BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sustainability - ECPv6.17.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Sustainability X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://sustainability.colostate.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Sustainability REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Denver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20250309T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20251102T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20260308T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20261101T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20270314T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20271107T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20260211T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20260211T183000 DTSTAMP:20260129T144655Z CREATED:20260127T203833Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260129T144655Z UID:15440-1770829200-1770834600@sustainability.colostate.edu SUMMARY:Managing the Planet | Low Snow\, High Stakes: Impacts Across Colorado DESCRIPTION:Low snowfall is no longer an occasional challenge\, it’s a defining issue for Colorado’s economy\, ecosystems\, and water future. This panel brings together experts from CSU to discuss how declining snowpack and accelerating ice loss are reshaping the state. Panelists will offer insights behind changing snow and drought patterns\, the ripple effects on recreation and local economies\, and the growing pressures on water systems that serve communities\, agriculture\, and industry. What does Colorado’s future look like as we adapt to a lower-snow future? \nPanelists: \nJude Bayham\, Associate Professor\, Agricultural and Resource Economics\nAllie Mazurek\, Engagement Climatologist\, Colorado Climate Center\nDan McGrath\, Associate Professor\, Geosciences \nModerator: Gene Kelly\, SoGES Faculty Research Liaison\, Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station and Associate Dean of Extension URL:https://sustainability.colostate.edu/event/managing-the-planet_2-11-2026/ LOCATION:Avogadro’s Number\, 605 S. Mason St.\, Fort Collins\, CO\, 80524\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sustainability.colostate.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/01/Insta_MTP_Feb2026.png ORGANIZER;CN="Laura Shaver":MAILTO:laura.shaver@colostate.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20260223T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20260223T143000 DTSTAMP:20260211T162317Z CREATED:20260211T162223Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260211T162317Z UID:15469-1771851600-1771857000@sustainability.colostate.edu SUMMARY:Virtual Clean Energy Colloquium DESCRIPTION:The Office of International Programs in conjunction with the Energy Institute and Autonomous University of Yucatán (UADY) is pleased to invite faculty\, staff\, and students to an upcoming online colloquium. \nThis virtual event will feature faculty researchers from CSU and UADY presenting their current work and collaborative perspectives on clean energy\, sustainability\, and related interdisciplinary approaches. The colloquium aims to foster international dialogue\, share innovative research\, and explore opportunities for future collaboration between our institutions. \nThe colloquium is open to all CSU and UADY faculty\, staff\, and students. We encourage you to attend and engage with colleagues from both institutions as we explore global approaches to clean energy challenges. \nPlease feel free to share this invitation with others who may be interested. We hope you will join us for this exciting international exchange. \nFebruary 23rd \n1:00 pm – 2:30 pm MT \nInvite Link https://zoom.us/j/94890405581 URL:https://sustainability.colostate.edu/event/virtual-clean-energy-colloquium/ LOCATION:Zoom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sustainability.colostate.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Feb-23-Email-Banner76.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20260225T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20260225T120000 DTSTAMP:20260203T184231Z CREATED:20260202T181351Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260203T184231Z UID:15455-1772017200-1772020800@sustainability.colostate.edu SUMMARY:SoGES Community Coffee Hour DESCRIPTION:We’re hosting SoGES Community Coffee Hours/Lunches to create space for conversation and networking among members of our SoGES community (anyone new or SoGES-curious is welcome too). We’ll start with some lightly facilitated discussion on a timely topic related to sustainability to spark discussion\, followed by time to socialize\, catch up\, and meet others. Drop in or out any time during the hour.\n\nOur first coffee will be focused on the general landscape of U.S. immigration enforcement\, mass detention\, and its wide-ranging impacts on both human and environmental health. Josh Sbicca will lead the first portion by covering his current work on the environmental justice implications of rapidly expanding immigrant detention.\n\n\n \n \n SoGES Community Coffee RSVP\n RSVP form for SoGES community coffee \n \n Name*\n \n \n \n First\n \n \n \n \n Last\n \n \n Email*\n \n Attending?*\n \n \n Yes\n \n \n \n No URL:https://sustainability.colostate.edu/event/soges-community-coffee-hour/ LOCATION:Johnson Hall room 108\, 950 Libbie Coy Way\, Fort Collins\, CO\, 80523\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sustainability.colostate.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Green-and-White-Nature-Coffee-Quote-Instagram-Post-2.png ORGANIZER;CN="Laura Shaver":MAILTO:laura.shaver@colostate.