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. 

Community Grief & Gratitude Project

Boulder Creek Pedestrian Bridge

Let us share our grief and our gratitude. Between Friday December 27th, 2024, and Sunday January 12th, 2025, everyone in the community is invited to tie ribbons expressing your grief and gratitude on the railing of the pedestrian bridge across Boulder Creek west of Broadway. 

Community Grief & Gratitude Project: Opening Ritual

Boulder Creek Pedestrian Bridge

Let us share our grief and our gratitude. Between Friday December 27th, 2024, and Sunday January 12th, 2025, everyone in the community is invited to tie ribbons expressing your grief and gratitude on the railing of the pedestrian bridge across Boulder Creek west of Broadway. Join us at the bridge on December 27th at 1pm for the opening of this community project.

Parade of Planets: Telescope Program

Joder Ranch Trailhead North Foothills Highway 7481, Boulder, Colorado, United States

Join Naturalist Dave Sutherland for a free trip through the Solar System. This December, a lucky lineup lets us view 7 of 8 planets in a single evening! Bring your holiday visitors along to dance with giant Jupiter’s moons, rejoice with Saturn’s rings, visit Venus (the Earth’s infernal twin) and marvel at the distant blue-green worlds of Uranus and Neptune. If you stay late, you can glimpse the polar ice caps on Mars. Note: we will not need telescopes to see the Earth. Jaw-dropping galaxies, star clusters, and nebulae added at no extra charge! It may be chilly, so definitely dress for the cold. 

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."  

Evergreen Book Presentation with Author Nathan Hutchinson

Trident Booksellers and Cafe 940 Pearl Street, Boulder

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.

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.