CGBG Green Home Tour

Superior Community Center 1500 Coalton Rd, Superior, CO 80027, USA

Join the Colorado Green Building Guild for a self-guided day of open houses with sustainable features. It's a diverse group of newly constructed homes, remodels & retrofits, all-electric homes, & Passive Houses.

Empower Hour with John Farrell of ILSR

Virtual

Join us as we hear from John Farrell, 'the guru of distributed energy' and a leading authority on the downside of investor owned utilities. He will touch on Boulder's 2025 "Offramp" (an option to get out of the Xcel franchise) and what taking the offramp might offer in the way of opportunities for local control and cleaner power.

NSF NCAR Explorer Series Conversation “¡Descifrando los secretos de la atmósfera con GPS!”

Virtual

En esta Conversación de la Serie del Explorador, platicamos con Valentina Petroni para aprender un poco más acerca de la ciencia de radio ocultación, y su trabajo monitoreando los satélites y el procesamiento de los datos. También nos contará sobre la importancia de este método de estudiar la atmósfera, con un proyecto en el que participa llamado ROMEX. This is a free public event for ages 12+ and will be hosted entirely in Spanish!

2024 Electrify Longmont

Boulder County Fairgrounds 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, CO, us

Join Sustainable Resilient Longmont for Electrify Longmont, in conjunction with National Drive Electric Week.

Third Act: A Conversation with Eric Blank, Chair, Colorado Public Utilities Commission

Virtual

A rare opportunity to hear from Commission Chair Eric Blank, a lawyer and economist from Boulder, who has worked on electric utility and clean energy issues for over 35 years in a diverse range of entrepreneurial, business, and non-profit settings. This discussion will be led by Paul Culnan of Third Act Colorado (and Empower Our Future).

Portrait of Nuclear Colorado: Past, Present and Future

Performing arts center Naropa University 2130 Arapahoe Ave,, Boulder

Join us for an evening dedicated to community resilience as we explore the history and impact of nuclear indices on Colorado's Rocky Flats and other nuclear sites across the state. The evening will include refreshments, a short film screening, an educational presentation, and a panel discussion.

Empower Hour: Exposing the CO Oil & Gas Industry’s Free Pass to Pollute

Virtual

How venting and flaring continue to take a toll on clean air and our climate and what is being done about it. Jeremy is a specialist in campaign strategy and leveraging the law to drive social and environmental change, Jeremy Nichols is particularly fond of the Clean Air Act and the law's ability to empower citizens and communities to successfully confront polluters. Jeremy currently works as a Senior Advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity's Environmental Health Program.

Expanding Transmission Capacity with Grid Enhancing Technologies

Virtual

We’ll be joined by Tim Stelzer and Eli Asher of LineVision who will provide an overview of GETs, the capabilities they offer, their current state-of-play in the U.S., and highlight case studies of dynamic line rating (DLR) technology. They will wrap up with a discussion of how legislation and regulation can play a role in ensuring the technology is used cost-effectively.

The Body of Stars: Exploring Embodiment, Earth & Purpose through Astrology

Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center Overland Road, Ward, Colorado, United States

In this retreat, participants will explore astrology as a spiritual and contemplative method. We’ll engage with charts, signs and symbolism, to develop greater self and relational awareness; connect with our physical environments and psychic processes as a seamless cosmos; and cultivate perspectives on how our individual karmic inheritances and dharmic potentials can help us meet this historical moment as change agents, healers and visionaries.

Electric Power Resilience and Power Outage Communication Plans

Boulder Chamber 2440 Pearl St, Boulder, CO, United States

Please come prepared to offer your input on Xcel Energy’s efforts and to consider other steps we can take toward meeting the reliable energy services and incident communication needs of Boulder’s business community.