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20260311T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20260311T183000 DTSTAMP:20260225T165410Z CREATED:20260225T145815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260225T165410Z UID:15497-1773248400-1773253800@sustainability.colostate.edu SUMMARY:Managing the Planet | Managing the next outbreak: Mountain Pine Beetles and the Future of Colorado's Forest Communities DESCRIPTION:Managing the next outbreak: Mountain Pine Beetles and the Future of Colorado’s Forest Communities \nThe mountain pine beetle has reshaped millions of acres of Colorado’s forests\, but what does that mean for the communities who live\, work\, and recreate here? \nThis panel brings together experts in tree health and beetle-associated fungi\, forest ecology and management\, statewide forest protection strategy\, and forest insect science to discuss how Colorado can better anticipate and manage future outbreaks. The conversation will explore what drives beetle populations\, how outbreaks intersect with wildfire risk and water resources\, and what coordinated science\, management\, and policy efforts are underway to strengthen forest resilience. \nPanelists: \nMatt McCombs\, State Forester and Director\, Colorado State Forest Service\nJane Stewart\, Associate Professor\, Department of Agricultural Biology\nTony Vorster\, Research Scientist\, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory\nDan West\, State’s Forest Entomologist\, Colorado State Forest Service \nModerator: Gene Kelly\, SoGES Faculty Research Liaison\, Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station and Associate Dean of Extension URL:https://sustainability.colostate.edu/event/managing-the-planet_3-11-2026/ LOCATION:Avogadro’s Number\, 605 S. Mason St.\, Fort Collins\, CO\, 80524\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sustainability.colostate.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/PP_MTP_MAR2026.png ORGANIZER;CN="Laura Shaver":MAILTO:laura.shaver@colostate.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20260325T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20260325T105000 DTSTAMP:20260311T185045Z CREATED:20260311T180138Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260311T185045Z UID:15520-1774432800-1774435800@sustainability.colostate.edu SUMMARY:SoGES Community Coffee Hour DESCRIPTION:We’re hosting SoGES Community Coffee Hours/Lunches to create space for conversation and networking among members of our SoGES community (anyone new or SoGES-curious is welcome too). We’ll start with some lightly facilitated discussion on a timely topic related to sustainability to spark discussion\, followed by time to socialize\, catch up\, and meet others. Drop in or out any time during the hour. \nFor March\, we want to dive into a topic that is on everyone’s mind: the vocabulary and rhetoric of sustainability research right now. Faculty are increasingly navigating questions of whether (and how) to use terms like climate change or justice in grants\, proposals\, and papers. We will have a candid discussion on the strategic tradeoffs of these terms—exploring what we gain or lose with different audiences when we use specific keywords. Joined by Sam Ernst\, Dinaida Egan\, and Hilary Galey. \n  \n\n \n \n SoGES Community Coffee RSVP\n RSVP form for SoGES community coffee \n \n Name*\n \n \n \n First\n \n \n \n \n Last\n \n \n Email*\n \n Attending?*\n \n \n Yes\n \n \n \n No URL:https://sustainability.colostate.edu/event/soges-community-coffee-hour_3-25-2026/ LOCATION:Johnson Hall room 108\, 950 Libbie Coy Way\, Fort Collins\, CO\, 80523\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sustainability.colostate.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Green-and-White-Nature-Coffee-Quote-Instagram-Post-2.png ORGANIZER;CN="Laura Shaver":MAILTO:laura.shaver@colostate.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260331 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260402 DTSTAMP:20260311T190827Z CREATED:20260311T190827Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260311T190827Z UID:15526-1774915200-1775087999@sustainability.colostate.edu SUMMARY:Colorado Climate Week DESCRIPTION:Colorado Climate Week Schedule \n🪩 Tuesday\, March 31 | 6:30–8:00 PM\nThere is No Planet B – A professional dance performance blending art and environmental activism\, followed by a panel discussion. Tickets are $15. \n🚀 Wednesday\, April 1 | 3:30–5:00 PM\nNew Frontiers: Perspectives to Emerging Climate Innovations – Expert talks and reflection on cutting-edge carbon removal\, solar geoengineering\, and other climate stabilization pathways. FREE \n🍹Wednesday\, April 1 | 5:00–6:00 PM\nCSU Climate & Sustainability Happy Hour – Network with climate professionals\, CSU faculty\, students\, and community leaders. FREE \n🔎Wednesday\, April 1 | 6:00–7:00 PM\nA View from the Sustainability Trenches with Auden Schendler – A lively conversation on false solutions and meaningful climate action from the author of Terrible Beauty. FREE \n  \nView the registration details here \nFull Colorado Climate Calendar here \nColorado Climate Week events hosted by CSU Climate Hub at Spur\, including a dance performance\, panels\, a happy hour and a book talk. \n  URL:https://sustainability.colostate.edu/event/colorado-climate-week/ LOCATION:CSU Spur\, 4777 National Western Dr\, Denver\, CO\, 80216\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sustainability.colostate.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/SPUR-climate-hub-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20260406T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20260406T170000 DTSTAMP:20260330T173818Z CREATED:20260330T173632Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260330T173818Z UID:15546-1775491200-1775494800@sustainability.colostate.edu SUMMARY:Prairie Fortified: Shelterbelts and Conservation in the Great Plains DESCRIPTION:The Sustainable Landscape Collaboratory presents: \nSpeaker Dr. David Vail\, Professor of History\, University of Nebraska at Kearney \nBeginning in the 1930s\, farmers\, ranchers\, and agricultural scientists met informally to discuss designing protective bulwarks against growing environmental disasters. New conservation strategies including planting trees as windbreaks and shelterbelts would come to characterize a farm-based conservation civil defense through a series of climate\, weather\, soil\, disease\, drought\, and pesticide studies conducted in the 1950s and 1960s. These trees of defense represented a significant embrace of alternative agricultural strategies\, moving their efforts from a rescue science to semi-permanent environmental fortifications. \nDiscussant Bill Romme\, professor emeritus of forestry and fire ecology at CSU. \nRSVP at Nicholas.Young@colostate.edu URL:https://sustainability.colostate.edu/event/prairie-fortified-shelterbelts-and-conservation-in-the-great-plains/ LOCATION:NESB B218 – Swift Conference Room\, 1231 East Dr\, Fort Collins\, CO\, 80521\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sustainability.colostate.