March 2024 | Climate Events across Colorado

Monthly climate events, jobs, and news in the Colorado front range

Feb 25, 2024

There’s a lot going on in Colorado, and it shouldn’t be a secret! It’s not the biggest tech scene, but Colorado’s unique mix of research, policy, companies, mountains, and people work together to make it a major climate hub. This newsletter is an independent roundup of community-submitted climate events in the Colorado Front Range area and is not associated with any specific company or group.

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Events This Month

📜 Climate Lobby Day 2024: Mar 1, Fri
👨🏾‍💻 REGENERATION: Mar 2, Sat
👩‍🌾 Solar Energy + Agriculture = Agrivoltaics: Mar 4, Mon
🍻 Solardarity: Mar 21, Thu
🍻 Boulder Climate Happy Hour: Mar 21, Thu
🥑 Climate Techies Boulder / Denver Members Networking Brunch: Mar 22, Fri
🔥 Lennox LIVE Denver: Mar 25, Mon
🍷 March Science Uncorked: Climate Change and Alpine Plants & Mammals: Mar 29, Fri

Read on for more details about this month’s upcoming events.

Sneak Peak at the Following Month

🍻 Solardarity: Apr 18, Thu
🍻 Boulder Climate Happy Hour: Apr 18, Thu
🏢 ClimateCon! Boulder: Apr 20, Sat
🎤 Switch Colorado: Apr 25, Thu

There will be more! These are just a few that I know about if you like to plan ahead.

Event Details

Climate Lobby Day 2024

🕔 WHEN: Friday, March 1, 2024 from 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM

📍WHERE: First Baptist Church of Denver, Denver, CO

Climate Lobby Day is an incredible opportunity for individuals like you who care deeply about the environment to **engage directly with lawmakers**, urging them to pass crucial legislation to combat climate change. Whether you're a seasoned activist or someone new to lobbying, this event provides a unique platform to make your voice heard and contribute to positive change. 
**Our goal is to get 100-150 people there this year** to really put the pressure on our legislators to pass meaningful climate legislation and rein in oil and gas permits and pollution and uplift the need for environmental justice.

REGENERATION

🕔 WHEN: Saturday, March 2, 2024 from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM

📍WHERE: Bigsby's Folly Craft Winery & Restaurant, Denver, CO

While some of the brightest technological and disruptive minds gather at EthDenver, REGENERATION will ground the technosphere with the roots of the biosphere. We are convening the builders, the makers, the stewards, and our web3 frens in Ethereum, Cosmos and beyond who are innovating in the ecological impact space.
We'll explore innovative ecocredit development, the utilization of web3 for climate solutions, emerging web3 technology tools, the vibrant world of digital governance, the web3 funding and project finance landscape, tracking, verifying and rewarding impact, how indigenous people are leveraging blockchain to protect their home - and the jaguar, and take time to celebrate our accomplishments and plan for the future. This is the REGEN GENERATION! 🦜🦋
The event will include panels, demos, spacious networking, private meeting areas, an outdoor patio, and tasty food.

Solar Energy + Agriculture = Agrivoltaics

🕔 WHEN: Monday, March 4, 2024 from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

📍WHERE: Longmont Library, Longmont, CO

In Boulder County, off of North 95th Street, more than 3,200 solar panels creates a 1.2 MW community solar garden – enough to power more than 300 homes. Jack’s Solar Garden is a national model for governments, solar developers, and farmers for how to produce renewable energy while continuing agricultural production via agrivoltaics. [Read more about the farm](https://www.jackssolargarden.com/our-story)

Solardarity

🕔 WHEN: Thursday, March 21, 2024 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM

📍WHERE: TBD, Boulder, CO

Solardarity is a happy hour for the commercial, community, and utility-scale solar industry. In 2019, Pivot Energy created the event in Denver as a way to connect and network without any agenda. At Solardarity there are no speeches, presentations, or sales pitches -- just great people. 
Join us as we strengthen the commercial and utility solar community and ride the "solar coaster" together at our next event. Fill out the form to join the invite list at https://go.pivotenergy.net/solardarity

Boulder Climate Happy Hour

🕔 WHEN: Thursday, March 21, 2024 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM

📍WHERE: Rayback Collective, Boulder, CO

Boulder is full of interesting people working on solutions to the climate crisis. Our goal is to bring people with diverse backgrounds together to share ideas, connect, and learn from one another. Join us for a drink and casual gathering.

Climate Techies Boulder / Denver Members Networking Brunch

🕔 WHEN: Friday, March 22, 2024 from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM

📍WHERE: The Corner Beet, Denver, CO

Join us for the Climate Techies Denver/Boulder Member Networking Brunch to meet other climate professionals and like-minded individuals passionate about combatting climate change and using technology and innovate to fight for Team Planet.

Lennox LIVE Denver

🕔 WHEN: Monday, March 25, 2024 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

📍WHERE: Gaylord Rockies, Aurora, CO

Lennox LIVE is the biggest annual conference in the HVAC industry and we build your experience around Leadership, Innovation, Vision and Education. Come network with HVAC vendors, trainers, and industry experts from around the nation. Share ideas, attend workshops, and much more. Interested yet?

March Science Uncorked: Climate Change and Alpine Plants & Mammals

🕔 WHEN: Friday, March 29, 2024 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

📍WHERE: Whitewater Hill Vineyards, Grand Junction, CO

More tasty or more toxic? How climate change affects alpine plants and the mammals that eat them. Presented by Johanna Varner, Ph.D.

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Climate News in CO

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For now, check out this piece on land use reform in Colorado to create affordable, climate friendly, cleaner housing. And congratulations to Fort Collins company, AtmosZero, for closing a $21M Series A round to build industrial heat pumps.

Job Openings in CO

🔍 Looking for a climate tech job? Our friends at ClimateTechList have created a live Colorado-specific job openings tracker. Check out the Colorado list!