Sustainable Louisville Colorado

04/02/2024

A new post recently appeared on Sustainable Louisville Colorado: "Community Decarbonization Planning at City Council".

As I reported in a previous blog post , Louisville recently undertook another round of community decarbonization planning. In collaboration with City staff and Xcel’s Partners in Energy , a Community Decarbonization Stakeholder Group, consisting of nine people living and/or working in Louisville,

08/15/2023

A new post recently appeared on Sustainable Louisville Colorado: "This Week in Sustainability at the City of Louisville".

This Tuesday (15 August) starting at 6:00 pm, the Louisville City Council will meet in City Hall’s council chambers. Access the meeting agenda and packet here . City Council will receive the final presentation of its commissioned municipal decarbonization plan. This plan details how the City can e...

06/22/2023

A new post recently appeared on Sustainable Louisville Colorado: "An Opportunity for Community Decarbonization Planning".

To hold global warming to well below two degrees Celsius above preindustrial temperatures, as agreed upon in the Paris Climate Accords, greenhouse gas emissions must peak by 2025, halve by 2030, and cease by midcentury. Every person, family, neighborhood, community, town, city, state, and nation mus

03/10/2023

A new post recently appeared on Sustainable Louisville Colorado: "Opportunities for Public Input on Limiting Gasoline Stations".

As I reported in a previous blog post , the Louisville City Council adopted a temporary moratorium on new land-use applications for gasoline stations. This moratorium came into effect on 1 November 2022 and expires on 30 September 2023. City Council’s 2023 work plan includes consideration of subse...

02/23/2023

A new post recently appeared on Sustainable Louisville Colorado: "Public Surveys on Dark Night Sky Lighting".

In the summer of 2021, the Louisville City Council began to discuss a dark night sky lighting ordinance. Such ordinances regulate outdoor lighting as a means to mitigate light pollution at night. In a future blog post I will elaborate on the detriments of light pollution and the benefits of dark nig

02/14/2023

A new post recently appeared on Sustainable Louisville Colorado: "Sustainability Advisory Board Meeting" for February 2023.

01/26/2023

A new post recently appeared on Sustainable Louisville Colorado: "Elegy for Alfalfa's, Ode on N**e Foods".

I have lived in many different places: the Main Line of suburban Philadelphia, the Berkshires of Massachusetts, Cambridge and the Cotswolds in England, the central valley of California, Utrecht in the Netherlands, the Hudson Valley of New York, the Susquehanna Valley of Pennsylvania, and now Louisvi

10/28/2022

Sustainable Louisville Colorado is a blog devoted to environmental sustainability in Louisville, Colorado. Authored by Josh Cooperman, a stay-at-home dad trained as a theoretical physicist, Sustainable Louisville Colorado aims to motivate Louisville citizens to act to ensure a livable future for all of Earth’s inhabitants.