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A publication of Week of August 18, 2022 DENVER, COLORADOFREE VOLUME 95 | ISSUE 39

BY CANDICE COLEMAN SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Kevin Williams, assistant curator and horticulturist at the Denver Botanic Gardens, fell in love with Meow Wolf Santa Fe while on honeymoon a few years back. For him, designing the Plethodon Sculpture Garden at Meow Wolf Denver was a labor of love.

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PHOTO COURTESY OF MEOW WOLF Denver Botanic Gardens, Meow Wolf partner for sculpture and xeriscape attraction BY JASON BLEVINS THE COLORADO SUN Colorado’s legal marijuana industry is weathering its first sustained downturn since dispensaries began selling recreational weed in 2014. Dispensaries are closing. New ventures, like delivery services and social clubs, are struggling. Tax revenues are plummeting. And across the industry, layoffs are sending marijuana workers packing. Colorado’s green boom is beginning to bust as more states legalize the sale and use of marijuana and inflation pinches spending. The contraction is proving a rare vulnerability for cannabis, which seemed immune to downturns as it soared every year since 2014 — reaching $2.2 billion in sales last year. “More people are going to get laid off. We are probably going to see more small shops close down and a lot of brands are going to go away,” said Spencer Ward, a longtime salesman for Bronnor Corp., which manufactures edibles and infused products for brands that are in 400 stores. Through July, taxes and fees collected from retail marijuana sales reached $198.3 million, down $53.7 million — or 21% — from the same seven months in 2021. Last year set a record in Colorado, with dispensaries selling $2.2 billion worth of cannabis and the state collecting $423.5

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When Meow Wolf and the Denver Botanic Gardens united to adopt last March, they might have named their new baby Plantasia. Instead, the newly-partnered parents welcomed the Plethodon, a cosmic, collaborative sculpture that burst from the ground and decided to perch at the entrance of the Meow Wolf Convergence Station parking lot, 1338 First St. in Denver. At first, it looked a lot like an animated, oversized, extinct amphibian. But thanks to the Gardens, it’s now alive and teeming with life. “This project is part of our Horticulture Outreach Program, which works with municipal and commercial properties to create beautiful, sustainable landscapes, Plethodon emerges at Convergence Station

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Infl ation is being felt everywhere. But for many, its bite is sharpest at the grocery store. Rising prices on food have forced shoppers to cut back, substitute, or even completely forgo certain items. “I don’t buy gallons of milk anymore,” said Julie Alvarado, 57, who was doing her weekly grocery trip at a Walmart in Thornton. Since January 2020, the price of a gallon of milk has risen by 24 percent. Alvarado and her husband raised fi ve children who are now all out of the house, a change she thought would make budgeting easier. But when the pandemic hit she had to stop working after she got COVID. Even though Alvarado’s husband makes decent money, they’ve found the rising price of their weekly grocery bill diffi cult to manage.Withfresh milk off her shopping list, Alvarado has had to resort to alternatives. “I try to get by. I hate to say this but … (I) put powdered milk inside and How areColoradanssomesurvivinginflation

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August 18, 20222 Denver Herald kind of water it and make it go farther.” She’s also started watering down her orange juice to make it last Alvarado’slonger.bestfriend Kathy Grant, 57, said her go-to meal is chicken and Coca-cola. “I’m willing to cut out other things,” she said, in order to keep her two favorite items on her weekly dinner menu. One food staple that has seen a massive price increase is eggs. The price of a carton of eggs has risen 38 percent since January 2020, one of the most notable increases in the grocery store. It’s a spike the women have definitely noticed. “(I’m) down from two eggs to an egg,” Alvarado said.Making ends meet on a tight budget is proving challenging for many with rising inflation. “The food’s kinda hard, I’m on food stamps now,” said Brianna Early, 21, who was shopping with her two young children at a Lakewood Walmart. Desiree Vigil, 44, said she’s been noticing inflation everywhere and decided to cut down her expenses by “not buying fast food anymore.” She’s far from alone in trying to cut out discretionary spending.

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Just getting to the grocery store — or the food pantry — is costing people more right now. Over the past year, the average price per gallon of gas in Colorado has increased by over a dollar. Compared to this time two years ago, it has nearly doubled. It may be cold comfort to Colorado drivers, but the Rocky Mountain region has actually seen a smaller increase in price compared to other parts of the country. Californians have it the worst, paying on average more than five and a half dollars per gallon.Renee Lacey said she recently canceled a planned trip due to the price of gas, and her neighbors have just stopped driving altogether.“They’re biking everywhere now,” she said. “They struggle more. They’re on bikes now.”

Howard is part of a trend of shoppers turning to discount stores recently. The Wall Street Journal reported that spending on grocery products at discount chains was up 71 percent between October 2021 and June 2022. Over that period, spending on the same products at grocery stores was down 5 percent.

In recent conversations with more than a hundred Colorado voters about what they want candidates to focus on in the upcoming election, inflation and the economy came out as clear concerns, with about a third of people listing them among their top issues. Those findings echo national polling that found a wide majority of people believe inflation is the top problem facing the Ronnycountry.Honzell, another shopper at King Soopers that afternoon, said higher prices mean she’s been hitting food banks to fill in the gaps. She was shopping for her daughter and her mother, who is diabetic. Honzell said it has been especially challenging to get fresh food for her family. To make due, she said she’s opting for more canned food than fresh. Care and Share, a non-profit food bank that serves 31 southern Colorado counties, has seen more traffic recently, according to President and CEO Nate Springer. He said there’s been a 15 to 20 percent increase in people coming to their 273 food pantries in the last few months. “(There’s a) new group of people that have crossed a threshold they’ve never crossed before, based on the increase in gas and utilities and food costs that we’ve seen,” said Springer. “There’s a new group of people out there that need our help.”

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“The increasing levels of food and fuel inflation are affecting how customers spend,” said Walmart CEO Doug McMillon in a press release last month. Walmart lowered its revenue and profit expectations for the year due to concerns over inflation and consumer spending.

Even though gas prices are higher than they were a year ago, they have recently begun to decline. In Colorado, the average price per gallon is 40 cents cheaper than it was just two weeksKathyago.Dreiling, who runs a catering company, said that fluctuations in prices are just a fact of life. (Full disclosure: Dreiling’s company is catering an upcoming event at KRCC, which our reporter was unaware of at the time of her interview.) “I kind of wish everyone would calm down a little bit and just realize that it’s sort of a fact of life that things go up and down and we kind of have to expect that and not get too angry about it,” she said. The future of gas prices is unknown; factors influencing the price at the pump include disruptions from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s war with Ukraine. U.S. and European bans on Russian oil imports have helped drive up gas prices around the globe.

