Fort Collins Sustainability Group

Transition Fort Collins is organizing a weekend training workshop on June 16th and 17th “designed for people working on the transition to a more resilient local community.” For more information concerning this training, click on the “Training for Transition” link on the right hand side of our homepage.

FCSG believes that this is an important event, and recognizes that the $150 registration fee presents a barrier to many people who would otherwise be interested in attending. We are therefore offering three full scholarships for the workshop.

Originally appeared in the Fort Collins Coloradoan on December 5, 2011

The tiered residential electric rate ordinance recently given initial approval by the Fort Collins City Council will keep annual bill increases below wholesale cost inflation for most customers. It will do this while encouraging conservation and discouraging excessive energy use. Unfortunately, the Coloradoan’s coverage of this story (11/22/11) focused on summer bills of customers using significantly more energy than average to suggest that huge increases are in store for many area residents.

Originally appeared in the Fort Collins Coloradoan on August 20, 2011

Thumbs up to Fort Collins for reducing its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 11% between 2005 and 2010. This achievement significantly exceeds the 3% emissions reduction goal for 2012 for which the Fort Collins Sustainability Group successfully advocated several years ago.

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