Why Can’t We Tap the Potential of Microgrids?

Virtual

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? 

Native Seed Cleaning and Cookie Swap

Sunset Campus, City of Longmont South Sunset Street 7, Longmont, Colorado, United States

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

Virtual

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.

Naturalist Chat, A Bird Q&A

Virtual

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

Virtual

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!

Remembrances and Recommendations in Working with Our Indigenous Unhoused Relatives

Virtual

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.

Annual Refuge Family Christmas Feast

the refuge 6900 W 117th Ave. #200, Broomfield, CO, United States

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. 

A Clergy Call to Courage: Faiths for Climate Justice

Virtual

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."  

Western Butterflies and Lost Species in the Anthropocene

Virtual

Join Matt Forister, professor in the Biology Department at the University of Nevada, Reno, as he discusses working with North America's longest-running butterfly monitoring project across Northern California, and presents major findings with respect to the impacts of climate change and pesticides on butterfly populations.

BeeChicas Present – Common Ground

Boulder Public Library 1001 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder, CO, United States

By fusing journalistic expose’ with deeply personal stories from those in the front lines of the sustainable food movement, "Common Ground" unveils a dark web of money, power, and politics behind our broken food system. As the highly anticipated sequel to "Kiss the Ground", the film profiles a hopeful and uplifting movement of white, black, and indigenous farmers who are using alternative “regenerative” models of agriculture that could balance the climate, save our health, and stabilize America’s economy – before it’s too late.