CEDaR

When Growing Up Boulder (GUB) began in 2009, its goal was to empower young people to influence the local issues which affected their lives. For the past 12 years the program was a part of CU Boulder's Community Engagement, Design and Research (CEDaR) Center. Now one of the most successful child-friendly city initiatives in the world, it's being spun off as an independent nonprofit under the fiscal sponsorship of the Colorado Nonprofit Development Center.

CEDaR's Growing Up Boulder program spins off as a nonprofit For the past 12 years Growing Up Boulder was a part of CU Boulder's  Community Engagement, Design and Research (CEDaR) Center. Now one of the most successful child-friendly city initiatives in the world, GUB is transitioning to an independent nonprofit, a model for how the university can develop...

On Monday the city of Boulder's new director of planning and development services, Jacob Lindsey, gave a talk sponsored by CEDaR to students in ENVD’s planning emphasis. Lindsey, the former planning director for the city of Charleston, South Carolina, spoke about impacts of climate change in Charleston and efforts underway to manage them.

CEDaR's new Community Voices project delves into the manufactured housing (MH) most pressing issues and explores them through the personal stories of park residents, especially grassroot activists committed to change. Meet Isabel Sanchez, a grassroots community organizer and urban farmer, who transformed Mapleton Mobile Home Park in Boulder to a community that follows sustainable practices and and principles. https://www.colorado.edu/cedar/2020/12/16/isabel-sanchez-even-small-spaces-possibilities-are-endless

If you haven't done so already, please add your name to this petition to enable the creation of a new CO Pollinator License Plate. A beautiful, new pollinator plate would support programs that protect pollinators and celebrate the indispensable role that they play in sustaining our agricultural and natural ecosystems.

Sign the Petition: https://docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLSdKFGPReIE.../viewform.

One of the community engagements of Louise Chawla, a CEDaR fellow, is serving on the leadership committee of People and Pollinators Action Network, a statewide group that works for healthy ecosystems and biodiverse habitat for pollinators and the web of life of which they are an essential part.

"Not only are pollinators necessary for many of the crops that feed people, but they also sustain many of the wildflowers and flowering trees and shrubs on Colorado’s wildlands," she says.

CEDaR is proud to present an "Adaptation Urbanism" workshop with Andrés Duany, a national leader in new urbanist design. The Feb. 15 workshop focuses on urban design ideas and adaptation plans to help planners, designers and city officials address climate change and related natural disasters.

A limited number of scholarships are available for students. For more information visit, https://www.colorado.edu/cedar/2020/01/03/feb-15-adaptation-urbanism-andr%C3%A9s-duany