Our Projects
Boulder Dot Earth
Boulder.Earth is a dynamic, grassroots website created by-and-for the community to foster awareness, collaboration and connectivity for increased impact on climate justice in Boulder County, Colorado. The web site features a robust community calendar, a directory of local climate, culture, and social justice organizations, and an extensive list of actions to take locally.
Boulder County is home to a couple hundred organizations and programs addressing environmental and social justice. In addition, there are more than 3,000 climate and atmospheric scientists, which means Boulder may have more people working on climate justice per capita than anywhere else on earth! Boulder.Earth as a dynamic, grassroots web portal highlighting the county’s robust eco-social-justice community was created by and for the community—a chance to see the diverse, collective work highlighted in one place, bringing together artists, activists, scientists, entrepreneurs, faith groups, politicians and more. It is managed by the Boulder Climate Justice Hive.
Boulder County Climate Justice Hive
In an effort to connect conversations, coordinate more effectively, and incentivize collaboration, Naropa University’s Joanna Macy Center for Resilience and Regeneration and the volunteer team that built Boulder Dot Earth have created the BoCo Climate Justice Hive to not just manage the website, but to actively bring together various community-based climate justice efforts.
The Hive collects and shares up-to-date information about who’s doing what and where, “cross-pollinating” neighborhoods, communities, and sectors in Boulder County by weaving connections from grassroots to grass-tops and across the non-profit, academic, business, and government worlds.
Organize.Earth
The Climate Justice Hive has created Organize.Earth as the “container” and cooperative home for development on our tech tool and database architecture. Over the past two years, we been building a database structure to collect, organize and synthesize all this information so it can be used to advance climate justice on a systemic level to unite and meet ambitious climate justice goals, center frontline community priorities, and encourage collaboration. Development is underway for the innovative tech tool to display this information and the relevant connections in ways that make it accessible and usable. We worked with a phenomenal group of professionals to help us learn the agile scrum model of tech development and produced an early prototype to begin to display and share the information we’ve been collecting. The goal is for Organize.Earth to be a worker owned coop building and offering the tools to communities around the world.
