After a year-long survey of residents, a search for "the soul of Crested Butte" has led this end-of-the-road mountain town to be the first municipality in Colorado to become all-electric.

"This is buying into our community values," Crested Butte Town Manager Dara MacDonald said. "I mean you are coming here for here, right? Well this is what 'here' is. I think as mountain towns, we have not held to our principles quite strongly enough in some cases. This is holding to our values."

Crested Butte joins Aspen with an overhaul of building codes focused on reducing the busy mountain towns' contributions to a changing climate. With mandates to turn away from burning fossil fuels in homes, the mountain communities are pushing beyond what is required and hoping to become models for how larger cities can transform residential impacts on climate change.

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Mmmmm Secret Stash pizza and Camp 4 coffee

What's a skiing vacation without a fireplace or wood stove?  It gets mighty cold up there.

I'm willing to bet that most property in those towns are owned by people out of state or LLCs

Just making a bigger impact on the climate by making themselves reliant on fires burning far away.

Won't make a bit of fucking difference in terms of "climate change."

Virtue signaling at its finest.