Hello all,
Just in case some of you missed it, I wanted to ensure you all were familiar with Summit for Action happening again this year October 1-2. It will include a virtual session the first day on 10/1, and an in-person session all-day on Friday 10/2 at the Denver Zoo. Here is the full invitation from Parker McMullen-Bushman:
What is the Environmental Future You Want?
In a time of escalating environmental harm, political backlash, and deep uncertainty, our communities are being called to do more than respond to crisis. We are being called to hold the line. This year’s E.C.O.R. Summit for Action, Holding the Line: Protecting People, Place, and Planet, invites participants to gather in defense of the futures our communities deserve. As environmental protections are weakened, public resources are stripped away, and communities already carrying the greatest burdens are asked to survive even more, we know that our work must be rooted in courage, imagination, collective care, and local action.
Don’t forget to register for Equity in Conservation and Outdoor Recreation (E.C.O.R.) Summit for Action Annual Convening: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/2026-summit-for-action
The 2026 Summit will create space for community members, practitioners, organizers, educators, policymakers, and public and private leaders to explore how environmental justice, racial justice, disability justice, trans liberation, land protection, and community survival are deeply connected.
Together, we will examine the systems that are failing our people and our planet, while also asking a more powerful question: What future are we building in their place?
This year’s gathering will move beyond traditional panels and presentations into a more interactive, collaborative, and action-oriented format. Participants will engage in futurist thinking, strategic foresight, mutual aid conversations, and community-based planning. Through facilitated workshops and local gatherings, attendees will identify the signals of change already emerging in their communities, imagine preferred futures rooted in repair and justice, and develop practical steps they can take within their organizations, neighborhoods, and networks. Our goal is not simply to name what is wrong. Our goal is to help people leave with stronger relationships, clearer strategies, and a deeper belief in their own power to protect people, place, and planet.
The Summit will include a virtual national gathering, opportunities for regional in-person connection in Denver, and tools that support participants in continuing these conversations locally. We believe meaningful change begins at the community level and ripples outward. When environmental groups, Indigenous communities, Black and Brown leaders, queer and trans organizers, community-based organizations, policymakers, researchers, and everyday people come together, we create the foundation for the just and sustainable future we have always deserved.
2026 Sliding Scale Registration
Summit for Action using a sliding scale registration model this year. Rooted in economic justice, access, and community responsibility., this model asks each participant to choose the ticket level that best reflects their current financial reality, access to resources, and/or organizational support. Please choose honestly and thoughtfully. Selecting a lower-cost ticket when you have the ability or institutional support to pay more limits our ability to offer scholarships, compensate speakers and facilitators, provide food and materials, and keep Summit for Action accessible to people and communities with fewer resources. If your employer or organization is paying for your registration, please select the highest level your organization can reasonably afford. This includes nonprofit organizations. We know many nonprofits have limited budgets, but we also ask organizations not to use the lowest tiers simply as a cost-saving measure if they have professional development, training, conference, or program funds available. If you are registering as an individual, please consider your income, savings, debt, housing stability, healthcare access, caregiving responsibilities, expendable income, access to family/community financial support, and whether paying more would create real hardship.
Scholarships are available for people for whom cost is a barrier.
Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!
| Jordan Williams (he/him) Colorado Regional Representative Continental Divide Trail Coalition (360) 244-9249 jwilliams 710 10th Street, Suite 200, Golden, CO 80401 |
Working to complete, protect, and elevate the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail.
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