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  • A drawing of a bee by a baby直播app license plate
    Pollinator-themed designs are now being accepted for a new baby直播app license plate honoring bees. Pollinators are necessary for many crops and sustain many of the wildflowers and flowering trees and shrubs on baby直播app鈥檚 wildlands, says Louise Chawla, CEDaR fellow and professor emerita in the Program in Environmental Design. Chawla serves on the leadership committee of People and Pollinators Action Network, a statewide group that works for healthy ecosystems and biodiverse habitat for pollinators.
  • Children in nature
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    Louise Chawla, environmental psychologist and CEDaR fellow, recently completed a review that brings two bodies of research together: one on connecting children and adolescents with nature, and the second on supporting healthy coping when they realize they are part of a planet in peril. The review shows that when children and adolescents feel connected to nature, they are more likely to report good health and a sense of well-being, more likely to get high scores for creative thinking, and more inclined to show cooperative, helping behaviors. On the flip side, city families stuck indoors during COVID-19 reported mounting stress and deteriorating behavior in their children.
  • Heatherwood Elementary School children study the ecosystem and offer recommendations for nature discovery at the City of Boulder's Wood Brothers property
    GUB Director Mara Mintzer presented to the National COVID-19 Outdoor Learning Initiative, which supports schools and districts nationwide to develop outdoor spaces as cost-effective tools for keeping schools open during a pandemic.
  • Sarah Kitchen holding a black cat and looking down at it.
    "Her words, love of cats and endless memes, brings humor and light to the studio space."

  • Stefi Mitova
    Doctoral student Stefi聽Mitova successfully defended her聽dissertation, 鈥淚ntegrating Electric Vehicles and Solar Photovoltaics into Smart Cities with Smart Charging and Storage: Energy, Economic, and Environmental Impact Analysis Using Systems Engineering Methods.鈥

  • Man looks at seating area and woman in the background sits in an area that looks like layers of geologic rock, providing a passive educational experience.
    In a university-city partnership organized by CEDaR, the Longmont Downtown Development Authority plans to use designs created by CU Boulder ENVD students to help transform St. Stephen's Plaza on Main Street from a little-used space to a creative hub and gathering place.
  • Screen shot of the new manufactured housing website.
    CU Boulder's Community Engagement, Design and Research Center (CEDaR) recently聽unveiled聽a website providing聽essential information that supports聽residents of baby直播app mobile/manufactured home (MH) owners, including information useful during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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    Through a generous commitment from the baby直播app Health Foundation, our work with the baby直播app Coalition of Manufactured Home Owners (CoCoMHO) is helping renters and owners of manufactured housing in baby直播app play an active role in policy discussions regarding protections of baby直播app鈥檚 more than 900 mobile home parks.
  • Mara Mintzer shows children from the Uni-Hill School the child-friendly map.
    In an interview with baby直播app Public Radio, hear Mara Mintzer, director of Growing Up Boulder, speak about the creation of the聽nation's first "child-friendly city map."
  • Speaker does a presentation at the Squeezed-Out conference
    More than 175 participants attended our 2019 Community Building baby直播app-Style Conference, entitled, "Squeezed Out: Challenges of Diversity and Affordability in baby直播app Communities," which brought together leaders from neighborhoods, towns, cities and the University of baby直播app Boulder. The Oct. 25 conference focused on the challenges that baby直播app communities face.
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