Boulder County Climate Justice Event Calendar
View our calendar for events from over a hundred different environmental justice groups. These events happen in person locally as well as virtually online. Click here to submit your own events.
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Lafayette Birds! First Sunday Bird Watching
Lafayette Birds! First Sunday Bird Watching
All, including beginning birders, are invited to experience the fun and discovery of bird watching at the Greenlee Wildlife Preserve on the first Sunday of each month year-round. Knowledgeable bird watchers will be on hand with binoculars, spotting scopes, and learning tools to assist in the fun activity of identifying birds in their natural habitats.
Tour an Energy Efficient, Xeriscaped Home in Longmont!
Tour an Energy Efficient, Xeriscaped Home in Longmont!
This lovely Longmont residence is energy efficient with an open floor plan. It is landscaped with a water efficient xeriscaped yard in the front and back. The 11 Tesla solar panels and a Tesla power wall makes it 80% efficient to power the home and EV car. The furnace and water came with the home and run on natural gas.
Online World Premiere of Documentary Film – Fracking the System: Colorado’s Oil and Gas Wars
Online World Premiere of Documentary Film – Fracking the System: Colorado’s Oil and Gas Wars
Join us for the ONLINE WORLD PREMIERE of the Award-Winning Documentary, Fracking the System: Colorado's Oil and Gas Wars!
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10th Annual Sentinel Awards for Environmental Stewardship
10th Annual Sentinel Awards for Environmental Stewardship
This event is more than just an awards presentation; it’s a chance to celebrate and uplift leaders who's work is often thankless. Each recipient represents a drive within each of us to protect what we love. This event is about making connections that sustain our movement in the years ahead, and uplifting stories from our movement.
NSF NCAR Explorer Series Lecture – Geography matters! Meeting the challenges of climate resilience with geospatial technology
NSF NCAR Explorer Series Lecture – Geography matters! Meeting the challenges of climate resilience with geospatial technology
Scientists Olga Wilhelmi and Jennifer Boehnert discuss why geography matters in understanding and reducing weather and climate risks. They will discuss the role of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in climate research and action and illustrate how geospatial technology is not only enabling new scientific advancements, but also contributing to building community resilience to weather hazards and the changing climate.
“Trump, MAGA, 77 million votes: how did we get here?” a training for antiracist white people
“Trump, MAGA, 77 million votes: how did we get here?” a training for antiracist white people
In this webinar, we’ll be joined by brilliant movement strategists and organizers, Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson and Linda Burnham. We’ll get into the history of the rise of the far right, strategic racism, and how worsening economic conditions and the Democratic party contributed towards the rise of MAGA. Then, we'll get trained in how to use your personal story to move people to action.
Exploring the Life Beneath our Feet: Soil Fauna as Drivers of Soil Health
Exploring the Life Beneath our Feet: Soil Fauna as Drivers of Soil Health
Join the Colorado Native Plant Society for this Boulder chapter meeting to discuss soil fauna and soil heath.
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Cracking the Code on Affordable Resilient Housing
Cracking the Code on Affordable Resilient Housing
Rick Tallman offers both the big picture as well as insights into two projects aiming to change that, and change it at scale. One project used a modular approach to erect a net zero residential high-rise in Seattle, the other, Shibusa Systems, creates a process to build low cost single homes in record time.
Celebrating Invertebrates: A Year of Conservation with the Xerces Society
Celebrating Invertebrates: A Year of Conservation with the Xerces Society
Join Executive Director Scott Black as he explores the impactful work of the Xerces Society in 2024. From creating pollinator habitat and advocating for pesticide reduction to launching community science initiatives and educational programs, Xerces has achieved remarkable progress in invertebrate conservation.
7th Annual Apple Symposium
7th Annual Apple Symposium
Please mark your calendars for Thursday, December 5, 2024! We will be hosting our 7th annual Apple Symposium at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History in the Paleo Hall from 3-6pm. We are pleased to have Dr. Todd Little-Siebold from the College of the Atlantic and the Maine Heritage Orchard as our keynote speaker this year. Be sure to register early as we are limited to 60 in-person attendees. We will have a zoom link available for those unable to attend in person.
