Boulder County issues $500k in climate-sustainability grants
BOULDER — Boulder County, through its new Climate Innovation Fund, has awarded more than $500,000 in grants to five organizations to use toward sustainability projects.
The county’s Office of Sustainability, Climate Action & Resilience “created the fund in early 2022 to encourage innovation and provide seed capital for cutting-edge technologies that fight climate change locally through nature-based solutions, carbon dioxide removal and landscape restoration and resilience,” according to a Boulder County news release.
The projects and their funding amounts are:
- Biochar Now, Berthoud, $100,000.
- Boulder Watershed Collective, Boulder, $100,000.
- Drylands Agroecology Research, Longmont, $100,000.
- Ollin Farms, Longmont, $90,000.
- Takachar, Boston, $150,000.
“We need to kickstart fresh ideas and…
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