Aug. 22, 2022 Natural Climate Solutions Climate Conversation Video Transcript

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Hi, everyone.

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We'll get started here in a couple minutes and let

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folks trickle in.

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All right, welcome everyone to our third climate

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conversation session. I'm Leah

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Kelleher and I'm one of two communication Specialists

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with the city's climate initiatives Department. My counterpart

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Emily Sandoval is behind the scenes

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running the show tonight in the

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next hour or so. We'll explore an area

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of climate work called natural climate Solutions.

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And we'll hear from those leading our community-wide cool Boulder

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campaign.

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Before we get started. I'd like to draw everyone's attention

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to the Q&A function that will be using to receive

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an answer questions tonight. So throughout

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the presentation you can submit questions

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by pressing the little Q&A icon at

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the bottom of your screen, which will open a window

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where you can type in your question and submit it

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whenever you so please and feel free. Like

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will be accessible on our website. And now

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I'm going to turn it over to two of

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my colleagues Brett can Karen and Rella Abernathy so

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they can introduce themselves Brett rella.

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Good evening everyone. My name is Brett. Kin Karen. I'm

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one of the clean leading senior policy

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advisor here for the city's climate action

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Department.

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Hi, and I'm really Abernathy. I also work

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for the climate initiatives department on the natural

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climate Solutions team with Brett.

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Well, we're really excited to have everybody here tonight. And I just

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want to give you a little bit of an overview of what we're going to cover. So we're

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gonna go down through four major action

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areas that we are working on in this

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cool Boulder natural climate Solutions work.

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Starting with our work around biodiversity and

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pollinator protection absorbent Landscapes our

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connected canopy urban forestry work and then

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some of the really fun and exciting citizen science

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that we've been working on as well and then we'll round

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out to talk about the sort of partnership context of this

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whole piece but to get a started I wanted to introduce our

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city manager in area who has a special welcome for

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all of us.

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In Boulder, we recognize that climate change is not just

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happening. It's intensifying and accelerating.

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Together our community has been working side by

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side to protect our natural resources build more

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resilient community and lead and sustainability

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for over a century.

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Climate and resilience work is at the core of

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what we stand for as an organization and there are

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so many examples of this across the city departments.

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From water utility capturing methane from our

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Water Resources recovery facility to our open space that's

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working hard to restore the health of our soils or a

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transportation department who is always looking for low

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or no emission Mobility Alternatives. This is

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truly a Citywide responsibility.

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Also know that how we anticipate and prepare

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for the worst impacts of the climate crisis is on

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our minds as is how do we protect and identify those

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that are most vulnerable amongst us?

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To secure a safe environment and a safe future for all

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of our community. We must redouble our efforts to address the

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climate crisis and prepare for inevitable change. The city

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of Boulder takes this responsibility very seriously. The

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good news is that we know what we need to do. We

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need to cut greenhouse gas emissions by half

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by 2030. We need to rapidly transition from

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fossil fuels to better renewable sources of

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energy.

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We need to protect our forest and undeveloped lands

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to absorb carbon and heat we need to transform our

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cities through walkability and electrified Transit.

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We should change our Behavior so that we all lead more efficient climate-friendly

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lives and create an environment that

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limits extraction and generates less waste thanks

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to you our community. We know

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that those Solutions are within reach.

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Okay. Well, we thought it would be sort of

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appropriate since we're talking about essentially living

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systems ecosystems natural climate solutions that we

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be out and about in the community as much as possible for

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this presentation. So let's just start up with some of

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our really iconic landscapes for our

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next piece.

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Good evening, dear Boulder Community.

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We are so excited to have you here this evening to join us

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in a conversation about this new area of

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climate action. We called natural climate Solutions.

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There's so much to discuss but I think maybe we just

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wanted to start by recognizing that this whole

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area of work really grows out of a long Legacy of

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our communities connection to its Living World our

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love of its beauty our our nourishment

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from all of its health and its vitality

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and the ways that we've worked in many ways to

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be on the Leading Edge of trying to understand what it takes to take

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care of these places in ways that they can take care of us.

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Climate change is a reality that we are going to

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have to live with with increasing regularity just

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in the last decade in the Boulder area alone. We've

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experienced historic flooding.

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Multiple extreme weather events unlike those we've typically

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seen and of course numerous fires some

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burning right down to our doorsteps at times

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and in places that we never thought would be at fire risk.

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So that's the bad news. We are going to have to prepare ourselves for

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the increasing intensity and frequency of climate

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change impacts.

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The good news is that we can work with

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the Living World in ways that not only improve our

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resilience to those kinds of disruptive forces.

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but that ultimately are a part of helping to

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stabilize climate through the very important climate

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buffering effects that living systems have

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an example in our own recent experience are the

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spring fires that took place right outside here in Boulder.

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I'm standing in fact in front of the fire scars

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from the end car fire this spring now, you'll

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notice that that Forest is not completely destroyed and

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that's not a coincidence. It's because of years of

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careful forestry activity that had reduced the

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fuels that had thinned up branches that had created us

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condition in which fires could move through those Landscapes improving

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actually the health of those ecosystems

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and reducing risk of fire later on

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so there are ways that we can start working with

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living systems in numerous ways. And that's what we're about to start talking

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about.

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So let's

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talk a little bit about what natural climate

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Solutions are.

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First and frankly most fundamentally. It's recognizing that

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we are a part of a larger Living Community. All

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of which actually has a vested interests

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in a healthy stable dynamic system.

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And so really in the most fundamental sense

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natural climate Solutions is turning towards the living world as an

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ally in this effort.

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It's more specifically it means working with the

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different types of living systems that are around

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us riparians in Greenways Urban forests. Not

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of natural force Parks grasslands agricultural

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systems. And of course all the Aquatic systems as

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well intersected, by the way, in almost all

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cases by the carbon that flows through them which

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we can help augment through compost and Mulch and

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biochar into to work with those systems not

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only to draw carbon out of the atmosphere but use

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that carbon in ways that actually create some of those

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life support services that we really need more shade more

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stormwater absorption more clean nutrient

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dense food more biodiversity to keep

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all of those pieces in place that help keep that system going.

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And I think that this this for this this

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graphic tries to also encapsulate that climate action

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is no longer just about that sort of carbon emissions

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management piece it now as we've we've said

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that there's going to be climate change we have

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to prepare to adapt and be resilient to that and we

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have to do all of that in ways that are Equitable especially

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to Serve and Protect those who are most vulnerable into

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those who have not historically been served as well by

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our systems.

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So let's talk a little bit about how natural climate Solutions have

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emerged in why this is the kind of classic Smoking Gun

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sort of causation slide that you'll see between fossil fuel

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combustion and and Atmospheric emissions.

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So the pink line is the amount of

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CO2 that's in the atmosphere and as you can see it was

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going along. So we're a little less than 280 parts

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per million up and through about the mid

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1800s and then suddenly it starts to take off.

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Well at about that time and this is the blue line.

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Not the Blue Line in Boulder elevation line, but the blue

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line of in this case fossil fuel consumption starts to

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really take off. And so we see these two these two lines matching

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very closely. I think well, there you go climate change

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is being driven by this Burning of fossil fuels

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what we've started to realize more recently though is that in addition

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to that that's certainly a positive factor, but it's not

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the only cause that in fact one of the causes that's

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been taking place for quite a long time is the

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actual degradation of living systems the release of

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carbon from the terrestrial systems themselves. In

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fact in a recent analysis that came out these

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scientists projected that something like a third

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to a half of all the excess carbon that's in the atmosphere actually

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came from Land disturbance and

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land degradation. So it's really these two forces

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that we have to be working with to start stabilizing climate

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as you can see these curves match very

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closely together because of course as we had more

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fossil fuels we could degrade more land more efficiently essentially

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and that's contributed to that release of

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living system carbon.

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So we've seen this actually the power

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of living systems in ways that we haven't actually I

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think completely connected to this is the classic the the

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Gathering of the data about atmospheric carbon

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that comes from the Mauna Loa observatory in

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Hawaii. And by the way, one of our community members is actually

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the daughter of Charles Keeling who collected all

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this data and so it's it's kind of an interesting part of

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our own legacy, but what you know, mostly we look at that sort of

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upward curve, but what we don't notice so much is that

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zigzag? What is that zigzag? That's literally the respiration of

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the planet and that until we started tipping this

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system a little bit too much by putting fossil fuels in

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that system are living systems were pulling down. In fact

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more carbon each year than they were releasing and

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it's been because of that tipping through fossil fuel consumption and

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land degradation that we tipped it up until now the land

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and the oceans can't keep track with that. So

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what's important to note here is that the atmosphere

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is not simply

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A geochemical machine that's governed solely

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by CO2 in and CO2 out. It's actually

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a biologically mediated dynamic in

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which the carbon cycle is an important factor, but

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also the water cycle and the terrestrial energy

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cycle and we're starting to realize that we need to be managing

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for and with those Cycles in addition to

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the carbon cycle. If we not only want to stabilize climate, we

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actually want to address a whole series of other challenges.

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We're facing whether it's the biodiversity crisis the lack

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of clean water and and healthy soils

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and a whole bunch of others.

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So really what we're looking at and what Boulder is

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I I'm proud to say really a part of a sort of Leading Edge

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of work is how do we start to look at restoring that

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something like 50% of the global

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terrestrial system that we have degraded literally the the

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planet is operating at something like 50% of

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the photosynthetic capability that it had about

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a thousand years ago and that we need to get that back because

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when we do that has a huge potential to

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stabilize climate.

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This is confirmed in many ways by the recent analysis that

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the ipcc the intergovernmental panel on

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climate change released. In fact in analysis that came

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out in 2017 and 18. It said that over a third of

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all the climate action that we have to accomplish in the next decade could

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be done through working with these natural climate Solutions. And

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what's kind of interesting and in a way sort of

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exciting about this is that we're starting to realize that

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Carbon isn't necessarily a problem unto itself.

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It's where we've put carbon and in fact, we need to put carbon back

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into these living systems to enhance their

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capability of providing these kind of climate stabilizing in

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of a strategy of starting to work with the living world. And that's why

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we've created the cool Boulder campaign. So we really connect this

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work to our own lived experience. And and

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not a city campaign. This is a community campaign because

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there's no way that the City by itself could actually as an organization

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accomplish this without the sort of Brilliance and the

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amazing abilities that our community can bring to this

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They're going to be critical to providing that shade and canopy and

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cooling a second is biodiversity in the pollinator

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Pathways because as all the Leopold said

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like we need all those pieces to be a part of this very intricate system

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that keeps that robust ecosystem going and

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finally to really enhance the ability of living

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systems to absorb not simply carbon, but

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that start to create those stabilizing factors.

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work. We'll be talking about this pollinator Pathways and

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other work that we're doing the absorbent Landscapes. And

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also we'll talk a little bit about this really fun

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and exciting Community science efforts that we've

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been launching the first one around Urban heat mapping. We'll hear

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more about that and the really amazing work that

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our Community Partners have been doing about creating high quality

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compost moving into biochar and other factors like

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that. I just want to emphasize again and

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This is a Community Partnership. And there are already we this cool

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already almost 30 Community Partners who

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signed on who are taking the lead in various ways in this work.

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So I want to turn it over now to our colleague

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Rella Abernathy and others to start talking about how

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I'm really Abernathy and I'm a senior college just at the city of Boulder

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and the climate initiatives Department natural climate

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Solutions team. I'm out today with Andrea Montoya

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here at the gas growth historic neighborhood to

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learn about how we can transform Urban spaces

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into high quality connected Habitat to support

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our native insects birds and other wildlife.

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So, why does it matter what we plant in our cities and

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how does this help to reduce the impacts of climate change?

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And interconnected and Inseparable issue the

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same magnitude and importance as a climate crisis is the biodiversity

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crisis.

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Although biodiversity decline is a significant

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challenge. The solution is literally in

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our own hands and people here in Boulder are bringing our community together

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to create Solutions.

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So what is biodiversity did decline all about and

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how does it relate to the climate crisis?

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Biodiversity encompasses all life and all

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organisms on Earth each of these organisms interacts with

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the others in an intricate Web of Life and this

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forms ecosystems of communities of organisms interacting with

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each other in the non-living parts of our environment.

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We can look at how these ecosystems function at different

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scales from local ecosystems to the global scale.

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The problems that arise from the smallest scale can create tipping points

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that can lead to Domino or cascading impacts that

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can shift Global Systems.

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All life on Earth including us is reliant on

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ecosystems.

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They provide the air we breathe from Tiny phytoplankton

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in the oceans to Giant trees and ecosystems

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provide our food. Clean. Our water decompose waste

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provide pest control and regulate our climate.

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As a climate warms and we have more extreme weather events

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ecosystems are impacted.

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The earth's climate has been relatively stable during the time organisms of

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evolved and some are not doing well as temperatures increase

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if organisms can migrate to

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a place they can survive they're doing it. If they can't

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they're populations can crash either locally or even globally

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and the intricate interactions between organisms

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within ecosystem communities is

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shifting.

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As an ecosystem's function is altered. It impacts

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the climate since healthy soils sequester carbon

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hold water and regulate climate at both

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a local angle. Scale. This creates a vicious cycle

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between climate change and biodiversity decline.

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The biggest threat to ecosystems is a way we manage

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Our Land by degrading it and fragmenting ecosystems.

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This Dynamic around and change this vicious cycle to

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a virtuous cycle by using practices that heal

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the land and our ecosystems and preserving contiguous

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natural areas and creating connected habitat.

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An example of the importance of Land Management to biodiversity

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and climate are our Wetlands healthy Wetlands

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contain some of the highest stores of carbon or the

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most productive habitats on Earth acting as nurseries to

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plants and animals and they moderate and buffer storms

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and flooding and the clean and filter or water.

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The city's mosquito program understands the potential

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of wetlands as pest control and specialized ecologists

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who are contracted for the mosquito program conduct the

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biodiversity surveys to learn about the conditions increase populations

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of mosquito predators and reduce the impacts

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of mosquito control products.

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City staff also learned from experts when samples are

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taken with special aquatic Nets it reveals a rich

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variety of Life composed of insect Predators, like baby

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damselflies beetles and bugs.

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And we also know that adult dragonflies are important

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mosquito predators and these

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dragonflies then become food to animals like this fledgling red-winged

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Agriculture is one of the leading drivers of biodiversity loss.

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We need systemic change to feed people.

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Well at the same time addressing biodiversity decline

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by changing the way we farm and using practices

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that build healthy and Disturbed soils and bring life back

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to Farms. The city has a history of developing sustainable

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agricultural practices and promoting local food

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production. Just last week the city's partner.

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The advice Foundation was here in Boulder Gathering data

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on 20 local farms both City and County

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Agriculture properties as well as private Farms as part

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of their 1,000 Farm initiative where they're

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learning how farming practices affect soil carbon and water soil

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Health the biodiversity events experts and

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plants the nutritional value of food and increasing profit

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for our hard-working Farmers. This research will

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provide a roadmap for farmers who grow different types of crops on

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different types and sizes of farms Across the Nation to help

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them learn from successful regenerative farmers.

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Last week the dices scientists held a science night

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at Golden hope Farm to show our community how this data

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is being collected and how it will be used.

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It makes me feel hopeful that there's so much

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on the ground action to restore the health of our planet.

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I know that many of us feel that we can't do anything as individuals that

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will really make a difference.

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But when more and more people take action and not only

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makes a true ecological impact, but it inspires others to

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join in the way that we manage our yards and

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green spaces can create safer spaces for people

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and Wildlife.

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But can also protect our creeks and waterways from toxic runoff. We

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can all make a difference by learning together and building relationships with

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each other and with nature it can start by

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taking out some grass and planting a native shrub or some native grasses or

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flowers. Andrea can tell you how you can get

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Hi, my name is Andrea Montoya and

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I live in the historic Costco neighborhood where I

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started several years back a project

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called building a pollinator Corridor. It

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started from my understanding that native

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Beast species were in great decline. Not

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the honey bees that were imported here long ago, but

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the bees that evolved here.

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And then I learned that the reason that these bees

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are in great decline is because habitat

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is in great decline. We're losing numbers

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of species of native plants year after

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year because of lawns.

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I looked around my neighborhood and I noticed a

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couple of things one. We have tremendous beautiful flower

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gardens in each yard, but they're separated by

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large spaces. And another thing I noticed were these small

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pocket parks that we had were the only thing

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growing with sod and I knew our community could

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do better.

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I started a project called building pollinator

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habitat and found other neighbors

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were also very interested in improving our

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local habitats by planting plants that

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are native to our area. We could attract native

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insects that evolved with them that

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we could improve our own ecosystem right

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here in our own neighborhood.

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It turns out that the city of Boulder was also interested

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in this project and in the last year in

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particular, we've joined together in creating

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a wonderful program called the

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pollinator. Advocacy program.