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Torah for These Times: Facing Fear & Cultivating Courage
Torah for These Times: Facing Fear & Cultivating Courage
In the wake of the election, what Jewish wisdom can we draw on to move through fear and cultivate courage for the weeks and months ahead?
Art Parts: Green Gifts Holiday Market
Art Parts: Green Gifts Holiday Market
Shop unique gifts made with upcycled and reused materials. Ditch wrapping paper this year and pick up eco-friendly gifting supplies. Make your own letterpress gift tags courtesy of our friends at the Book Arts League!
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Boulder County Farmers Market: Annual Winter Market
Boulder County Farmers Market: Annual Winter Market
Join us for our most festive market of the season! Held annually at the Boulder County Fairgrounds, the annual Winter Market brings together 150 local farmers, ranchers, food producers, and artisans to create a local-only holiday shopping experience that champions small businesses.
UUCB’s Climate Action Ministry Boulder Citizens’ Climate Lobby Watch Party: CCL 2024 Fall Virtual National Conference — Positioning for Progress
UUCB’s Climate Action Ministry Boulder Citizens’ Climate Lobby Watch Party: CCL 2024 Fall Virtual National Conference — Positioning for Progress
Join us at our fall virtual conference for an insider's look at what Congress is expected to tackle on climate change. The program will cover the key opportunities during the lame duck session at the end of this Congress. It will also prepare us to protect the climate progress we've made and to advance climate progress in the new legislative landscape we're facing.
Life in the Cold: Winter Ecology
Life in the Cold: Winter Ecology
It may seem that life is slumbering during the cold winter months, but the non-human residents of OSMP are doing what they need to survive and thrive. Join us as we walk to the White Rocks trail, full of raptors and winter wildlife. We’ll talk about winter animal adaptations and look for prairie dogs, waterfowl, and bald eagles. This hike will be an easy, social walk, but be prepared for possible icy conditions. Bring binoculars to search for raptors along the White Rocks and waterfowl in the ponds.
Native Women and Allies Speak: What You Weren’t Taught in School, The Justice Film Series
Native Women and Allies Speak: What You Weren’t Taught in School, The Justice Film Series
In addition to a potent historical overview, this film shares three personal and moving stories about a Native child forced into a Canadian residential school, never to see his parents again; adoption of Native babies and children by whites; and ongoing, a 14-year battle with a Pennsylvania school district to eradicate their racist Redskins mascot that continues today.
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Boulder County Farmers Market: Annual Winter Market
Boulder County Farmers Market: Annual Winter Market
Join us for our most festive market of the season! Held annually at the Boulder County Fairgrounds, the annual Winter Market brings together 150 local farmers, ranchers, food producers, and artisans to create a local-only holiday shopping experience that champions small businesses.
Holiday Crafts Program – Make ornaments using natural materials collected from Lafayette’s Open Space with Naturalist Martin Ogle
Holiday Crafts Program – Make ornaments using natural materials collected from Lafayette’s Open Space with Naturalist Martin Ogle
Make ornaments using natural materials collected from Lafayette's Open Space with Naturalist Martin Ogle.
Boulder Regional Seed Swap
Boulder Regional Seed Swap
Please join us at the 3rd Annual Boulder Region Seed Share in Boulder at the Meadows Branch Library! We are partnering with the Boulder Public Library to bring you this FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC event. You do not need to provide seeds to participate!
Imagination Portal
Imagination Portal
🌌Step into the Imagination Portal🌌 Join us at Junkyard Social Club on Sunday, 12/8 at 2PM, for a day of community, creativity, and meaningful action. Together, we’ll process these feelings, channeling them into powerful, purposeful work. 🧘♂️💪
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Attitude Adjustment Training: Access and Inclusion for Disabilities in the Arts
Attitude Adjustment Training: Access and Inclusion for Disabilities in the Arts
Join Boulder County Arts Alliance for this Attitude Adjustment Training presented by Ben Raanan, the Artistic Director for Phamaly Theatre Company. This workshop is intended to help artists and arts organizations cultivate an attitude towards access and inclusion which affirms both the strengths and needs of those with disabilities
Boulder Green Drinks Holiday Party & Colorado Gives Day Celebration
Boulder Green Drinks Holiday Party & Colorado Gives Day Celebration
Come and gather with us to celebrate the holidays for networking with friends/members and hear from 5 local non-profits (Colorado Gives Day Partners) who will share information on their organization, sustainability efforts, and community impact.
