Make the world a little greener with these environmental actions

Here are some conservation, stewardship, and advocacy events happening in person. All locations are in Colorado unless indicated otherwise.

• 1/21 Carbondale – Naturalist Nights: Ecology and Resilience of Pinyon-Juniper Woodlands under Global Change. This presentation is part of Wilderness Workshop’s Naturalist Nights winter speaker series, a partnership with the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies and Roaring Fork Audubon. Pinyon-juniper woodlands are among the most extensive and ecologically diverse ecosystem type in the southwestern United States. They support the largest remaining tracts of mature and old-growth forest in the country and are culturally important to many Indigenous peoples in the region. This talk explores the ecology of these woodlands, the challenges they face through various global change pressures, and ongoing stewardship and research efforts to sustain their resilience for future generations. Unable to make the presentation in Carbondale? Catch this presentation the following evening in Aspen or virtually through Wilderness Workshop’s YouTube channel after the event.
• 1/24 Denver – Winter SEED Swap at the Stiles African American Heritage Center. Denver Colorado Native Plant Society 2025 Winter Seed Giveaway! Join us for a Winter tea & SEED Swap at the Stiles African American Heritage Center in Five Points. The director, Kala Greene will be giving tours of the Center, refreshments and tea will be provided & Lee Lee will give updates on the Stiles Gardens. See other Colorado Native Plant Society events here.
• 2/13 & 2/14 Denver – Water Workforce Summit & Career Fair. The Colorado Water Center at Colorado State University connects expertise, convenes conversations, and catalyzes collaboration addressing complex and evolving water-related challenges in Colorado and beyond. The Colorado Water Center’s Water Workforce Summit and Career Fair launched in April 2024 as an opportunity to convene students, water industry professionals and employers, water-related educators and trainers, workforce development specialists, and other stakeholders to discuss and address water workforce needs across the state. Held every other year, the Water Workforce Summit is a day of water education and workforce stakeholder engagement with a keynote speaker, panel discussions, and breakout group work. The Water Workforce Career Fair takes place every year, connecting water workforce professionals, organizations, and businesses, with students from Colorado State University, technical colleges, high school programs, and other institutions of higher learning.
• 4/27 – 4/29 Colorado Springs – Partners in the Outdoors Conference. Organized by Colorado Parks and Wildlife. The Partners in the Outdoors Conference serves as a vital platform to address the intricate balance between conservation and outdoor recreation in Colorado.

• Weekly Series American Trails Advancing Trails Webinar Series. American Trails brings agencies, trail builders, planners, architects, advocates, and volunteers the latest in state-of-the-art information on all aspects of trails and greenways usually applicable to all trail types, with expert presenters.
• 1/21 Upholding the Standard: Tribal Consultation Rights, Documentation, and Advocacy in Federal Rulemaking. The proposed rollback of the 2001 Roadless Rule raises serious questions about the federal government’s trust responsibility and its commitment to meaningful, government-to-government consultation with Tribal Nations. Roadless areas often overlap with treaty-reserved hunting, fishing, and gathering areas, sacred sites, and other culturally significant landscapes. When consultation obligations are not met, Tribal governments need clear tools to defend their lands, waters, cultures, treaty rights, and sovereign status within the rulemaking process. This webinar brings together Tribal leaders, legal experts, and Native advocates to provide practical guidance on understanding federal consultation requirements, documenting agency engagement, building a strong administrative record, and identifying advocacy pathways when consultation falls short. The discussion will center Tribal leadership, treaty-reserved rights, and Indigenous Knowledge in the context of the current Roadless Rule process.
• 1/22 A Look Ahead at Bird Conservation Policy in 2026. In this webinar, you’ll learn directly from American Bird Conservancy (ABC)’s government relations and policy experts about ongoing efforts to advance bird conservation in the United States. After a year under the new administration, we’ll discuss the current status of bird conservation, challenges we anticipate, and opportunities to enact laws and regulations that support birds. You’ll also learn how pivoting to state-level advocacy resulted in big wins for birds in 2025 and how together, we can build on that momentum in 2026 — and beyond.
• 1/28 Restoring Wolverines to Colorado. Join Wild Connections, Katie Schneider from Defenders of Wildlife, and Kaitlyn Reed from the CSU Center for Human Carnivore Coexistence for a community webinar to explore wolverine ecology, how and why they’re being restored to Colorado, and what it means for our state.
• 2/19 (and monthly through April) – Naturalist Chat, A Bird Q&A. Join Audubon Rockies for this monthly event. Whether you’re curious about feeding birds, their behaviors, population changes, or need help with an ID, we’ve got you covered! Join us for Naturalist Chat: A Bird Q&A, where our community science coordinator and bird expert, Zach Hutchinson, will answer your questions live on Zoom. See other Audubon Rockies events here.