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Changing how and where to shop With inflation hitting a 40-year high this summer, Coloradans across the state have had to change how they shop. For some in Southern Colorado, higher prices mean adjusting not just what food they buy, but where they buy Leavingit.a King Soopers in Colorado Springs recently, Mark Howard said he won’t be shopping there anymore. Howard thinks King Soopers has gotten too expensive and he’d rather go to Walmart, where he said prices areThelower.dollar store and the arc Thrift Stores have also become more regular stops for him. “I love the dollar store, I go there constantly,” he said. “Just for little stuff like bread because it’s 99 cents, but at [King Soopers] it’s $1.29.”

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Denise Locke is trying to stay positive, even though she is paying more to fill up her car. “I try not to complain at the gas pump because I’m like, what good is it going to do me? It’s just going to make me mad for the rest of my day.”

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August 18, 20224 Denver Herald while increasing water conservation, pollinator habitat and healthy ecosystems,” said Kevin Williams, the Denver Botanic Gardens’ assistant curator and horticulturist, who created the garden design. When Meow Wolf commissioned the Gardens to make Plethodon’s new curbside crib a little more appealing with native plants, the Gardens couldn’t have picked a better man for the gig and dig. After all, it wasn’t Williams’ first foray into the wonderfully wacky worlds known as Meow Wolf. Now three locations strong — Santa Fe, Las Vegas and Denver — Williams stumbled across the original location in Santa Fe while on honeymoon. “I was blown away,” Williams said. “The three hours I spent touring the attraction were among the most exciting times of my life. And when I was assigned this project, it felt like a full-circle moment for me. To create a complex, provocative project for its fans would be a total labor ofOncelove.”the seed was planted in his head, Williams had to do his homework on the mythical muse in the bare bed. According to science — fiction or fact, you be the judge — Plethodon is a genus of salamanders that existed 100 million years ago. Evidently, it didn’t like the Cryogenian age, or any glaciation for that matter, nor did it like change. So it hid and eventually fossilized. Once Meow Wolf opened its doors scapes. And a lot of those plants we selected may look and feel alien because they’re originally from central Asia, Patagonia and southern Africa. They actually drifted here hundreds of thousands of years ago when the continents were much plants one might spot by Plethodon’s liams says the goal in three-to-five years is to create a wildly manicured garden that partially cloaks the“Westatue.arecurrently in phase one of a three-phase planting process,” he said. “So far, there are 600 different plants in the Plethodon garden. Another 400 will be planted in the fall, along with hundreds of bulbs. And more complex plants to come nextAccordingspring.”to Meow Wolf officials, Plethodon is a gift to the city of Denver. A treasure. A living fossil reminding us that our home is a place with a vibrant and beautiful story that is ever changing. It is a reminder that change is unavoidable and can, if embraced, create luminous and wonderful things, like the Plethodon, that are as beautiful as they are unrecognizable. No word yet if there are plans to replicate the Plethodon Sculpture Garden when Meow Wolf eventually invades Texas. That said, this bloom with a view will continue sowing the seeds of love and creativity and mystery in Denver, absolutely free to the public. I-25ANDYOURDRIVE AUG.24FROM6-7P.M. VIRTUAL|FREE PRESENTEDBYTHECOLORADOSUN HearfromCDOT,Denver StreetsPartnershipanda WeldCountyCommissioner abouthowofficialsplanto balancethedemandsof drivers,busriders,county commissioners,cleanair advocates,andmore! RSVPToday!

Alien plants like echium amoenum, or red feathers, will flourish in the Plethodon Sculpture Garden. They are considered alien because the majority of the species for the garden aren’t native to our Denver landscape.

PHOTO BY CANDICE COLEMAN Meow Wolf Denver, 1338 First St., is in a 90,000-square-foot building with 60,000 square feet of exhibition space, tucked between the viaducts of Interstate 25 and Colfax Avenue. Its mission is “to inspire creativity through art, imagination, exploration and play so that imagination will transform the world,” states its website. Convergence Station is the third permanent art exhibition for New Mexicobased Meow Wolf, with its other two exhibitions located in Santa Fe and Las Vegas.Tolearn more about Meow Wolf, visit meowwolf.com.Tolearnmore about the Denver Botanic Gardens, visit botanicgardens.org.

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A city ordinance passed by city council unanimously in 2019 ties the city’s minimum wage to the CPI. Officials say it’s part of an effort to make sure wages keep up with the local cost of living. And Hanckock said the new wage will help those struggling with inflation. The CPI for Denver-aurora-Lakewood was 8.94% in the first half of 2022, according to Denver’s Department of Finance, equalling the $1.42 increase. State legislation requires

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While the state is exempting menstrual, period products and diapers from state taxes, some cities will not be exempting them from city taxes.The Women’s Foundation of Colorado is developing a toolkit to help community members work with their local elected officials to enact the same kind of tax exemptions for these products on a city level. Denver and Aurora are two cities that have recently exempted these products from city taxes. That means people in those cities will see greater savings. The new law will decrease state revenue on an ongoing basis, according to the fiscal note. The state is expecting a decrease in the General Fund revenue by $5.2 million in 2022-23 and $11 million in 2023-24. The new law is planning for minimal increase in workload for the Colorado Department of Revenue. They’ll be tasked with updating sales and use tax guidance forms. This story is from Rocky Mountain PBS, a nonprofit public broadcaster providing community stories across Colorado over the air and online. Used by permission. For more, and to support Rocky Mountain PBS, visit rmpbs.org. taxes on diapers and products

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The state projects more than 200,000 children will be in diapers next fiscal year. Myrland said each of those families are spending about $1,000 a year on diapers. This tax exemption will mean a meaningful savings for those families.

minimum wage changes take effect January 1, and the city used the midyear CPI in order to meet the new year deadline. “CPI increases are used in the vast majority of state and local minimum wages across the country,” Councilwoman Robin Kniech said. “They are designed to do just what this increase will do for Denver workers: help them keep up with the cost of living rather than falling behind as prices increase.” So, what does this mean for tipped workers?Aspart of the increase, minimum wage for tipped food and beverage workers will be $14.27 per hour if they earn at least $3.02 in actual tips. A minimum wage credit is available to for employers if they can prove an employee didn’t receive that amount.Theordinance went into effect January 1, 2020 and raised the minimum wage from $11.10 to $15.87 in 2022. This story is from Denverite, a nonprofit Denver news source affiliated with CPR News. Used by permission. For more, and to support Denverite, visit denverite.com.

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An increase in the Consumer Price Index has triggered a boost in Denver’s local minimum wage. The Denver Department of Finance says the local minimum wage will increase to $17.29 starting January 1st, 2023. That’s up from the current $15.87. “We know this will put additional burdens on our local businesses,” Mayor Michael Hancock said in a statement Tuesday. “But this is an important tool to support vulnerable workers across the city.”