A Call to Courage: Faiths for Climate Justice
A Call to Courage: Faiths for Climate Justice
GreenFaith is inviting faith leaders from all traditions – clergy and lay – to join us to plan and take action together. Right away, we are launching a Multi-Faith Public Call to Courage Pledge that shows that people of faith are calling for climate justice, not "drill, baby, drill."
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Boulder Housing Coalition Alumni Reunion & Impact Party 2024
Boulder Housing Coalition Alumni Reunion & Impact Party 2024
Boulder Housing Coalition Alumni Reunion & Impact Party 2024 When: December 10, 6-8pm Where: Virtual REGISTER HERE! This online gathering will bring together alumni, supporters, and community members to celebrate […]
Evergreen Book Presentation with Author Nathan Hutchinson
Evergreen Book Presentation with Author Nathan Hutchinson
Evergreen is artist and author Nathan Hutchinson's love letter to old-growth forests and wild open spaces in the form of exquisitely painted wilderness scenes accompanied by essays exploring the idea of healing ecological dissociation through the activity of rewilding, beginning with ourselves. With over a hundred illustrations spanning the surreal to ultra-realistic, from oils to pen drawings and watercolors, this book represents the natural world in all its multiplicity, as a unified whole. Printed on 100% recycled chlorine free paper, Evergreen is a one-of-a-kind art book. A limited edition collectors item for all fine art enthusiasts who concern themselves with ecology.
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Resistance in Native Literature: The Role of Storytelling in Ending Colonial Violence
Resistance in Native Literature: The Role of Storytelling in Ending Colonial Violence
We invite you to a discussion with Native authors who write Native female heroines and illustrate Native realities. These authors will discuss how colonial violence in Indian Country impacts their fictional prose and storytelling.
Robin Wall Kimmerer – “The Serviceberry”
Robin Wall Kimmerer – “The Serviceberry”
Robin Wall Kimmerer will speak about and sign her new book, The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World, on Wednesday, December 11th at 6:30pm, at First United Methodist Church (1421 Spruce St, Boulder.) Conversation partner TBA.
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Soil Revolution Conference 2024
Soil Revolution Conference 2024
Join us for the ninth annual Soil Revolution Conference. Speakers will include Alejandro Carrillo, Dr. Elizabeth Heilman, Lowell King, and more! A land acknowledgement will be given by Jan, Dwayne, and Amaya Iron.
CERI Climate Cafe
CERI Climate Cafe
Climate Cafes are physical or virtual spaces for community members to share experiences and feelings related to this polycrisis. We may be meeting on campus, in an actual cafe, a park, a conference room, a workspace, or really any gathering space that people choose to come together.
The Heat Beneath Our Feet: Colorado’s Geothermal Opportunities
The Heat Beneath Our Feet: Colorado’s Geothermal Opportunities
Join CRES in welcoming Bryce Carter, Colorado Energy Office's Geothermal Program Manager, for a look at this emerging market and the latest updates in the state. What is geothermal energy, what can it do for Colorado, and what policies and incentives will help us utilize the heat beneath our feet on our way to decarbonizing our energy future?
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Restorative Justice for American Indians: Uncovering The Truth and Advancing Sovereignty
Restorative Justice for American Indians: Uncovering The Truth and Advancing Sovereignty
Together, we will explore the historical injustices faced by American Indian communities and discuss actionable steps toward meaningful reparations and healing. This event brings together community leaders, advocates, and policy experts committed to advancing justice, equity, and the restoration of American Indian rights.
Yellow Barn Farm Winter Faire & Artisan Market
Yellow Barn Farm Winter Faire & Artisan Market
Join YBF for their annual Artisan & Producer Market inside the Yellow Barn!
