Earth Celebration Events 2009

Partner Events

California Academy of Science April 18-19 Kick Off plus more Earth Day Events
Timely programs, rich exhibits, and a parkland setting make the California Academy of Sciences the ultimate place to celebrate Earth Day, and get up close and personal with the planet we call home. In April, the Academy will host a variety of talks and activities to celebrate Earth Day, including a Sustainability Fair, a brand new series of naturalist-led tours of Golden Gate Park, and hands-on science activities.

East Bay Regional Parks April 25
MLK Shoreline Restoration Project
Enjoy sweeping bay views as we clean up the shoreline and plant native shrubs along Damon Slough and Marsh Trail at Martin Luther King, Jr., Regional Shoreline Park in Oakland on Saturday, April 25, 9 a.m. to noon. All ages are welcome.

Diablo Foothills Park Cleanup Project
Enjoy outstanding views of Mt. Diablo as we clean up Diablo Foothills Regional Park in Walnut Creek by removing old barbed wire fencing to clear the wilderness area of a safety hazard. Teens and adults are welcome. The event is held Saturday, April 25, from 9 a.m. until noon. To register and to get directions to the cleanup site, contact Park Supervisor Sharon Saffas at (925) 945-8244 or email ssaffas@ebparks.org.

Girl Scouts: Earth Day at Trees of Mystery
April 18, 10am-3pm
Celebrate Earth Day at the spectacular Trees of Mystery. Activities will include the Trees of Mystery Trail Exploration, the Sky Trail Gondola (see the amazing forest canopy suspended from above) and completion of the Trees of Mystery patch program. Girls will also have a chance to tour the Native American Museum. The Soroptimist groups of Humboldt area will provide Earth Day activity booths. Please Note: Bring a sack lunch, comfy closed toed shoes and a bag to carry any items. Gift shop will be open. Cost includes: park admission, snack, bottled water and all activities!

Visit www.treesofmystery.net for a list of activities and accommodations in the area. Location: Trees of Mystery, Klamath Open to: Girls Grades K-12 Cost: $8 per girl, $10 per adult Download: Choices 2008-2009 Registration Form (English)

Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy: Earth Stroll Crissy Field Center, Presidio
Saturday, April 18, 10am - 3 pm
An Earth Day Extravaganza for the Whole Family. Get out and get active this Earth Day! Bring the whole family on a fun, interactive fitness walk around Crissy Field. Play eco-games, visit with live animals, and test your environmental knowledge at the many activity stations designed to help you make strides for a healthy planet and a healthy you. Cost: $8 for an all-activity passport.

Oakland Zoo: Earth Day 2009
Sunday, April 19, 2009
This year's Bring the whole family out to the Oakland Zoo from 10am - 3pm for Earth Day 2009 Festivities! This year, the theme is "We're All Connected." All of the world is connected in a beautiful web of life, including you! Join the Oakland Zoo and many Bay Area environmental organizations as we explore our delicate connections.

The 4: Earth Science Week
April 18-24, 10am-5pm
Join The Tech Museum for their week long Earth Day celebration. The tech's galleries will be full of amazing earth science information from Green Tech to earthquakes, oceans and lots more! Investigate how water moves over the earth's surface at View from Space or learn how sand is transformed into a silicon chip. Use our specially-created bookmark and take the Earth Science self-guided tour. Includes Take Science Home ideas!

Other Events

Marin Releaf : Citizens for Sustainable Urban Forestry
Friday, April 17
Plant a Tree Rescue a Forest Earth Day Event
We will travel by carpool on Friday, April 17 from the Bay Area to Placerville. Food and lodging is on your own. Some groups take advantage of local campgrounds. Early Saturday we meet the rangers at the nursery. All of the supplies and equipment will be waiting for us. We will work for six hours. After which many individuals return to their lodging and rest. Later, we will meet for dinner at a local restaurant. The rangers may ask us to return again on Sunday. This is optional. Register online by April 1st. Students: $20 with proof of status. Adults: $35.Orientation is Wednesday, April 15.

Alameda's Earth Day Festival
Saturday, April 25, 10am-3pm
Washington Park ( Central Ave and 8th st, Alameda Ca)
Come celebrate with us at Alameda's Earth Day Festival! Enjoy FREE activities for the kids, Earth Day games and exhibits and learn about building a clean, healthy, sustainable world for generations to come.

Earth Day 2009 Restoration & Cleanup
Saturday, April 25, 2009 (exact locations not yet posted)
Statewide, thousands of volunteers plant trees, restore trails and wildlife habitat, and clean up beaches and park lands. Millions of others learn about simple things that can be done every day to protect our precious natural resources.

Junior Center of Art and Science Earth Day Celebration (PDF)
Saturday, April 18, 11am - 2pm
Celebrate the Earth with a fun-filled day of science and art activities designed to share information about how to live more harmoniously with nature. Learn about the wildlife rescue work of the dedicated individuals from Yggdrasil Urban Wildlife Rescue (www.yuwr.org) as you meet some of the baby animals currently in their care. $3 per person (in advance) $5 per person (day of event) Children under 2 free.

Electronic Waste Management Drop-Off Event:
Saturday, April 18-19 TBD
City of Pleasanton E Waste Information
Recycle TV's, fax machines, monitors, printers, cell phones, computers,video games, vcr's, dvd's, telephones, and more. NO: Household appliances, furniture, florescent bulbs, or paint. Alameda County Fair Grounds, Pleasanton,CA

Berkeley's Annual Earth Day Celebration
Saturday, April 25, noon-5pm
Earth Day & Eco-Motion Parade & Festival
Event will be held in Downtown in Civic Center Park, will combine cultural performances and speakers on a wide range of environmental issues.

