For episode fifty, I spoke with Glenda Russell who is a historian of the LGBTQ movement as it has unfolded here in Boulder and Colorado and beyond. Glenda has had a long career as a clinical psychologist, educator, and writer and has a PhD in psychology from the University of Colorado at Boulder (’84). We talked about the struggle to get ‘sexual or…

For episode forty-nine, I spoke with Ren Q. Dawe who is a trans activist, comedian, writer, and educator who lives and works in Boulder and has been performing his comedy all over the front range. I have mentioned a few times in passing that I enjoy performing comedy, but I’ve never said much else about it on this podcast. So, it was especially fun…

For episode forty-eight, I spoke with Sarah Wells who is a partner in the real estate agency Live Work Denver which specializes in co-buying real estate which is simply a way to buy homes with other people. Sarah is one of the founders of the Queen City Cooperative and is the Board Chair for the Boulder Housing Coalition which is a non-profit that …

For episode forty-seven, I spoke with Eric Budd who is a political activist and organizer who has been involved in various issues such as occupancy reform, even year elections, and advocacy for cycling. He is also involved in various organizations including Boulder Progressives, Better Boulder, Boulder Housing Coalition, and Community Cycles, among…

For episode forty-six, I spoke with Annamarie Pluhar who runs a nonprofit organization named Sharing Housing. She is the author of a book titled “Sharing Housing: A Guidebook for Finding and Keeping Good Housemates” which extols the virtues of sharing housing and provides practical advice on how to find compatible housemates. Earlier this year I po…

For episode forty-five, I spoke with Tina Marquis who is a candidate running for city council. We met at the main branch of the Boulder Public Library and talked about a wide variety of subjects including her work on the BVSD school board, homelessness, the introvert revolution, middle income housing, her leadership style, and climate change among …

For episode forty-four, I spoke with Dan Williams who is a civil rights lawyer who has worked on issues related to homelessness in Boulder. We talked about a recent effort by a consortium of service providers who got together and created a detailed proposal for providing low barrier services. This proposal was submitted to city council and was side…

For episode forty-three, I spoke with Terri Brncic who is a candidate running for city council. I sat down with her at her kitchen table in her North Boulder home. We talked about the Safe Zones 4 Kids ballot measure, homelessness solutions, affordable housing, infill development, zoning and parking reform, and e-bikes among other subjects. I hope …

For episode forty-two, I spoke with Katie Farnan and Doug Hamilton about their efforts to encourage voters to reject a ballot initiative called Safe Zones 4 Kids. Their campaign is called Solutions Not Safe Zones which challenges the conventional wisdom that a ballot measure that addresses the safety of our children is necessarily good policy. We m…

For episode forty-one, I spoke with Jenny Robins who is a candidate running for city council. I sat down with her at the Boulder Office for the post-production company 11 Dollar Bill on the west end of Canyon Dr. where her husband works. We talked about the importance of safe and convenient public transit that is child friendly, the need in Boulder…

For episode forty, I spoke with Aaron Gabriel Neyer who is a community builder and technologist with a background in computer science and ecopsychology. Aaron is running for city council and so I sat down to talk with him about his vision for what’s possible in Boulder. We sat together in the shade at Growing Gardens community gardens and had a lon…

For episode thirty-nine, I spoke with Taishya Adams who is a servant leader, environmentalist, social justice advocate, and an amazing human being. She is also running for city council this fall. I sat down with her at her South Boulder home and we had a long conversation covering a wide variety of topics including her growing up in northern Virgin…

For episode thirty-eight, I spoke with Ryan Schuchard who is a Boulder resident that is running for city council this fall. Ryan is a member of Boulder’s transportation advisory board and his campaign is focused on transportation solutions as our best way to mitigate the climate crisis. When Ryan talks about transportation solutions it makes me hop…

For episode thirty-seven, I spoke with Waylon Lewis who is a Boulder resident that is running for city council this fall. We met at Columbia Cemetery on the hill and talked about a wide variety of subjects including West Pearl, fire mitigation, biking in Paris, white metal roofs, homelessness, affordable housing, and occupancy, among others. I admi…

For episode thirty-six, I spoke with Silas Atkins who is a Boulder resident that is running for city council this fall. We met at Keeywayden park in Southeast Boulder and talked about a wide variety of subjects including making government work better for people, the need to build housing in the short, medium, and long […]…

