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Throughout fall 2018, Co-Director Sprain and Research Fellow Reinig have worked with City of Boulder staff and a small group of community members to develop a vision for productive civic discourse in Boulder. Phase II of Building Bridges has seen

Growing expressions of distrust of Boulder’s public process led the city of Boulder to appoint a 14-member community working group to identify ways to improve public process.  As part of their final recommendations in Summer 2017, the Public Participation Working Group (PPWG) recommended the co-creation of guidelines for civil and constructive conduct in meetings, dialogue, and decision-making processes.  As part of Boulder’s efforts to improve public engagement practices and activate these recommendations,, Boulder’s staff first conceived Building Bridges as a large public design workshop held in Fall 2017.

CDE Co-Director Leah Sprain and Graduate Research Fellow Lydia Reinig have worked on collaborative research at the intersections of democratic engagement and energy system transformation.  This research has been fostered through ongoing

Director Phaedra C. Pezzullo presented at and participated in an all-day workshop with community members, City of Boulder employees and council member, and Boulder County employees about the work of making a Just Transition possible here and beyond.

Energy, specifically electricity, is at the crux of technological innovations and political debates regarding sustainable transitions. As both an emerging social movement and interdisciplinary field of study, energy democracy reflects critical

BoulderTalks Executive Committee Member Tiara Naputi and the Just Transition Collaborative co-sponsored a workshop on “The New Green Economy” on Oct. 14, 2016 in Longmont, Colorado.

Leah Sprain is co-organizing a workshop on energy democracy with Danielle Endres, Tarla Peterson, Andrea Feldspauch-Parker to be held in Salt Lake City on July, 2017. It will bring together a range of scholars, local energy practitioners, and

"Just transition" is a term developed by labor and climate justice movements to advocate the major transformation we are undergoing from a global fossil fuel carbon-based economy to a renewable energy economy should incorporate ecological and social

In September, Leah Sprain discussed "Democratic Dilemmas of Energy System Transformation" at the University of Utah. The talk is part of the Global Change and Sustainability Center seminar series and co-sponsored by The Communication Institute.Dr.