What happens when a city goes local with its power supply? Ask the residents of Boulder, Colorado. They’d grown tired of debates about climate change and public health. What they wanted was some hands-on, people-driven change. So, in 2011, they made Boulder the first municipality in the country to take back its energy decisions. The upshot? If Boulder can do this, other cities can. The slingshot? If they do, the corporate energy giants could fall.
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