Friday, March 12:
Growing Cooler (Boulder Chapter, Urban Land Institute)

7:30 am – 10 am
The Peloton
1685 38th Street (at Arapahoe)

Leading urban planning researchers have documented evidence that shows better-planned, less automobile-dependent urban growth is essential to limiting our community’s carbon footprint. What is Boulder’s role in ‘Growing Cooler’? How might plans to ‘Grow Cooler’ affect the way we think about affordable housing? Transportation? Redevelopment of underused sites? Economic vitality? How does this relate to regional and federal efforts such as the new “Obama Trifecta” partnership among HUD, DOT, and EPA to encourage smart growth?

This breakfast session will feature Jerry Walters, co-author of the 2007 ULI book, Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change. The book influenced climate change legislative proposals across the US, including Colorado.

Jerry Walters is a principal with Fehr & Peers Associates, a California-based transportation planning and engineering firm. He directs integrated land use/transportation research and planning throughout the US and abroad.

Other invited speakers
Rick Garcia, former Denver City Councilman and newly appointed director for HUD Region 8
Cynthia Cody, Sustainability Coordinator, EPA Region 8
Stephanie Gripne, Director, Sustainable Development Initiative, CU Real Estate Center

Moderator: Will Toor, Boulder County Commissioner.

Sponsored by Bancroft Capital/The Peloton and Fehr & Peers. Program subject to change. Copies of Growing Cooler will be for sale at the event.

Saturday, March 13: Town Hall Meeting on Education with Senator Rollie Heath

10 am – noon
Chautauqua Community House
Grand Assembly Room (south of Dining Hall)
Free and open to the public

Guest speaker: Dr. Chris King, Superintendent of the Boulder Valley School District since 2007, and former principal of Boulder High School

Saturday, March 13: Forum: Health Reform: What Now!? Is Medicare for All the Only Conservative Solution?

Unitarian-Univeralist Church of Boulder
5001 Pennsylvania Ave.
(From Arapahoe, S. on 48th which becomes Eisenhower, which, in turn, becomes Pennsylvania.)
Saturday, March 13th, 1:30 pm – 4 pm

Moderator: Dr. Mark Laitos, President Colorado Medical Society
Panelists:
Dr. Irene Aguilar, Pres. of Health Care for All Colorado
Jim Hoffmeister, Clean Campaign for Colorado
Dr. Brea Bond, Peoples Clinic of Boulder
Special Guest: Andrew Romanoff, Candidate for U.S. Senate

Monday., March 15: “Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist” Author at Naropa

Naropa University Shambhala Hall
2139 Arapahoe
7:30 pm

Naropa University Religious Studies Department is proud to host Buddhist teacher, writer and scholar Stephen Batchelor for a book signing and talk in support of his new book, “Confession of a Buddhist Atheist.” The signing is scheduled for March 15 at 7:30 p.m., in Naropa University’s Shambhala Hall, 2130 Arapahoe Ave and is free and open to the public. For more information please contact the Naropa Religious Studies Dept. at 303-245-4744.

Published in March 2010 by Spiegel & Grau/Random House, “Confession of a Buddhist Atheist” traces the author’s thirty-eight-year engagement with Buddhism and recounts his inaugural trip to India at the age of 18, his first meeting with the Dalai Lama, and his quest to find what lies at the core of the teachings.

The journalist and author Christopher Hitchens praised “Confession of a Buddhist Atheist” for its boldness: “The human thirst for the transcendent, the numinous-even the ecstatic-is too universal and too important to be entrusted to the cultish and the archaic and the superstitious. In this honest and serious book of self-examination and critical scrutiny, Stephen Batchelor adds the universe of Buddhism to the many fields in which received truth and blind faith are now giving way to ethical and scientific humanism, in which lies our only real hope.”

June 16-20: National Co-Housing Conference

CU Campus

Early-bird registration ends March 31, 2010. For details visit the Conference website

The national cohousing conference is the place to be for aspiring cohousers, cohousing residents, cohousing professionals, and community experts. This year’s theme, Sustainability through Community, connects these two parallel movements. Coho U – two-day intensives June 16th -17th before the conference – will highlight the links between the two movements and will include a course on sustainability. During the main conference, all four featured speakers will explore sustainability and its relationship to community.

We’ll be walking the talk by making this conference more sustainable than ever before. We’ll provide non-disposable cups and use zero-waste plates and tableware. Our keynote speaker, Bill McKibben, will join us via video with live Q&A. And all of this will take place at the beautiful University of Colorado campus in Boulder, Colorado, a city renowned for its commitment to sustainability.