We now spend most of our time in Boulder, Colorado, which is a great University town with a wide variety of people ranging from mountain men (with huge beards and backpacks, living goodness knows where), hippies (with strange cigarettes and 60s style clothes), preppies from the East coast (with button down shirts), greens (with very strong influences on the local environment), Boulderites (also with great influence on local issues including building control (no tall buildings), no smoking in pubs and restaurants etc). Cars have to give way to pedestrians!! There's no dog litter as everyone picks up after their dog and are reminded by locals if they don't. They have a pedestrianised Pearl Street Mall with street sculptures, play areas for kids - all in the open air. It's easy for them to have outdoor areas as they get 300 days of sunshine per year -
http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide-2 ... 0FbWxHFmoL
There are 2 local Supermarkets chains called - Whole Foods
www.wholefoods.com/ - and - Wild Oats -
www.transfairusa.org/content/about/pr_040121.php.
They have totally organic food, which is fresh and tasty, very well presented with a laid back but efficient customer service. The guy on the cheese counter almost begs you to try different cheeses. The staff on all of the speciality counters e.g. cheese, fish, meat are very knowledgeable and motivated to share information about their produce.
The Boulder Bookstore has a wide selection of reading material plus my favourite coffee shop and an energy saving attitude -
http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=s ... yout=print
Can we name anyone in Portobello/Edinburgh with this kind of attitude to the environment?
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perhaps another supermarket chain could take over Scotmid and upgrade our existing facilities before anyone talks about creating a new supermarket.
