FCSG Statement on Proposed 2021 City Budget and Follow-up Letter

The FCSG sent the statement below to City Council on October 7th.  Council ended up not cutting the Air Quality or Climate Action Program budgets, and we sent the follow-up letter to council on November…

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Linking Climate Protection and Peace

Speech delivered by Kevin Cross at the Fort Collins Peace Festival on September 28, 2019 The Fort Collins Sustainability Group/FCSG was formed back in 2005. We’ve spend the last 14 years focusing on climate action…

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FCSG Statement on 2018 Fort Collins Climate Action Plan Results

When the City of Fort Collins reports that community-wide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are 14% below 2005 levels (1), there should be a big asterisk at the end of the sentence. That’s because the City…

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What Does the Chamber Think About Climate Change?

Published in the Fort Collins Coloradoan on September 9, 2018  Fort Collins Area Chamber of Commerce CEO David May and chamber board member Ethan Gannett from Hewlett Packard Enterprises have written pieces expressing opposition to…

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Fort Collins Chamber of Commerce CEO is Wrong on Renewable Electricity

 Published in the Fort Collins Coloradoan on June 21, 2018  In a recent guest column, Fort Collins Area Chamber of Commerce President and CEO David May criticized the 100% renewable electricity resolution that Fort Collins…

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FCP4CE Releases Resolution to Achieve 100% Renewable Electricity by 2030

 Posted on April 21, 2018   Fort Collins, CO. – Today, Fort Collins Partners for Clean Energy released a proposed resolution for the Fort Collins City Council to adopt the goal of achieving 100% renewable electricity…

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FCSG Letter to Fort Collins City Manager on Delays in Road to Zero Waste Plan

 Posted on March 19, 2018   The Fort Collins Sustainability Group (FCSG) looks forward to learning more about the Larimer County Wasteshed Plan at the final meeting of the Stakeholder Advisory Group (of which I am…

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FCSG Statement on CAP Update and TOU Pilot Study

 Statement updated on March 3, 2017  At its work session on February 28th, Fort Collins City staff presented a Climate Action Plan (CAP) update to City Council. Staff also presented the results of a residential…

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Rebranding Climate Action Plan

 Statement posted on February 6, 2017  The City of Fort Collins has been dedicated to climate protection since 1997, when our first climate committee developed a plan that was passed by City Council in 1999….

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Climate Action Plan Rebranding

 Statement posted on November 17, 2016  In August of this year, City Manager Darin Atteberry announced that the City of Fort Collins would be rebranding its successful seventeen year old Climate Action Plan. He wrote…

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