The new Buzz from Boulder dot Earth

September 13, 2022

Greetings, dot Earthlings.

It’s been a while. But this week marks our first re-Birthday.

In case you haven’t noticed or heard, Boulder dot Earth has been forging on through the turmoil of the past couple years. Our mission has remained the same, but our approach has evolved. One year ago, a new chapter began as the BoCo Climate Justice Hive was born.

In an effort to connect conversations, coordinate more effectively, and incentivize collaboration, Boulder dot Earth and Naropa University’s Joanna Macy Center for Resilience and Regeneration co-created the Hive to bring together various community-based climate justice efforts.

With the Hive, we now essentially have a home and staff that will hold and steward the Boulder dot Earth web portal. The Hive shares up-to-date information about who’s doing what and where, “cross-pollinating” neighborhoods, communities, and sectors in Boulder County by weaving connections from grassroots to grass-tops and across the non-profit, academic, business, and government worlds. 

But it gets even more exciting!

The Hive, together with Harmonize, is creating an easy-to-navigate, interactive online map, illustrating formal, informal, and potentially collaborative networks. This online platform is being prototyped in Boulder County with plans to scale and replicate it to benefit other communities. 

This online platform brings climate justice into the center of the conversation, taking leadership from the Climate Justice Collaborative, a frontline community member-led collaborative that creates and applies a racial equity framework, shifting power structures and enacting just solutions to climate change. We are also mapping local food and farming efforts, as well as faith communities connected to GreenFaith Boulder County Circle, who is working to build a multi-faith climate and environmental movement. And much more!

On behalf of the Boulder dot Earth team, past and present, we are so excited to introduce you to BoCo Climate Justice Hive Co-Directors Lodi Siefer and Micha Kurz.

Hopefully we can catch your attention again. If any of this excites you, please reach out. We of course want and need more collaboration. If you are an organizer, let us know the challenges you face and what assistance you need. We are already deep into remapping the climate and social justice landscape of Boulder County and want to make sure you are connected. If you’d like to be part of this effort through financial flows of support, you can donate here.

And make sure to check out the Calendar which is lively again. Let us know if you have an event to post. Please share the buzz.

With excitement and solidarity

-Mark, Lodi and Micha