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Check out how Cool Boulder has been featured in news and media!

Community Forestry Corps member collects heat map data around recently planted trees between Aurora 7 Park and High Peaks Elementary School in Boulder. — Daily Camera; June 20th, 2024

Boulder’s Community Forestry Corps gets teens inspired to care for trees

9 News Denver; July 18th, 2023

Boulder website shows specific areas that could use new trees, locations with best shade | As the world gets warmer, planting the right trees in the right places will be crucial to keeping people cool.

CBS News Colorado; January 31st, 2023

The City of Boulder prepares to host a "Biodiversity Climate and You" celebration

Channel 9 News; November 13th, 2022

Boulder releases results of effort to map city's heat disparities | Of the cities mapped as part of a NOAA campaign, Boulder had the largest difference between the warmest and coolest areas, the city said

The Colorado Sun; November 7th, 2022

Key findings from Boulder’s heat mapping project will help scientists find ways to keep the city cool | The hottest areas of Boulder aren’t only in commercial areas. They’re often in places with more affordable housing residents

University of Colorado, Boulder - Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine; August 23rd, 2022

City, university team up to study urban heat island effect | City of Boulder plans to use CU Boulder data to study the effect of trees on urban heat for climate-mitigation planning

Boulder Magazine; Fall, 2022

Cool Boulder: Facing the Heat | Cool Boulder is working to offset the effects of climate change

The Colorado Sun; July 25th, 2022

Volunteers fan out over Boulder to record time, temp and humidity for scientists tracking climate trends nationwide | Data collected by the annual heat mapping project, led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, helps communities combat extreme heat, which can have greater impact on economically and socially vulnerable people

Colorado Public Radio; July 27th, 2022

Students, volunteers and citizen scientists hit the streets to help Boulder build a better heat map

Daily Camera; July 24th, 2022

Boulder climate team, volunteers look to better understand urban heat

Channel 9 News; July 22nd, 2022

'Citizen scientists' help Boulder and NOAA with special project | Volunteers in Boulder attached special sensors to their cars on Friday to record temperatures across the city

Daily Camera; May 17th, 2022

Boulder launches campaign promoting natural climate solutions | Cool Boulder addresses pollinator pathways, connected canopies and absorbent landscapes

Boulder Reporting Lab; April 29th, 2022

How can we live more comfortably on a warming planet? Boulder wants to start by turning down the temperature | As part of a new climate change strategy, the city’s Cool Boulder campaign aims to manage its urban landscape to help pioneer a new model for adapting to more frequent wildfires, floods and heat waves

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Cool Boulder would like to recognize that the emerging field of “nature-based climate solutions” is just catching-up with Indigenous Knowledge & Traditional Ecological Knowledge that has been active for millennia and passed down through generations. Our hope is that we can follow the leadership of Indigenous people here and around the world who model reciprocal relationships with the natural world.

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