Local Events for the Earth - 2026
These events are hosted by local groups in coordination with Earth Day Durango.
Events will continue to be added throughout the year.
Keep checking back!
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Want to reduce plastic? WeFill is where you can fill up your own containers with eco-friendly products like body creams and laundry detergent. For the month of April, WeFill is offering a 10 percent discount to any new customers.
https://www.downtowndurango.org/biz/wefill
Please pay with CASH if you can. That's a big help to local businesses.
Announcing South San Juan Broads Wild Wednesdays!
Starting tomorrow, April 1, at 4:00, no foolin'
11th Street Station, 1101 Main Ave, Durango
Join us for a monthly happy hour to unwind, make new friends, connect with old friends, and hear what the local Broadband has in the hopper!
Recurring the first Wednesday of the month, at 4:00 at 11th Street Station.
“Gathering the Bones”
features local luminary Mary Ellen Long and emerging artist Sarah Lemcke in an ethereal exhibition of handmade paper, collage, and found natural materials.
Together, they “gather the bones” of slow hand-made processes, ritual, abandoned nests, and fragments of being and bring new life to them through reverence for the ephemeral, wild, and ancient.
“Ten Commandments for Planet Earth”
Interactive workshop on environmental ethics
Presenter: Dick White, sustainability and climate protection advocate
Former astronomy professor, City Councilor and Mayor of Durango
Date: Saturday, April 4
Time: 1 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Place: R Space
734 E. 2nd Avenue, Durango
Cost: Free
Limited seating
To register, contact dick@EnduringGreenGlobe.com
Description:
Participants will discuss each of the ecological ten commandments, which parallel the biblical Old Testament versions. We will continue to consider two ecological commandments (Love Earth and Love One Another) that mandate environmental and social sustainability, and how they also lead to economic sustainability. The workshop will conclude with brainstorming about actions we can take to advance sustainability in our world.
Although the Ten Commandments framework draws on cultural familiarity with the biblical version, the formulation emerges from consideration of the ethical role of humans in a mysterious evolving universe. This perspective is consistent with but does not require religious belief.
4CORE is organizing a local energy forum with Will Toor from Colorado Energy Office on the 7th.
Join us for the Green Business Roundtable on April 8th, featuring Will Toor, Executive Director of the Colorado Energy Office. Will has spent decades working on energy and climate policy in Colorado, helping lead statewide efforts to advance clean energy, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and support resilient local economies.
Register: https://www.sanjuancitizens.org/events/green-business-roundtable
Looking for a costume for the Earth Day Parade?
Act for the Earth! Join us for a FREE, fun, hands-on mask-making workshop where kids and families turn up-cycled and recycled materials into colorful masks inspired by the Earth, animals, and nature!
- Cardboard, paper scaps & clean packaging
- Earth-, animal-, & nature-themed masks
- Easy, kid-friendly projects
- A creative way to learn how to care for our planet
Perfect for Earth Day and all ages. No experience needed, just imagination!
Impact Center (next to Durango High School)
April 11, 9-noon
For the Birds Heartwood 2pm Sat April 11 – Heartwood tour at 1pm (CCL event)
Repair Café
Sunday, April 12. 10am - 2pm.
Where: Durango Tool Library, 278 Sawyer Drive, Unit 4. (Please park across the street at the Juniper School)
Don't despair, repair! Bring your wobbly chairs, tattered shirts, shattered phone screens, malfunctioning bicycles, torn stuffed animals, and toasters on-the-blink to the Repair Café. A crew of volunteers will be on-hand to help you diagnose and fix your things.
Volunteers will help you troubleshoot your broken thing, and provide a prescription for how it can be repaired. When possible, volunteers will help you make on-site, real-time repairs—and send you home with a fixed thing. For other repairs, like those that require specialized replacement parts, the prescription will guide you through what's needed to repair the item.
There is no fee for participating in this event, but you can make a donation if you partake in coffee, breakfast treats, lunch-ish or cold tasty beverages. It is a repair "café" after all! Come enjoy a refreshment while repairing and learning.