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the pollinator advocacy program is a program that

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was developed in conjunction with the Horticultural team

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at the Butterfly Pavilion to develop a

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program that brings community members together to learn

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about how to build maintain and

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grow these beautiful pollinator habitats habitats

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that support all of our native

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insects and songbirds

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it's free. You can join us anytime during

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the next session that will be

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starting sometime in the spring or early summer what this

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program offers is an in-depth view

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of how to build these habitats everything

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from what goes into the soil how you

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maintain the court how you maintain your habitat how

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to grow the plants which plants to

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choose how to group them.

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intimidating at first and a lot of people come

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into it saying I have no idea what to do, even

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though I've been a gardener for years, but after weeks

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of being together sharing our group Knowledge Learning and

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studying what the Horticultural team from Butterfly

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Pavilion has brought to us and what we've learned on

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our own we bring it together and synthesize it

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to build a beautiful program of people working together

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achieving this goal of building not

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only habitat in our own yards, but

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in our broader

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Isn't she amazing? I can tell you every bit

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is amazing as she seems and in fact, you could be hanging out with Andrea.

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So that was the biodiversity and

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and pollinator Pathways elements of our work. We're going

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to now talk a little bit about the absorbent Landscapes where

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I get to introduce another one of my heroes a couple

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of years back the our open space and Mountain parks department

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really realized that we needed to start focusing on soil

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Health much more extensively. And so we've created a new

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position in the city of Boulder to really focus on soil health

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and have hired an amazing soil scientists named

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Lauren Cole who's going to tell you a little bit more about absorbent landscapes.

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Soils are they figurative and literal Foundation of

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terrestrial ecosystems? And so when we have healthy

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soils, we have a wide array of

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ecosystem benefits that come along with it every drop that

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falls on the ground whether it's from irrigation or

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rain or snow. We want to make sure that water is going into the

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soil profile and percolating down rather than running off

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Overland onto our streets into

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our creeks and rivers healthy soils also produce

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healthy plants that are resilient and plants

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I could go on and on about the benefits of plants, right

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but plants provide food for us, they provide

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habitat and food for wildlife. They provide evaporative

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cooling on hot days and wind breaks during

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the winter. So having healthy soils and healthy plants goes hands

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in hand.

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Healthy soil is also help with better nutrient

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cycling. So carbon and phosphorus and

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nitrogen that are cycling through the soil is enabled

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by those soil microorganisms. And without them.

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We don't have that cycling of nutrients healthy soils

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also are less prone to erosion via

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wind or rain.

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So when we get a big rain event or big wind event

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if we have healthy plants holding that soil in place. It's not

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going up the air or into our water. So we have cleaner air

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and cleaner water. Now it open space. We're doing a lot

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of different things to improve our soil Health on that 16,000 Acres.

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We're minimizing soil disturbance,

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so reducing or eliminating tillage increasing plant

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diversity. So we're not just having a big field of one

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type of grass we want form. So we want shrubs. We want trees keeping

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a Living Root in the soil all year round

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if we have bare ground because there's no plants that soil

518
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can blow when we get those big wins in March.

519
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We also want to incorporate livestock where it makes sense and where it's appropriate

520
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because they are how these ecosystems evolved in

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this area. So we're doing a bunch of different things

522
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on open space to incorporate those principles the biggest

523
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thing being bringing in compost and that

524
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helps in a couple of different ways one recycling nutrients

525
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from the city.

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Back onto our aglands, right? So we have

527
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that nutrient cycling. I was talking about earlier. We're also bringing in those

528
00:27:27.300 --> 00:27:30.700
essential plant nutrients in organic matter that soil microorganisms

529
00:27:30.700 --> 00:27:31.900
need to support plants.

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We're also looking at ways of increasing plant diversity.

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So planting trees planting shrubs and

532
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also reseeding fields to get more diversity of different types

533
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of grasses and different types of Forbes that

534
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are more resilient to our changing climate and while I'm working at

535
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a big scale at open space these principles can also be carried over

536
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to our Urban Parks our homes and our green

537
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ways.

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And so that's why it's so important to have different Community Partners to bring

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into these efforts. This is a Citywide effort and this

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is something everyone can benefit from and everybody

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can contribute to I wanted to introduce you to one of

542
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our most important Community Partners Dan mashup Eco

543
00:28:09.200 --> 00:28:12.200
cycle eco-cycle has been a leader in this space

544
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for a long time from efforts like our backyard carbon

545
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farmer project to being a

546
00:28:18.400 --> 00:28:21.300
key partner in helping the city and county figure out

547
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whether we can develop a local high quality compost resource.

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Dan is here to introduce Eco Cycles latest initiative, which

549
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is looking at developing community-based composting both

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in the city of Boulder and around Boulder County. Welcome, Dan.

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Thank you, Lauren.

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My name is Dan Mage. I work for ecos cycle. I'm the

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compost and carbon Farm director and I'm standing

554
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in front of our new Heritage static

555
00:28:46.400 --> 00:28:49.700
piles compost system that we just installed for Longs

556
00:28:49.700 --> 00:28:52.400
Gardens. This is part of an initiative to

557
00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:55.600
create a distributed compost system

558
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rather than having to ship

559
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it long distances and then ship compost back.

560
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We're gonna we're gonna see what can we do to create

561
00:29:04.200 --> 00:29:08.400
a distributed community-based circular compost

562
00:29:07.400 --> 00:29:10.600
system here in Boulder. The first

563
00:29:10.600 --> 00:29:14.100
two of these bays are active composting systems.

564
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And then the last two are storage

565
00:29:16.700 --> 00:29:19.400
of our more carbonacious dry Woody stuff

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down here underneath the shed is is

567
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our aeration system. So we have a we have a solar

568
00:29:25.600 --> 00:29:28.100
powered blower. What we're trying to do

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is create Landscapes that absorb carbon water

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and provide pollinator habitat

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for our native pollinators.

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In order to do that, we need good soil to plant

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those plants in so essentially we need compost to

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provide that life force for

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these trees for their entire lifetime and for

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and for the pollinator plants as well.

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So that's the two of

578
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the three areas that we've been working in so far

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the the biodiversity pollinator Pathways the

580
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absorbent Landscapes. Now we've

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there's been as we all know it's been getting hotter and

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as it gets hotter and it will continue to get warmer. We're

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gonna need to have everything that our dispose of to try to bring

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those temperatures down and one of those critical areas is around our

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Urban canopy trees are an amazing source of

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not only shade and cooling but they're also essentially

587
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Nature's huge heat pumps. They literally

588
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through the process of evapot transpiration take energy

589
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to turn that water liquid into a water

590
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vapor and send that off into the atmosphere as a convective heat

591
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and it basically transfers a huge amount of energy

592
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up into the atmosphere much of it that actually even leaves we need

593
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more of that as we're moving into this period so a

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big area of our activity in this coming

595
00:30:50.200 --> 00:30:53.500
year and years will be around growing out our Urban

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Forest canopy. You might say well Boulder didn't

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have

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When we were I mean when it wasn't originally a place that

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had a little interest. Well, we live in constructed Landscapes these

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days and as we start to deal with these increasingly

601
00:31:05.800 --> 00:31:08.200
intense sort of Dynamics, we're going to find have

602
00:31:08.200 --> 00:31:11.200
to use all means that are disposal including the Living World to help

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00:31:11.200 --> 00:31:14.300
support us in that way. And that means not just planting trees in our

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00:31:14.300 --> 00:31:17.200
local urban areas, but also planting them

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00:31:17.200 --> 00:31:20.200
out into these areas to shade our drylands area. In

606
00:31:20.200 --> 00:31:23.500
fact, this these pictures the ones on top are from tree plantings

607
00:31:23.500 --> 00:31:26.800
that the dry lands agreecology Center put together out just

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north of town here to start creating swales and

609
00:31:29.400 --> 00:31:32.500
other mechanisms to shade and cool and keep that moisture

610
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in our grounds. We have very ambitious targets. We

611
00:31:35.200 --> 00:31:38.300
want to be planting something like 20,000 trees in the

612
00:31:38.300 --> 00:31:41.800
next eight or nine years. We want to be capturing 50,000 tons

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00:31:41.800 --> 00:31:44.200
of carbon into these plant things and we

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00:31:44.200 --> 00:31:47.500
want to be reducing temperatures, especially in some of our most vulnerable areas

615
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by as much as five to ten degrees. Now, we have

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a tremendous forestry team in our

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city and we are so grateful to have Kathleen Alexander and

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Gel and Alan and many others doing that but as you

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may know our public forests are only about 15

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00:32:02.600 --> 00:32:05.600
to 20 percent of the trees in our community. The other

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hundreds of thousands are actually on our private lands.

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So we need to have ways that we can actually engage all of

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00:32:11.200 --> 00:32:14.400
us in support all of us to be doing that important forestry work

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that will grow out our canopies. And so we're really excited that

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there's a new initiative in town

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called the tree trust run by the play foundation and

627
00:32:23.900 --> 00:32:26.500
one of the leaders of that effort Josh

628
00:32:26.500 --> 00:32:29.300
Moore in a local arborist is here to tell you just a little bit more about trees.

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Hi, I'm Josh Morin. I'm

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a local arborist here in Boulder County

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Colorado with we love trees. I also

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serve as the chair of the tree tender advisory

633
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committee to support this Grassroots

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00:32:48.700 --> 00:32:52.400
campaign to help people

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in our local community to learn about trees

636
00:32:54.500 --> 00:32:57.800
that they can support our Urban Forest canopy

637
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in Boulder. You know, I think

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we all recognize that as a species. There's so

639
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many things the trees do for us and we

640
00:33:06.600 --> 00:33:10.200
have a vested interest in supporting treats.

641
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Survival of our species in many ways depends

642
00:33:14.500 --> 00:33:17.400
on the ecosystems. The trees are major players

643
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of not to mention everything else

644
00:33:20.400 --> 00:33:23.300
that we rely on trees for in terms.

645
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Of survival or even just finding a cool place

646
00:33:26.100 --> 00:33:29.300
to park during the day one actionable item that

647
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you can do is get involved in a program like the

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tree Trust.

649
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Where we run training programs like tree tenders, you

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know any way that you can get into

651
00:33:40.400 --> 00:33:43.800
relationship with trees and plants. Maybe it's

652
00:33:43.800 --> 00:33:46.200
just finding a small tree or

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00:33:46.200 --> 00:33:49.300
shrub to plant on your property and starting there.

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So I'm delighted to report that

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just as with the pollinator Advocate training program

656
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that just launched and will have another cycle of that. This next

657
00:34:00.400 --> 00:34:03.200
spring. We will have another cycle of the

658
00:34:03.200 --> 00:34:06.100
tree tenders training program that will launch this fall. So for those of

659
00:34:06.100 --> 00:34:09.700
you who are really inspired to work with trees and want to get more knowledge and

660
00:34:09.700 --> 00:34:12.300
more capability. We're building essentially a cohort of

661
00:34:12.300 --> 00:34:15.600
people who can support other people in the community to actually

662
00:34:15.600 --> 00:34:18.400
tend trees on these private grounds. So stay tuned for

663
00:34:18.400 --> 00:34:21.500
that through the the cool Boulder website.

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So the third the fourth area that I wanted to just touch

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00:34:25.400 --> 00:34:28.500
on tonight because it's just been so much fun already. Is this

666
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kind of community science work that we've been doing and some

667
00:34:31.300 --> 00:34:34.200
of you hopefully not only heard about

668
00:34:34.200 --> 00:34:37.800
but hopefully even participated in there was over a hundred people that participated

669
00:34:37.800 --> 00:34:41.600
about three weeks ago in the National

670
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Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

671
00:34:43.400 --> 00:34:46.800
sponsored heat mapping initiative. So we had folks going

672
00:34:46.800 --> 00:34:49.400
out with thermometers in cars running routes. We

673
00:34:49.400 --> 00:34:52.100
had people out in strollers. We had people on bikes we had people

674
00:34:52.100 --> 00:34:55.500
walking on the the bike pass Gathering data to

675
00:34:55.500 --> 00:34:58.200
start to build a comprehensive heat map for our

676
00:34:58.200 --> 00:35:01.400
community so that we'll know where our problem sites are

677
00:35:01.400 --> 00:35:04.300
and we'll also know what the difference is in temperature

678
00:35:04.300 --> 00:35:07.800
are between an area that say has 25% canopy closure

679
00:35:07.800 --> 00:35:10.200
and an area that has 10% and therefore we

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00:35:10.200 --> 00:35:13.700
can start to predict how much we can reduce temperatures by adding

681
00:35:13.700 --> 00:35:16.300
to those canopies. So we'll be continuing to

682
00:35:16.300 --> 00:35:19.600
do that heat mapping work each summer. There

683
00:35:19.600 --> 00:35:21.900
are also going to be other opportunities to get involved.

684
00:35:22.200 --> 00:35:25.700
Community science activities will be doing pollinator surveys next

685
00:35:25.700 --> 00:35:28.500
spring will be starting to look at doing land condition

686
00:35:28.500 --> 00:35:31.200
assessments so that we can see the change of our lands over

687
00:35:31.200 --> 00:35:34.800
time, especially as these climatic conditions start to change. I'd like

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to actually introduce one of the amazing graduate students who's

689
00:35:37.400 --> 00:35:40.400
been working with us this year along with the team of four that

690
00:35:40.400 --> 00:35:43.400
have come from the cued Masters in the environment program

691
00:35:43.400 --> 00:35:46.900
Adam Hall who helped to lead our Urban heat

692
00:35:46.900 --> 00:35:47.900
mapping program for the summer.

693
00:35:49.900 --> 00:35:52.200
Extreme heat kills more people than any other

694
00:35:52.200 --> 00:35:55.700
weather event in the United States and that impact is not distributed.

695
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Evenly he much like other extreme weather

696
00:35:58.100 --> 00:36:01.900
events disproportionately affect low-income and bypass

697
00:36:01.900 --> 00:36:04.700
communities. So it's really important to understand where that

698
00:36:04.700 --> 00:36:07.600
heat is localized where we finding those pockets

699
00:36:07.600 --> 00:36:10.300
of heat. This effort was really to find the

700
00:36:10.300 --> 00:36:13.700
hottest areas of Boulders so that the city and it's Community Partners

701
00:36:13.700 --> 00:36:16.000
can take action like tree planting to try and cool

702
00:36:16.200 --> 00:36:16.700
those areas down.

703
00:36:17.400 --> 00:36:20.500
It's really critical that we had the volunteers participating in

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00:36:20.500 --> 00:36:23.600
this event because we weren't been able to drive all those routes ourselves.

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I think a lot of them signed up because they're aware of this issue of

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00:36:27.200 --> 00:36:30.400
extreme heat, but then to actually, you know experience it on this day

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00:36:30.400 --> 00:36:34.000
and then to be thinking about it while they're out there collecting their data particularly

708
00:36:33.400 --> 00:36:36.400
for those who are walking and biking because they

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00:36:36.400 --> 00:36:39.200
could really feel it. You know, they weren't in that cool AC of their

710
00:36:39.200 --> 00:36:42.400
car. They were out there. We asked them to go to parking lots and

711
00:36:42.400 --> 00:36:45.400
stand in the middle of a parking lot for five minutes until they could get that temperature

712
00:36:45.400 --> 00:36:48.200
reading. So it was cool to hear them have that

713
00:36:48.200 --> 00:36:50.500
experience. I remember one woman in particular.

714
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Came running back to our tent was just so excited because she recorded

715
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a hundred and one degrees and she broke a previous record that he

716
00:36:57.500 --> 00:37:00.300
held. So just getting people to think about this differently thinking

717
00:37:00.300 --> 00:37:03.200
about why certain areas of the city are hotter than others and just

718
00:37:03.200 --> 00:37:06.600
seeing their excitement and getting that real-time data was really

719
00:37:06.600 --> 00:37:06.800
cool.

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00:37:07.700 --> 00:37:10.300
We are putting together a boulder heat Watch Team

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through the cool Boulder campaign and it's Community Partners and

722
00:37:13.500 --> 00:37:16.600
we're hoping that that heatwatch team can become you know Community leaders

723
00:37:16.600 --> 00:37:19.200
on the issue of urban heat. We have plans next summer

724
00:37:19.200 --> 00:37:22.600
to do more of a qualitative analysis of heat. So this Heroes,

725
00:37:22.600 --> 00:37:25.200
you know focused heavy on the on the quantitative data, you

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00:37:25.200 --> 00:37:28.300
know getting those temperature regions. But another side of this is really important

727
00:37:28.300 --> 00:37:31.600
is how does heat directly affect people and getting people stories

728
00:37:31.600 --> 00:37:34.500
out and then for the walking and biking

729
00:37:34.500 --> 00:37:37.000
activity that we designed we actually have in the

730
00:37:37.300 --> 00:37:40.300
works working with local school districts to get that activity as a

731
00:37:40.300 --> 00:37:44.200
part of local science curriculums. So getting a lot of students involved hopefully

732
00:37:43.200 --> 00:37:46.500
thousands of students involved out there collecting he

733
00:37:46.500 --> 00:37:47.800
data and thinking about these issues.

