November 2024 | Climate Events across Colorado
Monthly climate events, jobs, and news in the Colorado front range
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.
We are celebrating this month. And I don’t just mean Thanksgiving.
Colorado Climatetech reached 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ followers in our first year! That’s all thanks to you dear reader. You are the community. Every time I meet someone at an event who heard about it from this newsletter, it fuels the next issue. Thank you to all who have followed, attended events, and spread the word.
To celebrate, we turn our 🔦 Spotlight inward to
, one of the community builders who inspired this very newsletter.Events This Month
🗳️ Get out the Climate Vote!: Nov 2, Sat
🚲 Ride the Vote: Nov 3, Sun
🇺🇸 Election Day: Nov 5, Tue
🌻 Agrivoltaic Seminar Series: Colorado Agricultural Associations: Nov 7, Thu
🎤 Engineering Energy Transformation & Innovation @ Czero: Nov 7, Thu
🥾 CU Leeds Sustainability Bootcamp: Nov 8, Fri
🎉 ClimateCon! Fort Collins: Nov 12, Tue
🍻 COSSA November Happy Hour: Nov 12, Tue
🏘️ Arvada Climate Action and Sustainability Plan Community Open House: Nov 14, Thu
🥺 Feeling our way to change: Emotional Pathways through the Climate Emergency: Nov 18, Mon
🍻 Solardarity: Nov 21, Thu
🧑🔬 Decarbonization: Overview of technologies that offer hope for humankind: Nov 21, Thu
Read on for more details about this month’s upcoming events.
Sneak Peak at the Following Month
🌻 Agrivoltaic Seminar Series - Operations and Maintenance of Solar Arrays: Dec 5, Thu
🏆 Colorado Cleantech Awards Celebration: Dec 17, Tue
🍻 Boulder Climate Happy Hour: Dec 18, Wed
There will be more! These are just a few that I know about if you like to plan ahead.
Spotlight of the Month: Hannah Davis
“There’s no substitute for being in the room,” she says. “Whether it’s at a happy hour, an action hour, or volunteering at events—being present is how you make genuine connections.”
Spotlight on Hannah Davis, Building Boulder’s Climate Community
Our spotlight series shares real climate stories in Colorado. Missed the last one? Catch up here
Climate News in CO
Big news for electrification. Colorado has started the process to distribute IRA funds, first through the Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) and later through direct rebates in 2025.
Also, not sure if you heard, but there’s an election next week! One climate-related issue on the ballot is public transit - Ballot Measure 7A for RTD.
Job Openings in CO
🤝 Looking to connect with professionals working in climate?
#OpenDoorClimate runs a directory of climate professionals willing to chat with green jobseekers and maintains a great list of resources for job seekers.
🔍 Looking for a climate tech job?
Our friends at ClimateTechList have created a live Colorado-specific job openings tracker. ⛰️ Check out the Colorado list! 🏔️
There were 126+ Colorado postings in October 2024. ~same as SeptemberPlanning an Event?
To avoid conflicts in the future and help your event stand out, we’ve got a special planner’s guide and dashboard with the data behind this newsletter. Contact me via email to request access using subject ‘New Planner Application’.
Event Details
Get out the Climate Vote!
🕔 WHEN: Saturday, November 2, 2024 from 1:00 AM to 2:00 PM
📍WHERE: Online (Zoom)
Hosted by Distilled's Michael Thomas and Climate Town's Rollie Williams By now you’ve probably heard: The 2024 election will be as close as it will be consequential. Whether you care about climate, freedom, democracy, you name it—the race for the White House, Congress, and many state legislatures will have huge influence in the years to come. To mobilize voters we're sending messages to our friends in swing states to remind them to vote. In this "hour of action" we’ll run through how to find people in your network that live in swing states, what messages are most effective, and answer any questions that come up. Let’s go elect some climate leaders!
Ride the Vote
🕔 WHEN: Sunday, November 3, 2024 from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
📍WHERE: Crestmoor Park, Denver, CO
Join Colorado Jewish Climate Action and Bike Streets for a glorious slow rollin’ group bike ride to celebrate democracy. Bring your ballot and we’ll hit a dropbox along the way. You’ll also get a healthy dose of climate hope on how quickly we can decarbonize transportation.
Agrivoltaic Seminar Series: Colorado Agricultural Associations
🕔 WHEN: Thursday, November 7, 2024 from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
📍WHERE: Dairy Arts Center, Boulder, CO
Growing the food society requires is hard work, and there are those who love that work. Come hear from our panelists from various backgrounds in the agricultural industry to hear their perspectives on what it’s like to be in this field and where they see the opportunities for growth. Be prepared with questions that help us all think about what Colorado’s agricultural industry could look like in decades to come.
