Besides the five previously identified sites where the city might want to move its potential water storage, officials had been seeking to add five new reservoir sites to the change case, but ultimately they did not include them.
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City of Aspen faces unique challenges in moving to all-electric buildings
Terui’s project is indicative of several challenges the city and communities across the country face in the effort to reduce building emissions by using electricity from renewable sources, rather than using gas, to heat homes. Even when there is a will to go electric, the way is not always clear.
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City helping Aspen restaurants comply with compost mandate
Keeping food waste out of the landfill is beneficial not only because it helps to preserve space in the rapidly filling dump 8 miles downvalley from Aspen, but because it keeps that food from rotting under layers of other trash and turning into methane, a highly potent greenhouse gas.