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“There are estimates that one in three families with kids in diapers have reported they’ve needed access to more diapers than they have,” said Myrland, “and it’s because of cost.” “Parents have reported missing work because they couldn’t provide all the diapers a care center might need,” she continued. “Which means parents can’t work to support their families, making the problem worse.”

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BY BRAMMHI BALARAJAN THE COLORADO SUN For some kids, every school day can be monotonous. That’s why Kyle Gamba, who has worked in public education for 15 years, started the micro-school La Luz in Denver to ensure education was more than just “kids sitting at desks.”AtLa Luz, kids learn while being immersed in the community, and on the go. In the past year, 13 students spent weeks at a time outdoors and reported to classrooms at the Denver Zoo and the History Colorado Center. “If you’re learning about government and history, it just seems like a way more authentic place to do it,” Gamba said. The micro-school for middle schoolers was one of the first grantees of the VELA Education Fund, founded two years ago to provide financial support to alternative education programs. At the time, La Luz received $25,000 in funding — enough to help support Gamba as he left what he called a “cushy” school job and struck out on his own with a new approach to teaching, emphasizing experiential learning, relationship building and character development. The VELA Education Fund, in partnership with the Daniels Fund, is now offering $750,000 in grants to educational entrepreneurs in four states, including Colorado.Thegrantees could be awarded up to $10,000 for nontraditional educational programs. Alternate education models could include micro-schools — tiny schools with comparatively few students — and hybrid programs that incorporate both virtual and in-person learning or community-focused learning.VELA has previously awarded 1,600 grants nationwide, totalling more than $16.5 million.

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Hanna Skandera, president of the Daniels Fund, said the fund is about bolstering innovation and providing new options for students. “This investment is about giving choices and opportunities for young people, for families, that maybe the traditional system isn’t working,” Skandera said. VELA has also helped other entrepreneurial organizations such as Impact Wyoming, which trains students in developing business plans and pitching their ideas to localGambaentrepreneurs.saidhe’sseen success at La Luz just by how excited kids are to talk about what they learned at the end of the day. He said parents are so used to kids saying at pickup time that their day was “fine” and they learned “nothing,” that it was a win “that kids were getting back in cars, and happily engaging in conversations with theirGambaparents.”added that VELA allowed “the small guys” to go out and try their hands at a program with community support. “It’s probably hard to go out, start something just on your own,” Gamba said. “It sure is a lot easier when there’s a community behind it.”

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Even though this writer never managed to convince her kids that a sea monster prowls Smith Lake, visitors to Washington Park are discovering that some of the park’s aquatic creatures grow to sizes that are, well, monstrous.JustaskPedie Sosa, an experienced angler, who has pulled 18-inch-long largemouth bass out of his favorite park fishing hole — a spot he cagily refuses to name. Or check with anyone who strolls around Smith Lake on summer mornings. They’ve probably watched in disbelief as enormous, goldenbrown carp explode out of the water, hurl themselves several feet into the air and plunge back in. Sometimes the splash can be heard on the oppositeSeniorshore.park ranger Regan Carriere, who helps supervise the school fishing programs that regularly visit the park, has also encountered some `monsters’ — at least by crayfish standards. She reported that young anglers sometimes catch lakedwelling crayfish the size of small lobsters.“Thebiggest one I’ve seen was probably five-to-six inches long,” said the ranger, who currently works out of the Eugene Field House near SmithNettingLake.the small crayfish who inhabit Smith Ditch, the canal flowing through Washington Park, is a time-honored kids’ pastime. But in the lakes, the crayfish live longer and grow bigger because it’s harder for predators to find them, according to Brian Aucone, senior vice president for life sciences at the Denver Zoo. Aucone also had an explanation for the leaping carp. “They are probably females, trying to escape a group of males who want to breed,” he said. These lake monsters, who eat only vegetation, can measure two-to-three feet long and weigh more than 30 pounds.Inaddition to voracious largemouth bass, the nation’s most popular game fish, Colorado Parks and Wildlife regularly stocks park lakes with rainbow trout, perch and channel catfish, along with sunfish varieties such as bluegill and crappie. Many of these varieties, like rainbow trout, stay relatively small. But in pond environments with a generous buffet of sunfish, crustaceans, plants and bottom debris, channel catfish can attain monster-hood at weights of 50 pounds or more. Wash Park catfish are probably smaller — but lakes are places of mystery. Who knows exactly what lurks in those ‘Sea monsters’ lurk in the lakes of Washington Park

Largemouth bass put up a spirited fight but even the heftiest of these Washington Park “lake monsters” cannot escape the angling skills of Pedie Sosa. COURTESY OF PEDIE SOSA

Some of those aquatic creatures get awfully big Rainbow trout in Smith Lake rarely exceed ten inches, but catching a few is still cause for jubilation among Washington Park anglers.

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Denver Herald 9August 18, 2022 wateryAnotherdepths?oneof the park’s oversized aquatic animals is the American bullfrog, the largest species of frog in North America. Currently, bullfrogs are making themselves at home among the rushes of the Lily Pond, a children’s fishing hole in the park’s northeastern section. Bullfrogs, an invasive species with a gluttonous appetite, can grow up to eight inches long and weigh as much as a pound. Wildlife biologists hope they won’t. Who else lives in the waters of Washington Park? One local monster hunter claims he recently sighted a snapping turtle the size of a large pizza swimming in the canal near Smith Lake. Entirely possible, since snapping turtles are native to Colorado and their shells can reach an intimidating 20 inches inAccordingdiameter. to Aucone, the lakes are home to at least two other varieties of turtles: the native western painted turtle, a handsome fellow with red, yellow and olive markings; and the non-native red-eared slider, once sold at pet shops and flea markets. Sliders sport a red stripe on each side of the head. Since these two species rarely exceed 10 inches in length, neither is apt to inspire a creature feature. But they are fun to watch — especially when sunning themselves on logs or floating just below the surface with their heads poking out. Aquatic creatures in the park have many fans. The kids in June Bugs, a local day camp for children age 3 to 7, spend summer mornings splashing through Smith Ditch in search of crayfish and water striders. Equipped with nets and field guides, the June Bugs visit watery locations throughout the park. Camp director Nikki Hudon said the kids love to observe wildlife around the Lily Pond, where they recently netted some mega-size bullfrog tadpoles. Park goers may wonder: what happens to our watery denizens when summer comes to an end? On Nov. 1 each year, the waterflow in Smith Ditch shuts off and as winter takes hold, the lakes frequently ice over. But unlike the ocean, lakes do not get colder at greater depths.