Here are some job and internship openings in the environmental field: (For equity reasons, we only post job postings with transparent salary ranges). Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act went into effect on January 1, 2021 and requires that pay rates or ranges in job postings that will be or could be done in Colorado (including remote work) be posted. Colorado’s minimum wage is currently (2025) $14.81. The City of Denver’s minimum wage is $18.81. Colorado’s minimum salary for exempt workers is $56,485.

Positions are in Colorado or remote opportunities unless otherwise stated.

A huge thank you to Ms. Platt’s elementary school students who learned of this webpage and wanted to provide this resource on green careers to all our job seekers! Check out: “Guide to Green Careers.”

Job List Sites to Check

• Alliance for Collective Action Green Jobs Board
• Conservation Job Board
• Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education
• EcoJobs
• EnvironmentalCareer
• Impact Jobs Hub
• Green Jobs Network
• Work for Good

Other Job Postings (Jobs that are new this week are highlighted in green)

• 2/13 & 2/14 Denver, Water Workforce Summit & Career Fair. The Colorado Water Center at Colorado State University connects expertise, convenes conversations, and catalyzes collaboration addressing complex and evolving water-related challenges in Colorado and beyond. The Colorado Water Center’s Water Workforce Summit and Career Fair launched in April 2024 as an opportunity to convene students, water industry professionals and employers, water-related educators and trainers, workforce development specialists, and other stakeholders to discuss and address water workforce needs across the state. Held every other year, the Water Workforce Summit is a day of water education and workforce stakeholder engagement with a keynote speaker, panel discussions, and breakout group work. The Water Workforce Career Fair takes place every year, connecting water workforce professionals, organizations, and businesses, with students from Colorado State University, technical colleges, high school programs, and other institutions of higher learning.
• Colorado Parks and Wildlife is seeking a Regional Partnerships Program Associate. This position supports the work of the Regional Partnerships Initiative (RPI) and the Colorado Outdoor Partnership (CO-OP) to advance Colorado’s Outdoors Strategy- a collaborative vision uniting public and private partners and stakeholders to advance conservation, outdoor recreation, and climate resilience. As part of the Regional Partnerships Initiative team, this position supports CPW in uplifting collaborative work happening across the state through community engagement, communications and outreach, conservation and recreation planning, and grants administration. This is a temporary (9 month) position. Salary: $26.00 per hour depending on experience. 35 – 40 hours per week. Deadline: January 20, 2026
• The State of Colorado, Colorado Energy Office is seeking an Associate Director, Regulatory Policy. The Associate Director (AD) will be a key leader on the team, supporting the Managing Director in management of staff, strategic planning and budgeting, and interfacing with other CEO units. The AD will initially manage a team of 4 to 6 staff with the possibility of additional staff in coming years. Salary: $100,006.32 – $125,007.96. Closing Date: 1/29/2026.
• The Nature Conservancy is seeking a Southern High Plains Initiative Director. As the Southern High Plains Initiative Director, you will lead the Southern High Plains Initiative (SHPI), which is a collaborative cross-boundary conservation initiative that centers on TNC’s 2030 grasslands goals. You will lead multi-disciplinary teams across portions of five TNC business units (Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas) to conserve our most critical grasslands using a variety of conservation strategies and innovative solutions. Salary range $98,000 – 138,000. Other job postings at The Nature Conservancy here.
• The City of Greely is seeking a Generation Wild Coordinator. This position is a 1-year term limited part time position in the Natural Area and Trails Division in Culture Parks in Recreation for the City of Greeley. The Generation Wild Coordinator will steward the Generation Wild Greeley Coalition, a coalition composed of program providers, partners, and residents. In general, the Generation Wild Coordinator supports coalition vision and strategy, ensures implementation of aligned activities and shared measurement practices, cultivates community engagement and ownership, mobilizes resources, and provides accountability for execution of grant deliverables. Full Salary Ranges: $29.57 – $39.95 Hourly. Other job postings at the City of Greeley here.
• Audubon is seeking an Associate, Communications – Working Lands. The Communications Associate, Working Lands, will support the communications, storytelling, and promotional efforts of the Working Lands programs which includes the Audubon Conservation Ranching (ACR) program. Compensation: $27.00 – $29.00 / hour (higher in specific locations). Other job postings at Audubon here.

