Take action on climate in Colorado!
Stop by here anytime for a list of upcoming, key action opportunities, including tabling, growing the climate movement, public comment opportunities, testifying at hearings, and leadership roles.
*Please visit our online calendar for details on all of our events this month, including monthly committee meetings, local team meetings, and additional events hosted by 350 Colorado.
–> In-Person Opportunities
- Grow the number of activists involved in the movement – table with us! No experience necessary, we have materials and things to help people feel confident and prepared in the role. Join our Outreach and Tabling Crew to help at upcoming events! Fill out this form if you would like to volunteer to join our Tabling Crew to help with outreach tabling at upcoming events and/or sign up for a specific event on this tabling spreadsheet. Email volunteer@350colorado.org if you have questions.
- Help make local team meetings and events fun and impactful – plan with us! We’re looking for a few people that can take different pieces of the planning and outreach, like finding venues, helping with social media posting, tabling locally, and more! Please visit our online calendar for details on our local team meetings and events.
–> Upcoming Hearings & Public Comment Opportunities
- Tell the House Energy and Environment Committee to support HB26-1007 because plug-in solar accessibility empowers Coloradans to cut their emissions—and their utility costs.
- This key legislation seeks to increase households’ access to clean, safe, and affordable solar energy generation. By streamlining the process to install plug-in solar systems and complementary meter collar technology, HB26-1007 will significantly lower barriers to residential solar adoption and support Colorado homeowners and renters in powering their appliances with clean energy while saving money. The bill also protects consumers and utility workers by ensuring technology meets safety standards. Please take action to support this crucial legislation by emailing all committee members now! The committee has a chance to send a powerful message with a bi-partisan vote for the bill, so everything makes a difference!
- Click here to submit an easy one-click letter to committee members.
- Tell your Colorado legislators: protect our electric rates and our climate!
- Even as our energy rates continue to climb, major utilities want to build more dirty energy infrastructure and drag their feet on renewables– the cheapest, cleanest source of energy available! Our legislature needs to step in and require electric utilities to transition to 100% clean energy by 2040. Eliminating pollution from electric power plants is essential to achieve clean, healthy communities and reach our climate goals!
- The legislature also has a chance to protect us from the potentially devastating impacts that massive, energy-intensive data centers may have if they come into Colorado communities. Without proper legislation, data centers will further increase our electric rates while threatening our water, our community health, and our climate. Legislators can vote no on a bill that would give handouts to wealthy data center corporations, AND they can vote yes on a bill that protects us from data centers’ negative impacts. Take action to tell your legislator what you think!
- Click here to submit an easy one-click letter to your legislators!
–> Ongoing Hybrid Opportunities
- Join the Constituent Climate Project (CCP)!
The CCP is a statewide effort co-led by 350 Colorado’s Legislative Action Committee and Climate Policy Committee to build a strong network of trained, informed constituents who can educate legislators and decision-makers on climate urgency, solutions, and policy opportunities. The project helps bridge the gap between grassroots voices and the Colorado General Assembly by equipping people with the tools, confidence, and data to make meaningful connections. Overall, we hope to educate members on the top down dangers of climate change, help facilitate these conversations with their legislators, and foster a network of engaged constituents that together can push for positive change on a legislative level.
To get started, add your name and email to this spreadsheet. Then check out the series of educational materials that we have developed to support organizers here. We even have a short 4 part training series that covers everything you need to know, all of which are posted here on Youtube! Questions? Email Matt at matt@350colorado.org or Heidi at heidi@350colorado.org.
***Be a Co-Chair for a Committee or Local Team!
We are looking for passionate and motivated people to help lead organizing efforts as Co-Chairs on our:
- Fracking Action Committee
- Promoting Climate Solutions Committee
- 350 Metro Denver Local Team
- 350 Northern Colorado Local Team
- 350 Colorado Springs Local Team
- 350 Roaring Fork Local Team
Co-chairs work closely with staff and other volunteers to help develop meeting agendas and co-lead meetings each month, support new people that join, develop messaging for effective engagement, and support various actions. No specific experience needed, no minimum age required! The time requirement is 3 months of service for about ~5 hours a month with opportunities to renew.
Ready to get started? Email volunteer@350colorado.org
***Become a Leadership Council member on your local team!
The Colorado Springs, Boulder, Roaring Fork, and Northern Colorado teams are looking for a handful of members to join their Leadership Councils. LCs are the people that work closely with other organizers in their area, and the Team Coordinator, to win local campaigns, grow the climate movement, and create more resilient, empowered communities. Apply here today!
- No specific experience needed, no minimum age required – we’ll provide a short onboarding training and support in getting started!
