Environmental Sustainability and
Biomass Energy
Environmental sustainability is a long-term goal that seeks to
balance environmental, economic and societal needs. This involves:
- the wise use of natural and economic resources and includes
energy, fuel and resource efficiency
- waste reduction
- reuse and recycling
- changes to building and land use
- a coordinated effort to educate and encourage the broader
community to follow suit
Parks and Open Space is committed to environmental sustainability and
aims to be a role model for the greater community. In 2005, the
Commissioners launched a
sustainability initiative, headed by Commissioner Will Toor.
One sustainable technology adopted by Boulder County is a biomass
energy system used to heat the Parks and Open Space and Transportation
facilities in Longmont. The biomass energy system uses wood byproducts,
or wood chips, from our natural resource management activities on Parks
and Open Space properties. If you would like more information on our
biomass energy system, please contact Resource Management Division
Manager, Therese Glowacki, at (303) 678-6206, or
tglowacki@bouldercounty.org.
More information about biomass energy
systems:
Cashing
in the Chips (link to video page) -- Colorado Governor’s Office of
Energy Management and Conservation video that explains how waste wood
from forest thinning operations can be used to generate power.
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