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About Us
Boulder County Going Local is a county-wide alliance of local citizens, organizations, and independently-owned businesses, as well municipal and county governments, all united together to develop more resilient, self-reliant communities.
Our goal is to prepare our communities for the local impacts of climate change and peak oil through county-wide adoption of integrated, inclusive approaches and concrete actions that will dramatically reduce our collective carbon footprint and lead to ethically and gracefully making the transition to a more sustainable, localized economy in a carbon-constrained future. Towards this end, we have launched the BOULDER COUNTY GOING LOCAL! Campaign, which sets the theme for a decade-long transition to a stronger, more localized economy in an energy-constrained future.
Our mission is to be a catalyst for relocalization—i.e., developing local self-sufficiency in food, energy, transportation, media, systems of care, and economy—while regenerating community.
We serve as a transition team, initiating a county-wide process of relocalizing all essential elements that our communities need to sustain themselves and thrive. Our role is to provide inspiration, empowerment, education, training and support of individuals, businesses, organizations, communities and local governments, uniting them together as we consider and implement a collective vision of a relocalized future.
Our vision is a future where life is more socially connected, more meaningful and satisfying, more sustainable, and more equitable in a greater community of relocalized communities; where production and consumption occur closer to home; where long and fragile supply chains—now vulnerable to surges in oil prices and economic volatility—have been replaced by interconnected local networks; where the total amount of energy consumed by businesses and citizens is dramatically less than current unsustainable levels. |