- General tasks include light event planning, campaign management, strategic planning, and some fundraising
- ~5 hours a month preferred
Questions? Email volunteer@350colorado.org
–> Online Actions
- Remind your legislators to take action on Climate and hold polluters accountable!
Share the report with your network so more people know the true costs of climate inaction.
Share the report on social media: Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky, Twitter/X
Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper about CO Climate Disasters Awareness Week and the new CFI report and urge your leaders to take action! (Please let us know if it’s printed and we’ll uplift it on social media!)
- Come to the Welcome Call for New Volunteers!
When: Thursday, March 26th from 6pm-6:30pm
Where: on Zoom
What: Welcome to everyone! Register here and we will send the Zoom link and information for the call via email. The password to join is “350”. For anyone who is interested in learning more about volunteer opportunities and campaigns, being supported in first steps in your activism, having questions answered, or looking to make connections with others, this is a great and casual call to join! Questions? Email volunteer@350colorado.org
- Subscribe to the What the Frack? Substack and new podcast series here!
Listen to the first episode “Health Risks of Living Near Fracking” with 350 Colorado Climate Policy Analyst Heidi Leathwood and researcher Dr. Lisa McKenzie, a Colorado-based scientist who has been studying the health risks of living near fracking since 2009 – then share it in your networks!
- Demand that Governor Polis and the Energy and Carbon Management Commission (ECMC) enforce the Chemical Disclosure Law and protect Colorado communities!
Despite a hard-fought legislative victory in 2022 requiring full disclosure of chemicals used in oil and gas operations in Colorado, including fracking and other down-hole activities, a new report released on March 20, 2025 reveals a massive failure by oil & gas corporations to comply and failure by the ECMC to enforce the law. Read more here.
–> Customize your letter here! Say it loud and proud “Governor Polis, hold the ECMC accountable, demand full compliance from the oil & gas operators, and put protecting Colorado’s people and environment before corporate profits!”
- Send a message to your legislators and Governor Polis – It’s Time to Rein in New Oil & Gas Fracking Permits!
Let’s keep calling on our state leaders for meaningful action, because Colorado is not on track to meet our climate, air quality or environmental justice goals. We need a rapid, just transition off fossil fuels to a clean energy future and to end permitting for new oil and gas wells, because drilling and fracking are causing major harm to our health, climate, air, and water resources.
Asking them to sign this open letter supporting 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 will help shift the status quo!
–> Send message to legislators and Governor Polis!
- Write a Letter to the Editor (LTE) or OpEd about the fact that many oil and gas wells do not generate enough money to plug their wells.
From the Colorado Sun: “Profitable oil and gas production in Colorado is increasingly concentrated in a few basins leaving the rest of the operations with few resources and posing risk to getting all 47,000 of the state’s active wells plugged and remediated, according to a report from Carbon Tracker.
At least 27,000 wells — more than half the state tally — don’t generate enough cash to pay for their eventual plugging and site remediation, the report by the nonprofit think tank focused on climate and finance.”
This leaves taxpayers holding the bag for oil and gas well cleanup. Not to mention the pollution and habitat destruction created by these wells!
Everything you need:
–> More Online Actions!
- Sign the Open Letter of Support to Phase-out New Oil & Gas Permits! Oil & Gas fracking is the #1 source of climate pollution and ozone air pollution in Colorado. To meet Colorado’s environmental justice and climate goals, we must phase out new fracking and support a fast and fair transition to a renewable energy economy. Sign the Open Letter to join the movement lead by the Safe & Healthy Colorado Coalition!
- Watch and share this video on social media to learn how oil and gas fracking is fueling the flames for more intense wildfires in Colorado
- Sign this petition by GreenLatinos asking Weld County to stop line 1 and put community health and safety over a pipeline expansion project
- We are excited to announce a new toolkit completed in partnership with Boulder County, titled From Dollars to Decarbonization: A Local Government Blueprint for Fossil Free Finance. This toolkit is a resource for local governments to decarbonize their finances in four key areas: Pensions, Insurance, Banking, and Fossil Fuel Divestment. We’re looking for constituents to reach out to their city and county governments to share this toolkit, and to support their governments in taking the steps outlined in this toolkit. We’re happy to give presentations and offer consultation to governments that are interested in taking these steps!
- Sign the Fossil Free CU Petition Here and the Divest CSU Petition here to support local university divestment work! New to divestment & defunding climate disaster? Learn more about how critical divestment work is in the context of the climate crisis.
*Interested in meeting 1-1 with a 350CO staff member to discuss opportunities? Check out our schedulers below and grab 30 minutes:
- Matt Gose, Promoting Climate Solutions Coordinator – scheduler here
- Brigit Stattelman-Scanlan, Development Director – scheduler here
- Heidi Leathwood, Climate Policy Analyst – scheduler here