City of Boulder, CO Inside Boulder News, 16 Dec 2016

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This week on Inside Boulder News: Firefighters race across town, without ever leaving the safety of the station. Trees -- and people -- get a second chance. And Boulder is setting a course to save energy and reduce harmful emissions.

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This week on inside folder news, firefighters, race across town without ever leaving the safety of the station trees and people get a second chance and Boulder is setting a course to save energy and reduce harmful emissions.

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Welcome to inside Boulder news your chance to share your stories, get involved and keep up to date on all things: Boulder, I'm, Kristin, Skov era, the boulder public libraries makerspace is not just repurposing old trees. It's giving new purpose to those who need it most ex-cons who at times found themselves without hope, usually at a library make noise like this and you'll get should.

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But the makerspace a workshop tucked inside the boulder public library, looks more like a machine shop. In a reading room I made.

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Three different pictures, one for my mom one for my dad and one for my sister you're.

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Looking at a craftsman in training, 29 year-old Richard, Tom, tur, didn't know he had it in him. I did.

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Not know I was creative, that's all so new to me. Richard.

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Says he doesn't like to focus on his old life. I regret.

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Things that I did in my past a life.

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That landed him behind bars. Instead, this Colorado native is taking this piece of reclaimed ash wood and turning it into something better. My.

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Mom will be especially proud of me. Richard.

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Is part of the bridge house ready to work program where he's making himself better too most.

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Of the time it's Ashley, it's.

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Called tree debris to opportunity, members of the class learn woodworking and hopefully, self-sufficiency, a ticket out of homelessness and often loneliness. It.

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Helps when there's some people here that are on the same page as you, so you don't feel so lonely when somebody like her me have been in prison, we're both getting that second chance, try and start over just.

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Looking at her, you wouldn't know maria carrillo Garcia has spent half of her life in prison. She's 38 said.

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I just got my nails done. You know some people think it like this look at their face. Like oh, my god, you were in prison. You know other people are very curious and they want to know because once they meet me or talk to me and get to know me they're, like you were in prison like you don't fit the fit. The description Maria says it certainly.

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Wasn't her upbringing.

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I come from pretty good family, military and law enforcement, and so me making poor choices. Wasn't the best thing always and they're really happy to have me back back from a life of addiction and lies like I, would say, or do things like yeah I'm doing this I'm doing that, but I never really was I was just verbalizing things, so it sounded good and I've lived sober before, but I've never tried to be so. My sister has adopted it has been raising my children. She wants.

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Them to know she hasn't given up and has carved out a new passion. How.

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To take something straight from the mill and make it into a piece of furniture or into a bowl or to a chopping block or to a beautiful ornament or something is pretty cool, because there's a lot of accomplishment and pride in it when you're done Maria.

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Says now her good mood comes from a natural high one that lasts knowing.

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How to live without it, you know being sober. So what's a little library, noise like I would have never known. This was in the back of a library.

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Right a butterfly these two, no change doesn't come easy, but with practice they can make their lives beautiful again.

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The members of this first tree op class sold more than three thousand dollars in handmade Christmas ornaments at the boulder farmers market for more information visit tree up dot, org, we've all seen, first responders racing across town cops and firefighters, driving their vehicles through heavy traffic. It's no easy task, but now advancements in virtual reality are allowing drivers to practice their maneuvers without ever leaving the safety of the garage.

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It looks like a wild ride. We're.

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Good for getting back on course,.

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But these drivers never leave this trailer. A fire truck simulator arctic folders, Fire, Training Center fire apparatus. The simulated fire truck has real-life CD and controls.

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Longer ones, multiple scenarios and weather events can be programmed, so drivers can practice their skills in the rain and snow without taking on any actual risk and start the engine. Will you are ready.

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Not limited to firefighters, in fact, drivers can practice with a variety of first response vehicles, including ambulances and patrol cars. It's counterintuitive the.

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Air is keeping the brakes the patch off of the rotors, the.

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Simulator is brand new fire station. Eight boulders Regional Fire Training Center is one of the first in the state to roll out this new program. Usually.

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A red light on a dash in either a horn or a beep or a buzzer if getting low on air, and it's to prevent you from locking up the brakes as you're. Moving of.

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Course nothing beats the real thing, taking a real truck out on the open road and building a driving course at the training facility is still an option, but now this technology is being looked at closely as a way to train drivers of all types in the city for more information visit, Boulder Colorado, gov / fire rescue, / fire station aids.

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We hear a lot of talk about climate change in the need to cut down on harmful emissions, but Boulder has put words into actions setting new community-wide goals that will set the city on a course towards one hundred percent clean renewable electricity. There's.

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Just too many of us using energy and resources now that we can't continue to do it in that way, senior.

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Environmental planner Brett can karen says the city has set new goals to run on one hundred percent renewable electricity by 2030. We.

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Need to change our energy systems need to figure out how we can manage ecosystems in a more productive and sustainable way. The.

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City will also aim for an eighty percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions below 2005 levels by 2050 moving beyond our dependence on fossil fuels. We.

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Need to use fewer natural resources and actually find ways to reuse the things that we're using 2030.

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2050 these deadlines sounds so far off. Brett says it's just not so it's.

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Really the changes that we make in the next five to 15 years, that are the significant ones if we wait until 2040 to start making these changes it'll be too late too.

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Late for what exactly for that? I went to NOAA the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and spoke to senior scientist Peter tans to see just how bolder fits into this global ecosystem. As.

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Long as we continue to emit co2 will continue to rise, tans.

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And his fellow researchers make carefully calibrated measurements from locations all over the globe. We are.

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Quite certain of the data that we produce he.

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Says this year, global levels of co2, past 400 parts per million and that.

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Is kind of a milestone because we know from ice cores going back eight hundred thousand years that the earth has never been above, say, 300 ppm and it's.

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Not just the amount of co2, it's also the rate, it's increasing so.

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200 times faster now what happened when the earth was left to its own devices before we intervened so to speak? I can only say this that what we have seen now so far is peanuts compared to what could be happening. If we continue to emit co2 even at present rates and while.

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One city cannot change the face of the entire planet. Tan's insists every person can do their part.

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Seven billion of us, and collectively we emit so much, we are overwhelming the natural carbon cycle. So what it means is everybody has to do whatever they can. We all have to make our contribution for.

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More information on the city's ongoing climate and energy goals visit boulder climate calm, every December, our military vets are honored with wreath-laying ceremonies all over the world and Boulder is no exception. It's part of National Wreaths Across America day taking place at Arlington National Cemetery, as well as more than 1,100 locations across America at sea and abroad.

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Boulders columbia cemetery will be a part of this year's coordinated ceremonies and you're invited more than 70 volunteers and honor guard members from local police and fire agencies will play 675 wreaths at Veterans graves at area, cemeteries in broomfield, Louisville and Boulder.

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The broomfield Rotary Club 1093 partnered with home depot and the home depot foundation to raise money and provide the wreaths for more information on this cause and how you can get involved visit wreaths across america, org hashtag, join us and those wishing to volunteer locally can contact John O'hare with the broomfield rotary at 303 464 0330.

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