Revolutionary Spirituality: Gaza, Empire & the Path of Collective Liberation
Revolutionary Spirituality: Gaza, Empire & the Path of Collective Liberation
As the brutal realities of empire unfold in Gaza, this event will explore how Gaza’s profound suffering is catalyzing a global awakening. As these same destructive shadows of empire arrive more fully on our doorstep, we now have no choice but to leap to a revolutionary spirituality paradigm, guided by our ethical responsibility and direct engagement with the realities unfolding before us.
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Tech Lab at the Lafayette Public Library
Tech Lab at the Lafayette Public Library
Join us at the Lafayette Public Library for a free tech lab. We help learners of all ages and skill levels. No appointment is necessary. Just drop in. We look forward to seeing you!
Tech Lab at Waneka Park Assisted Living
Tech Lab at Waneka Park Assisted Living
We will be at Waneka Park Assisted Living to help residents with their tech needs. We are looking forward to it!
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Why Can’t We Tap the Potential of Microgrids?
Why Can’t We Tap the Potential of Microgrids?
Microgrids offer the promise of resilience, load flexibility, increased renewable energy production and financial benefits. Why do franchise rules tend to prevent microgrids? Can legislation be crafted to allow for resource sharing, reducing the barriers to microgrid adoption? Where are there models that we could look to for inspiration?
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Native Seed Cleaning and Cookie Swap
Native Seed Cleaning and Cookie Swap
Join us for a cozy winter evening dedicated to cleaning native seeds collected by our wonderful volunteers. This important task is crucial for effective restoration efforts! We also invite you to participate in our cookie swap—bring your favorite homemade cookies to share and exchange with others, ensuring you leave with a delicious variety to enjoy at home.
What we’re facing– and how we fight back: building resistance under a MAGA administration
What we’re facing– and how we fight back: building resistance under a MAGA administration
Join SURJ and our partners who have been leading social change work on the frontlines for years: Rukia Lumumba from the Movement for Black Lives, Marcela Hernandez from Detention Watch Network, and Tica Moreno from World March of Women Brazil. First, we’ll hear their analysis on the conditions we’ll be facing in the years ahead. Then, we’ll hear lessons from movements of regular people who have carried on sustained resistance under repressive conditions in the US and across the globe.
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Naturalist Chat, A Bird Q&A
Naturalist Chat, A Bird Q&A
Do you have questions about birds? Perhaps you have questions about feeding birds, changes in bird populations that you’ve noticed, or need help identifying a bird. Our Community Naturalists have answers! Join us for Naturalist Chat, A Bird Q&A, to share the questions that have been chirping in the back of your mind and get answers from our bird experts.
Audubon After Dark Bird Story Hour: Christmas Bird Count
Audubon After Dark Bird Story Hour: Christmas Bird Count
If you've participated in the Christmas Bird Count (the longest running community science project in the nation!) we're sure you have a story about the experience. We'd love to hear your story during our next Audubon After Dark Bird Story Hour event, celebrating the 125th Christmas Bird Count! Join our Community Naturalists on December 19 for an evening of story sharing with fellow bird lovers. New to the Christmas Bird Count? Join us to listen to stories from others. Who knows? You may be inspired to join the count this year, too!
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Remembrances and Recommendations in Working with Our Indigenous Unhoused Relatives
Remembrances and Recommendations in Working with Our Indigenous Unhoused Relatives
This webinar uplifts the work of diverse Tribal communities who have been working tirelessly to respond and address safety and housing for all our relatives. Panelists will share what they are doing, including lessons learned, cultural considerations, and best practices. They will deliver critical recommendations for funders, policymakers, housing programs, and domestic violence programs and shelters.
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Annual Refuge Family Christmas Feast
Annual Refuge Family Christmas Feast
It's time again for us to gather around tables at our Annual Refuge Family Christmas Feast, the last Sunday before Christmas. A mix of fun traditions, reflection, and gathering some hope together this season. All are welcome. Please use this form to let us know you’re coming and/or if you can bring a side dish or host a table setting.
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Boulder County Climate Justice Event Calendar
View our calendar for events from over a hundred different environmental justice groups. These events happen in person locally as well as virtually online. Click here to submit your own events.
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