By connecting people who know how to repair with people who have things that need repair, we can ensure more things are fixed and used, instead of discarded and replaced.
How to participate:
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To attend and help get your things fixed: No sign up required. No fees to participate. Come on Sunday, April 12th and bring one thing to be repaired. First come first served.
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To volunteer and help fix things: Volunteers are needed to staff repair stations and greet participants. Free coffee, lunch, and cold beverages! If you are interested in helping, please sign up here
For more information, visit: https://www.
The Environmental Center Presents: Earth Week 2026
Monday, April 13 – Wednesday, April 22, 2026
Join the Environmental Center during Earth Week 2026 as we host and participate in a
abundance of events. While every day is Earth Day here at the Environmental Center,
we are excited to promote a full 10 days of opportunities that YOU can connect with the
EC, take collective action for sustainability across the Durango community, and have
some fun while you’re at it.
All Week:
Earth Week Bingo- Grab your bingo card from the EC (Student Union 145) and
complete for a chance to win a prize! You can complete the bingo card by
participating in Earth Day activities with the EC, Grub Hub, and Durango’s Earth
Day event.
Earth Week Radio Hour Jules Gavin will be celebrating all week on the radio!
Tune into KDUR (91.9 /93.9) at 3 PM on Friday 4/10, Monday 4/20, and 5 pm on
Wednesday 4/22.
Daily Calendar:
Monday, April 13 th
Tree Planting (Part 1) Prep: 10:00AM-1:00PM, FLC Clocktower
Join the EC Tree Campus team as we prepare (dig holes!) for planting trees on
campus!
Tuesday, April 14 th
Outdoor Giant Free Store: 12:00PM-3PM, Student Union Plaza
The Free Store is pulling out all the stops and hosting a GIANT Free Store! This
will be the final free store of the semester.
Wednesday April 15 th
Tree Planting: 11:00AM-1:00PM, FLC Clocktower
Time to plant the trees! Join for “Part 2” of tree planting and help put the trees in
the ground.
Saturday April 18 th
Community Earth Day: more information at earthdaydurango.com
The Environmental Center will have a booth in Buckley Park and we hope to see
you there!
Parade- 10:30 AM, Train Station to Buckley Park on Main Ave
Celebration- 11 AM- 4 PM, Buckley Park
Monday, April 20th
Reusable Container Decorating Extravaganza: 2:30PM-4:00PM, Grub Hub
Bring your own container and personalize it in the Grub Hub! They’ll have
specialized stickers so you can make your container your own personal
masterpiece. Remember to bring your own (decorated or not) container to get all
your Grub Hub meals and help cut down on waste!
Wednesday, April 22 nd - Earth Day!!
Plant Based Meal in Dining Hall: 11:30 AM-1PM, Student Union Dining Hall
The dining hall will be serving ALL plant-based items for lunch. Don’t worry, this
meal is not only more environmentally conscience, but high in nutrients including
protein.
Mulch and Mushrooms Workshop: 1PM-3PM, Meet at Environmental Center
The EC Growing Spaces team is teaming up with Leafcutter Farm to lead a
workshop on how to grow mushrooms. Meet at the Environmental Center, and
we’ll head over to the campus Food Forest to inoculate woodchips with mushroom
spores.
Earth Day Outdoor Film Fest: 7:30PM-9:00PM, Outdoor Amphitheater
(Near Clocktower)
Our final Earth Day event will be a film fest with the theme “Water in the West.”
We’ll be showing select films from the Tribal Water Media Fellowship and
featuring Oregon Public Broadcasting’s short film “First Descent: Kayaking
the Klamath River After the Largest Dam Removal in US History.”
Event held by SOIL Lab
Giving Circle. 6pm, 11th St Station.
Go to 100fortheEarth.org for more info.
Durango Running Club and is organizing an Earth Day 5K race to raise funds for Compañeros.
Saturday, April 18, 2026
8:30 am race start – over by 9:30 am
Rotary Park and Animas River Trail
Register here: https://runsignup.com/
10:30 Procession of Species Parade on Main
11-3 Celebration in Buckley Park
Click here for the Earth Day schedule.