“Once you get below 18 inches in depth, the water temperature moderates and stays stable,” Aucone said. He added that turtles will head for the bottom of the lakes — approximately 10 feet down — in Smith and Grasmere. There they’ll burrow into the mud and enter a state of torpor, which slows their biological processes. In this state, they skip eating and absorb oxygen from the water.

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Crayfish also burrow, earning their nickname, mudbugs. Aucone said fish stay active in the winter, although they prefer the moderate temperatures in the lake’s lowerThingsdepths.may quiet down below the ice, but on the surface, senior park ranger Jessica Johnson has observed some lively animal activity. “When the lakes freeze over in the winter,” she said, “the foxes love to play on the ice.”

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August 18, 202210 Denver Herald million in taxes and fees. If the decline carries through 2022, the portion of state taxes on retail marijuana sales flowing to the State Public School Fund will fall to $24.9 million from $31.5 million in 2021, and the retail marijuana sales tax distribution to local governments will drop to $22 million in 2022 from $27.8 million last year. The decline, which includes a 44% annual drop in medical marijuana sales, “is a big, big deal,” said Truman Bradley, the head of the Marijuana Industry Group trade organization.“Alltheprograms that rely on marijuana taxes are going to take a big cut,” Bradley said. A year ago marijuana flower was selling for $1,300 a pound and the trim used for edibles, tinctures and oils was selling for $425 a pound. The latest average market rates released by the Colorado Department of Revenue show flower selling for closer to $700 a pound and trim is $225 a pound, the lowest prices since the state started tracking retail prices in Supplies2014.are growing and prices are plummeting as the state continues to offer new licenses and businesses close. The ballyhooed delivery service Doobba has shut down. Buddy Boy dispensaries, one of the pioneers in Front Range cannabis, are closed. Companies are consolidating as business withers. Dispensary chain Tweedleaf closed its seven stores in Central City, Colorado Springs, Denver and Trinidad in early August after the Colorado Department of Revenue suspended Tweedleaf’s business licenses over unpaid taxes. Ari Cohen opened Doobba, Colorado’s first marijuana delivery service, in August 2021. Because of a prior marijuana arrest decades earlier, Cohen qualified for one of Colorado’s first social equity marijuanaCohenlicenses.started seeing trouble in the market by October, when the price for flower collapsed. “I was hoping it was a one-time thing but that pricing continued into 2022 and it never rebounded,” said Cohen, who closed Doobba a few months ago as he neared time to renew the company’s insurance and permit fees. “I’d say 80% of our customers were outside the jurisdictions that allowed delivery,” he said. “Even if that changes tonight, it will take years for new delivery regulations to wind through all the different towns.”Likemany cannabis insiders, Cohen laments what they call “the race to the Out-of-statebottom.”operators are making money in markets like New Jersey and New York, so they can take a loss in Colorado, Cohen said. “I don’t see this industry coming back to where it was,” said Cohen, a marijuana and hospitality business veteran who thinks the state should deploy fair trade regulation for cannabis to protect smaller operators. “We are in a period where the prices for everything are going up but the prices for cannabis are going down while costs are increasing. It’s the opposite of what should be happening. And it’s largely self-inflicted while we are in this race to the bottom.”Inflation and economic angst are pushing the downturn. Legal weed in neighboring states like Oklahoma and New Mexico — and a total of 19 states that now allow recreational marijuana sales — have taken the shine off Colorado’s once-exclusive reign as the epicenter of legal weed. Colorado’s border communities are posting the steepest sales declines. New Mexico legalized recreational marijuana sales in April and sales in southern Colorado’s Las Animas County, for example, are in a free fall. Between January and June 2021, Las Animas County dispensaries collected $4.9 million in state sales taxes for marijuana, up from $3.7 million in the span of 2020. Through June this year, marijuana sales tax collections in Las Animas County were at $3 million. In 2018, the City of Trinidad, just north of the New Mexico border, spent $2.2 million in locally collected taxes from the city’s robust stable of more than 20 dispensaries. A year later the city of 8,000 spent $2.6 million on projects and services. In 2020, cannabis taxes delivered $3.8 million for projects. After beginning to decline in 2021, the city spent just $570,000 of its marijuana taxes this year through April. “I think that shows that lots of cannabis, up to this point, was going back to neighboring states. I would estimate in the ballpark of a few hundred million dollars in product a year was leaving Colorado,” said Ward, who predicts the stumbling of local Colorado operations will open the door for multistate operations, which have greater purchasing power and can depress prices even further. “It’s about to get harder for smaller operations to compete.”

“Is marijuana an endless piggy bank or is it a valued community partner? We’ve seen that the tax dollars are valuable, but what about the employees, the business owners and the cannabis consumers? Are they valuable?” Bradley said. The 2022 downturn is proof that the cannabis industry is not immune to global political forces and national economic challenges. Bradley expects voters will support the legalization measures in Colorado Springs, Cripple Creek and unincorporated Jefferson County. But he’s worried about increased taxation measures that could “kill the green goose,” he said. “We’ve seen time and time again that communities end up legalizing because they see the value in the regulated market and they see the cannabis industry as a potential solution to help bring more revenue into the community,” he said. “But there is a point where taxation becomes predatory or unsustainable or both. And that’s what we are approaching with ballot measures like MyJohnSpark.”Bailey, the founder of the Black Cannabis Equity Initiative, said the My Spark tax plan is “about people, not politics.”

“What you are seeing is not a decline, but a leveling off of a saturated industry,” said Bailey, who is part of the My Spark Denver Community Coalition. “Even in the midst of a decline, folks are still buying weed. They may not be buying as much. This is the marketing leveling off and it’s leveling off for a lot of reasons, it could be that we saturated the market with so many businesses.”Baileyhopes the industry does not get bogged down with political fighting and recognizes this as an opportunity to help underprivileged kids while working to address social equity issues in the cannabis industry.“Thisis a people thing. The cannabis industry has been built on the back of Black and brown folks and this is an opportunity to make things right and help Black and brown kids who have been disproportionately impacted by the war on drugs,” he Overtaxationsaid.cuts into shrinking margins that growers and dispensary owners could be paying workers, said Chaz Faille, a Denver-based sourcing manager for the Willie’s Reserve“Ultimately,brand.I think federal legalization is the only way where we can start to grow a stronger industry,” Faille said. “Just being able to source product from other states and have distribution warehouses where that product is actually grown would go a long way. Instead of having a bunch of states that are running things differently.”

