Volunteer Opportunities and Events in and around Boulder, Colorado
Your home for Zero Waste volunteer opportunities and environmental events throughout Boulder County! Learn more about our volunteer program—the Eco-Leader Volunteer Network—here!
Calling all Eco-Leaders!
Looking for fun ways to get involved in the Zero Waste movement? Read on to find the latest and greatest volunteer events, webinars, and sign-ups for local opportunities to take action with Eco-Cycle and other community partners! Not an Eco-Leader yet? Before you sign up, join our network of about 1,000 volunteers.
Eco-Leader Events
Learn from repair experts at a free DIY repair clinic in Boulder, Colorado!
Boulder U-Fix-It DIY Repair Clinic
Lamp Repair Workshop
Lafayette’s 2025 Earth Day, Every Day Celebration
Bob Burger Recreation Center parking lot
111 W. Baseline, Lafayette
U-Fix-It Clinics are community events where people bring all sorts of broken appliances, toys, electronics, clothing, and jewelry and work with volunteer coaches to learn hands-on repair skills. Not only does this save resources from the landfill, but it also empowers us to repair our own belongings and builds community around the role of reuse in a circular economy! Eco-Cycle is proud to be a supporter of this impactful, feel-good event.
Register below for your slot, and bring that item you haven’t thrown out but don’t know how to fix!
2025 Boulder Permaculture Design Course Begins in April
Special offer ends soon—$100 off tuition
Are you looking to deepen your skills as an earth tender, get your hands dirty, and have a lot of fun? Are you looking for a community of people focused on positive solutions for creating a joyful, abundant life and resilient future? Our friends at Boulder Permaculture are running this Permaculture Design Course and it’s starting soon!
Permaculture is a landscape design methodology for tending the earth, growing food, building community, and adapting to climate change. Participants meet one weekend per month, April through October, at beautiful farms and gardens across Boulder County. Topics include ecological design, growing food, natural building, raising animals, mushroom cultivation, food forests, rain water harvesting, and more! Scholarships and group discounts are available. Questions? Email [email protected]. Learn more and register at boulderpdc.com.
Boulder County Earth Day Celebrations
Boulder County is a great place to celebrate Earth Day! Community events are taking place April 19 and 26 this year, and we’d love to see you there.
Saturday, April 19
Annual Longmont Earth Day Celebration
10:00 am–2:00 pm
Timberline PK–8 School, 233 East Mountain View Avenue, Longmont
Broomfield Earth Day Celebration & Seed Swap
10:00 am–12:00 pm
Broomfield Library, 3 Community Park Road, Broomfield
Saturday, April 26
Erie Arbor Day/Earth Day Celebration
10:00 am–1:00 pm
Erie Community Park, 450 Powers Street, Erie
Lafayette Earth Day Every Day Celebration
10:00 am–2:00 pm
105 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette
Thursday, May 1
Gunbarrel Community Climate Event
4:30 pm–6:30 pm
7750 Concord Drive, Boulder
Volunteer Opportunities
Sign up to table with us at Community Earth Month events!
Events take place during weekends in April.
Earth Day (April 22) is so action-packed around here that we call April Earth Month—we’re busy all month long! While it’s amazing that our community can’t get enough of celebrating our planet, we need some help to represent Eco-Cycle at all these fun events. As a tabler, you’ll get an Eco-Cycle shirt and be accompanied by a staffer, and you’ll spend your shift playing a sorting game with the event attendees and distributing resources. Signing up here lets us know you are interested in tabling with us, and we will reach out with more information as community events are scheduled!
Volunteer with Eco-Cycle at Hard-to-Recycle events
The Eco-Cycle CHaRM facility is an amazing community resource, and during Earth Month (and August) we take it on the road to communities in and around Boulder County to divert electronics from landfills and recycle them! This will be an outdoor volunteer opportunity, and volunteers will be asked to stand for most of the shift, lift items like monitors when needed, and help sort electronics collected from vehicles.
Volunteer for Urban Forestry
May 3 and 4, 2025
Communities must prepare for climatic extremes. The shade and evaporative cooling provided by trees and other plants will be an increasingly critical part of keeping communities safe and livable for humans and our ecological communities (like pollinators). That’s why the City of Boulder, in collaboration with local partners like Eco-Cycle, has initiated Cool Boulder, a nature-based climate solutions campaign uniting community members to forge a resilient climate future.
Last fall, we planted over 85 native trees and shrubs in our community, and we’re expanding our efforts this spring! We are seeking volunteers to deliver trees and shrubs, help program participants plant, and spread the word. These volunteer opportunities will take place on May 3 and 4, 2025, with some April dates depending on volunteer role.
We’re also looking for participants in our three pilot neighborhoods. If you live near Fairview (South Boulder), Crestview (Wonderland Lake area), or BCSIS (East Boulder), please check out our interest form.
Boulder Volunteer Opportunity: Be a volunteer CHaRM lane attendant!
At the Eco-Cycle Center for Hard-to-Recycle Materials (CHaRM) in Boulder, volunteers are essential. Learn how you can engage recycling customers about Zero Waste and related environmental issues, and help prevent “contamination” (non-recyclable items) from being mistakenly dropped off.
If you’ve already attended a Saturday orientation, sign up here for your next shift! Please email [email protected] with any questions.
NEW CHARM LANE VOLUNTEERS: Please sign up for a Saturday orientation BEFORE signing up for a volunteer slot! Once you have attended an orientation and received volunteer training, we gratefully welcome you to sign up for any of the volunteer slots that fit your schedule. Training is offered the first Saturday of most months. The next training is May 3, 2025, from 10:00 am–12:00 pm.
Volunteer at the U-Fix-It Clinic
Help check folks in at the clinic, and match them with their volunteer coach. If you have repair skills, you can also sign up as a volunteer coach! Please email [email protected] for more info.