Engineering Energy Transformation & Innovation @ Czero
🕔 WHEN: Thursday, November 7, 2024 from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
📍WHERE: Czero, Fort Collins, CO
Join us at Czero, a Fort Collins based mechanical engineering services firm specializing in early-stage, concept-to-prototype R&D for innovative technologies in the energy sector that focus on improving energy efficiency and reducing carbon emissions in a wide variety of energy sectors. We’ll hear from the Czero Team about some of their past & present projects and how they help bring early-stage cleantech concepts to reality. We'll have networking, beverages and light snacks, as well as a tour of Czero's facility.
CU Leeds Sustainability Bootcamp
🕔 WHEN: Friday, November 8, 2024 from 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM
📍WHERE: Leeds School of Business at CU Boulder, Boulder, CO
Join CESR and Sustainability/ESG professionals for a 3.5-hour intensive workshop to learn how you can land a job in this rapidly growing field. Topics to be discussed include an introduction to Business Sustainability and ESG, including environmental sustainability, social impact and DEI; and current trends and implications for students' career path. Self-select sessions in responsible investing, innovation, materiality assements/ESG reporting and ethics tailor the bootcamp experience to your career path.
ClimateCon! Fort Collins
🕔 WHEN: Tuesday, November 12, 2024 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
📍WHERE: Lory Student Center CSU, Fort Collins, CO
ClimateCon! is a convention celebrating climate innovation and inspiring action. After two successful conventions in Denver (Jan 23) and Boulder (May 31) ClimateCon! will produce our third convention of 2024 on November 12th at the Lory Student Center on the beautiful campus of Colorado State University. ClimateCon! conventions are known for more than just talk. We highlight innovators. Our panels are designed to provide actionable strategies for individuals and organizations. Learn more at www.climatecon.world.
COSSA November Happy Hour
🕔 WHEN: Tuesday, November 12, 2024 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
📍WHERE: Little Machine Beer, Denver, CO
Join us at Little Machine Brewing on the second Tuesday of every month from 5:30 to 7:30 pm for an evening filled with networking, discussions, and of course, good times.
Arvada Climate Action and Sustainability Plan Community Open House
🕔 WHEN: Thursday, November 14, 2024 from 5:00 PM to 7:30 PM
📍WHERE: Arvada Library, Arvada, CO
The City of Arvada is working on developing the City’s first Climate Action and Sustainability Plan. The plan will guide Arvada’s work to create a more resilient, vibrant, and sustainable community for the next 25 years. Join the project team to review a draft of the plan on Thursday, November 14. The Open House will showcase the community engagement process, greenhouse gas emissions breakdown, climate action strategies, and more!
Feeling our way to change: Emotional Pathways through the Climate Emergency
🕔 WHEN: Monday, November 18, 2024 from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
📍WHERE: Marquez Hall, Golden, CO
Our emotionality features prominently in our navigation of the mounting impacts of climate change, and in our collective attempts to avert further climate catastrophe. Better understanding of our emotionality and its role in individual behavior, collective action, and ultimately in social change can offer important insights to inform our personal and collective responses to the climate emergency. In this talk, we will take a deep dive into emotionality, to see if we can get a better handle on just what those pathways from emotions to social change look like, and how an emotionality lens can be applied to a critical, constructive analysis of our prospects for confronting the climate emergency in manners that minimize the damage, and perhaps even enhance our prospects for meaningful collective living.
Solardarity
🕔 WHEN: Thursday, November 21, 2024 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
📍WHERE: 14er Brewing Denver, Denver, 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
Decarbonization: Overview of technologies that offer hope for humankind
🕔 WHEN: Thursday, November 21, 2024 from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
📍WHERE: The Alliance Center, Denver, CO
For several decades, the accepted approach for mitigating climate change has been focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. What we need to do, climate activists claim, is to avoid using energy where we can, use existing energy more efficiently, and convert energy sources from fossil fuels to renewables. Although these conservation and technical solutions are available, for a cost, they are not being implemented nearly fast enough. Considering the potentially massive magnitude and scope of climate change, which is assuredly altering human life and the entire Earth in profound ways, it is worth taking a step back and looking at climate change with a broader lens. The science of climate change is reviewed, followed by a discussion about why current efforts to address climate change are insufficient. Featuring Jonathan Stickel, Ph.D., is a Director of R&D at Carbon America, a startup company developing and deploying carbon-capture technology.
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William Greenbohl