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Increasing competition inside the state is evidenced by Denver’s steadily decreasing proportion of Colorado’s marijuana sales. In 2014, more than 48% of all the pot sales in Colorado were in the city of Denver. In 2021, that proportion fell to 31% as more communities OK’d retail marijuana sales. This fall, voters in Cripple Creek, unincorporated Jefferson County and Colorado Springs could be weighing legalization of marijuana sales. And voters in Denver could be asked to increase taxes on city marijuana operations to fund outof-school educational programs for disadvantaged kids. The proposed My Spark ballot measure could raise taxes on marijuana to generate $22.5 million a year for educational funding for 20,000 kids in Denver. The measure, which mirrors a statewide ballot initiative that failed in 2021 but was a close vote in Denver, could break the marijuana industry in the city, Bradley said. The proposal would bump the city’s taxes on retail marijuana sales to almost 31% from 26.4%. Marijuana revenue for Denver, which reached $72.5 million in 2021 and is projected to reach $85.7 million in tax revenue 2022, makes up more than 5% of the city’s general fund.

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Here are some updates on what Denver is working on: Bike lanes We hear from constituents every week about the importance of building safe bike lanes — and we recognize the particular importance of north-south bike routes through Capitol Hill. Recently, multiple Capitol Hill bike lane projects ended their design phases and will begin installation in 2023. These include protected bike lanes on North Emerson Street between Third and 11th avenues, North Pearl Street between 11th and 20th avenues, and North Sherman Street between Colfax Avenue and 19th Avenue. You can find more about the Denver Moves: Bicycles Program online by visiting Denvergov.org or by emailing our office. Colfax Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) As an important transportation route, the city is working on implementing a bus rapid transit system to replace the 15 and the 15L RTD routes. With the implementation of the bus, Colfax will have two center lanes dedicated to each direction that the bus runs. The bus will have faster, safer and more reliable service. A more detailed schedule for construction and implementation of the BRT is coming this year. You can visit colfaxbrt.org to learn more about the project and how to get involved. Construction map With so many projects happening around District 10, our office created a map to make it easier to see where things are being built. Please visit our newly completed map at denverperfect10.com/map. Our goal is to update it as we receive updates. This will help everyone with a high-level view of where our city is growing, and having that transparency will help me and my office advocate for better pedestrian and cyclist access around construction sites as we prepare for Denver’s future. Reach out to our office with other projects that are important to you, to learn more about these projects, the 20-minute vision in District 10 or any other suggestion regarding how we can better serve you. Chris Hinds represents District 10 on Denver City Council. He can be reached at district10@denvergov. org or 720-337-7710. 20-minute neighborhoods

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NORTON were connecting and sharing their stories and experiences. Parents played games with their kids. And some fell peacefully to sleep, probably catching up on some much-needed rest. All with the exception of the one passenger who felt compelled to try and plead with the flight attendants hoping they could pull off a miracle in the final 30 minutes. It was not to However,be.there was a miracle that did occur, people connected, maybe even reconnected with priorities and family as we all lived through a four-and-a-half-hour flight without access to the outside world, and we survived. Many of us, as we stood up waiting to deplane, knowingly acknowledged each other with a smile, recognizing that it wasn’t just OK, it was actually better than OK as we traded our Wi-Fi connections for real connections. How about you, could use a fourand-a-half-hour break from connecting with the outside world, or maybe even technology? For me, it was an awesome respite as I dug out a book from my backpack and settled in for a few hours of quality reading time. As always I would love to hear your story at gotonorton@gmail.com, and when we can remember that when we cannot connect because there is no Wi-Fi, it’s OK because we can connect with so much more of the important things in life, and that really make it a better than good life. Michael Norton is an author, a personal and professional coach, consultant, trainer, encourager and motivator of individuals and businesses, working with organizations and associations across multiple industries.

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I ’ve been writing this column for years, and I often get a few email or in-person responses, mostly positive, but sometimes opposing views, of course. I love that. It shows me we live together in a community full of diverse thought. But that’s usually. Last month, my post-Roe column drew several opposing responses in the form of letters to the editor and emails. It is clear that this issue draws passionate beliefs and feelings. But I thought it fascinating that all of those were written by men, supposedly people without the physical capability to have an abortion or become pregnant. Now, why would men be so interested in allowing the government to tell a person with a uterus what they are not allowed to do with theirOnebody?manaccused me of being “hyperbolic” as I admitted I had painfully bawled with my children after the decision. And another told me via email that I was a “CNN fake.” What do you think that’s about? Why would someone assume I’m not telling the truth about my emotions? Is it because they don’t express any themselves, and thus, simply don’t comprehend why someone would cry over the government wanting to control their body? Or, perhaps it’s because they don’t have any empathy for women who don’t want to be pregnant or emotionally can’t be pregnant. When I went through my chaplaincy training in seminary, I deepened my understanding and use of a trauma-informed approach with others. Acknowledging patients’ stress, anxiety, or any emotion stemming from their lived experiences became especially critical as I served those different from me. It helped me become more empathic with male patients who were vulnerably sitting in a hospital gown attempting to deal with their health predicament. Considering the trauma they were experiencing helped me develop empathy for them even though I was not a male or ill. This, of course, helped me serve them more effectively as they felt more comfortable sharing and expressing their inner feelings. We were also taught that there’s nothing better in relating to others than similar lived experiences. For instance, I fully knew that it was not my place to give men advice on their emotions about erectile dysfunction. I needed to simply listen, honor the fact that I could not possibly know the emotional pain they were going through, but acknowledge it anyway. So, going back to the all-male responses on my post-Roe column, perhaps what’s needed for us to work through this together is a bit of empathy and acknowledging the real trauma many women are going through right now.

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To realize that vision, we should implement 20-minute neighborhoods across our city. Creating a 20-minute neighborhood is one of my priorities as the city councilperson for District 10, and Capitol Hill epitomizes this vision. The idea of the 20-minute neighborhood is that residents should have access to everything they need to survive and thrive within a 20-minute walk, bike or roll. To achieve that vision, we must have places where people want to live, and we must also have businesses and destinations that people want to visit that are near those homes. Considering more than one-third of the households in Capitol Hill don’t own cars at all, ensuring viable car alternatives is even more crucial. The 20-minute neighborhood is good for our city, our environment, physical health and community. Our environment benefits when we reduce car trips. People get more exercise if they use ametalencasedaroundwalk,bettertowegetalternativescartoaround.Andcansayhelloourneighborswhenwebikeorrollandaren’tintheandglassofcar.

