practices.
The program is a public-private partnership among James Beard Humanitarian of the Year winner Zero Foodprint, regenerative agriculture nonprofit group Mad Agriculture, Boulder County, the city of Boulder, and Denver’s Office of Climate Action, Sustainability, and Resiliency.
“Under the Restore Colorado banner, Zero Foodprint member restaurants collect a few cents per meal to provide grants for carbon farming projects overseen by Mad Agriculture,” according to a Boulder County news release. “This funding helps Colorado farmers and ranchers implement regenerative practices such as compost application, perennial and cover crop planting, reduced tillage, and grazing management to build healthy soil. These carbon farming projects advance regional climate initiatives around
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The Electric Vehicle Era Is Coming to Colorado
The state has high hopes for zero-emission vehicles, but Coloradans may need a little convincing.Lindsey B. King •
April 1, 2021
Doing Their Part: Colorado’s Zero-Emissions Vehicles Standards
Both Denver and the state of Colorado are working to ensure we can get here, there, and everywhere in zero-emissions vehicles.
The Toyota Prius. The Tesla Roadster. The Chevy Volt. The Nissan LEAF. Until roughly 2012, these were consumers’ only real options for low- or zero-emissions vehicles (ZEV). Since then, automakers have been adding to that list, but they had little incentive to put new electric vehicle (EV) models on local lots. That changed in 2019, when Colorado adopted ZEV standards. “The standards will have a real impact on what carmakers make available here,” says Mike Salisbury, transportation energy lead for Denver’s Office of Climate Action, Sustainability, and Resiliency. “I’m not knocking the LEAF, bu
States and municipalities around the country want to curtail the use of natural gas to fight climate change. Conservative and industry groups want to block them.
Battle over natural gas role in climate change boils over in America’s home kitchens Published February 23
Share on Facebook A new front has opened in the battle over climate change: The kitchen. Cities and towns across the country are rewriting local building codes so that new homes and offices would be blocked from using natural gas, a fossil fuel that when burned emits carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. New laws would force builders to install heat pumps instead of gas furnaces and electric kitchen stoves instead of gas burners. Local leaders say reducing the carbon and methane pollution associated with buildings, the source of 12.3% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, is the only way they can meet their 2050 zero-emission goals to curb climate change.
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