734
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Yeah, it's big shout

735
00:37:52.400 --> 00:37:55.300
out to Adam. By the way. So the NOAA program

736
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is in its third summer. So we were a part of a cohort of

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00:37:58.300 --> 00:38:02.200
I think 17 cities and counties around the country and because

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of Adam he developed a whole new

739
00:38:04.300 --> 00:38:07.800
sort of low cost heat

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00:38:07.800 --> 00:38:10.300
sensing system that you could put next put on

741
00:38:10.300 --> 00:38:13.400
to yours your phone and it enabled us to open up this heat

742
00:38:13.400 --> 00:38:16.200
mapping activity to a whole bunch more people than those who

743
00:38:16.200 --> 00:38:19.600
just normally drive so big shout out to Adam that whole system

744
00:38:19.600 --> 00:38:22.300
is now being tried out in other communities around the

745
00:38:22.300 --> 00:38:25.500
country and it was just so much fun to watch elementary school kids

746
00:38:25.500 --> 00:38:28.300
come up to the tables even some as early in

747
00:38:28.300 --> 00:38:31.300
the six am shifts and take those those govy devices with their

748
00:38:31.300 --> 00:38:34.300
phones out there and gather that data. So again, we'll be doing that again next

749
00:38:34.300 --> 00:38:34.500
summer.

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00:38:35.400 --> 00:38:38.400
So in addition to that sort of one day Blitz of

751
00:38:38.400 --> 00:38:42.400
heat mapping we've worked with a various departments

752
00:38:42.400 --> 00:38:45.600
across the the city to also stand up

753
00:38:45.600 --> 00:38:48.300
a whole stationary heat sensor Network. So

754
00:38:48.300 --> 00:38:51.700
we have now I think 60 plus heat sensors out

755
00:38:51.700 --> 00:38:54.300
in various places. This is also a partnership

756
00:38:54.300 --> 00:38:57.700
with another CU Department Laura D's

757
00:38:57.700 --> 00:39:00.300
lab up there and Megan Hayden who've helped us to map out

758
00:39:00.300 --> 00:39:04.500
where to put these sensors and when when NASA

759
00:39:03.500 --> 00:39:06.300
and JPL heard that

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00:39:06.300 --> 00:39:09.900
we were actually gathering this really high quality temperature data.

761
00:39:09.900 --> 00:39:12.300
They said we need that. There's actually a

762
00:39:12.300 --> 00:39:15.600
satellite on the International Space Station called the Eco stress

763
00:39:15.600 --> 00:39:18.300
satellite that has a hundred meter resolution. So

764
00:39:18.300 --> 00:39:21.100
that's not you know, a football field Square type and they want

765
00:39:21.100 --> 00:39:24.600
to be able to get that down to a narrower sort of vision so

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00:39:24.600 --> 00:39:27.500
they can have higher quality data, but they needed high quality on

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the ground data to do that. And we said well we might have that so

768
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I wanted to give you a chance to hear a little bit from these

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NASA scientists who've been working with us on that.

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So you can stress as a is a thermal radiometer

771
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that's been flying on the International Space Station since it's

772
00:39:43.400 --> 00:39:46.200
a sense of our 2018 and what we

773
00:39:46.200 --> 00:39:49.700
derive from ecustress is something called the land surface

774
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temperature. So it's the temperature you'd feel

775
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if you actually touch the surface of something and

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it's not the air temperature you'd feel as a human.

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From from this data, what we can do is we can

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actually quantify the temperature of surfaces in

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different environments such as the urban environment. However,

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the the current native resolution of

781
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Eco stress is it is around 70 meters especially resolution.

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So that's you can think of a small field

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or football field. And what

784
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we really want to do is get down to what we call street level

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00:40:23.400 --> 00:40:26.300
temperatures which are temperatures, you know,

786
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30 meters or last we can actually quantify differences between

787
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temperatures of streets and a small

788
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parking lot. This is mostly to help with with

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City officials to help with mitigation and heat reduction

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and Remediation efforts in the cities.

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What we can do is is some statistical modeling

792
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to try and shot what we call sharpen that data

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down to higher resolutions. For example, if you have a

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highway and you have some trees like most of trees on the

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left and on the right, you can really see this difference between

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a hot high of a and then it's

797
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Up next to the highway and maybe comes to the residential area. You can really see these

798
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differences that allows you then to quantify the effect

799
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of various trees on the

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land surface temperature and then you can think about

801
00:41:11.300 --> 00:41:14.200
how much water do you have available? How much money do you

802
00:41:14.200 --> 00:41:17.300
have available? And where do you want to plan trees? What

803
00:41:17.300 --> 00:41:20.600
kind of trees do you want to plant? And what would be the effect on the

804
00:41:20.600 --> 00:41:22.000
population for a certain area?

805
00:41:22.700 --> 00:41:26.200
Hopefully if we can build a robust model, we

806
00:41:25.200 --> 00:41:28.800
could at some point just make lens of

807
00:41:28.800 --> 00:41:31.600
his temperature measurements from space and then

808
00:41:31.600 --> 00:41:34.200
say something about the air temperature

809
00:41:34.200 --> 00:41:37.600
in a certain region, which then would go further

810
00:41:37.600 --> 00:41:40.600
into like are there certain neighborhoods that are consistently

811
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hot or at a certain neighborhoods that are consistently better off

812
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and who's the demographic that lists

813
00:41:46.400 --> 00:41:49.300
there. And what's the impact on the society in this

814
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these regions?

815
00:41:50.900 --> 00:41:53.900
And so these the air temperatures measurements you

816
00:41:53.900 --> 00:41:57.000
guys are making are very useful to us and to improve

817
00:41:56.300 --> 00:41:59.000
on on modeling and going from

818
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the land to the air temperatures.

819
00:42:03.400 --> 00:42:06.500
Isn't that exciting that we

820
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can be doing work in our community? That's literally up

821
00:42:10.300 --> 00:42:13.600
at the space station. And you know, it's just another one

822
00:42:13.600 --> 00:42:16.000
of these ways that it illustrates.

823
00:42:17.300 --> 00:42:20.400
The unique contributions that we can make as a

824
00:42:20.400 --> 00:42:23.300
community for a whole series of different reasons. And so I

825
00:42:23.300 --> 00:42:26.300
want to just close out this section by talking about the importance of

826
00:42:26.300 --> 00:42:29.500
community volunteers and and Community organizations that

827
00:42:29.500 --> 00:42:32.100
are already doing this work and one of those

828
00:42:32.100 --> 00:42:35.300
organizations some most of you know this but isn't it amazing that Boulder was

829
00:42:35.300 --> 00:42:38.600
one of the first communities in the country to actually have a curbside

830
00:42:38.600 --> 00:42:41.100
recycling program. Well, that was of course

831
00:42:41.100 --> 00:42:44.800
Eco cycle and this amazing cohort of volunteers at

832
00:42:44.800 --> 00:42:47.300
the time that have persisted year after year

833
00:42:47.300 --> 00:42:50.300
decade after decade and create a not only an amazing sort

834
00:42:50.300 --> 00:42:53.200
of circular economy around materials, but are also working in this

835
00:42:53.200 --> 00:42:56.000
other area like compost and biochar and others. So I want

836
00:42:56.200 --> 00:42:59.100
to just give Marty Mage from yika cycle a chance to talk about

837
00:42:59.100 --> 00:43:02.100
some of the great work that they're doing around soils carbon and

838
00:43:02.100 --> 00:43:02.900
carbon farming.

839
00:43:04.600 --> 00:43:07.600
Hi, I'm Marty Mage. I'm the deputy director

840
00:43:07.600 --> 00:43:10.300
at ecocycle and ecocycle is

841
00:43:10.300 --> 00:43:13.500
a homegrown Boulder County nonprofit organization

842
00:43:13.500 --> 00:43:16.600
founded in 1976. We made

843
00:43:16.600 --> 00:43:19.600
Boulder one of the first communities in the nation to offer

844
00:43:19.600 --> 00:43:22.600
curbside recycling to its residents and we are

845
00:43:22.600 --> 00:43:25.700
now one of the oldest and largest nonprofit recyclers

846
00:43:25.700 --> 00:43:28.200
and zero waste organizations in the US and we

847
00:43:28.200 --> 00:43:31.000
have now an international reputation as a

848
00:43:31.700 --> 00:43:34.900
leader and innovator in resource conservation. Our mission

849
00:43:34.900 --> 00:43:37.400
is to innovate Implement and

850
00:43:37.400 --> 00:43:40.400
advocate for local and Global zero Waste

851
00:43:40.400 --> 00:43:44.200
Solutions to foster a more regenerative Equitable

852
00:43:43.200 --> 00:43:47.500
and climate resilient future ecocycle

853
00:43:46.500 --> 00:43:49.200
is proud to be a part of the cool

854
00:43:49.200 --> 00:43:52.400
Boulder program. And one of the many ways we're partnering in

855
00:43:52.400 --> 00:43:55.500
the effort is by engaging our network of more

856
00:43:55.500 --> 00:43:58.900
than 1,000 volunteer Eco leaders the voluntary

857
00:43:58.900 --> 00:44:01.500
Eco leader network has long been the backbone of

858
00:44:01.500 --> 00:44:04.200
eco-cycle and how we are able to create.

859
00:44:04.500 --> 00:44:07.400
Change these volunteers go through a series of trainings with

860
00:44:07.400 --> 00:44:10.100
us at ecocycle to become the local person in the

861
00:44:10.100 --> 00:44:13.400
know and a resource for all things. They're a waste so

862
00:44:13.400 --> 00:44:16.300
that they can turn around and share their zero waste

863
00:44:16.300 --> 00:44:19.700
knowledge with their social networks in their neighborhoods or

864
00:44:19.700 --> 00:44:22.300
in their workplace their clubs and places of worship.

865
00:44:23.500 --> 00:44:26.400
They are superpower is that they are helping to create change right

866
00:44:26.400 --> 00:44:28.400
where they live and everywhere. They go.

867
00:44:29.500 --> 00:44:32.500
Our Eco leaders code deeply about natural resources and

868
00:44:32.500 --> 00:44:35.500
climate and they want to do everything they can to both

869
00:44:35.500 --> 00:44:38.500
mitigate climate change and to adapt our communities

870
00:44:38.500 --> 00:44:41.700
to be more resilient in the face of climate change in

871
00:44:41.700 --> 00:44:44.800
2018. We engage this network in a three-year

872
00:44:44.800 --> 00:44:47.700
pilot program to help with what we call Our Community

873
00:44:47.700 --> 00:44:51.100
carbon farming campaign where volunteers trial

874
00:44:50.100 --> 00:44:53.900
the use of compost and other compost

875
00:44:53.900 --> 00:44:56.300
products in their backyards applying these to their

876
00:44:56.300 --> 00:45:00.300
soils to determine whether we can use urban Landscapes

877
00:44:59.300 --> 00:45:02.500
particularly yards to help draw

878
00:45:02.500 --> 00:45:05.600
down and sequester carbon safely and

879
00:45:05.600 --> 00:45:06.800
beneficially in the soil.

880
00:45:07.700 --> 00:45:10.200
Now that we've closed out the carbon farming trial that

881
00:45:10.200 --> 00:45:13.500
three-year period has come to a close these volunteers are

882
00:45:13.500 --> 00:45:16.500
ready to share what they've learned with the whole community and it

883
00:45:16.500 --> 00:45:19.200
ties in beautifully with what the cool Boulder program is trying

884
00:45:19.200 --> 00:45:22.200
to do Eco leaders are ready to

885
00:45:22.200 --> 00:45:25.500
share what they know about carbon farming on Urban Landscapes to

886
00:45:25.500 --> 00:45:29.000
build healthy soils for the sake of creating absorbent Landscapes.

887
00:45:28.500 --> 00:45:31.500
These volunteers are also lining up to help

888
00:45:31.500 --> 00:45:34.400
with cool Boulder projects like heat mapping throughout

889
00:45:34.400 --> 00:45:37.500
the community and for helping to generate and distribute

890
00:45:37.500 --> 00:45:41.100
compost that they themselves generate for

891
00:45:40.100 --> 00:45:43.500
the purposes of sharing with their neighbors and

892
00:45:43.500 --> 00:45:46.300
networks. The goal of the cool Builder program is

893
00:45:46.300 --> 00:45:49.400
that it truly be a community-based effort and the

894
00:45:49.400 --> 00:45:52.200
engagement of the eco-cycle Eco leader network

895
00:45:52.200 --> 00:45:55.800
is a great way to really make change with trained

896
00:45:55.800 --> 00:45:58.800
community members working backyard by backyard

897
00:45:58.800 --> 00:46:00.600
and neighborhood by neighborhood.

898
00:46:02.700 --> 00:46:06.100
You know,

899
00:46:06.100 --> 00:46:09.400
we we could have picked almost any of

900
00:46:09.400 --> 00:46:12.900
the almost 30 local community organizations

901
00:46:12.900 --> 00:46:15.400
that are participating in this effort

902
00:46:15.400 --> 00:46:18.300
to tell another remarkable story just

903
00:46:18.300 --> 00:46:21.400
like this. There's there's a whole bunch that that we

904
00:46:21.400 --> 00:46:24.100
wanted to bring in but just because of time couldn't I did

905
00:46:24.100 --> 00:46:27.200
want to actually call on another organization that some of you might not have heard

906
00:46:27.200 --> 00:46:30.100
about wildlands restoration volunteers and some of

907
00:46:30.100 --> 00:46:33.400
the amazing work that they're doing now and helping us. Look at piloting here

908
00:46:33.400 --> 00:46:36.500
in the Front Range around some of the absorbent Landscapes efforts.

909
00:46:36.500 --> 00:46:39.500
This is Morgan Crowley from the wildlands restoration

910
00:46:39.500 --> 00:46:39.900
volunteers.

911
00:46:44.900 --> 00:46:47.500
My name is Morgan Crowley. I am

912
00:46:47.500 --> 00:46:50.600
the habitats and invasive species program

913
00:46:50.600 --> 00:46:53.700
manager for wildlands restoration volunteers. We

914
00:46:53.700 --> 00:46:56.700
focus on doing ecological restoration projects primarily

915
00:46:56.700 --> 00:46:59.600
that engage volunteers with our Land

916
00:46:59.600 --> 00:47:01.500
Management Partners all over the state.

917
00:47:02.500 --> 00:47:05.200
Our work takes us from like the

918
00:47:05.200 --> 00:47:08.500
Prairies all the way up into high Alpine environments

919
00:47:08.500 --> 00:47:11.600
doing work that can be anything from collecting native

920
00:47:11.600 --> 00:47:15.000
seeds to removing invasive species improving

921
00:47:14.800 --> 00:47:18.200
Trails for sustainability closing

922
00:47:17.200 --> 00:47:20.300
old four-wheel drive roads, and then,

923
00:47:20.300 --> 00:47:24.200
you know doing a lot of restoration following floods and wildfires our

924
00:47:23.200 --> 00:47:26.400
projects can range from like an

925
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afternoon, maybe collecting native seed nearby to

926
00:47:29.700 --> 00:47:32.800
an urban center. And those are a little bit more accessible and open

927
00:47:32.800 --> 00:47:36.200
to families and younger volunteers to

928
00:47:35.200 --> 00:47:38.300
anything from like three or four days in a

929
00:47:38.300 --> 00:47:41.200
Backcountry setting moving rocks and that are a

930
00:47:41.200 --> 00:47:43.000
bit more Technical and physically demanding.

931
00:47:43.500 --> 00:47:46.700
One of the things that I'm really most excited about in partnering

932
00:47:46.700 --> 00:47:49.100
with cool Boulder is you know, I think we're trying to

933
00:47:49.100 --> 00:47:52.200
find some opportunities to bring some of our what WRV has

934
00:47:52.200 --> 00:47:56.000
been doing with wet Meadow restoration kind of more in western, Colorado. We're

935
00:47:55.100 --> 00:47:58.400
going to try to bring that to the Front Range. So

936
00:47:58.400 --> 00:48:01.200
to give you a little bit of a background in what we've

937
00:48:01.200 --> 00:48:04.700
been doing out west WRV initially became

938
00:48:04.700 --> 00:48:07.500
involved with this kind of work back in

939
00:48:07.500 --> 00:48:11.100
2014, when we were invited to partner with the Gunnison

940
00:48:10.100 --> 00:48:13.200
climate working group to try to

941
00:48:13.200 --> 00:48:16.800
address critical habitat loss for the federally threatened

942
00:48:16.800 --> 00:48:19.100
Gunnison Sage browse. So they

943
00:48:19.100 --> 00:48:22.400
had brought in this stream restoration expert Bill

944
00:48:22.400 --> 00:48:25.400
Z Dyke who developed these real Innovative methods

945
00:48:25.400 --> 00:48:29.200
for restoring and reversing erosion in dry

946
00:48:28.200 --> 00:48:31.700
or air Landscapes. So that's pretty

947
00:48:31.700 --> 00:48:34.800
much all of Colorado Okay, so people commonly

948
00:48:34.800 --> 00:48:37.600
call them the next structures because they're

949
00:48:37.600 --> 00:48:40.600
named for Bill and the structures themselves are

950
00:48:40.600 --> 00:48:43.100
mostly really simple and

951
00:48:43.500 --> 00:48:46.300
Relatively small rock structures, which is

952
00:48:46.300 --> 00:48:49.300
great because that makes them very well suited for volunteer work.