Nicole Speer is a member of Boulder’s city council and is running to be Boulder’s first directly elected mayor this fall. We met at a park near her house in South Boulder and talked about a wide variety of subjects including her new e-bike, homelessness and the camping ban, agrivoltaics, and why she is running […]…

For episode thirty-four, I spoke with Bob Yates who is a member of Boulder’s city council and is running to be Boulder’s first directly elected mayor this fall. We met at a park near his house in North Boulder and talked about a wide variety of subjects including the possibility of building a gondola that […]…

For episode thirty-three, I spoke with Tara Winer who is a member of Boulder’s city council and is running for reelection this fall. Our conversation wandered around and through many topics including affordable housing, the need for more transitional housing with wrap-around services, missing middle housing, building housing at the airport, whether…

For episode thirty-two, I spoke with Darcy Kitching who is a community builder in Boulder. Darcy is the author of the book The Best Urban Hikes: Boulder, is finishing her Ph.D. in Geography, Planning, and Design at the University of Colorado Denver with a study of youth and family weekday transportation in Boulder County, and […]…

For episode thirty-one, I spoke with Laura Rossbert who has helped develop a framework called Trauma Informed Design in her role at Shopworks Architecture in Denver, CO. Laura has collected data that measures the under-utilization of parking at affordable housing buildings and we discussed the negative impacts this has on current and potential affo…

For episode thirty, I spoke with Aaron Brockett, the mayor of Boulder. We talked about the all-new direct election mayor’s race in Boulder and his candidacy in the upcoming election this fall. We talked about gun violence prevention, affordable housing, rank choice voting, learning Spanish, the diagonal highway corridor project, and solutions for u…

I am excited to announce the imminent arrival of season 3 of Sharing Boulder. In this mini-episode I talk about the upcoming season, introduce the Sharing Boulder theme song, and talk about what I’ve been up to.Di Sharing Boulder

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For episode 29, I spoke with Jennifer Fluri who is a Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado at Boulder and co-founder and co-director of Boulder Affordable Housing Research Initiative also known as BAHRI. I became aware of Jennifer’s work from the Boulder Housing Equity Symposium which took place about a year ago. A few […]…

For episode 28, I spoke with Junie Joseph who is running for state representative in Colorado house district ten which includes large portions of Boulder from Broadway. Junie was not on the primary ballot in June but was instead selected by a special vacancy committee assembled by the Boulder Democratic Party after Edie Hooton withdrew […]…

For episode twenty-seven, I spoke with Jill Adler Grano who is the chair for the campaign to move city council elections to even years. The name of the campaign is People For Voter Turnout and the measure will be listed on the ballot as 2E. Currently, members of city council are elected in odd years […]…

For episode twenty-six, I spoke with Mark Fearer who is a political activist and op-ed columnist who is passionate about tenants’ rights and rent control. Mark writes a bi-weekly column for The Boulder Weekly called The Unrepentant Tenant which argues for better protections for renters, educates readers on the rights of tenants, advocates for rent …

I spoke with Ed Byrne who is a former Assistant City Attorney for the City of Boulder, was a member of the Boulder Daily Camera’s Editorial Advisory Board, and runs a private law and mediation practice specializing in land use and development-related permit approvals. Ed and I met downtown and set up folding chairs in […]…

For episode 24, I spoke with Maura Dudley who is an outspoken advocate for car-lite living, zero waste solutions, inclusive neighborhoods, and math education. We met up in her neighborhood at Melody Park in North Boulder and started talking. We geeked out over our e-bikes before taking a ride to Nude Foods Market where we […]…

For episode 23, I spoke with Verity Noble who is one of the founders of Nude Foods Market a local zero-waste grocery store near Boulder Junction that is on a mission to fundamentally reshape the way we shop for groceries. Nearly all items come in glass jars or other reusable containers which can be returned […]…

Bryan Bowen is an architect and founder at a local firm named Caddis. We hit record and just let it rip and dove right into all kinds of topics related to building beautiful, sustainable, and inclusive neighborhoods including co-housing, cooperative housing, bikeways, cool shit permits, raising kids, among others. I love how Bryan can imagine […]…

I am excited to announce the arrival of season 2 of Sharing Boulder! I have just completed editing two episodes and have recorded footage for two more and have another couple more in the works in addition to a long list of people I intend to contact. To read this post on the blog, please […]Di Sharing Boulder

For episode twenty-one, I spoke with Sam Fuqua about the proposed library district for the Boulder Public Library System. Sam was a member of the Boulder Library Commission for five years, was an elected member of the BVSD school board of education for eight years, and worked at KGNU for twenty years as news director and […]…

