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Nonprofit seeks to put RTD project back on track
- Aurora Sentinel (new window)
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2010-06-03 |
| Members of the newly formed Keep FasTracks on Track coalition say that completing the beleaguered transit project within a decade is still feasible. It will just mean drumming up new sources of revenue to make up for more than $2 billion in shortfalls, a sum that could come in the form of a sales tax increase from the Regional Transportation District or attracting more federal funding. | |
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New digital textbooks could save hundreds for CU-Boulder students
- Colorado Daily (new window)
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2010-04-28 |
| After spending a whopping $800 on textbooks during her second semester at the University of Colorado, Katie Muller decided something had to change. Since February, Muller, now a sophomore, has been using her marketing skills and internship with the Colorado Public Interest Research Group -- or CoPirg -- to stir campus-wide interest in a new trend that could save students thousands of dollars. | |
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Youngsters Love Transit Too! – Colorado college students rally for better transportation
- Green Growth Cascadia (new window)
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2010-03-25 |
| A message to all those non-believers of Generation Y: Look, We’re not THAT bad. Even with all our new-fangeled technology, hip music, fast-food obsessions, and what some would call “edgy behavior,” we are still trying to save this planet! A group of students out of the University of Colorado Boulder chapter of CoPIRG (Colorado Student Public Interest Research Group) are giving up their Spring Breaks to fight for better transportation choices. Would you trade your Mai Tai’s on a beach for picket signs on hot asphalt? I know I wouldn’t. | |
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CU-Boulder raises money for Haiti earthquake recovery
- Colorado Daily (new window)
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2010-01-19 |
| Students organize campus-wide fundraisers | |
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Kindness, blankets warm hearts of homeless
- The Denver Post (new window)
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2009-11-18 |
| In less than 10 minutes, three undergrads from the Auraria campus handed out 50 blankets at Denver's Civic Center on Tuesday for National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness week. Members of the CoPIRG student action group — Hillary Ahern, 20; Kristin Pyles, 19; and Kyle Brown, 19 — coordinated a two-week coin drive on their campus that raked in $275 to purchase blankets for the homeless. | |
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CU students using papier-maché Ralphie to stump for health care
- Colorado Daily (new window)
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2009-10-12 |
| CoPIRG to present buffalo-shaped petition to Colo. senators | |
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CU students pushing for energy efficiency
- Colorado Daily (new window)
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2009-09-20 |
| Advocacy group wants landlords, tenants to work together to lower utility bills | |
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CU students pushing for energy efficiency
- Colorado Daily (new window)
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2009-09-20 |
| A University of Colorado student group is calling for Boulder landlords to work with student renters to increase the energy efficiency of rental properties so, as one group member said, students don't get "cheated out of their money" when it comes time to pay their monthly energy bill. | |
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Green Thumbs Sprouting at UCD
- Advocate (new window)
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2009-04-08 |
| Student Campaigns for Campus Gardens | |
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Costly Commuting
- The Denver Daily News (new window)
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2009-03-11 |
| Group pushes for investment in public transportation. | |
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CU students, experts jam on energy
- Colorado Daily News (new window)
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2008-11-17 |
| Forum participants discuss state's energy future on campus Monday. | |
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Youth get out and vote in record numbers
- Daily Camera (new window)
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2008-11-05 |
| Student-voters — fresh from the polls on Election Day — wrote on a canvas in the University of Colorado’s student center, covering it with a rainbow of reasons to explain why they exercised their civic rights this election. | |
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Vote fever sweeps CU campus
- Daily Camera (new window)
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2008-10-27 |
| Students say they're excited to cast their ballots. | |
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Voter drive registers thousands
- Oregon Daily Emerald (new window)
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2008-10-22 |
| ASUO, with help of others, registered 7,245 students, some say most in state. | |
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CU group pushes 'open' textbooks
- Daily Camera (new window)
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2008-10-10 |
| A group lobbying for affordable textbooks criticized digital "e-books" Friday, saying they are missing the opportunity to provide cash-strapped college students with a more affordable option. | |
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Cleaner, Greener, U
- E Magazine (new window)
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2008-03-04 |
| Students are driving the campus climate movement, fighting Big Coal and putting legislators on notice | |
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Whippersnappers