953
00:48:49.300 --> 00:48:53.400
They're designed to do a variety of things from stopping erosion

954
00:48:52.400 --> 00:48:55.100
from advancing slowing down

955
00:48:55.100 --> 00:48:58.300
water and trapping sediment so that

956
00:48:58.300 --> 00:49:01.200
they can build eroded creek beds back.

957
00:49:02.100 --> 00:49:05.500
So these structures really work to retain moisture in the landscape?

958
00:49:06.200 --> 00:49:09.600
We run probably 200 to 250 volunteer

959
00:49:09.600 --> 00:49:12.500
events every year all of these opportunities are

960
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are easy to find on our website wlrv dot

961
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org, you know, especially now

962
00:49:19.300 --> 00:49:22.400
when there are so many challenges facing us and really

963
00:49:22.400 --> 00:49:25.600
give people a way to concretely give back and and bring

964
00:49:25.600 --> 00:49:28.000
some more hope into the picture.

965
00:49:29.900 --> 00:49:33.700
Now I

966
00:49:33.700 --> 00:49:36.900
was just talking to Morgan today. So we are actively working

967
00:49:36.900 --> 00:49:39.500
now to look at bringing some of those projects

968
00:49:39.500 --> 00:49:42.500
over onto the Front Range which there haven't been many done so far

969
00:49:42.500 --> 00:49:45.500
and there'll be lots of volunteer opportunities

970
00:49:45.500 --> 00:49:49.300
for those who want to get out and actually do some good hard,

971
00:49:48.300 --> 00:49:51.200
but very rewarding work out there in

972
00:49:51.200 --> 00:49:54.700
the landscape. So I just want to close this by

973
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by saying again that

974
00:49:57.400 --> 00:50:01.300
Cool Boulder is fundamentally a community centered

975
00:50:00.300 --> 00:50:03.400
campaign and it's it's

976
00:50:03.400 --> 00:50:06.400
success is based on and

977
00:50:06.400 --> 00:50:09.600
will depend on all of us as community members

978
00:50:09.600 --> 00:50:12.400
mobilizing the things that we know how to do the

979
00:50:12.400 --> 00:50:15.500
resources that we have the new capacities or skills

980
00:50:15.500 --> 00:50:18.200
that we're going to learn through this there's just so much

981
00:50:18.200 --> 00:50:21.300
to be done so many plants that need to be grown so much

982
00:50:21.300 --> 00:50:24.100
compost that needs to be made so much biocharge to

983
00:50:24.100 --> 00:50:27.400
be created and distributed that we need everybody to

984
00:50:27.400 --> 00:50:30.200
be in this process. And so here just some of the organizations that

985
00:50:30.200 --> 00:50:33.300
have already signed onto the cool Boulder effort. You can find out

986
00:50:33.300 --> 00:50:36.700
more about their efforts at all. The different links that

987
00:50:36.700 --> 00:50:39.300
are here. You can also go to the cool Boulder website

988
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and learn more about the activities that are involved in what each

989
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of these organizations is leading. So just want to say we we welcome

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00:50:45.800 --> 00:50:48.700
we invite we encourage we could all everything

991
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we can to get all of you involved because there's just I

992
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think a sense of rewarding fulfilling and

993
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hopeful work to

994
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Done in this cool Boulder area. So thank you Leah.

995
00:51:02.200 --> 00:51:03.100
Thanks, Brett.

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And we'll just jump to the next slide here.

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So there are a number of ways

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that folks can engage with and learn

999
00:51:15.200 --> 00:51:19.000
more about all of the Cities climate work

1000
00:51:18.400 --> 00:51:20.200
including cool Boulder.

1001
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As mentioned there are

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a variety of opportunities for folks get involved

1003
00:51:26.500 --> 00:51:29.700
directly with cool Boulder. We recommend checking

1004
00:51:29.700 --> 00:51:32.200
out the cool Boulder website. There's a

1005
00:51:32.200 --> 00:51:35.700
link right here that you can can explore

1006
00:51:35.700 --> 00:51:38.800
and and read more about opportunities and

1007
00:51:38.800 --> 00:51:39.400
sign up.

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next slide

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Perfect.

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There's also a project a really fun project. We've

1011
00:51:49.300 --> 00:51:52.400
been piloting for a while now.

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Called our audio collage where we've asked folks from

1013
00:51:56.600 --> 00:51:59.400
the community to share visions of

1014
00:51:59.400 --> 00:52:02.900
hope. So tell us what a climate resilient

1015
00:52:02.900 --> 00:52:06.500
Boulder could look like in 2030 2035

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00:52:05.500 --> 00:52:08.300
and paint us a

1017
00:52:08.300 --> 00:52:11.700
picture of that. It's been a really fun way to hear from our community and

1018
00:52:12.800 --> 00:52:16.000
Had also recommend checking out the first

1019
00:52:15.500 --> 00:52:18.200
audio collage that we put together some months

1020
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ago. We're not gonna play it now, but it's available

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on our website and you can see a link

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below.

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next slide

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There's also a number of frequent, you know,

1025
00:52:34.600 --> 00:52:37.300
bi-weekly and weekly resources that you

1026
00:52:37.300 --> 00:52:40.400
can stay up to date with what we're doing.

1027
00:52:40.400 --> 00:52:43.400
So the first is a newsletter that goes

1028
00:52:43.400 --> 00:52:44.300
out every two weeks.

1029
00:52:45.200 --> 00:52:48.200
And you can sign up for that on our website. I also

1030
00:52:48.200 --> 00:52:51.500
recommend checking out our city Newsroom where

1031
00:52:51.500 --> 00:52:55.600
Emily and I and other folks from departments

1032
00:52:54.600 --> 00:52:59.100
put up stories. Every department

1033
00:52:58.100 --> 00:53:01.700
has news going out and

1034
00:53:01.700 --> 00:53:04.300
we sure have a have a ton these days.

1035
00:53:04.300 --> 00:53:07.900
The other thing is our climate initiatives

1036
00:53:07.900 --> 00:53:10.600
Department web page, which is a great place to

1037
00:53:10.600 --> 00:53:14.100
find resources Services All

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00:53:13.100 --> 00:53:16.400
climate-related City staff.

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next slide

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00:53:21.600 --> 00:53:24.300
and then of course, you can connect with us via

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00:53:24.300 --> 00:53:27.700
email with questions or by phone using

1042
00:53:27.700 --> 00:53:30.300
those two resources.

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slide

1044
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and that concludes the formal presentation now,

1045
00:53:44.900 --> 00:53:48.000
we'll start our Q&A and

1046
00:53:47.600 --> 00:53:50.500
I'll pass it along to Emily.

1047
00:53:51.600 --> 00:53:54.200
Well good evening everyone and thanks for sticking around to the

1048
00:53:54.200 --> 00:53:57.500
presentation. My name is Emily Sandoval as Leah mentioned.

1049
00:53:57.500 --> 00:54:00.700
I'm the other Communications person supporting tonight's event

1050
00:54:00.700 --> 00:54:03.300
and we want to invite you now to use that

1051
00:54:03.300 --> 00:54:07.400
Q&A tool which some of you are already figured out to start

1052
00:54:06.400 --> 00:54:09.300
this conversation, right? We'd love to hear what

1053
00:54:09.300 --> 00:54:12.300
your thoughts are any questions you might have they're already

1054
00:54:12.300 --> 00:54:15.500
some really great ones in there. So I'd love to start. Maybe this

1055
00:54:15.500 --> 00:54:19.100
is a question for you and Brett arella which is specifically

1056
00:54:18.100 --> 00:54:23.100
related to HOA policies. So lots

1057
00:54:21.100 --> 00:54:24.300
of folks in our community live

1058
00:54:24.300 --> 00:54:27.600
in HOAs, and sometimes those bylaws can limit

1059
00:54:27.600 --> 00:54:30.200
what types of plants people can plant whether they can

1060
00:54:30.200 --> 00:54:34.000
even get rid of their lawn. I wonder if you can share some of

1061
00:54:33.600 --> 00:54:37.000
what the city is doing to address those challenges.

1062
00:54:39.500 --> 00:54:43.500
I can I can start and then you can answer some

1063
00:54:43.500 --> 00:54:44.100
more Brett.

1064
00:54:44.600 --> 00:54:47.300
Luckily, the state has already done something. So there are

1065
00:54:47.300 --> 00:54:50.500
state laws that have been passed and

1066
00:54:50.500 --> 00:54:53.100
I think starting back maybe about 2013 or

1067
00:54:53.100 --> 00:54:53.600
so.

1068
00:54:54.200 --> 00:54:57.700
And a couple others that have strengthened those

1069
00:54:57.700 --> 00:55:01.600
or an HOA cannot tell a resident

1070
00:55:00.600 --> 00:55:03.500
within that community that they

1071
00:55:03.500 --> 00:55:06.400
they can't put water wise

1072
00:55:06.400 --> 00:55:07.800
plants or take out grass.

1073
00:55:08.500 --> 00:55:11.300
So that would pertain to your the

1074
00:55:11.300 --> 00:55:14.600
property in your yard, and there's new

1075
00:55:14.600 --> 00:55:19.000
bills that are encouraging HOAs

1076
00:55:17.000 --> 00:55:20.200
to add

1077
00:55:20.200 --> 00:55:24.900
more water wise and climate friendly plantings. And

1078
00:55:24.900 --> 00:55:27.000
so there are some tools and it's always

1079
00:55:28.800 --> 00:55:32.100
Good to know, you know that there are certain statutes

1080
00:55:31.100 --> 00:55:34.900
that protect us to be able to you know,

1081
00:55:34.900 --> 00:55:38.100
improve the landscape so that they're more appropriate the

1082
00:55:37.100 --> 00:55:40.400
city is knows that this is an issue in

1083
00:55:40.400 --> 00:55:43.800
hoos. And so we've been working with various

1084
00:55:43.800 --> 00:55:46.500
ways and the community there are

1085
00:55:46.500 --> 00:55:49.500
some already doing great things and taking out grass and putting

1086
00:55:49.500 --> 00:55:49.700
in

1087
00:55:50.800 --> 00:55:53.700
Plants in the native plants

1088
00:55:53.700 --> 00:55:56.300
into the common areas. So we'll be

1089
00:55:56.300 --> 00:55:59.900
pursuing that more and be working more with HOAs

1090
00:55:59.900 --> 00:56:02.700
to make sure that we have the resources

1091
00:56:02.700 --> 00:56:06.400
people need the information the plants even if

1092
00:56:06.400 --> 00:56:09.300
they have the hire labor, we're all

1093
00:56:09.300 --> 00:56:12.100
so working on that to make sure that people are trained and

1094
00:56:12.100 --> 00:56:14.500
know how to take care of those types of landscapes.

1095
00:56:15.800 --> 00:56:18.300
Yeah, in many ways similar to where we were in

1096
00:56:18.300 --> 00:56:21.500
energy 10 or 15 years ago where we're just starting

1097
00:56:21.500 --> 00:56:24.500
to get a sense of what are the things that need to be done. We

1098
00:56:24.500 --> 00:56:27.400
need to quantify the benefits of those and the costs

1099
00:56:27.400 --> 00:56:30.700
and be able to start to have practices and

1100
00:56:30.700 --> 00:56:33.600
policies that we are really confident can

1101
00:56:33.600 --> 00:56:36.500
actually deliver the benefits that are needed. So we're in the

1102
00:56:36.500 --> 00:56:40.000
midst right now of doing an analysis of different landscape types

1103
00:56:39.300 --> 00:56:42.500
and the kinds of water impacts. They have the types

1104
00:56:42.500 --> 00:56:45.000
of Maintenance impacts that they have so those will be

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00:56:45.600 --> 00:56:48.100
sort of references that we can use for those. Hoa's that are

1106
00:56:48.100 --> 00:56:51.500
interested in moving that direction. I think what we'll likely be doing is starting with

1107
00:56:51.500 --> 00:56:54.700
the HOAs that are really ready to move and start taking new

1108
00:56:54.700 --> 00:56:57.500
steps. There's a lot of work right now with HOAs around

1109
00:56:57.500 --> 00:57:00.300
fire risk reduction. For example, in fact, if you're in

1110
00:57:00.300 --> 00:57:03.500
an HOA that hasn't had a chance to do that kind of fire risk reduction,

1111
00:57:03.500 --> 00:57:06.100
please contact the fire department because we want to make sure

1112
00:57:06.100 --> 00:57:09.400
that we get you folks in thecube for that kind of work as well. So as

1113
00:57:09.400 --> 00:57:12.200
well as said there are changes that are being made they're not

1114
00:57:12.200 --> 00:57:15.100
as fast as some of us would like to see but I think we are moving in that direction.

1115
00:57:17.300 --> 00:57:20.200
Right. Thanks for that question. Just as a

1116
00:57:20.200 --> 00:57:23.500
reminder. If you have questions go ahead and open up that Q&A tool

1117
00:57:23.500 --> 00:57:26.100
and type that in that's probably the easiest way

1118
00:57:26.100 --> 00:57:27.200
to get a hold of us.

1119
00:57:28.100 --> 00:57:32.100
Okay. I've got a specific question around unused Parcels

1120
00:57:31.100 --> 00:57:34.300
within our city and our community

1121
00:57:34.300 --> 00:57:38.000
and some requests for assistance specifically, how

1122
00:57:37.100 --> 00:57:40.600
can you help improve the unused and baron Parkland

1123
00:57:40.600 --> 00:57:42.400
at the Boulder Meadows Mobile Home Park.

1124
00:57:43.200 --> 00:57:47.400
Yeah, that isn't an area that we know has significant issues

1125
00:57:47.400 --> 00:57:50.500
because of past flooding and also it has

1126
00:57:50.500 --> 00:57:53.500
canopy issues in terms of being able to to get

1127
00:57:53.500 --> 00:57:56.100
enough canopy to cool those areas. One of the things

1128
00:57:56.100 --> 00:57:59.700
we're moving towards is kind of a neighborhood by neighborhood analysis

1129
00:57:59.700 --> 00:58:03.100
of these climate risks and climate

1130
00:58:02.100 --> 00:58:05.400
Solutions. And that's one of the areas that

1131
00:58:05.400 --> 00:58:08.200
we're looking quite closely at so I would

1132
00:58:08.200 --> 00:58:11.500
say if you're in an area and you think that there's significant opportunities in

1133
00:58:11.500 --> 00:58:14.500
that area that you and your neighbors could move towards working

1134
00:58:14.500 --> 00:58:17.200
on that would be the kind of thing that we would love to have you

1135
00:58:17.200 --> 00:58:20.200
kind of get in touch and start to think about as a community how

1136
00:58:20.200 --> 00:58:23.500
you can start working towards that as well as said we are

1137
00:58:23.500 --> 00:58:27.400
looking at ways that we can start trying to bring more resources financial

1138
00:58:26.400 --> 00:58:29.400
and otherwise to support these kinds

1139
00:58:29.400 --> 00:58:32.200
of efforts be a little patient with us. Like

1140
00:58:32.200 --> 00:58:35.300
we're about four months out of the gate just getting started here

1141
00:58:35.300 --> 00:58:38.400
part of the ballot an issue that we have. This fall will

1142
00:58:38.400 --> 00:58:41.800
determine whether we have additional resources that we can actually put towards

1143
00:58:41.800 --> 00:58:42.800
these kinds of activities.

1144
00:58:43.200 --> 00:58:46.000
But it is something that we're committed to in the long term. We're not going to

1145
00:58:46.100 --> 00:58:49.300
get this all done in a year or two. We see this is at least a 10

1146
00:58:49.300 --> 00:58:49.800
year campaign.

1147
00:58:51.100 --> 00:58:53.800
And you know I can add that. We we know that.

1148
00:58:55.100 --> 00:58:58.100
With these situation for folks who live in mobile home parks and

1149
00:58:58.100 --> 00:59:01.900
and BHP properties and other and

1150
00:59:01.900 --> 00:59:02.100
rentals.

1151
00:59:02.900 --> 00:59:05.300
That I mean people may not

1152
00:59:05.300 --> 00:59:08.100
have the resources or the permission from their

1153
00:59:08.100 --> 00:59:11.700
landlord to make these changes. And so we and

1154
00:59:11.700 --> 00:59:15.200
people in the community are really focused on making

1155
00:59:14.200 --> 00:59:18.100
sure that everybody has access to the

1156
00:59:17.100 --> 00:59:20.200
plant materials and the information they need

1157
00:59:20.200 --> 00:59:23.100
to help transform these types of landscapes.