As part of Earth Day Celebration, 4CORE is hosting a showcase of electric vehicles. 11-3
Join 4CORE at this year's Earth Day celebration and explore electric vehicles up close, talk with local EV owners, and get your questions answered about charging, range, and real-world driving. Learn about Colorado’s growing charging network, compare total cost of ownership between gas and electric vehicles, and learn which EV beats any Jeep at off-roading.
Curious about electric vehicles? Join 4CORE at the Durango Earth Day EV Showcase on April 18 (11 am - 3 pm) at Buckley Park.
Talk directly with local EV owners, explore models like the Chevy Bolt, Volkswagen ID.4, and Kia EV9, and experience actual high-speed charging in a Rivian pickup or Tesla Y.
This is a fundraiser for the Montessori school. (More)
Join us at the Center of Southwest Studies for a special artist talk with Diné photographer, curator, and creative collaborator, Rapheal Begay.
Rapheal is a “visual storyteller” based in Tségháhoodzání (Window Rock, Arizona), who uses cultural landscape photography, Indigenous storytelling traditions, and land-based knowledge to inform his creative practice, and to preserve memory and understanding found within the Diné way of life.
Rapheal will share about his professional approach that have created successful include ALL REZ: Kéyah, Hooghan, K’é, Iiná | Land, Home, Kinship, Life(The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico and Axle Contemporary), the first traveling site-specific photography exhibition across the Navajo Nation. He was also co-curator of the highly acclaimed exhibition Horizons: Weaving Between the Lines with Diné Textiles (Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, 2023–2025). Named as one of 12 New Mexico Artists to Know in 2020 by Southwest Contemporary,Rapheal is also the recipient of the 2021-22 Goodman Aspiring Artist Fellowship from the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture. He holds a BFA in Photography with a minor in Arts Management and a Certificate in Museum Studies from the University of New Mexico.
More: https://swcenter.fortlewis.
This artist talk is connected to our yearlong series of programming under the “Power of Place” initiative, made possible with generous support from the Belonging Colorado initiative of The Denver Foundation and the Greater Good Science Center.
FLC film fest theme "Water in the West." Some films from the Tribal Water Media Fellowship, main film First Descent: Kayaking the Klamath River After the Largest Dam Removal in U.S. History. FLC outdoor amphitheater at 7:30 PM on April 22nd.
Website (this event will be posted next week): https://swcenter.fortlewis.
Regional Energy Forum
Join us for an engaging evening and learn about our energy transition and how regional utilities are working together to maintain reliable, affordable power. Speakers will explore reliability, regional collaboration, and the evolving power landscape.
Date: April 23, 2026
Time:
- Doors: 5:30 PM
- Program: 6:00 - 7:30 PM
Location: Durango Arts Center, 802 E 2nd Ave, Durango, CO
Tickets: $5 Donation to the Round Up Foundation
Agenda:
- 5:30 - 6:00 | Doors & Open Reception
- 6:00 - 6:10 | Welcome: Why This Moment Matters - Chris Hansen
- 6:10 - 6:30 | Moderated Conversation - Lineworker Panel
- 6:30 - 7:15 | Regional Energy Leaders Panel
- Moderator - Chris Hansen
- Panelists
- Hank Adair — Farmington Electric Utility System
- Jack Johnston — Delta-Montrose Electric Association
- Luis Reyes Jr. — Kit Carson Electric Cooperative
- 7:15 - 7:30 | Round Up Foundation Recognition + Closing Remarks
https://lpea.coop/events/RegionalEnergyForum
The Second Saturday Seminar Series will move to the fourth Saturday in April. Dr. Andrew Gulliford will be joining us for a talk on "Public Lands Patriotism: 150 Years of Colorado's Federal Public Lands" at 1pm on Saturday, April 25th. There is no charge for this presentation which will be recorded. Join us either live at the Museum or on Zoom. Register for a Zoom link here.
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