CEDaR

The Longmont Downtown Development Authority (LDDA) has partnered with CEDaR to develop a comprehensive survey that will help the LDDA /Longmont Creative District cater more effectively to the needs of its visitors, residents and businesses Anyone living in or around Longmont and visitors to the city are invited to participate in the survey. Three participants of the survey will have the opportunity to win a Downtown Longmont Gift Card. https://www.downtownlongmont.com/ldda/cedar

CEDaR is working with the Greater Park Hill Community, Inc. to conduct analysis for a green infrastructure plan in Park Hill, one of Denver's fastest growing neighborhoods. The plan's goal is to install green infrastructure best management practices that capture stormwater and reduce the water runoff. Austin Grebe, a CEDaR intern, has been calculating the volume in which green infrastructure can capture stormwater runoff and the storage strength of proposed remedies, such as rain gardens (an example is pictured below), planter boxes and bioswales.

When Growing Up Boulder (GUB) began in 2009, its goal was to empower young people to influence the local issues which affected their lives. For the past 12 years the program was a part of CU Boulder's Community Engagement, Design and Research (CEDaR) Center. Now one of the most successful child-friendly city initiatives in the world, it's being spun off as an independent nonprofit under the fiscal sponsorship of the Colorado Nonprofit Development Center.

CEDaR's Growing Up Boulder program spins off as a nonprofit For the past 12 years Growing Up Boulder was a part of CU Boulder's  Community Engagement, Design and Research (CEDaR) Center. Now one of the most successful child-friendly city initiatives in the world, GUB is transitioning to an independent nonprofit, a model for how the university can develop...

The Denver Food Bank Distribution Project, launched in January in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, supports research into technology solutions for improving logistical issues at food banks during times of increased demand. Working with our partners at the Denver's Department of Health & Environment, CEDaR Intern Josh Lipson is researching apps being used and tested by food banks, designing a survey for stakeholders and compiling a guide and workshop on how food banks can use technology to mitigate logistical issues.

CEDaR food bank project helps with logistical issues during pandemic The Denver Food Bank Distribution Project is a CEDaR collaboration between the city of Denver and the university, where the university brings technical skills, interviewing and information technologies to a project identified by the city to tackle how to best manage information and activities among....

On Monday the city of Boulder's new director of planning and development services, Jacob Lindsey, gave a talk sponsored by CEDaR to students in ENVD’s planning emphasis. Lindsey, the former planning director for the city of Charleston, South Carolina, spoke about impacts of climate change in Charleston and efforts underway to manage them.

Students from Brian Muller's Policy and Practice class participated today in an interactive discussion with Korkut Onaran, principal at Pel-Ona Architects and Urbanists, about making cities more adaptive to the effects of climate change. During the online talk, Onaran presented architectural elements and ways to reorganize neighborhoods to create places resilient to increasing risks of excessive heat, drought, coastal flooding and other climate change effects. The talk was a follow-up to CEDaR's "Adaptation Urbanism" workshop conducted last year with Andrés Duany, a national leader in new urbanist design.

Louise Chawla, CEDaR Fellow and professor emerita in the Program of Environmental Design, recently gave a talk to kick off a week of activities for the city of Strasbourg, France's, Festival of Early Infancy (birth to six-years-old). The festival's theme is "connecting young children to nature," including greening child care centers, preschools and schools, and encouraging parents to take their children more frequently to parks.

CEDaR's new Community Voices project delves into the manufactured housing (MH) most pressing issues and explores them through the personal stories of park residents, especially grassroot activists committed to change. Meet Isabel Sanchez, a grassroots community organizer and urban farmer, who transformed Mapleton Mobile Home Park in Boulder to a community that follows sustainable practices and and principles. https://www.colorado.edu/cedar/2020/12/16/isabel-sanchez-even-small-spaces-possibilities-are-endless

If you haven't done so already, please add your name to this petition to enable the creation of a new CO Pollinator License Plate. A beautiful, new pollinator plate would support programs that protect pollinators and celebrate the indispensable role that they play in sustaining our agricultural and natural ecosystems.

Sign the Petition: https://docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLSdKFGPReIE.../viewform.

One of the community engagements of Louise Chawla, a CEDaR fellow, is serving on the leadership committee of People and Pollinators Action Network, a statewide group that works for healthy ecosystems and biodiverse habitat for pollinators and the web of life of which they are an essential part.

"Not only are pollinators necessary for many of the crops that feed people, but they also sustain many of the wildflowers and flowering trees and shrubs on Colorado’s wildlands," she says.

The great outdoors: COVID-19-compatible learning experiences for all The pandemic poses new opportunities for healthier learning: moving school classrooms to the great outdoors.

Growing Up Boulder is Boulder’s child- and youth-friendly city initiative based out of the University of Colorado's Community Engagement, Design and Research (CEDaR) Center. Listen as the group's director, Mara Mintzer, discusses a child-friendly map of Boulder designed by kids.

Jan. 23, 2020: Solutions To Teen Stress; Building Child-Friendly Cities The “Teens Under Stress” series continues with tips and solutions to managing stress from academic pressures. Then, if children could have a say in city planning, what would they want? The answer can be found in Boulder. And, how the Colorado National Guard’s mission has evolved in its 160 yea...

CEDaR is proud to present an "Adaptation Urbanism" workshop with Andrés Duany, a national leader in new urbanist design. The Feb. 15 workshop focuses on urban design ideas and adaptation plans to help planners, designers and city officials address climate change and related natural disasters.

A limited number of scholarships are available for students. For more information visit, https://www.colorado.edu/cedar/2020/01/03/feb-15-adaptation-urbanism-andr%C3%A9s-duany