CEDaR

With its bright yellow walls and large black lettering, the Community Engagement, Design and Research Center (CEDaR) in the Environmental Design building is hard to miss. But with a single door and no indoor windows to reveal the room’s inner workings, the mystery surrounding what goes on behind those walls is palpable.

A day-long event was organized through a collaboration between the Renée Crown Wellness Institute and the Community Engagement, Design and Research Center (CEDaR). The occasion featured four innovative professionals who have engaged in research and programs centered around connecting communities to nature to address key health issues.

Third-year landscape architecture students take on designing interpretive education opportunities along the Marshall Mesa (and adjacent) trailhead that will be presented to OSMP and folded into the future designs for those trailheads.

Did you know that children and youth can contribute meaningfully to Environmental Design? Since 2009, GUB has worked with 6,000 children and youth on over 100 city projects. Learn more.

In partnership with the City of Boulder, CEDaR, along with principal investigators Michael Szuberla and Sara Tabatabaie, are analyzing residents’ baseline knowledge of the Emerald Ash Borer and proposing ways to address the infestation through environmental education efforts, as well as public-private partnerships.

TED has selected Growing Up Boulder Director, Mara Mintzer's, TEDx Talk to be featured on their main platform launching on November 7th at 4:00 pm EST. Her talk, "We let kids design our city -- here's what happened," will be available at go.ted.com/maramintzer . The talk is based on her...