During her 11 year stint as the sustainability manager for Columbia, Mo., Barbara Buffaloe cooked up a lot plans to adapt the city for climate change and cut its carbon footprint. The college town planned to buy renewable energy and electrify its buses, among other things. All of it would serve the goal of cutting the community’s emissions 35% by 2035. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] But Buffaloe faced one giant roadblock: funding.