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And for Zach Martens, co-founder of OddKnock, that is practically the goal of the production company’s“Comingwork.through the pandemic, everyone has been isolated and gotten very used to it, and gotten used to spending a lot of time in front of Netflix,” he said. “People are being trained to sit still and isolated, and those are the two things that I think will destroy humanity the fastest.”OddKnock’s latest project (which also closed in Denver last month) was “From on High,” an absurd satire that brought the audience into an ‘80s office full of co-workers

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Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” is immersive, drawing the listener into a carefully crafted soundscape of strung-out emotions and mountains crashing. Salvador Dali’s “Melting Clocks” is immersive, transporting the viewer to a surreal world of heat and time amuck. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” is immersive, throwing the reader into an age of bootlegging, jazz and prosperity before the GreatAnyDepression.greatworkof art is immersive — what differentiates these classics from today’s definition of immersive art is a matter of purpose and choice. An audience chooses how they interact with the art, the art giving them the agency to act on that and what that art, this medium, can impress onto the audience because of it. “We wanted to give [the audience] agency, but also to create a contextualized experience so they aren’t just sitting in the dark half of a theater, but are part of the event, because they are moving their eyeballs and ear canals in the world,” said Patrick Mueller, Denver-native, and artistic director at Control Group Productions, a production company based out of Lakewood.Thecompany’s most recent project, “The End,” came to a close in Denver last month after bringing its audiences far from a darkened theater, forcing them to smell the refineries in Commerce City and walk around fallen bricks in an abandoned hideout, all on a Mad Max-esque bus touting other survivors in a post-apocalyptic climate change warning story. The goal, according to Mueller, was to give “an experience of what it feels like at the precipice of a de-civilizing moment, something falling apart in a serious way.” But to impress that weight on the audience, he said the immersion was “crucial.”

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Audience becomes involved “It feels like people are looking at it in the face at this point, but they still aren’t figuring out how to change behavior,” he said. Really, he elaborated, the show allows people to be involved, to see themselves inside this crisis in a way that screen or theater cannot do, a way that forces people to look it in the face and “not having it be this virtuosity that is celebrated by distancing and elevating it onto the stage.”ButMueller sees the style doing even more than that single project’s goal: “We can offer what people are most hungry for, if they actually think about it — a rich experience that they’re part of, a social interaction for people that may spend their whole day working from home — being out in the world and experiencing it really differently.”

More than just reminding the audience of their body’s capabilities, though, there’s also the mind’s capabilities.“Wewantto create spaces that allow people to see their creative potential and how much they are a creative being,” said Chadney Everett, senior creative director of Convergence Street at Denver’s Meow Wolf and lead designer of House of Eternal Return at Meow Wolf Santa Fe. “...not only being a creative being, but also how necessary they are to the environments they create.”

At Meow Wolf, artists create environments, Everett said. Worlds that “really allow you to feel like you’ve been transported to another place, and therefore free you to express yourself in a different way in that space.”Theimmersion allows a “marriage” of the audience and what they created, creating something new and better, he explained. Like a tree falling in the forest with no one there to hear it, the art — the environments — don’t “exist until the audience comes and interacts with it, and brings it to life with their unique perspective,” he said.

It brings the audience shoulder to shoulder with the performers, who rely on the audience’s reaction to propel a Meanwhile,scene.a gallery may be the perfect setting for paintings, Everett explained.“Thewhite walls ask me to focus on that piece — taking away all other information around it is exactly right for that thing.” Everett also is a writer, musician and painter, who says of those art forms: “They do all work, but in different ways. They each serve their ownReally,function.”immersive art should be used because it’s the best tool for the job, according to Mueller. Even within immersive art, there is a difference in approaches and goals. But the main difference that Mueller sees between the types of projects is their purpose. “I definitely find a different value in work that talks about the human condition in a way that addresses social ills and social justice,” he explained. “I’m interested in art that makes people do and be better in their world.”

A retro computer setup in Denver-based OddKnock productions’ “From on High.”

With no deep tradition of live theater, according to Mueller, immersive is a way of bridging the gap between “that feeling of it’s for grandma, or snooty New Yorkers.”

“It’s had a big effect on the fact that Denver is now a fairly major hub for immersive art and performance,” Mueller continued. This exiting of reality had been a running thread through these immersive pieces since. “But I think a lot of the impulse that is driving the local scene is the fact that Coloradans are highly active people,” Mueller said. “They spend a lot of time outdoors, have a very socially focused recreational lifetime around breweries and distilleries and food and nightlife.”

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The logo of the fictional company “BANR” in Denver-based OddKnock productions’ “From on High.”

The start of Denver’s immersive art scene is before Meow Wolf, OddKnock and Control Group Productions came to town, according to Mueller.“There was a really particular point in time that immersive had a big moment of entering public consciousness in Denver, and there were a lot of factors involved in that, but specifically, Charlie Miller’s Off-Center production of ‘Sweet and Lucky,’” he said. “Sweet and Lucky,” in which Mueller was a cast member, premiered in 2016 by Third Rail Projects and was commissioned by the Denver Center for the Performing Arts’ Off-Center program. Created by Zach Morris, “Sweet and Lucky” was an immersive theatrical piece described by Westword at the time as “designed to take you out of your everyday reality and deposit you in a shifting, dreamlike world where memories come and go and you occasionally find yourself doubting your own senses.”

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This just in from the laboratory: When it comes to the air conditioner chugging away in the window, it’s not the heat — but the humidity that’s causing it to work overtime. An analysis by researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden found that on average more than half of the energy used by residential air conditioning around the globe deals with the moisture hanging in the air on a hot day.And the projections are that it will become an even bigger challenge as a result of climate change leading to more hot days with warmer air capable of holding more moisture. The AC is already working hard. In July, a massive heat dome led to heat warnings for more than 100 million people from Portland, Oregon, which saw an unprecedented seven consecutive days above 95 degrees, to Oklahoma City, where it hit 110 Denverdegrees.recorded its second warmest July on record with 16 days at 96 degrees or better, including three days at 100 degrees. On Aug. 3, another heat dome put more than 100 million people under heat warnings and advisories — from Minneapolis to North Texas. That’s a lot of air conditioning. The humidity factor does vary from region to region. “Removal of the latent load of moisture will become a bigger issue, though not here in Colorado,” said Iain Campbell, a senior fellow at RMI, an energy think tank. “We live in a desert. If you are in Florida or the tropics, you are out of luck.”