1158
00:59:23.900 --> 00:59:26.300
Yeah, just to build on that a little bit. We were just

1159
00:59:26.300 --> 00:59:29.200
on the phone today talking about whether or not

1160
00:59:29.200 --> 00:59:29.800
we could help.

1161
00:59:31.200 --> 00:59:34.900
Accelerate the development of a vision that Congressman

1162
00:59:34.900 --> 00:59:37.500
naguse had around the Colorado Conservation Corps

1163
00:59:37.500 --> 00:59:40.600
a CCC and whether we could get young people,

1164
00:59:40.600 --> 00:59:43.800
especially young people from less advantage to

1165
00:59:43.800 --> 00:59:46.800
areas into training programs where they would have the basic skills

1166
00:59:46.800 --> 00:59:49.100
so that we could deploy them as teams out to do some of

1167
00:59:49.100 --> 00:59:52.300
the Hazardous fuels reduction or plantings or

1168
00:59:52.300 --> 00:59:55.800
the things that need to be done to bring these areas into greater

1169
00:59:55.800 --> 00:59:57.100
ecological productivity.

1170
00:59:59.900 --> 01:00:02.200
Yeah, and I think there's a question

1171
01:00:02.200 --> 01:00:05.500
here that sort of related which may be really you can answer there's this.

1172
01:00:06.300 --> 01:00:09.100
This knowledge that maybe Lawns are not the right thing to be

1173
01:00:09.100 --> 01:00:12.700
planting in our private areas. But is there

1174
01:00:12.700 --> 01:00:15.400
a list or a list of resources that you can provide

1175
01:00:15.400 --> 01:00:18.400
of what types of plants should

1176
01:00:18.400 --> 01:00:21.300
go in their place? Can we use some of this time to

1177
01:00:21.300 --> 01:00:23.300
educate folks on what those plants might be?

1178
01:00:24.500 --> 01:00:27.300
Yeah, again a place of just a little patience. We hope there's

1179
01:00:27.300 --> 01:00:31.400
been a bunch of work on this the state forestry. The

1180
01:00:31.400 --> 01:00:34.200
other associations have

1181
01:00:34.200 --> 01:00:37.300
been putting out lists, but the lists aren't well aligned yet.

1182
01:00:37.300 --> 01:00:40.200
So one of the issues that one of the things we're working on this

1183
01:00:40.200 --> 01:00:43.400
fall is to start trying to bring convening so that we can especially have for example

1184
01:00:43.400 --> 01:00:46.800
fire adapted or fire suitable vegetation.

1185
01:00:46.800 --> 01:00:49.600
Certainly the pollinator Advocate

1186
01:00:49.600 --> 01:00:52.300
training program is a great place to learn about what kinds of

1187
01:00:52.300 --> 01:00:55.400
plants are well suited for that and then we're also going to be looking at

1188
01:00:55.400 --> 01:00:58.400
the the most appropriate types of tree species

1189
01:00:58.400 --> 01:01:01.700
and others to be using as we're looking at a dry drier and

1190
01:01:01.700 --> 01:01:02.700
hotter future.

1191
01:01:04.400 --> 01:01:07.800
And there are quite a few lists to available on the

1192
01:01:07.800 --> 01:01:09.200
city's website if you go to.

1193
01:01:10.500 --> 01:01:14.600
Be bolder not the CU Boulder, but bee

1194
01:01:13.600 --> 01:01:17.500
Boulder like the insect.org and

1195
01:01:16.500 --> 01:01:19.600
you click on pollinator Pathways there.

1196
01:01:19.600 --> 01:01:23.600
There's a whole list of resources that you

1197
01:01:23.600 --> 01:01:26.000
can find about plants that are good for

1198
01:01:26.900 --> 01:01:29.300
landscaping in in our in

1199
01:01:29.300 --> 01:01:30.600
our climate native plants.

1200
01:01:31.200 --> 01:01:34.400
And there's also it's a little harder to find. I

1201
01:01:34.400 --> 01:01:37.000
think if you scroll down at the bottom on that page, there should be

1202
01:01:38.300 --> 01:01:41.200
A link to sustainable Landscapes and

1203
01:01:41.200 --> 01:01:45.600
that tells you how if you're going to have grass how you can manage it organically

1204
01:01:44.600 --> 01:01:48.300
and sustainably and that's important because

1205
01:01:47.300 --> 01:01:50.300
if we are going to have grass we need

1206
01:01:50.300 --> 01:01:53.400
it to be safe for our community, but it can also have a

1207
01:01:53.400 --> 01:01:56.600
cooling effect and it can store carbon

1208
01:01:56.600 --> 01:01:59.300
and so it's really important if we're going

1209
01:01:59.300 --> 01:02:01.300
to have grass that we manage it appropriately.

1210
01:02:04.200 --> 01:02:06.700
That's great. So I just put a link to that in the chat.

1211
01:02:08.500 --> 01:02:12.000
That page be bolder.org and the pollinator

1212
01:02:11.600 --> 01:02:12.800
Pathways information.

1213
01:02:14.200 --> 01:02:17.100
There's a lot of great information on our website and we can dig into that and provide

1214
01:02:17.100 --> 01:02:17.400
a bit more.

1215
01:02:19.900 --> 01:02:22.200
Moving I guess staying with this topic

1216
01:02:22.200 --> 01:02:25.500
for a little while. Is there a way for us to better incentivize landlords

1217
01:02:25.500 --> 01:02:28.700
to participate in particular recognizing that rental housing

1218
01:02:28.700 --> 01:02:33.100
stock is a big portion of our residential makeup

1219
01:02:31.100 --> 01:02:33.700
here in our community.

1220
01:02:35.200 --> 01:02:39.100
Yeah, that's a great question again what we're

1221
01:02:38.100 --> 01:02:42.900
kind of looking to the work we've done for 15

1222
01:02:41.900 --> 01:02:44.600
years around energy and

1223
01:02:44.600 --> 01:02:47.500
how we worked with the the landlord

1224
01:02:47.500 --> 01:02:50.400
and the community around that sort of providing

1225
01:02:50.400 --> 01:02:53.200
incentives there. So I think we're looking to do

1226
01:02:53.200 --> 01:02:56.300
something similar on the natural climate Solutions

1227
01:02:56.300 --> 01:02:59.500
vegetation side. We're early stages around that

1228
01:02:59.500 --> 01:03:02.500
but I think that that is a place where we do need the

1229
01:03:02.500 --> 01:03:05.300
private sector Community to step forward and I

1230
01:03:05.300 --> 01:03:08.500
think the are I would say that our our partners

1231
01:03:08.500 --> 01:03:11.200
for a clean environment Folks at the county are starting to work

1232
01:03:11.200 --> 01:03:15.400
with the commercial property owners, and they're creating new Urban landscape

1233
01:03:14.400 --> 01:03:18.200
incentive programs for that sector. We're

1234
01:03:17.200 --> 01:03:20.200
still in the early stages of looking at

1235
01:03:20.200 --> 01:03:23.400
how we could translate that kind of thing into the residential sector as

1236
01:03:23.400 --> 01:03:23.500
well.

1237
01:03:25.900 --> 01:03:28.200
And then we have another question sort of

1238
01:03:28.200 --> 01:03:31.100
like how to question which is I get

1239
01:03:31.100 --> 01:03:34.200
it. I hear a lot about the need to plant trees, but I'm not hearing enough

1240
01:03:34.200 --> 01:03:38.300
about where to plant those trees. Do we have advice

1241
01:03:37.300 --> 01:03:40.400
or resources for folks

1242
01:03:40.400 --> 01:03:43.200
which have been due to help them guide, you know, if they want

1243
01:03:43.200 --> 01:03:45.500
to take the leap into planting trees where they should do it.

1244
01:03:46.800 --> 01:03:49.600
Yes, so I would just say that we're really

1245
01:03:49.600 --> 01:03:52.500
gearing up for a Big Spring around the tree

1246
01:03:52.500 --> 01:03:55.500
planting peace and getting all the key pieces in

1247
01:03:55.500 --> 01:03:58.200
place and one of those is the tree trust and the tree tender training

1248
01:03:58.200 --> 01:04:01.500
program. So there's gonna be a whole bunch of resources that are coming online

1249
01:04:01.500 --> 01:04:04.300
this fall through the tree trust and the tree

1250
01:04:04.300 --> 01:04:07.900
tender program for exactly that kind of thing. So stay

1251
01:04:07.900 --> 01:04:10.100
tuned around that we're a little

1252
01:04:10.100 --> 01:04:13.200
bit early, but by this by later this fall, I think we'll have a lot of

1253
01:04:13.200 --> 01:04:14.400
those resources in place.

1254
01:04:16.600 --> 01:04:17.500
That's exciting.

1255
01:04:18.900 --> 01:04:21.300
Okay, Switching gears a little bit. I want

1256
01:04:21.300 --> 01:04:25.300
to talk a bit about Equity concerns and recognizing

1257
01:04:24.300 --> 01:04:27.700
this is sort of a new Focus for the city. Can

1258
01:04:27.700 --> 01:04:30.100
you talk a little bit about the ways in which we're trying to make this

1259
01:04:30.100 --> 01:04:33.600
accessible to everyone whether that be language or

1260
01:04:33.600 --> 01:04:37.100
ability to come to a meeting like this. This is

1261
01:04:37.100 --> 01:04:39.900
clearly a community effort. How are we involving the entire community?

1262
01:04:43.300 --> 01:04:46.900
Well, there's multiple places to start. I think there's there's Equity

1263
01:04:46.900 --> 01:04:49.800
issues in terms of who is bearing

1264
01:04:49.800 --> 01:04:52.400
the initial impacts of climate change

1265
01:04:52.400 --> 01:04:55.200
first and worst, which is often the lower

1266
01:04:55.200 --> 01:04:58.500
income parts of our community or the piece of people who are not in

1267
01:04:58.500 --> 01:05:01.600
the as I mean, you can see it in our own Community the amount of

1268
01:05:01.600 --> 01:05:04.500
tree canopy that there is on Mapleton Hill is much

1269
01:05:04.500 --> 01:05:07.600
higher than it is out in Soldier the boulder a

1270
01:05:07.600 --> 01:05:10.200
mobile home park. So we need to be starting to look at

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01:05:10.200 --> 01:05:13.600
where these areas are that are most vulnerable. So we're doing a special

1272
01:05:13.600 --> 01:05:17.100
analysis right now to look at that heat vulnerability index

1273
01:05:16.100 --> 01:05:19.700
that's part of what we've been mapping through this fall. So

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01:05:19.700 --> 01:05:22.500
there's the who's most impacted. There's also

1275
01:05:22.500 --> 01:05:25.300
who has the opportunities that these types

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01:05:25.300 --> 01:05:28.500
of actions bring forward. I'd like relative to talk a

1277
01:05:28.500 --> 01:05:31.600
little bit about the work that we've started to do with latinx landscaping

1278
01:05:31.600 --> 01:05:34.400
companies to start helping them position themselves to

1279
01:05:34.400 --> 01:05:36.600
provide a lot of these new types of services.

1280
01:05:38.600 --> 01:05:41.400
Yeah, and this is something that we really need

1281
01:05:41.400 --> 01:05:44.600
Community Partners to be working with us on

1282
01:05:44.600 --> 01:05:47.500
because we need multiple perspectives and

1283
01:05:47.500 --> 01:05:50.500
ways of communicating with people some of this information

1284
01:05:50.500 --> 01:05:53.100
that's coming top down can be

1285
01:05:53.100 --> 01:05:56.400
difficult for anyone in the community to have access

1286
01:05:56.400 --> 01:06:00.100
to so people who aren't used to coming to meetings like this and

1287
01:05:59.100 --> 01:06:02.600
getting information from City

1288
01:06:02.600 --> 01:06:05.100
organizations or academic or institutions are

1289
01:06:05.100 --> 01:06:06.100
in a nonprofits.

1290
01:06:06.800 --> 01:06:09.500
Need to be able to have ways of the

1291
01:06:09.500 --> 01:06:12.800
information's accessible to them. So we've been having multiple

1292
01:06:12.800 --> 01:06:15.700
conversations with

1293
01:06:18.900 --> 01:06:21.300
about of what like Brett

1294
01:06:21.300 --> 01:06:24.300
said let next Landscaping Community, but we're

1295
01:06:24.300 --> 01:06:27.800
also working with Boulder housing partners and flows

1296
01:06:27.800 --> 01:06:31.000
at CU Environmental Center who are

1297
01:06:30.800 --> 01:06:33.800
represented mainly by committee members

1298
01:06:33.800 --> 01:06:36.500
who live in subsidized housing or low-income

1299
01:06:36.500 --> 01:06:40.000
housing so that we can make sure that people all economic

1300
01:06:39.600 --> 01:06:42.300
and social demographics have

1301
01:06:42.300 --> 01:06:45.500
access information, but we're exploring some new ideas

1302
01:06:45.500 --> 01:06:45.800
of

1303
01:06:47.100 --> 01:06:51.000
of really creating new methods

1304
01:06:50.200 --> 01:06:53.400
of communicating with people in the

1305
01:06:53.400 --> 01:06:56.300
in Boulder and it goes Way Beyond just

1306
01:06:56.300 --> 01:06:59.200
translating things into Spanish which we need to

1307
01:06:59.200 --> 01:07:00.800
do in our doing or

1308
01:07:02.500 --> 01:07:05.400
or having interpreters if people don't come

1309
01:07:05.400 --> 01:07:09.100
and aren't interested. So we're really trying to learn what but everyone

1310
01:07:08.100 --> 01:07:11.700
in the community needs and

1311
01:07:11.700 --> 01:07:14.500
how people can get involved so that we can all

1312
01:07:14.500 --> 01:07:17.500
share our ideas and that's how

1313
01:07:17.500 --> 01:07:20.400
we're going to come up with the best Solutions. So like Brett said,

1314
01:07:20.400 --> 01:07:23.500
this is all a slow process. We're trying new things

1315
01:07:23.500 --> 01:07:26.400
that so these typically don't

1316
01:07:26.400 --> 01:07:29.600
do and communities often aren't connected

1317
01:07:29.600 --> 01:07:32.300
as much as they need to be to be

1318
01:07:32.300 --> 01:07:35.300
able to take on this large amount of effort that we

1319
01:07:35.300 --> 01:07:38.500
have to to do but when we have people all working and

1320
01:07:38.500 --> 01:07:41.500
talking together, that's when we come up with solutions that can

1321
01:07:41.500 --> 01:07:41.500
work.

1322
01:07:46.500 --> 01:07:49.400
That's great. And thanks for that question. I will say from

1323
01:07:49.400 --> 01:07:52.800
a Communications perspective part of our job for me. And

1324
01:07:52.800 --> 01:07:54.700
for Leah is to make sure that we are.

1325
01:07:55.500 --> 01:07:58.500
Presenting this content in a way that is as relatable

1326
01:07:58.500 --> 01:08:00.800
as possible to the most people. So I really appreciate the

1327
01:08:01.600 --> 01:08:04.900
the attention to that specific issue good.

1328
01:08:04.900 --> 01:08:08.400
Yes, the terrific

1329
01:08:07.400 --> 01:08:10.600
graduate student team we've had from CU has

1330
01:08:10.600 --> 01:08:13.600
been a real advocate for this and and really asking

1331
01:08:14.300 --> 01:08:17.700
That cool Boulder bring Equity considerations

1332
01:08:17.700 --> 01:08:20.100
more to the front of this and so

1333
01:08:20.100 --> 01:08:23.200
we are in the midst of working on a set of equity

1334
01:08:23.200 --> 01:08:26.600
principles and sort of practices that will become sort

1335
01:08:26.600 --> 01:08:29.600
of guiding to the cool Boulder

1336
01:08:29.600 --> 01:08:32.200
efforts and we've started an initiative to start reaching out

1337
01:08:32.200 --> 01:08:35.600
to all the partners within cool Boulder to have conversations about

1338
01:08:35.600 --> 01:08:38.500
how we integrate Equity through their best

1339
01:08:38.500 --> 01:08:41.400
practices as well. So it's a it's an ongoing

1340
01:08:41.400 --> 01:08:44.300
process. I think it's something we have to keep talking

1341
01:08:44.300 --> 01:08:47.400
about we have to keep checking ourselves about but I again, I

1342
01:08:47.400 --> 01:08:48.500
really appreciate the question as well.

1343
01:08:49.500 --> 01:08:52.300
and one more thing I might add to is that our partners

1344
01:08:52.300 --> 01:08:56.200
are actively working and these areas so Andrea

1345
01:08:55.200 --> 01:08:58.300
Montoya who's leading the

1346
01:08:58.300 --> 01:09:01.500
pollinator Advocate training this really thinking

1347
01:09:01.500 --> 01:09:05.300
about this from a perspective of ensuring that

1348
01:09:05.900 --> 01:09:08.300
that people who live in areas where

1349
01:09:08.300 --> 01:09:11.500
they don't have a yard or they only have a you know

1350
01:09:11.500 --> 01:09:14.300
don't have access to land how they can be involved too

1351
01:09:14.300 --> 01:09:17.400
or how you can take a small rented space

1352
01:09:17.400 --> 01:09:21.700
around the mobile home or and a

1353
01:09:20.700 --> 01:09:23.500
small apartment where

1354
01:09:23.500 --> 01:09:26.900
you can get space or you know, using pots

1355
01:09:26.900 --> 01:09:29.000
or whatever you have accessible to you so

1356
01:09:29.100 --> 01:09:32.300
that you can be part of this because every little bit counts and

1357
01:09:32.300 --> 01:09:33.200
it all adds up.

