On today’s Connections, a conversation about Boulder’s relationship with open space. In 1967, Boulder became the first city in the United States to tax itself for the acquisition, management, and maintenance of open space.

Is Boulder still a leader over 50 years later? How is it innovating the way people live in a community?

In the studio with host Eli Kalen to talk about Boulder’s developments with regard to open space over the past 50 years are: Will Torr, Executive Director at Colorado Energy Office; Eric Budd, Boulder political organizer and data director; Elise Jones, Executive Director at Southwest Energy Efficiency Project (SWEEP); and William Shutkin, principal of Shutkin Sustainable Living and Teaching Associate Professor and Interim Faculty Director in the Masters of the Environment program at the University of Colorado Boulder.