Events

A practical capital playbook for mountain towns ready to move past the funding wish list.

Mountain communities have already done the hard work of figuring out what climate solutions work. The harder question is how to pay for them — with lean staff, seasonal revenue, high infrastructure costs, and intense competition for limited grant funds.

Join Council Fire, a global sustainability consultancy and award-winning B Corp led by a team with decades of experience in climate resilience and grant funding for public-sector clients, for a 45-minute session followed by live Q&A. We'll cover how to stack public and private capital, and how revenue tools like value capture, resilience fees, special assessment districts, bonds, and tourism-linked mechanisms can fund deployment year over year. We'll also touch on regional collaboration and structuring projects to attract investment, and preview a resilience-portfolio tool we've built for municipal clients that tracks and matches projects against funding sources.

You'll leave with financing approaches matched to mountain-town realities, and a clearer sense of where to start.

What we'll cover:

• The mountain-town financing gap, and why standard playbooks don't fit

• Stacking revenue & financing mechanisms
• Regional collaboration to attract investment
• A look at our resilience-funding planning and tracking tool

• Live Q&A

Presented by Kristen Keene, Holly Fowler, and George Chmael II, Council Fire —  August 12, 11:00a-12:00p MT

Mountain Towns 2030 is hosting a discussion featuring local leaders sharing their experiences in elected office. You'll hear why they decided to run, how campaigns are structured, the challenges and rewards of the role, and why more community-minded leaders are needed in mountain towns today.

This webinar also introduces the MT2030 Local Leaders Project — an initiative designed to recruit, connect, and support the next generation of local elected officials committed to building more resilient, sustainable communities, launching in 2027.

Hosted by Chris Steinkamp, Mountain Towns 2030 Executive Director.

3rd Annual National Sustainability Society Conference. Local governments are on the frontlines of climate action and are expected to advance ambitious sustainability goals across climate mitigation, resilience, waste reduction, and energy systems.

We're honored to be part of the Boulder premiere of "The Casual Enormity of Adam Palmer," celebrating the life and impact of an amazing person who created robust and visionary change for his community of Eagle, Colorado. It's a remarkable story highlighting the power of teamwork, leadership, and hope.

Please join us on August 5th @ 7:00 pm at the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder for the film premiere followed by a panel conversation with MT2030's ED Chris Steinkamp, Will Toor, ED at the Colorado Energy Office, and Elise Jones, ED at the Southwest Energy Efficiency Project (SWEEP) Project.

The Mountain Wildfire Action Series Presented by Tahoe Fund, Fire Aside and Mountain Towns 2030. Webinar #3: The Role of Ski Resorts & Utilities — Ski resorts and utility providers play a critical role in protecting mountain landscapes, infrastructure, and communities from growing wildfire risk.

The Mountain Wildfire Action Series Presented by Tahoe Fund, Fire Aside and Mountain Towns 2030. Webinar #2: Innovation & Policy Solutions in Mountain Towns — Mountain communities across the West are developing innovative approaches to wildfire resilience through policy, funding, partnerships, and on-the-ground action.

A forum focused on Wood River Valley cross-community alignment on climate resiliency and regional collaboration.

Designing high-performance, low-carbon buildings takes more than great architecture. This webinar explores how collaboration across disciplines drives sustainable building outcomes.

A case study featuring Paul Bony (Western Resilience Center) and Michael Goodrum (NORESCO) on developing a community-wide building electrification and decarbonization plan.