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/Screenshot-2026-03-30-at-11.37.16-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20260409T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20260409T180000 DTSTAMP:20260401T160838Z CREATED:20260325T203756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260401T160838Z UID:15540-1775752200-1775757600@sustainability.colostate.edu SUMMARY:Managing the Planet | People\, Place\, & Planet : The Local Face of Climate Vulnerability DESCRIPTION:Climate change is often talked about in global terms\, rising seas\, shifting temperatures\, and planetary tipping points. But its impacts are felt close to home\, in our neighborhoods\, watersheds\, farms\, and communities. This panel brings together leading scholars in environmental ethics\, climate adaptation\, and social vulnerability to explore what climate change means here\, for the people and places of northern Colorado and beyond. How do local communities bear risks they did little to create? What does a just and meaningful response look like? And what do we owe one another as the climate continues to shift? Join us for an honest\, grounded conversation about the human face of our changing planet.  \nPanelists: \nKaren Bailey\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Environmental Studies\, CU Boulder \nPatricia Romero-Lankao\, Canadian Excellence in Research Chair of the Network for Equity in Sustainability Transitions (CERC NEST)\, University of Toronto Scarborough \nDavid Schlosberg\, Director of the Sydney Environment Institute and Professor of Environmental Politics\, University of Sydney \nKen Shockley\, Professor and Chair\, Department of Philosophy\, CSU \nSarah Walker\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources\, CSU \nModerator: Dale Lockwood\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Biology and School of Global Environmental Sustainability URL:https://sustainability.colostate.edu/event/managing-the-planet_4-09-2026/ LOCATION:Avogadro’s Number\, 605 S. Mason St.\, Fort Collins\, CO\, 80524\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sustainability.colostate.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/PP_MTP_APR2026.png ORGANIZER;CN="Laura Shaver":MAILTO:laura.shaver@colostate.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20260428T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20260428T130000 DTSTAMP:20260420T160525Z CREATED:20260413T194332Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260420T160525Z UID:15574-1777377600-1777381200@sustainability.colostate.edu SUMMARY:SoGES Community Coffee Hour DESCRIPTION:We’re hosting SoGES Community Coffee Hours/Lunches to create space for conversation and networking among members of our SoGES community (anyone new or SoGES-curious is welcome too). We’ll start with some lightly facilitated discussion on a timely topic related to sustainability to spark discussion\, followed by time to socialize\, catch up\, and meet others. Drop in or out any time during the hour. \nFor our April event: Can pollinators serve as “gateway bugs” for tackling broader conservation issues like habitat restoration and climate adaptation? Coloradoans approve of pollinators more than they approve of the habitats pollinators need – how do we correct that misalignment (and are pollinators themselves the best vehicle? Or are other approaches like water conservation more effective?)? Conversation facilitated by John Mola\, Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship. \n  \n\n \n \n SoGES Community Coffee RSVP\n RSVP form for SoGES community coffee \n \n Name*\n \n \n \n First\n \n \n \n \n Last\n \n \n Email*\n \n Attending?*\n \n \n Yes\n \n \n \n No URL:https://sustainability.colostate.edu/event/soges-community-coffee-hour_4-28-2026/ LOCATION:Johnson Hall room 108\, 950 Libbie Coy Way\, Fort Collins\, CO\, 80523\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sustainability.colostate.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Green-and-White-Nature-Coffee-Quote-Instagram-Post-2.png ORGANIZER;CN="Laura Shaver":MAILTO:laura.shaver@colostate.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20260507T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20260507T170000 DTSTAMP:20260429T152043Z CREATED:20260429T152043Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260429T152043Z UID:15628-1778166000-1778173200@sustainability.colostate.edu SUMMARY:School of Global Environmental Sustainability Spring Open House DESCRIPTION:We are excited to invite you to a special Open House event that celebrates the achievements of the School of Global Environmental Sustainability (SoGES)\, while also looking ahead to the promising future we are building together. \nThere will be remarks beginning at 3:15pm with a highlight of accomplishments\, exciting new directions for the School\, along with insights from other invited guest speakers. \nRefreshments will be provided. \nNo RSVP required\, open to the public URL:https://sustainability.colostate.edu/event/openhouse_spring2026/ LOCATION:Iris and Michael Smith Alumni Center\, 701 W Pitkin\, Fort Collins\, CO\, 80521\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Laura Shaver":MAILTO:laura.shaver@colostate.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR