John Hennessy III,
P.E.
After days of heavy rain, Boulder Colorado is flooding. Creeks have overrun their banks, and some places higher in the hills have had to be evacuated. Months of drought and some big fires made it difficult for the ground to absorb the water. I stopped in a spot a few kilometers northeast of downtown to shoot some footage.
[NOTE: In the video I say the creek is northwest of Boulder, but it’s actually northeast. My apologies for the error.
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The most widely accepted definition of “sustainability” comes from the United Nations’ Brundtland Commission 1987 report “Our Common Future.” They define sustainable development as “… development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” This is obviously an extremely broad concept – at some level, it touches on everything relating to land-use and planning.
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