• Beijing Looks to ‘Green’ Buildings to Cut Emissions || NPR
  One way China is trying to reach ambitious global warming reduction goals is by focusing on its buildings. A nine-story, modern-looking office building in Beijing is one example.
  (tags: buildings China energy+efficiency global+warming)
• Canadian communities riding green wave of change || Canada.com
  While the federal government dithers on the country’s climate-change strategy, the City of Toronto has pledged to slash greenhouse gas emissions by six per cent in five years, 30 per cent in the next 13 years and 80 per cent by 2050.
  (tags: canada carbon+emissions Toronto)
• Steamboat may join carbon-offset program || Associated Press
  Steamboat Springs may join a new state program designed help to Coloradans buy carbon offsets to counter greenhouse-gas pollution, and to make sure they really get what they pay for.
  (tags: Colorado carbon+offsets Colorado+Carbon+Fund)
• ColoradoBiz Magazine
  More background on the Xcel Energy Smart Grid project, which is being piloted in Boulder.
  (tags: utility electricity power+grid Xcel Boulder smart+grid)
• ConocoPhillips exec sees big future for Louisville site (ColoradoBiz Magazine)
  Looks like Conoco Phillips is going to use the old StorageTek site in Louisville to perpetuate the fossil fuel business: “extraction methods for heavy oil (i.e., tar sands); new coal technology; seismic imaging of reservoirs; carbon-capture & storage.”
  (tags: Louisville Colorado Conoco oil coal research carbon+capture industry business)

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