The NREL analysis divided the globe into 60-mile-by-60-mile boxes and within each box added population, a measure of economic activity, air conditioning ownership and weather.Airconditioning accounts for 4%

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There has been a clear downward trend in humidity since 1980 in the Upper Colorado and Rio Grande basins, including all of western Colorado and the San Luis Valley, Russ Schumacher, the Colorado state climatologist, said in an email. “On the Front Range and Eastern Plains, it’s not as clear whether there are meaningful trends,” Schumacher said. “Overall, considering that Colorado is far from an ocean, we won’t see the increases in humidity that are expected (and in some places already happening) in coastal areas as the climate continues to warm.” So for Colorado it is a good newsbad news proposition. There is low humidity in part because we are in a megadrought, with demands to cut water use, reservoirs tapping out, and farm fields shriveling in oppressive heat — but it’s a dry heat.By way of reference, the average June relative humidity — a measure of how much water vapor is in the air-water mix — in Denver is 46% and in Miami 73%. For every 1 degree Celsius increase in temperature the air can hold 7% more moisture — if there is any moisture around.Current air conditioning technology is reasonably effective at removing moisture — albeit with some extra energy — up to 60% relative humidity. After that, it’s all heavy lifting. “In the future there will be places where it will be too hot and too humid to be outdoors,” said Jason Wood, a senior research engineer at NREL, and co-author of the study on air conditioning and humidity. Still even without humidity, in bone-dry Texas the demand for cooling electricity was so high during the July heat wave that the state’s electric grid operator initiated emergency measures to avoid rollingTexas’blackouts.experience is one reason Colorado Public Utilities Commission Chairman Eric Blank asked Xcel Energy, the state’s largest electricity provider, to do some “worst-case scenario” planning for a heat wave. The real question is: Why, when it is clear that humidity has been a problem hardly anyone has done anything about it, as almost all air conditioners today are using 100-year-old vapor compression technology?Today’sAC is based on turn of the 20th century tech To be sure, vast improvements have been made in that technology and today’s units are to the first air conditioners what the BMW 4.4-liter Turbocharged V8 is to the Model-T Ford’s engine. Still, both the BMW and the Model T have internal combustion engines. Now electric vehicles are poised to send the gasoline-powered car the way of the horse-drawn buggy, and LED lights are banishing Thomas Edison’s incandescent bulbs.Meanwhile, ever-improving solar panels are decking rooftops and Tesla Powerwalls are being installed to store electricity at home, but the air conditioner is chugging along on the technology invented in Brooklyn, N.Y., at the turn of the 20th“Thecentury.paceof evolution of the AC industry is alarmingly slow even considering the best available technology,” a report by the RMI concluded.Thismay not be the state of affairs for much longer as researchers, including those at NREL, and companies are searching for new AC technologies that in a two-step process remove moisture and then cool the air. “They are in a very early stage of development,” said Antonio Bouza, a technology manager at the U.S. Department of Energy. “Just as the internal combustion engine is being displaced by EVs, that’s what we want to do with these technologies.”

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It was humidity, ironically, not heat that began the march to the window air conditioner, when a 25-year-old engineer named Willis Haviland Carrier experimented in 1902 with humidity controls for a Brooklyn printing plant bedeviled by swelling pages and blurry prints inBysummer.1933,Carrier had founded the Carrier Air Conditioning Company of America making a unit with technology that became the model for the industry. It wasn’t until the 1950s that residential air conditioning started to grow in the U.S. Still, in 1952 only 2% of homes had AC and it remained exotic enough to play a role in the 1955 movie “The Seven Year“YouItch.”have air conditioning! How does it work?” a hot Marilyn Monroe (the story takes place in the summer) breathily asked her lecherous downstairs neighbor as she stands in front of the unit lifting her blouse to bare her midriff. “The way I feel about air conditioning,” the neighbor, played by Tom Ewell, explains, “no matter how much it costs, if there is no bread in the house, if you have to sell the kid’s bonds, in the summertime in New York City you’ve got to have air conditioning.” A still from the 1955 movie “The Seven Year Itch” By 2020, more than 88% of the households in the U.S. had air conditioning and in the next 30 years it will be the fastest-growing energy use in buildings, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.Almost all air conditioners deal with humidity by cooling to the dew point, when the moisture in the air drops out as water. This is cooler than need be for comfort and when the water is rung out of the air it releases additional heat with which the air conditioner must cope. To do the extra work an AC system needs an extra 20% to 30% of capacity, said Eric Kozubal, an NREL researcher developing new cooling technologies and a co-author of the study on AC energy use.

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Studies look at what causes the AC unit to use so much energy.

The rest of the emissions come from refrigerants leaking from units and the releases associated with the manufacture and transport of those units.

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In an effort to jump-start technological innovation, RMI and the Indian government offered a Global Cooling Prize with $3 million in prizeTwomoney.oftheworld’s top air conditioning manufacturers — Japan’s Daikin Global and China’s Gree Electric — won with prototypes that improved upon existing technology by adding a second cooling or evaporative coil to deal with humidity, Campbell said. The second coil and a more finely tuned motor made these prototypes seven times more efficient removing humidity and four times more energy efficient, Campbell said. Still, they were in essence old-school Carrier technology. Meanwhile around the country, in national labs, universities and startup companies, researchers are working on the next generation of airUsingconditioners.electrostatic charges, membranes and desiccants, which soak up moisture, researchers are trying to develop ways of getting humidity out of the air before cooling — some have received federal funding. “We aren’t picking a winner. The DOE has funded a lot of technologies with the aim of delivering comfort that is affordable,” Bouza said. At NREL, Kozubal has been working on twinning cooling with desiccants, which come as solids andUsingliquids.alithium chloride solution — 10 times saltier than the sea with a strong affinity to absorb water — an NREL team, led by Kozubal, and a start-up company 7AC developed a dehumidifying technology that was ultimately acquired by Emerson, a multinational engineering and industrial services company. “The Emerson technology is brand new and going into a pilot demonstration phase,” Kozubal said.The amount of energy such a system could save where it is stickyhumid would be substantial. “You save about 50% of the energy,” Kozubal said. “The added cost of the system could easily be paid for by the energy savings.” Blue Frontier, a Boca Raton, Florida, startup backed by Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures, is also using NREL patented liquid desiccant technology matched with evaporative cooling, which, when it gets to market, the company says will deliver up to 80% energy savings compared with vapor compression.Both the Emerson and Blue Frontier air conditioning units are aimed at the commercial market. “Residential, that might be something farther in the future,” KozubalStill,said.improvements in air condition technology are needed across the board as days get hotter and heat waves get longer. “Right now, our grid is very stressed, even though renewables are going in. In the immediate future more efficient air conditioning helps us save energy,” Kozubal said. This story is from The Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. For more, and to support The Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun. com. The Colorado Sun is a partner in the Colorado News Conservancy, owner of Colorado Community Media.

©2021 DIRECTV. DIRECTV and all other DIRECTV marks are trademarks of DIRECTV, LLC. AT&T and Globe logo are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property. of the world’s annual greenhouse gasTheemissionsstudyalso took into account how much the electric grid depended upon fossil fuels, since the goal was to estimate through computer modeling greenhouse gas emissions from air conditioning. The researchers calculated that almost 4% of the world’s annual greenhouse gas emissions — 1,950 million tons — come from air conditioning. The bulk of that, 1,190 million tons, were linked to standard air conditioning work cooling and dehumidifying, with the latter accounting for 52% of the emissions.