Follow the links below to find actions sponsored by these organizations to protect wildlife and wild lands:

• Animal Legal Defense Fund: The Animal Legal Defense Fund’s mission is to protect the lives and advance the interests of animals through the legal system
• Audubon: Audubon protects birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow.
• Center for Biological Diversity: Center for Biological Diversity works to secure a future for all species, great and small, hovering on the brink of extinction.
• Earthjustice: Earthjustice is the premier nonprofit public interest environmental law organization.
• Food & Water Watch: Food & Water Watch fights for sustainable food, clean water, and a livable climate for all of us.
• League for Conservation Voters: The League of Conservation Voters builds political power to protect people and the planet – because our Earth is worth fighting for.
• National Parks Conservation Association: National Parks Conservation Association is the voice of America’s national parks, working to protect and preserve our nation’s most iconic and inspirational places for present and future generations.
• National Wildlife Federation: The mission of National Wildlife Federation is uniting all Americans to ensure wildlife and people thrive in a rapidly changing world. The National Wildlife Federation Action Fund, an affiliated but separate entity works to raise the visibility of key conservation issues with voters and elected officials.
• The Nature Conservancy: The Nature Conservancy is a global environmental nonprofit working to create a world where people and nature can thrive.
• REI: At REI, we believe that a life outdoors is a life well lived.
• Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance: The mission of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance is the preservation of the outstanding wilderness at the heart of the Colorado Plateau, and the management of these lands in their natural state for the benefit of all Americans.
• Union of Concerned Scientists: The Union of Concerned Scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
• The Wilderness Society The mission of The Wilderness Society is uniting people to protect America’s wild places

• SunCor Energy, a Canadian-run company, runs an oil refinery north of Denver, Colorado. Suncor is Colorado’s only oil refinery and one of our largest emitters of greenhouse gasses and toxic air pollutants, and has been operating without any changes to its procedures or pollution controls for years. In spite of numerous enforcement actions and settlements, Suncor continues to flout air quality laws, putting neighboring communities — who are primarily BIPOC and low income — at extreme risk. Suncor has no regard for human or non-human life and will continue to harm our communities if action is not taken. Please take a moment to watch Spirit of the Sun’s short film on Suncor’s impact on Colorado’s Indigenous communities or scroll to the bottom of the page to send a form-letter to Governor Polis, Colorado Dept. of Health and Environment, and the EPA asking them to shut down Suncor for good: https://www.suncorsundown.org
• Donate to Spirit of the Sun’s efforts to combat Suncor’s harmful impacts through their Mycelium Program which trains their community members to inoculate the soil in their communities and throughout Native land with networks of mycelium to restore the health of our soil systems. When we cannot depend on the systems in power to create change, we educate ourselves and our community to protect the systems we hold dear: https://www.spiritofthesun.org/mycelium-healing-project-1