For over a decade, a small group of unassuming Fvolunteers from Boulder have supported sustainability projects in Israel and the West Bank. The starting point for Sustainable Israeli Palestinian Projects (SIPP), an organization that focuses on forward-looking cross-border projects, was, surprisingly, a negative event. As one its founders, Peter Ornstein, tells it, the group began after the contentious debate that erupted after Nablus in the West Bank was proposed as a Boulder Sister City. (The effort, in 2013, failed; a second effort, in 2016, passed.)
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