Posts tagged green
180 lb white drug addict in polo shirt robs Boulder drug store for dope
Sep 23rd
Boulder police investigate Pharmacy robbery
Boulder police are investigating a robbery that took place at approximately 10:55 a.m. today at the Pharmaca pharmacy located at 2700 Broadway. A suspect entered the store and approached the pharmacy counter where he told the pharmacist that he was armed and demanded controlled substances. He then left the store in an unknown direction on foot.
Boulder police are investigating a robbery that took place at approximately 10:55 a.m. today at the Pharmaca pharmacy located at 2700 Broadway. A suspect entered the store and approached the pharmacy counter where he told the pharmacist that he was armed and demanded controlled substances. He then left the store in an unknown direction on foot.
The suspect is described as a light skinned white male in his late 30s, 5’8” to 5’10” tall and approximately 180 pounds. He was last seen wearing a blue and white striped polo-style shirt, a grey or faded green baseball cap, wraparound sunglasses and baggy jeans.
The case number for this incident is P11-12359.
Anyone with information about this crime is asked to contact Boulder Police Dispatch at 303-441-3333 or the BPD tipline at 303-441-1974. Those who have information but wish to remain anonymous may contact the Northern Colorado Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or 1-800-444-3776. Tips can also be submitted via the Crime Stoppers website atwww.crimeshurt.com. Those submitting tips through Crime Stoppers that lead to the arrest and filing of charges on a suspect(s) may be eligible for a cash reward of up to $1,000 from Crime Stoppers.
Boulder gets $$$ boost for green machines
Sep 15th
City of Boulder part of coalition receiving $500,000 grant from U.S. Department of Energy to advance electric vehicles and charging locations
The City of Boulder is part of the Colorado Clean Cities Coalition that was awarded $500,000 in grant funds under the Clean Cities Community Readiness and Planning for Plug-in Electric Vehicles and Charging Infrastructure Funding Opportunity. The grant was awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on Sept. 8, 2011.
The grant funds will be shared by multiple public and private agencies to help fund Project FEVER (Funding Electric Vehicle Expansion in the Rockies), a year-long endeavor that will overcome barriers that are impeding penetration of electric vehicles in the marketplace. FEVER is a statewide plan that will target five core areas to prepare Colorado for electric vehicles and charging infrastructure: regulatory; permitting; planning; policy; and marketing, education and outreach.
In Boulder, the grant will provide funds to:
Help establish guidelines to determine the best locations for electric vehicle (EV) charging stations;
Standardize permitting operations; and,
Create a plan for linking Boulder to other communities in a statewide EV charging network.
“By developing the next generation of automotive engineers and preparing communities for plug-in electric vehicles, these projects will help reduce our nation’s dependence on oil imports, create jobs, and help America capture the growing global market for advance vehicles,” said U.S. DOE Secretary Steven Chu.
Sixty partners have come together to support this project, and include the City of Boulder, the Colorado Governor’s Energy Office, the Colorado Department of Transportation, Xcel Energy, the Regional Air Quality Council, the City and County of Denver and several other private and public partners.
Sponsored by DOE’s Vehicle Technologies Program and administered by the American Lung Association in Colorado, the Denver Metro Clean Cities Coalition is a government-industry partnership designed to reduce petroleum consumption in the transportation sector.
For more information, contact Joe Castro, City of Boulder Facilities and Fleet manager, at castroj@bouldercolorado.gov or 303-441-3163.
Is it Green to shop at Boulder Whole Foods? just a giant Walmart type? by Rob Smoke
Jun 12th
The Wikipedia entry for H.G. Wells’ classic sci-fi novel, “The Time Machine” offers the following description: “The Time Traveller tests his device with a journey that takes him to the year 802,701 A.D., where he meets the Eloi, a society of small, elegant, adultlike, and childlike people all at the same time.”
Further on, Wells’ time traveller reaches extraordinary conclusions: “Deducing that the Morlocks have taken his time machine, he explores the Morlock tunnels, learning that they feed on the Eloi. His revised analysis is that their relationship is not one of lords and servants but of livestock and ranchers, and with no real challenges facing either species. They have both lost the intelligence and character of Man at its peak.”
If Wells were time-transported today, to Boulder, he would have stood in the parking lot of the Pearl street Whole Foods and yelled, “Morlocks, come out of there! Spare the Eloi!” He would have at least certainly blinked.
If you shop for groceries, ask yourself, is it really either “green” or environmentally conscious to drive your vehicle across town for the sake of shopping at one particular store? Are you sure there isn’t a local version — less perfectly packaged — that would serve most needs and actually allow you to walk to it?
And are you sure no Morlocks lurk within the giant store that seems to have…everything?
