City of Boulder, CO Inside Boulder News, 27 Apr 2018

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This week on Inside Boulder News: Boulder's New Heating and Cooling Incentive, Bike to School Day and What's Up Boulder.

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This week on inside boulder news, the city and county promote a renewable way to heat and cool homes. She may only be in the 4th grade, but she's becoming a shining example for the community and mark your calendars for, what's up boulder, welcome to inside boulder news, your source for all things: Boulder I'm, Annie's aruba. This week the city launched comfort, 365, a partnership between the city and Boulder County to provide residents with cleaner and more efficient way to heat and cool their homes. We spoke with Brett Kim Caron to learn more about this incentive.

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It's called comfort, 365, an initiative put in place by the city of Boulder and Boulder County's energy smart service to support households that are interested in replacing their fossil fuel based appliances with a high-efficiency electric heat pump. These.

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Are a technology that have been around a long time that are used widely around the world? Well great thing about a heat pump? Is it can not only provide Heat that it actually can also provide cooling things.

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Like burning natural gas inside of homes, whether it's through water heaters, furnaces or even gas, cook stoves add significant amounts of carbon monoxide and other harmful chemicals to our homes. Air quality, electric heat pumps, however, can improve a households. Air quality by replacing gas systems inside homes for.

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Many of us who live here in town and have central air furnaces a lot of times, you'll have one room, that's really cold one room, that's really hot or, as I've said, a lot of houses. Don't even have air conditioning. So one of the great things about heat pumps is that you can actually put them where you need them and get not only heating but also cooling. There are also hot water heat pumps, which actually can provide that same sort of electric based heating, but through a high-efficiency heat pump for your water here. For this.

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Environmentally conscious resident installing this new system and his boiler home was the right thing to do global.

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Warming I think it's everybody's duty to do what they can and not everybody can afford. You know a mini split, but with the program the boulder is offering, it makes it very much closer to attain and a lot of people will take advantage of that and it will have a big impact. The.

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Partnership between the city of Boulder and Boulder County's energy smart program is one of several strategies to rapidly accelerate the adoption of renewable heating and cooling systems using energy smarts established one-on-one, advising model comfort, 365 pairs, interested residents with their own personal expert advisor for free for more information. Please visit energy, smart yes', comm forward, slash comfort, 365 despite gloomy weather conditions.

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Earlier this week, Boulder Valley School District's bike to school day was a smooth ride for participants this year, but this fourth grader at Whittier Elementary School, takes bike to school day to a whole other level. A little rain or snow doesn't stop Anika yov from riding her bike to school. Every single day before.

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The school year started, Anika evidently decided, although we did not know it at the time that she was wanted to ride her bike to school every day or maybe walk every day and not take the bus and not not right in a car. First.

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Her goal was to do it until January, knowing that you know the winter months are harder and then come January. It just seemed easy enough to keep going and she loved it so much so we just kept doing it. Anika's.

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Trip to and from school is about three and a half miles commute in which the car isn't missed anymore. Well,.

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I think it's harder at this point to ride the car instead of doing bikes. It just seems like more work now, because I'm just so used to riding my bike. Today's.

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Commute was a special one, as it was Boulder Valley, School, District's bike to school day, hike.

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To school day is a day where we encourage everyone to walk or bike. If they can we're really trying to encourage alternate ways of commuting, so that kids can reduce their footprint on the earth and also so that we don't have as many cars around our school building during bike.

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To school days, students receive snacks and stickers for participating, as well as a bike education session. Thanks to the safe routes to school, grant a collaboration between Boulder Valley School District's in the city of Boulder and they're.

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Getting to learn the rules of the road, and actually this week is the week they're getting to ride around in the neighborhood, so really encouraging kids to know how to use bikes safely in our neighborhoods, with.

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Events like this one, the school hopes students will follow. Anika's footsteps I want.

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To say: congratulations to Anika I'm, really proud of her dedication to walking and biking every day this year and I think she's a great example of a student and a citizen taking action in our community and making a difference.

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Protect your pup's boulder police, Animal Protection is hosting a low-cost vaccinations and licensing clinic on April 28th. The animal protection unit will be hosting a vaccine clinic at the Belmont City dog park. The Boulder Valley Humane Society will be there as well we're for ten dollars. You can get your pet vaccinated you'll be able to renew or purchase your dog license for the city of Boulder. Cats will need to be in a carrier and dogs on leashes during the clinic getting.

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Your pet vaccinated is important in keeping your pet safe. The rabies vaccine is also a requirement when licensing your animal in the city of Boulder. The.

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Clinic will be hosted on Saturday April 28th from 11:00 to 1:00 p.m. at the Belmont City dog park. Vaccinations will be given on a first-come, first-served basis, also happening Saturday April 28th, the boulder Police Department will be partnering up with the Drug Enforcement Agency to take back unwanted prescription, drugs unused or expired prescription medications are a public safety issue leading to accidental poisoning overdose and abuse. Saturday's event will be an easy drive through no questions asked service.

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Only thing the police department asks is to remove all pills from their bottles and place into a plastic bag for safe disposal. The.

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Purpose of this day is to clear your cabinets of unwanted prescription drugs, so they don't fall in the wrong hands or into our water streams. Unwanted.

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Prescription drugs can be brought to the boulder county clerk and recorder at 1750 33rd Street on Monday April 30th. The city of Boulder is inviting community members to join the city for the what's up, Boulder open house, a citywide event where attendees can learn about major city projects and enjoy free food, live music and activities for the kids. What's up, Boulder is an amazing opportunity to learn about the city's projects and services. Featured programs and services include the nearly 9 acre, Alpine balsam property, the city's broadband efforts and over 20 other high-impact projects.

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This year's event will be held at the East Boulder Community Center on Monday April 30th from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. for more information on this year's. What's a boulder open house, please visit boulder colorado gov forward, slash what's up Boulder. Thank you so much for joining us on this week's edition of inside Boulder news. If you have pictures news tips or events you'd like to see featured we'd love to hear from you connect with us on Facebook and Twitter, you can also sign up to receive video updates right in your inbox.

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