I shot a quick piece for The Wall Street Journal in December that finally just found a home in the weekend edition of the publication.  The story covers a few key players in Bouder, Colorado’s efforts to bring its community in line with greener energy standards.  It explores some unexpected resistance from residents who, in spite of the college town’s historically progressive politics, are moving at snail pace to comply with the city’s environmental regulations.

The article is available here.  Image captions follow:

[1.] Nate Burger, owner of Eco Handyman, works to seal can lights in a Boulder custom home.  Burger’s company specializes in energy efficient residential upgrades and dovetails with Boulder “Green Points” program, a system that requires homeowners applying for remodels to make certain environmentally friendly improvements to their property as a condition of the new construction.

[2.] Boulder’s coal-fired power plant, pictured from the south.

[3.] Jonathan Koehn, the City of Boulder’s Environmental Affairs Manager, poses for portraits in front of Boulder’s coal-fired power plant.  The city’s plant currently cannot meet Boulder’s power demand.  Electricity is drawn from Denver to fill the shortfall.  Koehn recently particpated in the Copenhagen Climate Summit as part of a contingent from the city.