For episode twenty, I spoke with Ralph Frid who is a systems engineer who volunteers his time with the BVSD District Accountability Committee as the chair of the Budget and Finance sub-committee and Meghan Carrier who is the deputy directory of Together Colorado which is a non-profit that brings faith communities together to work on issues such as …

As the new city council prepares for its annual retreat in January where they will prioritize their agenda for the coming year, David and I want to promote gentle infill in established neighborhoods as a solution that addresses so many of the values that have been identified by the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan. We hope that you will listen, le…

For episode nineteen, I got on Zoom with long time Boulder resident and Just Sustainability Activist Tim Thomas to talk about a set of prioritized issues he would like to see Boulder city council work on. Tim has put together 12 items that he would like to see given priority and energy in the new year by city council. Each item is informed by a fra…

The Boulder Housing Network is a newsletter, blog, and grassroots political advocacy group that promotes “ethical housing beneath the flatirons”. Their goal is “to get more people involved where and when it matters most: in the early stages of the City’s planning processes.” I subscribe to their newsletter and it is full of useful information. Freq…

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For episode seventeen, I spoke with Alex Weinheimer in his apartment in central Boulder to discuss all things transportation. Alex is a transportation planner and engineer for a consulting firm based out of Texas and he also volunteers his time on Boulder’s Transportation Advisory Board. We spoke about VisionZero, micromobility, the pavement manage…

For episode sixteen, I spoke with Claudia Hanson Thiem over zoom to discuss cohousing, cooperative housing, and car lite living. Claudia is regular opinion writer for the Daily Camera, Boulder’s local daily newspaper but is on temporary hiatus from that work while she manages the campaign for city council candidate Nicole Speer. I admire Claudia fo…

For episode fifteen, I spoke with Steve Rosenblum in my back yard to discuss his candidacy for Boulder City Council. Steve is a formidable conversation partner and we sparred and brainstormed and explained and explored for over three hours as we compared and contrasted our ideas about how to address a wide variety of issues that Boulder faces. I ap…

For episode fourteen, I spoke with David Takahashi on a zoom call to discuss his candidacy for Boulder City Council. David is running as a climate change champion and sees his role in fighting the climate crisis as way to address the needs of an important contingent of underserved people – future unborn generations. He articulated that every decisi…

In this Sharing Boulder extra I test out my new microphones with my nine-year-old son Ocean and we talk about the kinds of things fathers and sons talk about in our family – namely land use, housing policy and transportation. I have frequently seen him imitating frenetic and overly enthusiastic YouTubers so it did not surprise me that he naturally …

For episode thirteen, I sat down with Lauren Folkerts in South Boulder to talk about her candidacy for Boulder City Council. Lauren is passionate about city council and jokes that it is like a spectator sport for her because she enjoys watching the meetings online and follows them on Twitter. Lauren showed me her garden and I enjoyed a handful of r…

For episode twelve, I sat down with Dan Williams in his backyard to talk about his candidacy for Boulder City Council. This fall the city of Boulder will be electing five representatives to city council. Boulder Coalition, a consortium of several progressive organizations including Open Boulder, Boulder Progressives, and United Campus Workers Color…

For episode eleven, I sat down with Jennifer Livovich at a park in southeast Boulder. Jen is the founder and executive directory of Feet Forward a 501 c-3 non-profit organization that provides services to individuals experiencing homelessness. As a person who has experienced homelessness herself, Jen has deep connections with Boulder’s unhoused pop…

I am excited to announce that Sharing Boulder now has a blog! We hope you find it interesting and educational and that you will share it widely with other people concerned about making Boulder more inclusive. The first post on the blog is titled “Green Urbanism for Boulder” and I am going to read it here for this podcast episode. It helps make the …

For our tenth episode I sat down with Matt Benjamin in my backyard. Matt is running for city council this fall. We covered many subjects in our marathon conversation including rank choice voting, parking minimums, zoning, the role of city council, the city budget, effective governance, and a living wage for city council, among many others. Matt kno…

For our ninth episode I sat down with Nicole Speer near her house in Tantra Park. Nicole is considering running for city council this fall and has a lot to say about the city’s most pressing issues including diversity, equity, and inclusion, housing, and transportation. We covered all these subjects and more including what 14-year-olds worry about …

I give an update on the quilt I’m sewing for a fundraiser and wax philosophical on the importance of diversity in the context of the books I’m reading.Di Sharing Boulder