1358
01:09:33.800 --> 01:09:36.400
And it's really important for our community to really join

1359
01:09:36.400 --> 01:09:37.800
together every level.

1360
01:09:39.600 --> 01:09:42.000
Yeah, I just want to bring this back. I mean part of the reason

1361
01:09:42.200 --> 01:09:45.300
I wanted to sit in my own backyard was just how much I've learned from

1362
01:09:45.300 --> 01:09:48.300
my partner Emily in this last few years about

1363
01:09:48.300 --> 01:09:52.000
how much more life we can bring into our

1364
01:09:51.800 --> 01:09:54.600
experience even in very small

1365
01:09:54.600 --> 01:09:58.700
places. Like our yard was entirely Turf when

1366
01:09:58.700 --> 01:10:01.800
we first moved in and it was a green lovely spot, but

1367
01:10:01.800 --> 01:10:04.200
there wasn't actually very much life and over the last couple

1368
01:10:04.200 --> 01:10:07.700
of years as we've been planting pollinator plants and experimenting with

1369
01:10:07.700 --> 01:10:10.500
different things. The number of native bees. The

1370
01:10:10.500 --> 01:10:13.600
number of dragonflies number of things that are just moving around

1371
01:10:13.600 --> 01:10:16.900
doing their jobs all day long. It's really remarkable. And

1372
01:10:16.900 --> 01:10:19.500
as well as said it may seem small, but

1373
01:10:19.500 --> 01:10:22.500
when these start to get connected together, they're very important

1374
01:10:22.500 --> 01:10:25.900
part of building the capacity these living systems and

1375
01:10:25.900 --> 01:10:28.400
the intrinsic resilience of living systems is truly

1376
01:10:28.400 --> 01:10:31.500
remarkable. It's the place that I probably find my greatest hope

1377
01:10:31.500 --> 01:10:34.700
when I think about what has to be done to kind of create to

1378
01:10:34.700 --> 01:10:35.900
stabilize the world that we're living in,

1379
01:10:36.700 --> 01:10:39.100
That's great. So we've got a

1380
01:10:39.100 --> 01:10:42.100
number of questions coming in. Some of them are really big. Some of

1381
01:10:42.100 --> 01:10:45.000
them are a little bit more. Yes or no. So let's go with one of the yes or no

1382
01:10:45.400 --> 01:10:48.400
ones, but Emily I want to just take I saw

1383
01:10:48.400 --> 01:10:51.200
that there's a somebody who wants to talk about see yourself

1384
01:10:51.200 --> 01:10:54.400
and I'm gonna say I'm okay. I'm gonna try to go deeply into see

1385
01:10:54.400 --> 01:10:57.100
you South but I would say this I think

1386
01:10:57.100 --> 01:11:00.200
we all have a responsibility to start

1387
01:11:00.200 --> 01:11:03.400
trying to become more literate about how the

1388
01:11:03.400 --> 01:11:06.700
living systems around us work and how they

1389
01:11:06.700 --> 01:11:09.500
interact with and effect the environment

1390
01:11:09.500 --> 01:11:12.200
that we live in we all have work to do there

1391
01:11:12.200 --> 01:11:15.900
and there's a lot that isn't yet known about the degree

1392
01:11:15.900 --> 01:11:18.800
to which certain actions can stabilize something

1393
01:11:18.800 --> 01:11:21.400
can absorb water. We're trying to set the

1394
01:11:21.400 --> 01:11:24.600
the processes in motion to learn more about that. We're not

1395
01:11:24.600 --> 01:11:27.500
the only interest that are at play

1396
01:11:27.500 --> 01:11:30.900
here and there are development is just there are there academic

1397
01:11:30.900 --> 01:11:33.900
interest there are so I think we have to start bringing

1398
01:11:33.900 --> 01:11:36.400
these issues forward and having them be

1399
01:11:36.400 --> 01:11:36.700
a

1400
01:11:36.700 --> 01:11:39.200
The conversation it's not going to be easy. It's not gonna

1401
01:11:39.200 --> 01:11:42.300
get resolved in the single issue that's on the

1402
01:11:42.300 --> 01:11:45.400
table land use is the favorite contact sport in

1403
01:11:45.400 --> 01:11:48.300
Boulder. So, of course, you know all kinds of things are going to get packed into

1404
01:11:48.300 --> 01:11:51.200
that. But I think what I'm excited about is to see

1405
01:11:51.200 --> 01:11:54.700
that we are starting to talk about how these capabilities of

1406
01:11:54.700 --> 01:11:58.100
living systems and what affects them are an intrinsic

1407
01:11:57.100 --> 01:12:00.100
part of how well we'll be resilient to the

1408
01:12:00.100 --> 01:12:04.400
Future. So I'm excited that people are motivated to

1409
01:12:04.400 --> 01:12:05.300
start having that conversation.

1410
01:12:07.300 --> 01:12:10.300
Thanks Brett. That was one of the juicier questions. I was going to say but thanks

1411
01:12:10.300 --> 01:12:12.600
for hitting it right there.

1412
01:12:15.300 --> 01:12:18.700
Questions specifically do we

1413
01:12:18.700 --> 01:12:20.300
have results yet for the heat mapping project?

1414
01:12:22.300 --> 01:12:25.300
That we don't yet. Um, we will get

1415
01:12:25.300 --> 01:12:28.200
those back from Noah probably in the

1416
01:12:28.200 --> 01:12:32.500
next two or three weeks Adam Hall's gonna set up an

1417
01:12:31.500 --> 01:12:34.300
opportunity for folks who've been a part

1418
01:12:34.300 --> 01:12:37.500
of that in others who are interested to come and see that data. There

1419
01:12:37.500 --> 01:12:40.700
are some really cool ways that they'll help us visualize that data and

1420
01:12:40.700 --> 01:12:43.300
then we have that whole other set of data that

1421
01:12:43.300 --> 01:12:46.300
we're collecting from the stationary sensors. We won't take

1422
01:12:46.300 --> 01:12:49.200
those down until October and it's gonna

1423
01:12:49.200 --> 01:12:52.500
be a sort of iterative process to to learn how to use all that

1424
01:12:52.500 --> 01:12:55.500
but I think by I'd say probably mid to

1425
01:12:55.500 --> 01:12:58.800
late October watch for some calls and

1426
01:12:58.800 --> 01:13:01.100
invitations to come in and take a look at that

1427
01:13:01.100 --> 01:13:04.100
data together and then that'll actually help us think about what we want to

1428
01:13:04.100 --> 01:13:07.800
do. Next year is Adam said we want to do some more story based

1429
01:13:07.800 --> 01:13:11.100
and qualitative work. Well, we all want to keep in developing

1430
01:13:10.100 --> 01:13:13.600
the information we're gonna need to figure out how to manage heat

1431
01:13:13.600 --> 01:13:14.100
in our community.

1432
01:13:16.500 --> 01:13:19.100
Great. This is a question that I've heard a lot

1433
01:13:19.100 --> 01:13:22.200
that I think might be on a lot of folks Minds that I'd love to get you

1434
01:13:22.200 --> 01:13:25.600
both to address and the question is Colorado is

1435
01:13:25.600 --> 01:13:28.900
a semi-era desert with limited Water Resources. Hence

1436
01:13:28.900 --> 01:13:32.300
historically Short Grass Prairie ecosystems trees

1437
01:13:31.300 --> 01:13:34.200
need increased water to grow. So how do

1438
01:13:34.200 --> 01:13:37.400
we address this will 20,000 trees create their own water cycle

1439
01:13:37.400 --> 01:13:38.200
and increase water.

1440
01:13:39.700 --> 01:13:39.800
Etc

1441
01:13:40.700 --> 01:13:41.700
Yeah, really good question.

1442
01:13:42.900 --> 01:13:45.200
So for one thing I think it's important

1443
01:13:45.200 --> 01:13:48.900
to recognize we use a lot of water in Landscapes

1444
01:13:48.900 --> 01:13:50.300
right now to grow turf.

1445
01:13:50.800 --> 01:13:53.800
That's a very water consumptive form of

1446
01:13:53.800 --> 01:13:54.600
land use.

1447
01:13:55.300 --> 01:13:58.100
And there's there's a lot of good things about Turf. I'm not trying to

1448
01:13:58.100 --> 01:14:01.200
knock Turf exactly but to say if we're starting to talk about

1449
01:14:01.200 --> 01:14:04.700
can we add trees? Probably we can't just add an

1450
01:14:04.700 --> 01:14:07.400
ad unless we're rebalancing but part

1451
01:14:07.400 --> 01:14:10.400
of it is can we start to create more balance in

1452
01:14:10.400 --> 01:14:13.400
our Landscapes where more of that Water Resource is

1453
01:14:13.400 --> 01:14:16.100
going to trees and shrubs and other things that are

1454
01:14:16.100 --> 01:14:21.600
creating shade now, I think that there's a emergent area

1455
01:14:20.600 --> 01:14:23.600
of knowledge about how living

1456
01:14:23.600 --> 01:14:26.600
systems do actually cycle water and

1457
01:14:26.600 --> 01:14:29.100
to start creating more of that kind of

1458
01:14:29.100 --> 01:14:32.700
moisture cycle that comes back and so I don't

1459
01:14:32.700 --> 01:14:36.000
think it's as simple as a zero, you know as an arithmetic

1460
01:14:35.200 --> 01:14:38.200
type of Peace, we these systems can

1461
01:14:38.200 --> 01:14:41.400
rebuild hydrology and hold more water. One

1462
01:14:41.400 --> 01:14:44.300
of the things that we have to do is to figure out how we're

1463
01:14:44.300 --> 01:14:47.400
going to manage Landscapes to hold water because

1464
01:14:47.400 --> 01:14:50.300
part of the reason we have things like the martial far is that our

1465
01:14:50.300 --> 01:14:53.100
Landscapes are basically dehydrated and so

1466
01:14:53.100 --> 01:14:54.900
we're gonna have to start to look for the

1467
01:14:55.200 --> 01:14:58.300
Is that we cycle water and hold water and that's going

1468
01:14:58.300 --> 01:15:01.800
to involve all kinds of different sort of strategies and plants a

1469
01:15:01.800 --> 01:15:03.600
lot of which is still something that we're learning.

1470
01:15:05.500 --> 01:15:08.000
And I think the other thing that we we have to think about

1471
01:15:08.000 --> 01:15:08.900
besides.

1472
01:15:09.500 --> 01:15:12.800
Having a community where people are safer from

1473
01:15:12.800 --> 01:15:15.200
from dying from

1474
01:15:15.200 --> 01:15:17.400
heat related illnesses.

1475
01:15:18.600 --> 01:15:21.200
Is it cities are artificial environments? There's

1476
01:15:21.200 --> 01:15:24.000
no question about that. So we're trying to

1477
01:15:24.600 --> 01:15:27.100
really wild areas as we can to provide

1478
01:15:27.100 --> 01:15:30.300
spaces for insects and

1479
01:15:30.300 --> 01:15:34.500
birds to be able to have populations

1480
01:15:33.500 --> 01:15:35.100
that they can.

1481
01:15:36.800 --> 01:15:39.800
In some safe spaces, you know, especially when

1482
01:15:39.800 --> 01:15:42.600
we're having all these extreme weather events and corridors

1483
01:15:42.600 --> 01:15:45.900
so that they can travel through not only

1484
01:15:45.900 --> 01:15:48.700
to crossbreed and

1485
01:15:48.700 --> 01:15:51.500
you know creates healthy populations of insects and

1486
01:15:51.500 --> 01:15:54.300
birds but also because they're moving is a good solder

1487
01:15:54.300 --> 01:15:57.200
and moving up an elevation. They're moving North. So we need

1488
01:15:57.200 --> 01:16:00.700
to ways that cities are just barriers for animal movement

1489
01:16:00.700 --> 01:16:02.600
migration. We need waste for them to get through.

1490
01:16:03.600 --> 01:16:06.100
But the other thing we need to remember is that we

1491
01:16:06.100 --> 01:16:08.200
in these extreme weather events include flooding.

1492
01:16:08.900 --> 01:16:11.800
And so besides trying to keep the city cooler for

1493
01:16:11.800 --> 01:16:14.000
people to live and be able

1494
01:16:14.100 --> 01:16:18.200
to survive. We also need the storm water benefits

1495
01:16:17.200 --> 01:16:18.700
of trees.

1496
01:16:19.300 --> 01:16:22.900
So and it's a lot to balance. I mean it's not

1497
01:16:22.900 --> 01:16:25.400
we're not going to we're not going to turn cities back into

1498
01:16:25.400 --> 01:16:29.000
Short Grass prairies, but we can try

1499
01:16:28.100 --> 01:16:33.100
to balance the benefits from native

1500
01:16:31.100 --> 01:16:34.200
plants that can can

1501
01:16:34.200 --> 01:16:37.800
help sustain populations of native

1502
01:16:37.800 --> 01:16:38.300
wildlife.

1503
01:16:38.900 --> 01:16:41.100
While protecting our public and making it

1504
01:16:41.100 --> 01:16:44.800
safer for our public and also thinking about things like, you

1505
01:16:44.800 --> 01:16:47.300
know Wildfire, I mean besides Wildfire but

1506
01:16:47.300 --> 01:16:50.300
also flooding in some of the other issues that we're going to be coping

1507
01:16:50.300 --> 01:16:53.400
with in the future. There's another good resource

1508
01:16:53.400 --> 01:16:57.300
by the way around the trees piece is a fantastic article that

1509
01:16:57.300 --> 01:17:00.800
Michael Bronner from harlequin's wrote in the Colorado Gardener

1510
01:17:00.800 --> 01:17:03.100
this spring and I think we've republished it

1511
01:17:03.100 --> 01:17:06.700
or with his permission used published it again in the

1512
01:17:06.700 --> 01:17:09.200
cool Boulder blogs. So it has

1513
01:17:09.200 --> 01:17:12.100
a lot of great information about the types of trees that are

1514
01:17:12.100 --> 01:17:15.300
well suited here. I'm not sure there's so

1515
01:17:15.300 --> 01:17:18.400
much about the planting methods there, but

1516
01:17:18.400 --> 01:17:21.400
it has a lot about the appropriate tree species.

1517
01:17:21.400 --> 01:17:24.500
I think one other thing I just say is that this also starts

1518
01:17:24.500 --> 01:17:28.200
to really point back to why wherever possible

1519
01:17:27.200 --> 01:17:30.900
we need to be looking for those native plant

1520
01:17:30.900 --> 01:17:33.200
species that we can bring back into these

1521
01:17:33.200 --> 01:17:36.500
systems because those are generally pretty well adapted for these

1522
01:17:36.500 --> 01:17:38.800
kinds of dry Cycle System.

1523
01:17:38.900 --> 01:17:41.900
That we live in and they actually also have many

1524
01:17:41.900 --> 01:17:44.000
many more Associates in terms

1525
01:17:44.200 --> 01:17:47.500
of the things that they support. I mean relevant you probably know the statistics but

1526
01:17:47.500 --> 01:17:50.600
like a single chokecherry supports like dozens and

1527
01:17:50.600 --> 01:17:53.200
dozens of dozens of different insects. Whereas some

1528
01:17:53.200 --> 01:17:56.200
of these exotic species that we bring that are beautiful what they just

1529
01:17:56.200 --> 01:17:58.600
nothing was evolved to actually use them.

1530
01:17:59.500 --> 01:18:02.600
Yeah, we should make a big plug for shrubs shrubs are

1531
01:18:02.600 --> 01:18:05.600
so important especially drugs. So we're you know,

1532
01:18:05.600 --> 01:18:09.000
there aren't that many native trees that provide the

1533
01:18:08.100 --> 01:18:11.500
kind of shade and services. We need in urban areas,

1534
01:18:11.500 --> 01:18:14.200
but shrubs are wonderful, and they

1535
01:18:14.200 --> 01:18:17.900
are adapted for this area support Wildlife sequester

1536
01:18:17.900 --> 01:18:20.300
carbon. They just can't say enough about

1537
01:18:20.300 --> 01:18:23.200
shrubs. Everybody needs to put more stress in

1538
01:18:23.200 --> 01:18:25.300
their yards and our common spaces.

1539
01:18:27.200 --> 01:18:29.900
Thanks for the shrub shoutouts Rella. That's great.