Better AC technology a better solution than a new electric grid If all the air conditioners in Texas were today’s most efficient units it would have cut the July spike in demand in half and likely avoided any emergency measures or threats of“Thisblackout.would also be a much cheaper solution than increasing grid capacity in order to serve an ever-growing base of inefficient air conditioners,” Campbell said. Another problem is the fact that the industry is heavily concentrated with fewer than 500 manufacturers worldwide, creating a high bar to entry, according to RMI.

The NREL modeling projects that greenhouse gas emissions for temperature and humidity loads will grow five times larger by 2050 as there are more and more air conditioners — particularly in the hottest and most humid places, such as India, Indonesia, China and Southeast Asia. RMI estimates that providing electricity to the 4.5 billion air conditioners running in 2050, will take 2,000 gigawatts of new electric generating capacity — equal to nearly 2,700 of Colorado’s largest power plant, Comanche 3. “This is why we need new and better technology,” RMI’s Campbell said.The federal government sets and periodically increases the minimum energy performance standards for air conditioners, but these do not drive innovation. “The minimum energy performance standards now are equal to the best available technology 40 or 50 years ago,” Campbell said. There are versions of the current AC technology that are two times more efficient than what is being sold at the local big box store, but they are more expensive.

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One problem is the emphasis on the unit’s upfront price tag rather than its lifetime cost, Campbell said. “Does it help consumers to give them a really cheap piece of equipment that is expensive to run?” he asked. “We’d have to call this a market failure.”

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S are ready to explore all the beauty that is within the 24-acre property. Before you make a beeline for the entrance, stop, and take some time to explore just beyond our walls. What many visitors might not know is the gardens that surround our main property are curated with as much care as the ones inside and are some of our most sophisticated and transformative gardens. An added perk is these gardens are accessible 24/7. If you begin along the Josephine Street streetscape, you can explore a naturalistic grassland area. This garden gives you an innovative idea of what is to come in the world of residential landscaping in the coming years. As our rainfall decreases, but our desire to have beautiful yards and visits from pollinators is still just as important, having a water-wise garden is something you might want to consider. Stroll along Josephine Street throughout the year and observe the transformation that happens from spring through winter. As the idea of adding meadows to your yards takes hold, you can be inspired by this sophisticated design.Taking a stroll around the gardens that surround our newest building, the Freyer-Newman Center, you will find everything from shade gardens to annuals to medicinal ones. You can enjoy a tasty beverage and read a book in the courtyard, or stop by the medicinal courtyard (just benefits of herbs. Heading west, look across the street at the Colorado Garden Show Promenade Garden on the parking structure hill. Here you will see more low-water plants that would be perfect for any yard. This garden performs well into the winter months with architectural interest of hesperaloe parviflora, Salvia azurea, and schizachyrium scoparium. All the grasses, similar to the Josephine streetscape, put on an amazing show as well, and are great as a foundation for any home garden.Ifannuals and perennials are your passion, continue a slow stroll up York Street and enjoy the beautiful blooms. Not to be outdone by the flashy campsis radicans, the annual and perennial blooms put on a real show from April through October. Maybe you missed the bulb blooms of spring, but by August, the perennials and annuals have exploded in color. To me, August is the height of gardening season in Denver, and it is one of the best times to have a look at what Denver Botanic Gardens has to offer. No ticket required to see the gardens outside our gates, anytime of day - access to all, just beyond our walls. Enjoy the journey. Holly G. Haynes is the plant mapping coordinator for the Denver Botanic Gardens

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Legal Notice No. 81796

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before December 04, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Eric G. LaForett, Personal Representative 13838 Elizabeth Street Thornton, Colorado 80602 Legal Notice No. 81797 First Publication: August 18, 2022 Last Publication: September 1, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice Denver Probate Court Denver County, Colorado 1437 Bannock Street #230 Denver, CO 80202 In the Matter of the Estate of: BEVERLY VERNER, aka BEVERLE A. VERNER, aka BEVERLY H. VERNER, aka BEVERLE VERNER, Deceased Attorney: 3i Law, LLC Colby S. Weber, Esq. #34881 Chuong M. Le, Esq. #37949 2000 S. Colorado Blvd. Tower 1, Suite 10000 Denver, CO 80222 Phone Number: 303-245-2100 E-mail: cweber@3ilawfirm.com FAX Number: 303-245-2108 cle@3ilawfirm.com Case Number: 2022PR31063

Daniel E. Pepping, Personal Representative 2298 South Kipling Street Lakewood, Colorado 80227

NOTICE AND SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION, PURSUANT TO C.R.S. SECTION 14-10-107(4) AND C.R.C.P. 4(g), CONCERNING PETITION FOR ALLOCATION OF RESPONSIBILITIESPARENTAL TO: Any and All Unknown Birth Fathers and Birth Mothers, Respondents, this Summons serves as a notice to appear in this case. You are hereby notified that the above-named Petitioner has filed in the District Court of Denver County, Colorado a Petition for the Allocation of Parental Responsibilities involving the child, Sarah Mpoyi TSHIBOLA (D.O.B. 05/15/2011). The Petition requests that the Court enter orders addressing issues involving the child such as, child support, allocation of parental responsibilities, (decision-making and parenting time), Special Immigrant Juvenile Status findings, attorney fees, and costs to the extent the Court has jurisdiction. You are further notified that said Petition is set for a telephonic Initial Status Conference on August 30, 2022 at 3 p.m. If you were served outside of the State of Colorado or you were served by publication, you must file your Response with the clerk of this Court within 35 days after this Summons is served on you to participate in this action. You may be required to pay a filing fee with your Response. The Response form (JDF 1420) can be found at www.courts.state.co.us by clicking on the “Self Help/Forms” tab.

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before December 19, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of George I. LaForett, AKA George T. LaForett, Deceased Case Number 2022PR31078

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

Notice: Colorado Revised Statutes §14-10-123, provides that upon the filing of a Petition for Alloca tion of Parental Responsibilities by the Petitioner and Co-Petitioner, or upon personal service of the Petition and Summons on the Respondent, or upon waiver and acceptance of service by the Respondent, an automatic temporary injunction shall be in effect against both parties until the Final Order is entered, or the Petition is dismissed, or until further Order of the Court. Either party may apply to the Court for further temporary orders, an expanded automatic temporary injunction, or mod ification or revocation under §14-10-125, C.R.S. A request for genetic tests shall not prejudice the requesting party in matters concerning allocation of parental responsibilities pursuant to §14-10124(1.5), C.R.S. If genetic tests are not obtained prior to a legal establishment of paternity and submitted into evidence prior to the entry of the final order, the genetic tests may not be allowed into evidence at a later date.

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