350 Roaring Fork Valley

Welcome to 350 Roaring Fork!

Here in the valley we have a unique responsibility in Colorado to protect our colorful state. Whether that’s in Glenwood Springs or down to Aspen, we are working together to keep fossil fuels in the ground, uplift and empower local solutions, and defund climate disaster.

To volunteer or learn how to get involved in 350 Roaring Fork, please fill out our Volunteer Interest Form!

Check us out on our Facebook & Instagram pages for more updates!

Scan this QR code to find your Colorado State Senator AND your Colorado State Representative based on your home address, and learn more about them!

 

Volunteers are the core of our organization

https://www.volunteermatch.org/search/org1025217.jsp

350 Roaring Fork had a 2024 summer film series every Saturday from 4:30-6:30pm, from August 24th through September 28th at the Carbondale Branch Library (CBL) 

Here is a list of most of the documentaries we watched:

 

In 2025 We have been showing films starting with the great

  • The White House Effect — focused on the George Bush presidency and how he started off with a promise to be the Environmental President but once he was pressed to support international treaties and agreements he backed off putting the Effect of the White House into a tangible policy which is the Bush legacy. 
  • Water is Love – a fantastic film from Ripples of Regeneration which covers 11 chapters covering three regions of the world, Portugal, India and Kenya. The film needs to be seen as it discusses in a unique and fascinating way the subjects of Water and Climate, Time is Running out, The H2O cycle, The broken H2O cycle, Restoring the H2O cycle, Connecting Generations…. Please let us know if you would like to see a screening of the film. 

There were more than this and if you want to find out what they were just email me at steve@350colorado.org

 

Campaigns

 

Stop Wells Fargo’s Money Pipeline!

Stop Wells Fargo’s Money Pipeline!

Wells Fargo became the first major US bank to announce it will abandon its commitment to achieve net-zero financed emissions by 2050. The bank also rescinded its interim 2030 emissions targets for specific sectors, which included power generation, oil and gas, auto manufacturing, steel, and others.

The most recent Banking on Climate Chaos report showed that since the Paris Agreement, from 2016-2023, the world’s 60 largest private banks financed fossil fuels with $6.9 trillion — with US banks JPMorgan Chase, Citi, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley accounting for over $1.8 trillion of that total. Wells Fargo was the world’s fifth-largest funder of fossil fuels in that period, providing more than $296 billion in lending and underwriting to the fossil fuel industry.

A great option for banking is Aspiration Bank – Aspiration is the climate-friendly banking alternative that’s good for your wallet and the planet. Enjoy no mandatory fees while earning cash back, planting trees, and keeping your money from funding fossil fuels.

Visit the Customers for Climate Justice Campaign site here to sign an open letter, call or email your bank CEO:

https://stopthemoneypipeline.com/customers/#letter

Resource on how to move your money out of the banks funding climate chaos:

https://stopthemoneypipeline.com/move-your-money/

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Harvest Fork LLC  has removed their website – learn about a new development that is being proposed and decided upon now! We have a chance to make this large development sustainable with solar, wind and low impact housing while also creating a transportation local that works to get people out of their single use car into mass transit options, but only if we act now to point the developers in the right direction. Harvest Roaring Fork has plans for what it calls a “conservation community” on 236 acres at the old Unocal/Sanders Ranch/Bair Chase property between Carbondale and Glenwood Springs across Highway 82 from the Cattle Creek entrance. Roaring Fork Capital (RFC) is the developer whose projects include the Fairway Residences at River Valley Ranch in Carbondale, the Lofts at Red Mountain in Glenwood Springs, the Tree Farm Lofts in Basalt across from Willits and the Kodiak Club and Residences under construction in Basalt. RFC has not yet submitted planning documents to Garfield County.

Spring Valley Coalition – http://www.springvalleycoalition.com/

There has been a change regarding the Spring Valley Ranch development application!
Storied Development has decided to step away from pursuing development on these 6,000 pristine acres. They’ve moved on, but here’s the twist: Spring Valley Holdings LLC, the current landowner, has requested to take over the existing application that Storied Development is abandoning. As new information is released we will keep this updated on our page. 

 

 

 

A few of the major accomplishments of the 350 Roaring Fork Team include: 

  • Played a pivotal role in the denial of the Uinta Basin Railway that threatened to traffic huge amounts of waxy heated crude oil though the fragile Glenwood Canyon! UPDATE

    U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of controversial Utah oil train May 29th, 2025

Thursday’s ruling overturns that decision, returning the case to a lower court for consideration. While it’s a win for the railway, the project still faces other regulatory roadblocks before construction can begin. 

The Uinta Basin Railway would transport waxy crude oil — a type of oil that, as its name suggests, is viscous like shoe polish — from the Uinta Basin to national rail lines in Utah, where it would then be exported through Colorado and eventually to refineries on the Gulf Coast. 

The 88-mile railway extension could transport an estimated 350,000 barrels each day, massively increasing the state’s oil production — the refineries in Salt Lake City, for instance, currently have a market capacity of 85,000 barrels per day.

  • Compelling the City of Aspen to divest their $3.1 million in Berkshire Hathaway, a holding company of coal power plants and gas pipeline builders and operators.
  • Educating hundreds of community members through documentary screenings, workshops, and tabling at local events, and farmers markets. 
  • Standing up against fossil fuel projects by gathering thousands of signatures for state ballot initiatives and rallying support to stand with impacted communities in Battlement Mesa & Paonia.
  • Publishing dozens of LTE’s/OP-Eds on climate issues in local and state news outlets to educate and share policy decisions that will affect our community
  • We supported fellow organizations working to protect the Roaring Fork Valley
  • We marched, demonstrated, attended meetings, wrote letters and postcards, called our representatives and defended Mother Earth in every way we could think of!
  • Increased the knowledge through a weekly series of films and documentaries at the Carbondale Library in the summer and fall of 2024 and plan to continue this year.

Now we head into summer 2025 with new goals and objectives!

  1. Increase local involvement by reaching out to seniors and students, two ends of the same timeline. These unique demographics have the time and reason for joining environmental organizations as their futures both need a stable climate in order to enjoy the life they have to give. Presented a movie to the environmental action group at the Roaring Fork H.S. called Green Superheroes 2030
  2. Stay focused on the big picture, educating the public and engaging with the politicians who make the policy decisions. get involved civically
  3. Continue a series of film showings and get into the regular habit of learning, don’t become a statistic! Instead affect the statistics!
  4. Join as a volunteer, there are many opportunities for you to be a part of the solution. We all need to act and become activists. There is a light at the end of the tunnel but it won’t be reached until we start to make small actions that will lead to a more livable world.

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