- The Colorado Daily (new window)
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2008-02-11 |
| Young people are breaking poll turnout records this primary season. | |
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Young Voters Have Clout
- Daily Camera (new window)
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2008-01-14 |
| Colorado is considered by some public-interest research groups as a key state in this year's presidential election, and they say a high number of eligible college-aged voters here could help break national records for turnout among 18- and 19-year-olds. | |
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Interest Builds in Colorado Caucus
- Denver Post (new window)
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2008-01-10 |
| Interest is high for Colorado college students. CoPIRG, working with student government and another group, New Era, had signed up 3,000 University of Colorado at Boulder students since August — and all of them before the caucus deadline. | |
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Climate Change: The Next Generation
- E Magazine (new window)
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2007-11-05 |
| It was with some sense of detachment that I approached the Powershift 2007 conference at the University of Maryland two weeks ago. Honestly? I would have expected a lot of students to attend simply to party somewhere new for the weekend; to make friends, escape embarrassing hook-ups, or find new connections for pot. Not, I guessed, to actually learn. But I met student after student who cared passionately about climate change. Student after student who could talk at length about why we need to cut carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050, without making “clean coal†part of the mix. Kids had traveled from across the country to attend this conference, listen to speakers, attend workshops and petition their Congresspeople, and the most potent thing they drank were enormous cups of coffee. | |
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Student Group Reaches New Voters
- Boulder Campus Press (new window)
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2007-11-02 |
| The Boulder chapter of the Colorado Public Interest Research Group has been working to activate the student vote at CU. | |
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Spreading the Word
- Colorado Daily News (new window)
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2007-10-18 |
| What's your plan? That's what CU-Boulder Colorado Public Interest Research Group (COPIRG) members were asking their peers Thursday during its first "What's Your Plan Campaign." | |
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A Convenient Screening
- Colorado Daily News (new window)
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2007-08-14 |
| Dan Omasta, the CU-Boulder Colorado Public Interest Research Group (CoPIRG) chapter chair, believes students have the power to tackle global warming. With enough knowledge, and education as to how to put it into action, Omasta said that college students in Boulder - and across the country - should be taking a leadership role in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. | |
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Auraria Campus Goes Green
- Denver Westword (new window)
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2007-05-17 |
| Students on the Auraria campus are trying to build the largest solar-energy project on a college campus outside of California, and the fifth-largest in the country. By placing photovoltaic panels on the roofs of the Central Classroom and library buildings, they plan to generate 750 kilowatts of solar power, which would offset about 3 percent of the energy used on campus -- on top of the 45 percent that already comes from wind. | |
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Campus support comes up short
- The Metropolitan (new window)
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2007-02-20 |
| A general lack in student participation in elections and special referendum measures is affecting the administrative support that campus projects and programs need for implementation. | |
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Eye on Auraria
- OCD Advocate (new window)
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2006-10-25 |
| The New Voter's Project, part of CoPIRG, managed to register 1,490 students to vote in the Denver area. These students not only were able to register on campus, but depending on the district they registered to vote in, can also vote on campus. | |
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CU Registers 2,500 Voters
- The Colorado Daily (new window)
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2006-10-15 |
| Students at CU say they're quite satisfied with the outcome of a voter-registration drive that ended last week that registered 2,500 students. | |
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Young Voter Project Registers 1,300
- The Greeley Tribune (new window)
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2006-10-12 |
| Volunteers with a voter registration project signed up about 1,300 people at the University of Northern Colorado before Tuesday's deadline. | |
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"An Inconvenient Truth" to be Screened on Campus
- The Campus Press (new window)
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2006-09-28 |
| The International Film Series will screen Al Gore's summer movie "An Inconvenient Truth" twice in Muenzinger Auditorium at 7 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. A discussion panel will immediately follow the 7 p.m. screening with speakers from the City of Boulder Climate Action Plan, CoPIRG and the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research. | |
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Eye on Auraria
- UCD Advocate (new window)
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2006-09-27 |
| In an effort to get students' voices heart, the Auraria Campus has been selected to be a polling station for the 2006 election. | |
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