Over 300 CU-Boulder students, faculty, and staff participated in the sixth annual Better Boulder Better World (BBBW) this past April. Participants were able to choose from a variety of projects that emphasized the environment, community gardening/farming, youth, creativity, cross cultural connections, and poverty recovery. Taking place in the Denver/Boulder area and surrounding mountain counties, projects included the CU 5K fundraiser, Boulder community farms preparation, tree planting, urban greenhouse cultivation featuring Denver’s Growhaus, Earth Week family activities at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), working alongside formerly homeless at a Denver Rescue Mission farm, collecting repurposed materials for a community art project in inner city Denver, updating a wheelchair-accessible boardwalk in the mountains, and restoration of the Four Mile Canyon burn area.
The BBBW event was also a part of the CU-Boulder Food and Environmental Justice Week that featured panels, discussions, and documentary film screenings and the Buffalo Can Challenge that collected 14,000 pounds of food for Community Food Share. The weeklong events culminated with the BBBW annual day of service providing participants the opportunity to learn first-hand about the programs and people making an impact in the Boulder/Denver region and to engage with the campus community.
The BBBW was hosted by the Volunteer Resource Center. For more information visit http://www.colorado.edu/vrc/index.html.