1540
01:18:31.300 --> 01:18:34.200
There are so recognizing that we have about 10 minutes left

1541
01:18:34.200 --> 01:18:37.800
and we might go a little bit over given the questions that we have. I want

1542
01:18:37.800 --> 01:18:40.500
to connect to here that are related to mostly how

1543
01:18:40.500 --> 01:18:44.500
the city is collaborating with itself. Right? So question specifically

1544
01:18:44.500 --> 01:18:47.900
about the transportation department and the planning department. The

1545
01:18:47.900 --> 01:18:50.400
one related to the transportation department is whether or

1546
01:18:50.400 --> 01:18:53.900
not the city is looking into types of pavement besides

1547
01:18:53.900 --> 01:18:56.100
black asphalts that as we all

1548
01:18:56.100 --> 01:18:58.600
know if we walked or biked on them lately get really hot in the summer.

1549
01:18:59.400 --> 01:19:02.100
Any knowledge about some of the work that we

1550
01:19:02.100 --> 01:19:06.500
might be doing there. Yeah, actually, we got a call not

1551
01:19:06.500 --> 01:19:09.500
long ago from our transportation department who have

1552
01:19:09.500 --> 01:19:13.100
a new Transportation planner that came in from La. It's really

1553
01:19:13.100 --> 01:19:16.600
kind of fascinating. There's a crossover with NASA here too in La

1554
01:19:16.600 --> 01:19:19.300
they've done some experiments with NASA where they've looked at

1555
01:19:19.300 --> 01:19:22.200
the heat signature of Pavements that

1556
01:19:22.200 --> 01:19:25.600
they paint with a lighter colored material from space and

1557
01:19:25.600 --> 01:19:28.200
we're able to actually see that heat signature from

1558
01:19:28.200 --> 01:19:31.600
space. It's so dramatic and so we are starting to explore what

1559
01:19:31.600 --> 01:19:35.100
kinds of alternative surfacing colors we

1560
01:19:34.100 --> 01:19:37.800
might be able to use. There's also cool roof

1561
01:19:37.800 --> 01:19:40.200
strategies, which are very important these kinds of

1562
01:19:40.200 --> 01:19:43.300
things where you you can't maybe change vegetation, but

1563
01:19:43.300 --> 01:19:46.700
you can change the surface characteristics are going to be a really important piece.

1564
01:19:46.700 --> 01:19:49.400
So we are starting to look at those and and there

1565
01:19:49.400 --> 01:19:52.300
are some techniques that have been developed through the smart surfaces

1566
01:19:52.300 --> 01:19:55.300
Coalition and others that I think will start to see more and more

1567
01:19:55.300 --> 01:19:58.200
of what was the second. Oh,

1568
01:19:58.200 --> 01:19:59.200
well, I would

1569
01:19:59.300 --> 01:20:02.300
Just a second one yet. So that's fascinating and creative and very

1570
01:20:02.300 --> 01:20:05.300
interesting. Glad I got that question. The second one is from

1571
01:20:05.300 --> 01:20:07.000
Paul and he wants to know.

1572
01:20:07.900 --> 01:20:10.900
What we're doing on the planning side of thing. Well, it's

1573
01:20:10.900 --> 01:20:13.500
through codes to make our buildings more

1574
01:20:13.500 --> 01:20:16.300
energy efficient or zero carbon and I

1575
01:20:16.300 --> 01:20:19.400
assume also codes related to the landscaping around new buildings

1576
01:20:19.400 --> 01:20:19.800
as well.

1577
01:20:20.700 --> 01:20:23.100
Yeah, we're going into a whole process of sort of

1578
01:20:23.100 --> 01:20:27.300
re um, reviewing our codes

1579
01:20:26.300 --> 01:20:29.800
around the heat issue. Our planning

1580
01:20:29.800 --> 01:20:32.100
departments got a new set of

1581
01:20:32.100 --> 01:20:35.200
really really talented planners that are starting to look at the

1582
01:20:35.200 --> 01:20:38.800
heat Dynamics pervious versus impervious surfaces

1583
01:20:38.800 --> 01:20:41.100
are really big issue the Albedo or

1584
01:20:41.100 --> 01:20:45.000
the Lighter dark of these surfaces are really big issue how buildings

1585
01:20:44.100 --> 01:20:47.300
are oriented to shade or not shade each

1586
01:20:47.300 --> 01:20:50.100
other is really sort of so there's a whole new set of

1587
01:20:50.100 --> 01:20:53.500
kind of planning tools that the GIS.

1588
01:20:55.100 --> 01:20:58.200
Companies sree that's built the software's that most

1589
01:20:58.200 --> 01:21:01.500
planners use has come out with so we can start to look at the urban form

1590
01:21:01.500 --> 01:21:05.100
in relationship to temperature. It's it's pretty

1591
01:21:04.100 --> 01:21:07.100
new like the last year or so. In fact,

1592
01:21:07.100 --> 01:21:10.600
we're one of the beta test sites for that local or nationally. So

1593
01:21:10.600 --> 01:21:13.400
I'd say again emergent field relatively new

1594
01:21:13.400 --> 01:21:16.300
but our our planners are really starting to take the

1595
01:21:16.300 --> 01:21:17.100
lead in some of that work as well.

1596
01:21:18.600 --> 01:21:20.500
And the other thing was landscape.

1597
01:21:22.100 --> 01:21:25.900
And one of the ways that we can get the community supporting

1598
01:21:25.900 --> 01:21:28.200
these changes is to start getting

1599
01:21:28.200 --> 01:21:30.300
these Landscapes out there. So people can see them.

1600
01:21:30.900 --> 01:21:33.700
You know people have these ideas about what's

1601
01:21:33.700 --> 01:21:36.100
appropriate for landscaping what brings a real estate

1602
01:21:36.100 --> 01:21:39.600
values up that are may not

1603
01:21:39.600 --> 01:21:42.400
even where are not true anymore, you know.

1604
01:21:42.400 --> 01:21:46.300
So what we need to do is start showing people this

1605
01:21:45.300 --> 01:21:48.200
new aesthetic that's appropriate for

1606
01:21:48.200 --> 01:21:51.200
where we live and it's filled with life get people to think that it's

1607
01:21:51.200 --> 01:21:54.300
great to have insects in your art. It's great to have Birds who

1608
01:21:54.300 --> 01:21:57.800
eat the insects in your yard and really start changing that

1609
01:21:57.800 --> 01:22:01.000
that perspecting you

1610
01:22:00.200 --> 01:22:01.200
look like.

1611
01:22:03.900 --> 01:22:06.200
So there's one question that I'm kind of

1612
01:22:06.200 --> 01:22:09.000
itching to ask you both and we might invite some of our

1613
01:22:09.400 --> 01:22:12.900
partners too. But it's a question essentially asking

1614
01:22:12.900 --> 01:22:15.700
are we able to make a difference are we

1615
01:22:15.700 --> 01:22:18.100
naive to think that we can come back climate issues of the

1616
01:22:18.100 --> 01:22:21.700
Front Range? There are naturally occurring issues. Like we're a floodplain.

1617
01:22:21.700 --> 01:22:24.500
It's also super dry here a lot of the time it's windy

1618
01:22:24.500 --> 01:22:28.500
and then there are man-made issues like fracking development Etc.

1619
01:22:28.500 --> 01:22:31.400
And we're not that resilient to

1620
01:22:31.400 --> 01:22:34.500
change in climate yet. It seems

1621
01:22:34.500 --> 01:22:37.200
like we're swimming Upstream against Mother Nature assist this

1622
01:22:37.200 --> 01:22:40.100
person. What's the point of all this can we

1623
01:22:40.100 --> 01:22:42.700
actually make a difference would love to hear your thoughts?

1624
01:22:43.400 --> 01:22:46.300
Well, well, I'd like to tee you up to talk

1625
01:22:46.300 --> 01:22:49.400
about Doug. Tommy's work in a second, but I'll take a swing to

1626
01:22:49.400 --> 01:22:50.000
start so.

1627
01:22:52.100 --> 01:22:52.500
You know, I think.

1628
01:22:53.500 --> 01:22:56.400
It is overwhelming in many ways

1629
01:22:56.400 --> 01:22:59.300
at times especially when we see the increased frequency

1630
01:22:59.300 --> 01:23:02.400
of these dramatic events happening to us

1631
01:23:02.400 --> 01:23:03.500
and all around us.

1632
01:23:04.400 --> 01:23:07.700
And you know, we we live in a system that has been slow

1633
01:23:07.700 --> 01:23:10.200
to respond. And I think in my

1634
01:23:10.200 --> 01:23:12.900
opinion still is too slow in responding.

1635
01:23:13.600 --> 01:23:16.400
But I think we're starting to see that as the

1636
01:23:16.400 --> 01:23:19.400
realities of this situation really sink in.

1637
01:23:20.100 --> 01:23:23.400
We're gonna have more resources available to do

1638
01:23:23.400 --> 01:23:26.300
larger scale work and we saw this already

1639
01:23:26.300 --> 01:23:29.700
with the passage of the inflation reduction act. There's we

1640
01:23:29.700 --> 01:23:32.600
got a billion and a half dollars put in there for urban forestry. That's

1641
01:23:32.600 --> 01:23:35.400
that's almost 10 times over whatever has

1642
01:23:35.400 --> 01:23:38.300
been in what it was ever invested in urban forestry before.

1643
01:23:39.100 --> 01:23:43.100
So I think it's really now incumbent on us to start developing the strategies

1644
01:23:42.100 --> 01:23:45.600
and testing them at smaller scales

1645
01:23:45.600 --> 01:23:48.100
so that we can start to think about moving them to larger scales. And

1646
01:23:48.100 --> 01:23:51.100
as to whether that's possible, I would

1647
01:23:51.100 --> 01:23:55.400
just remind us that you know in 1933. We

1648
01:23:54.400 --> 01:23:57.500
had a vast area in the

1649
01:23:57.500 --> 01:24:00.700
middle of our country that was literally blowing away the the

1650
01:24:00.700 --> 01:24:03.500
soils from the Great Plains were going

1651
01:24:03.500 --> 01:24:06.000
we're blowing out literally into the Atlantic.

1652
01:24:06.600 --> 01:24:09.900
And we mobilized our society

1653
01:24:09.900 --> 01:24:12.300
in ways that we'd never imagined before

1654
01:24:12.300 --> 01:24:15.700
and we stabilized that whole geography in

1655
01:24:15.700 --> 01:24:19.000
the course of about 10 to 20 years. We can

1656
01:24:18.500 --> 01:24:21.500
do amazing things even in arid Landscapes.

1657
01:24:21.500 --> 01:24:24.000
And in fact, I would just remind us that the landscape that we see

1658
01:24:24.300 --> 01:24:27.300
around us is is not necessarily the

1659
01:24:27.300 --> 01:24:30.300
landscape that was here before the set. I

1660
01:24:30.300 --> 01:24:33.400
mean this landscape has been changed so much by our presence

1661
01:24:33.400 --> 01:24:36.600
that we don't even know. I think what it's full potential could

1662
01:24:36.600 --> 01:24:39.500
be if we actually really enabled all

1663
01:24:39.500 --> 01:24:42.400
of its integrative forces to

1664
01:24:42.400 --> 01:24:45.600
be brought back to there. So I would just say I think there's examples in

1665
01:24:45.600 --> 01:24:48.400
the past of what we can do and then and then there's examples that

1666
01:24:48.400 --> 01:24:51.100
we're already doing right now so and even write down to

1667
01:24:51.100 --> 01:24:54.000
what your backyard can contribute so well, I was

1668
01:24:54.100 --> 01:24:57.700
just thinking about the kind of what doug tell me says about the importance of backyards.

1669
01:24:58.500 --> 01:25:01.100
Yeah, I mean don't tell me who if you guys

1670
01:25:01.100 --> 01:25:04.100
haven't seen him. Look him up on the web and here's some

1671
01:25:04.100 --> 01:25:07.400
of his his talks. He's an entomologist and back East that

1672
01:25:07.400 --> 01:25:10.700
even though their climates different the principles remain here

1673
01:25:10.700 --> 01:25:13.800
about how we can we have 40 million Acres

1674
01:25:13.800 --> 01:25:16.200
of irrigated Turfgrass in this

1675
01:25:16.200 --> 01:25:20.100
country and he talks about how we can make that a homegrown National Park just

1676
01:25:19.100 --> 01:25:22.500
by starting to change it. But as

1677
01:25:22.500 --> 01:25:24.200
far as hope goes I mean

1678
01:25:25.100 --> 01:25:28.700
We're in a difficult situation. I think there is no question for

1679
01:25:28.700 --> 01:25:30.500
anyone who's paying attention to know that.

1680
01:25:31.400 --> 01:25:34.600
The question is do we give up or do we try you

1681
01:25:34.600 --> 01:25:37.200
know, and I hear people talk about this. It's called

1682
01:25:37.200 --> 01:25:40.700
difficult. Hope which means you know, if your optimistic

1683
01:25:40.700 --> 01:25:43.200
you may think oh, everything's going to be okay. Someone else is going

1684
01:25:43.200 --> 01:25:46.100
to do it you do nothing or if you're pessimistic you just give

1685
01:25:46.100 --> 01:25:46.900
up and don't try.

1686
01:25:47.600 --> 01:25:50.300
So we're in that place space of difficult. Hope

1687
01:25:50.300 --> 01:25:53.400
you do the right thing and you try everything you can when you're not sure what

1688
01:25:53.400 --> 01:25:56.600
the outcomes going to be but we still have to try we owe

1689
01:25:56.600 --> 01:25:59.200
it to our children and we and we owe it

1690
01:25:59.200 --> 01:26:02.300
to ourselves. So no it's gonna take a

1691
01:26:02.300 --> 01:26:05.100
lot of vision from a lot of people and we're gonna have

1692
01:26:05.100 --> 01:26:08.300
to get out of our complacent spaces and try as hard

1693
01:26:08.300 --> 01:26:11.600
as we can but there's so many rewards and just

1694
01:26:11.600 --> 01:26:14.200
in the people that we've all had that but

1695
01:26:14.200 --> 01:26:17.200
you know the opportunity to meet with and who are

1696
01:26:17.200 --> 01:26:20.800
doing so many things. I think most people don't know how

1697
01:26:20.800 --> 01:26:23.800
much is happening across our community across

1698
01:26:23.800 --> 01:26:26.900
our country across the world. So there's

1699
01:26:26.900 --> 01:26:29.500
a lot happening and there are we're in

1700
01:26:29.500 --> 01:26:31.700
the difficult situation, but that doesn't mean we don't try

1701
01:26:33.200 --> 01:26:36.000
Well, thank you that was inspiring and kind of what I needed to

1702
01:26:36.300 --> 01:26:36.800
hear some days.

1703
01:26:38.700 --> 01:26:41.000
There's a lot of questions in here. I'm not sure we're going to be able to

1704
01:26:41.200 --> 01:26:44.500
get to all of them, but one just popped in from ml Robles

1705
01:26:44.500 --> 01:26:47.200
who happens to be a planning board member. So all

1706
01:26:47.200 --> 01:26:50.600
those questions about planning and codes. I

1707
01:26:50.600 --> 01:26:53.200
think got this person's wheels turning

1708
01:26:53.200 --> 01:26:54.300
a bit another asking

1709
01:26:56.600 --> 01:26:59.300
what are the resources that we can provide to

1710
01:26:59.300 --> 01:27:02.100
planning word to change sort of the business

1711
01:27:02.100 --> 01:27:05.100
as usual thinking right? So one of the issues that they run up against

1712
01:27:05.100 --> 01:27:08.700
is that parking lots and building codes do

1713
01:27:08.700 --> 01:27:12.000
not allow previous or alternatives to asphal

1714
01:27:11.400 --> 01:27:15.300
or concrete much less talking about Albedo. How

1715
01:27:14.300 --> 01:27:16.600
can we add a more systemic level?

1716
01:27:17.900 --> 01:27:22.200
Under the things that we control help integrate

1717
01:27:20.200 --> 01:27:23.500
some of these issues more into

1718
01:27:23.500 --> 01:27:25.000
our processes and our rules.

1719
01:27:26.200 --> 01:27:29.900
I just think we need to be doing as many different pilot projects

1720
01:27:29.900 --> 01:27:32.700
as we can and carefully gathering information about

1721
01:27:32.700 --> 01:27:35.700
what works and what effects they have so that

1722
01:27:35.700 --> 01:27:39.600
we can start to build the right policies to

1723
01:27:39.600 --> 01:27:42.700
make these sorts of changes. It's it's a in some

1724
01:27:42.700 --> 01:27:45.400
ways. It's a very old field in some ways. It's a pretty new field. And

1725
01:27:45.400 --> 01:27:48.000
so I I totally agree and I

1726
01:27:48.500 --> 01:27:51.500
appreciate that question. Like what can we do? What policies should

1727
01:27:51.500 --> 01:27:54.200
we change? I just there are some things that maybe

1728
01:27:54.200 --> 01:27:57.600
we could propose now, I would be a little reluctant for

1729
01:27:57.600 --> 01:28:00.300
us to start trying to be heavy-handed in terms of pushing a

1730
01:28:00.300 --> 01:28:03.500
bunch of policy until we've tried things on the ground and really

1731
01:28:03.500 --> 01:28:06.900
found out what works and that's kind of how we approach the energy systems

1732
01:28:06.900 --> 01:28:09.100
change 10 years ago. We started with two

1733
01:28:09.100 --> 01:28:12.900
texts in a truck. Literally that was the name of the first program and then, you

1734
01:28:12.900 --> 01:28:15.200
know, it evolved into the whole Energy Smart program and things

1735
01:28:15.200 --> 01:28:18.400
I think we're on a very similar trajectory in this work. I would just

1736
01:28:18.400 --> 01:28:21.400
call out that of course the you know, the the update

1737
01:28:21.400 --> 01:28:24.000
to the comprehensive plan is coming up in a couple of years that's going

1738
01:28:24.100 --> 01:28:25.800
to be an extremely important moment.

