• Virtual Climate Lobby Day trainings Feb. 5th and Feb. 19th
• A last-minute day-of training will occur the morning of Climate Lobby Day
• Climate Lobby Day 2024 is Friday, March 1, 8am-2pm
• Meet with legislators to advocate for climate-friendly bills
• Meet activists and organizers from lots of great groups across Colorado! (Climate action is more fun with friends 🙂

We’ll hold a final crash course lobby training at the First Baptist Church of Denver 1373 Grant Street, Denver, CO and provide an overview of bills from 8-9:30am, before heading over to the Capitol (9:30-noon or so). There, you will have the opportunity to speak with Colorado lawmakers, urging them to pass legislation to reduce emissions and promote solutions to the climate crisis.

CLIMATE LOBBY DAY 2024 
Friday March 1st
8am-2pm
RSVP here

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Also, some Colorado School districts are off school this day, so we are encouraged to consider inviting youth and young people from your congregation to join in the event. 

What: Faith Climate Lobby Day!

When: Friday 2/16  8am-12pm

Where: Colorado State Capitol 200 E Colfax Ave, Denver CO (meetup location TBA)

 RSVP at bit.ly/COFaithLobby. 

We look forward to a powerful day of influencing our legislators and showing up for climate!

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Please RSVP here if you can attend & invite friends here on Facebook. 

• Can’t make it on such short notice? Click here to send a message to your legislators today asking them to sign this open lettersupporting a phase out of permitting for oil and gas wells by 2030 and a just transition to a clean renewable energy future and to speak out against more fracking permits in our local communities NOW.
• Immediately after the rally, Thursday at 1 pm, the group will hand deliver a petitionto Governor Polis’ office asking him to reject the inadequate new rules that the AQCC passed for reducing emissions from manufacturing. If you haven’t signed it yet, you can sign the petition here.

With 2023 confirmed as the hottest year on record, let’s call on our state leaders for meaningful action. We need a rapid, just transition off fossil fuels to a clean energy future and to end permitting for new oil and gas wells. Click here to learn more.

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Please join GreenFaith US for one or both of these upcoming programs focused on grief.

NOVEMBER 20 and DECEMBER 18, 2023

5-6:30 PM PT/ 6-7:30 MT / 7-8:30 CT / 8-9:30 ET

Each program will be participatory and therefore uniquely shaped by who is in the room. Together, we will witness our individual and collective grief and discover new ways of living and being in relationship to our beautiful planet. We’ll root in our unique faiths and cultivate collective resilience and hope — and remain ever committed to taking action.

RSVP NOV. 20

RSVP DEC. 18

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JEDI Workshops: Embracing Inclusive Organizing
Session 1: Foundation & Getting Started
Thursday, December 5th, 6-8pm

Session 2: Making Our Organizing Inclusive
Thursday, December 12th, 6-8pm

RSVP here

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The original curriculum of these workshops is thanks to Angela Davis of iProject LLC, a Senior Advisor on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. 350CO staff, board members, and activists further developed the material and created additional content that is from the landscape of our organizing here in Colorado and not only our efforts as an organization for an inclusive movement, but our hope that as many people as possible will join us in this vision. 

And they more than just a learning opportunity. These workshops represent our collective commitment to reshape society towards an inclusive climate solution framework that addresses the root causes of injustice in our communities.

Imagine them as the seedbeds where we’ll learn how to keep making inclusivity central to our efforts, helping us transition to a clean energy economy. We’ll explore what it means to move away from an extractive way of being towards a more sustainable and just future. We want to move toward a movement that can equip all individuals with the resources needed to participate fully in climate organizing, through support, mutual aid, and accountability. 

We acknowledge that we’re on a journey, that there’s much to learn and unlearn. But together, we can create spaces where growth and learning are an integral part of our climate justice mission.

In solidarity, 

Chelsea, Ciara, & JEDI Leaders
350 Colorado

In solidarity, 

Chelsea, Ciara, & JEDI Leaders

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Join Congregation Har HarShem for our 2023 Symposium on Spirituality and the Environment Sunday November 2nd at 1pm. It is free and open to all. We will have a keynote from an activist in the Jewish community, and then a panel discussion about activism, advocacy, and next steps to live out our values. 

The annual Symposium focuses on bringing people together to explore perspectives on environmentalism from faith and spiritual traditions. We bring forward teachers, academics, faith-based activists in dialogue and shared learning. Our hope: greater understanding leading to greater engagement in acts of environmental protection and justice.

Learn more about the speakers and RSVP here to attend in person.

This program will also be livestreamed on the Congregation Har Harsher YouTube channel. 

Information is also here on Facebook: https://fb.me/e/2USIHYQ6Z. 

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The Mountain View United Methodist Church Green Team in Boulder invites you to join in this interactive talk with Michael Richardson of Rivers & Mountains GreenFaith on how you can reflect your vaith values through your financial choices. 

All are welcome!

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 12 9am-10am MST

If you bank or have credit cards with Chase, Citi, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Capital One, U.S. Bank or other major Wall Street banks — or if you insure your home and/or auto with Liberty Mutual, Travelers, All-State, GEICO, State Farm, some of your money is likely being used to fund, insure or invest in climate destruction. 

Learn how to find regional and local community banks, credit unions and credit cards and local, small insurance companies to fund local ventures — not fossil fuel projects.

Divesting from institutions that fund fossil fuels and investing in local communities and renewable clean energy instead is one of the most powerful climate actions we can take. All are welcome!

ZOOM LINK

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Program:  CCL has crafted this virtual conference with top notch speakers — including Van Jones, CNN commentator, social entrepreneur and renowned author — and dynamic sessions to help us learn how to advocate for national climate policy.

When:  Saturday, November 4, 10:45am – 3:00pm MT

Where: Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder, 5001 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder 80303  (Sky Room)

Who: You!  And feel free to bring a friend or two.

Free, but space is limited: Please register HERE.

What to bring:  Sack lunch.  We’ll provide dessert!

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When a mega-fracking site gets moved from a White neighborhood to a BIPOC neighborhood, a mother fights to try and stop it. She joins the state-wide effort to change the law but the powerful oil and gas industry fights back with lawsuits, harassment, sabotage, and $50 million. Check out the trailer here

Fracking the System: Colorado’s Oil and Gas Wars
Thursday October 19th 6:30-9pp
Naropa University Performing Arts Center, 2130 Arapahoe Ave

Doors open 6:00 p.m | Film at 6:30 p.m.
Q&A with director and guests 8:00 p.m.

Get Tickets

Ticket sales will support Earth Dog Films’ final production of the film and the Joanna Macy Center. You can also support the film directly here.

Learn more and Join the Movement at Fracking the System

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In the US, GreenFaith is working to stop fossil fuel projects, and stop their funding, while simultaneously calling for a just transition and for polluters to pay for the impacts that are being borne by people impacted across the world. 

We hope you’ll join us to learn more about our international, inter-generational, multi-faith grassroots community, and how you can plug into the work moving forward!

Start: Thursday, October 12, 2023 at 5:00 PM MT

End: Thursday, October 12, 2023 at 6:30 PM MT

Virtual event: A link to attend this virtual event will be emailed upon RSVP 

RSVP to Join the Call

RSVP Host Contact Info:  Amy@greenfaith.org

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