1739
01:28:26.100 --> 01:28:29.900
our community to think about what sorts of both vision

1740
01:28:29.900 --> 01:28:32.400
and practical actions do we need to take to live

1741
01:28:32.400 --> 01:28:35.200
into this future not the future that we were living in because that

1742
01:28:35.200 --> 01:28:37.400
one's gone, but to the one that we're going to be living into

1743
01:28:38.800 --> 01:28:41.200
Yeah, I think the comprehensive plan is so important. I

1744
01:28:41.200 --> 01:28:44.500
was actually in the companies of planning department for a

1745
01:28:44.500 --> 01:28:47.900
number of years and it's not just about code even though

1746
01:28:47.900 --> 01:28:50.100
that's an important part of it. But this is about

1747
01:28:50.100 --> 01:28:53.600
our vision for how we're going to manage our community into the

1748
01:28:53.600 --> 01:28:57.500
future. And this is a really pivotal update. So

1749
01:28:56.500 --> 01:28:59.400
what I you know, what I would

1750
01:28:59.400 --> 01:29:02.400
hope to see or our us as us as

1751
01:29:02.400 --> 01:29:05.700
a city government the community all of

1752
01:29:05.700 --> 01:29:08.800
us taking risks and trying something new. We're

1753
01:29:08.800 --> 01:29:11.100
not cities aren't organized to be on the

1754
01:29:11.100 --> 01:29:14.300
front lines doing all this work and communities aren't either

1755
01:29:14.300 --> 01:29:17.500
but we're going to have to do it. So we need to have visions

1756
01:29:17.500 --> 01:29:18.900
of new ways that we're going to

1757
01:29:20.200 --> 01:29:23.700
Figure out what we can do and then start working on it and it's

1758
01:29:23.700 --> 01:29:26.300
probably something none of us could even Envision right now

1759
01:29:26.300 --> 01:29:29.300
know exactly how it's going to turn out. But if

1760
01:29:29.300 --> 01:29:32.200
we're all talking to each other and really taking, you know,

1761
01:29:32.200 --> 01:29:34.000
trying some new ideas we can probably

1762
01:29:35.200 --> 01:29:38.200
Do some pretty great things in the next next decade.

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I just want to call out to the we we aren't doing this alone. I'm

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01:29:42.500 --> 01:29:45.100
so delighted and

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01:29:45.100 --> 01:29:48.700
proud that we're connected to a network

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01:29:48.700 --> 01:29:51.400
of over a hundred cities and counties across the country who

1767
01:29:51.400 --> 01:29:54.800
are just starting to develop similar sorts of natural climate solution

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01:29:54.800 --> 01:29:57.300
strategies who are sharing notes with each other who

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01:29:57.300 --> 01:30:00.500
are doing pilot projects together. Some of

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01:30:00.500 --> 01:30:03.200
the folks who are on the call tonight are graduate students that

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01:30:03.200 --> 01:30:06.300
are actually placed out there working with some of those communities. We need those

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01:30:06.300 --> 01:30:09.300
systems online to so I think we just

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01:30:09.300 --> 01:30:12.600
have to learn and try and refine as

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01:30:12.600 --> 01:30:15.500
quickly as we can and and fortunately we're

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01:30:15.500 --> 01:30:16.100
not doing this alone.

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01:30:18.900 --> 01:30:21.400
So organizing we're at seven. I understand if

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01:30:21.400 --> 01:30:24.300
folks need to hop off rela and Brett.

1778
01:30:24.300 --> 01:30:27.400
Do you want to take a few more questions? Do you want to take some

1779
01:30:27.400 --> 01:30:31.400
of these offline? What's your preference? Let's definitely take

1780
01:30:30.400 --> 01:30:33.300
the questions that came in and we'll try to do our best

1781
01:30:33.300 --> 01:30:36.300
to respond to all of them. Maybe we could take just a couple more questions.

1782
01:30:36.300 --> 01:30:39.200
I know that some of us have families that

1783
01:30:39.200 --> 01:30:40.000
haven't seen us all day.

1784
01:30:41.200 --> 01:30:41.700
exactly

1785
01:30:43.600 --> 01:30:46.300
So there's a lot in here that I would categorize as like

1786
01:30:46.300 --> 01:30:49.400
good ideas things. We should be exploring those ones. I'm Gonna Leave off the

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01:30:49.400 --> 01:30:52.200
table for now and I will get back to you based on

1788
01:30:52.200 --> 01:30:55.200
those ideas. But I have a question in here

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01:30:55.200 --> 01:30:58.200
about what are we doing to share our learnings with other

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01:30:58.200 --> 01:31:01.000
cities? And how are we taking those learnings from

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01:31:01.200 --> 01:31:04.100
other cities and applying them here? Yeah. So some of

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01:31:04.100 --> 01:31:07.200
you may know Boulders been an active part of What's called the urban

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01:31:07.200 --> 01:31:10.200
sustainability directors Network. So it's originally started

1794
01:31:10.200 --> 01:31:13.300
15 years ago. It's just a few sustainability directors and our

1795
01:31:13.300 --> 01:31:16.200
past director. David Driscoll is a part of that little Cadre of 12 or so

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01:31:16.200 --> 01:31:19.300
people. It's now a network of over 250 cities

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01:31:19.300 --> 01:31:22.500
and counties across North America. And so they have different

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01:31:22.500 --> 01:31:25.300
sort of focused groups from zero waste energy stuff

1799
01:31:25.300 --> 01:31:28.500
and we helped to launch a whole new Focus

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01:31:28.500 --> 01:31:31.400
area around natural climate Solutions, which is become one

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01:31:31.400 --> 01:31:34.300
of the most popular working groups in that

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01:31:34.300 --> 01:31:37.200
Network and literally there are over a hundred cities and counties that

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01:31:37.200 --> 01:31:40.200
are following that work about 40 or

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01:31:40.200 --> 01:31:43.300
50 or actively participating in this kind of Exchange.

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01:31:43.500 --> 01:31:46.900
Ideas and this joint so we're part of that Network. There

1806
01:31:46.900 --> 01:31:49.800
are some other networks around urban forestry relis

1807
01:31:49.800 --> 01:31:52.200
amazing work around pollinator protection is connected

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01:31:52.200 --> 01:31:55.100
into a whole bunch of other places rather than any networks that

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01:31:55.100 --> 01:31:56.200
you'd want to note that were part of

1810
01:31:57.400 --> 01:32:00.000
Uh, yeah. I mean

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01:32:00.100 --> 01:32:03.700
we we do work with other cities on a

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01:32:03.700 --> 01:32:06.900
regular basis. They're formal networks as well as informal networks

1813
01:32:06.900 --> 01:32:09.000
for called all the time can't stay on top

1814
01:32:09.100 --> 01:32:12.300
of the the calls and questions coming in from

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01:32:12.300 --> 01:32:15.200
other cities and it's it's so important

1816
01:32:15.200 --> 01:32:18.300
because that's one reason it's so important for the community to talk

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01:32:18.300 --> 01:32:21.300
to us and for you to talk to each other and for

1818
01:32:21.300 --> 01:32:24.100
the cities to be talking to each other because when you

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01:32:24.100 --> 01:32:27.300
hear these ideas, you know, you just gather them up and start

1820
01:32:27.300 --> 01:32:30.100
whole new programs and you can do that whether you're a person

1821
01:32:30.100 --> 01:32:33.400
in the community or you're a staff

1822
01:32:33.400 --> 01:32:36.100
member or whoever you are and we're

1823
01:32:36.100 --> 01:32:39.500
really interested in this co-production model of working

1824
01:32:39.500 --> 01:32:42.500
with stakeholders in the community City officials

1825
01:32:42.500 --> 01:32:45.300
researchers so that we can get this work

1826
01:32:45.300 --> 01:32:48.300
moving as fast as possible. So we're

1827
01:32:48.300 --> 01:32:51.400
we'll be doing more of that work over the coming

1828
01:32:51.400 --> 01:32:54.100
year and months reaching out

1829
01:32:54.100 --> 01:32:57.000
to the community working with researchers trying to

1830
01:32:57.400 --> 01:33:00.400
Layer out the best ways we can move the quickest and

1831
01:33:00.400 --> 01:33:03.400
most efficiently we're going to make mistakes because we're

1832
01:33:03.400 --> 01:33:06.700
trying things but we're going to make successes too.

1833
01:33:06.700 --> 01:33:09.900
And we need everybody to be involved. So we just invite everyone

1834
01:33:09.900 --> 01:33:12.900
now to join us through cool

1835
01:33:12.900 --> 01:33:15.500
Boulder and the different organizations there

1836
01:33:15.500 --> 01:33:18.100
who are working and work with your

1837
01:33:18.100 --> 01:33:22.200
neighbors. Join our programs Community science get to know people. It's

1838
01:33:21.200 --> 01:33:24.000
all if we get to know each other we can get a lot

1839
01:33:24.300 --> 01:33:27.100
done and it's not just a city. Of course who's a part

1840
01:33:27.100 --> 01:33:30.100
of these networks. I just want to keep noting that we're not the center of this.

1841
01:33:30.100 --> 01:33:33.900
It's really about the community. So whether it's the amazing

1842
01:33:33.900 --> 01:33:36.400
networks that eco-cycle has through its work

1843
01:33:36.400 --> 01:33:39.400
or the Wild and restoration volunteers or you

1844
01:33:39.400 --> 01:33:42.300
know, any number of the organizations are connected into their

1845
01:33:42.300 --> 01:33:45.300
own networks, and I hope that believe that they'll be bringing things

1846
01:33:45.300 --> 01:33:47.800
back into our community from those networks of action, too.

1847
01:33:49.300 --> 01:33:52.800
Sort of like the way the trees are communicating underground so

1848
01:33:52.800 --> 01:33:55.400
are the cities so the communities well, let's

1849
01:33:55.400 --> 01:33:58.900
leave with I think one really helpful action-oriented question,

1850
01:33:58.900 --> 01:34:01.100
which is if you don't have a lot of money or time to

1851
01:34:01.100 --> 01:34:03.700
do yard work, what's one action that you should be taking?

1852
01:34:05.900 --> 01:34:09.100
Well, I'll throw something out relevant welcome

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01:34:08.100 --> 01:34:09.300
years.

1854
01:34:11.600 --> 01:34:14.200
Planting a tree or shrub or even just a

1855
01:34:14.200 --> 01:34:18.300
few native pollinator plants and and tend

1856
01:34:17.300 --> 01:34:20.500
to it. I mean, it's it's a relationship

1857
01:34:20.500 --> 01:34:23.500
that once you started you got to stay connected

1858
01:34:23.500 --> 01:34:26.400
to it. But I've watched again what my

1859
01:34:26.400 --> 01:34:29.500
partner Emily has done in our front yard, like there's so much life

1860
01:34:29.500 --> 01:34:32.300
now out there and even just a few plants you'll be

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01:34:32.300 --> 01:34:35.400
you'll be surprised who shows up you do

1862
01:34:35.400 --> 01:34:38.300
that little Act of saying hey, I got a

1863
01:34:38.300 --> 01:34:41.900
little extra room here. Welcome come on in. So I say

1864
01:34:41.900 --> 01:34:44.300
even starting small like that. You'll be surprised where

1865
01:34:44.300 --> 01:34:44.800
it'll lead you.

1866
01:34:46.700 --> 01:34:49.500
And in volunteer through the

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01:34:49.500 --> 01:34:52.500
different organizations that are doing this work and through

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01:34:52.500 --> 01:34:55.300
Coop Holder will be over the winter.

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01:34:55.300 --> 01:34:58.400
When we have some time to catch our breath and get the structure in

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01:34:58.400 --> 01:35:02.600
place with our partners. They'll be more and more opportunities to

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01:35:01.600 --> 01:35:04.300
learn. You know, when I'm hearing

1872
01:35:04.300 --> 01:35:07.400
reports back from Andrea people are learning

1873
01:35:07.400 --> 01:35:10.200
so much when they're just out there. It's just not a matter of doing the

1874
01:35:10.200 --> 01:35:13.300
work that needs to be done too, but it's a matter of learning together

1875
01:35:13.300 --> 01:35:17.000
and trying new things and then taking those ideas home or

1876
01:35:16.200 --> 01:35:19.300
sharing them. The most important thing to do

1877
01:35:19.300 --> 01:35:22.400
is talk to people about the changes that we need because people

1878
01:35:22.400 --> 01:35:25.500
tend not to talk about it. And that's one of our problems I

1879
01:35:25.500 --> 01:35:26.700
think is a society.

1880
01:35:29.700 --> 01:35:32.300
Yeah, great. Looks like some people are fired

1881
01:35:32.300 --> 01:35:35.400
up in the chat. They've got some suggestions of

1882
01:35:35.400 --> 01:35:39.000
their own small actions add up and I

1883
01:35:38.100 --> 01:35:41.400
think one of our goals tonight was really to not only

1884
01:35:41.400 --> 01:35:44.100
inform but also Inspire, so I'm glad to see that some of

1885
01:35:44.100 --> 01:35:48.000
you are ready to take out your shovels

1886
01:35:47.200 --> 01:35:50.600
maybe and dig a few holes in your yard this weekend. That's pretty

1887
01:35:50.600 --> 01:35:50.900
exciting.

1888
01:35:51.800 --> 01:35:55.000
And with that, you know, I I recognize we

1889
01:35:54.100 --> 01:35:57.800
didn't get to everyone's questions Leah pointed

1890
01:35:57.800 --> 01:36:00.500
to our website that'll be a place for us to

1891
01:36:00.500 --> 01:36:03.200
be circling back with those questions that we weren't able

1892
01:36:03.200 --> 01:36:06.600
to get to tonight. It's also where you can access the recording and

1893
01:36:06.600 --> 01:36:09.400
then we'll also provide a little written recap of what we discussed tonight

1894
01:36:09.400 --> 01:36:12.100
that you can share with your friends and neighbors. Of course, we want

1895
01:36:12.100 --> 01:36:15.400
this information to spread and we've got

1896
01:36:15.400 --> 01:36:18.200
all your emails because you're registered to resume so we'll try to get that to you

1897
01:36:18.200 --> 01:36:21.400
directly as well. I just prepared something

1898
01:36:21.400 --> 01:36:24.500
for Saturday September

1899
01:36:24.500 --> 01:36:27.400
24th is the older bee Festival.

1900
01:36:27.400 --> 01:36:32.200
That's that's been mainly for

1901
01:36:31.200 --> 01:36:34.000
children over the last several years,

1902
01:36:34.400 --> 01:36:37.200
but this year we're gonna have some cool Boulder cables where you can come and

1903
01:36:37.200 --> 01:36:40.100
you can talk to pollinator Advocates and you can talk to our

1904
01:36:40.100 --> 01:36:43.900
partners. You can learn about trees so and

1905
01:36:43.900 --> 01:36:46.500
share your ideas. So we'll have some interactive things for

1906
01:36:46.500 --> 01:36:49.700
you to come and give us

1907
01:36:49.700 --> 01:36:51.500
ideas about what you'd like to do meet.

1908
01:36:51.700 --> 01:36:54.300
People and that's really important is having

1909
01:36:54.300 --> 01:36:57.700
that interaction in person so we can really talk to

1910
01:36:57.700 --> 01:36:58.800
you and hear what you have to say.

1911
01:37:00.700 --> 01:37:01.600
excellent, Central Park

1912
01:37:02.500 --> 01:37:05.700
Central Park, September 24th. We'll see you all in person. Not

1913
01:37:05.700 --> 01:37:06.200
over Zoom.

1914
01:37:06.900 --> 01:37:09.400
That sounds great. Well, thank you everyone for coming. Thank

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01:37:09.400 --> 01:37:13.200
you so much Brett, Rella Leah for your expertise shared

1916
01:37:12.200 --> 01:37:15.200
tonight and stay tuned. This is

1917
01:37:15.200 --> 01:37:15.700
just the beginning.

1918
01:37:16.700 --> 01:37:19.900
Thanks everyone. Thank you everyone. Have a

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01:37:19.900 --> 01:37:20.100
nice night.