Habitat for Humanity East Bay 2009 Earth Day Build-A-Thon Event
Saturday, April 18, 2009 - Tuesday, April 21, 2009 7:30am-4:30pm
The Earth Day Build-A-Thon is Habitat East Bay's celebration of green building. We build green to take better care of our environment, our partner families, and our volunteers. Our Build-A-Thon is an accelerated build. While it would typically take several months to completely frame 20 homes, we will aim to do just that in only four days! To accomplish such a tremendous feat requires the participation of hundreds of community supporters. The homes we will build will continue to transform a former truck dismantling yard in East Oakland into a healthy community for 54 deserving families. Join us to completely frame 20 homes during four monumental days. This event will be held at Edes Avenue near 105th Avenue, Oakland 94603

Nature in the City: McLaren Park Earth Day Event
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 noon
Calendar link not yet available http://natureinthecity.org/index.php
Event Location:
McLaren Park
40 John Shelley Drive
San Francisco, CA 94134

San Francisco Zoo: Party for the Planet Earth Day Event
Saturday, April 18 10am-3pm
This fun and informative celebration of Earth Day is aimed at educating and entertaining Bay Area families on green, sustainable living solutions inside and outside of the Zoo and incorporates everything you love about the Zoo animals. A variety of local, earth-friendly companies and services are showcased as well as music and puppet performances with "green-themes" that the whole family can enjoy! See how the Zoo is maintaining a green commitment to the animals and to the environment.

San Fransisco Center for the Book: Earth Day Extravaganza
Wednesday, April 22, 1pm-5pm
Letterpress print and bind an Earth Day journal, create collograph prints using natural materials, and print clever postcards to send to your elected representatives. Join us for this family-friendly open house. This event will be held at the San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA

Earth Day San Rafael
Saturday, April 25, 9am
Website not yet updated http://www.sanrafaelvolunteers.org/Home%20Page.htm
At Pickleweed Park, San Rafael, CA Learn about the environment, enjoy some music and food, volunteer for a cleanup and celebrate Life on Earth in a multi-lingual environment. Starts at 9am at Pickleweed Park, next to SF Bay, in San Rafael.

Yerba Buena Childrens Garden: Children's Interactive Garden Lecture Series
Wednesday, April 22 11pm to Thursday, April 23, 1pm
Ladybug Days (earth day) A week of ladybug oriented crafts, stories and explorations leading up to the day giant (70,000+)lady bug release for on Earth Day Weekend. no info http://www.ybgf.org/

Diggin' La Vida Local: Full Circle Farm's Second Annual Earth Day Celebration
Sunday, April 19 10am-2pm
At Full Circle Farm, Sunnyvale, CA
Tired of the crazy life? Try out the local life instead! C'mon down to the farm and celebrate Earth Day with us. Full Circle Farm is an educational, nonprofit 11-acre farm.

Napa Valley College: Earth Day Solar Celebration
Saturday, April 25 10am-2pm at Napa Valley College, Napa, CA
College solar project showcased. You are invited. Please mark your calendar! The Napa community Earth Day celebration will be held at Napa Valley College from 10am to 2pm April 25 in conjunction with the college's fourth annual Solar Celebration. When constructed, the Napa Valley College solar field was the fifth largest in the United States.

The Marin History Museum Earth Day Event:"Growing The Future:"Farming Families of Marin- Marin History
Monday, April 20, 11am-4pm
Getting 'down to earth' in 2009 with a new exhibition celebrating the history and heritage of farm fresh food cultivated in Marin's fertile lands.

Earth Day Clean-up Fremont
Sunday April 26, 8:30am
Join us for our annual Earth Day Cleanup and help protect wildlife. Bring a hat, sunscreen, and water. We'll supply gloves and trash bags. Be prepared to get dirty! RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED! Space is limited to the first 50 people. For more information, call 408-262-5513.
Nothing posted http://www.fws.gov/desfbay/

Peralta Colleges: Sustainable Peralta Conference
Friday, April 24, 2009 9am-6pm
Day-long program for Peralta students, faculty, administrators, staff... and friends from the community! This event will be located at Laney College R Building. Keynotes by Phil Angelides and Bill Gallegos.

Earth Day Events South Bay

Full Circle Farm earth day event: Diggin' La Vida Local
Sunday April 19, 10am-2pm
Diggin' La Vida Local Full Circle Farm 1055 Dunford
Diggin' La Vida Local is a celebration of all things fun, vibrant, and fiercely local here in Silicon Valley. The festival is free for all, and features local food, local musicians, fun and games for all ages, a raffle, and lots of great information from (you guessed it!) local organizations on how to enjoy the pleasures of a life lived simply and locally. For more information contact: 408-735-8154

Enviromental Resource Center Earth Day Event
Wednesday, April 22, 10am-2pm
Earth Day 2008 had about 50 exhibitors and displays, this year the ERC hopes to do the same and better. Earth Day will be held from 10 am to 2pm in the 7th Street Plaza on Campus at San Jose State and will include a plethora of sustainable businesses, organizations, non-profits, and government agencies who all want to show off their amazing achievements.

Earth Day Cleanup Ravenswood Point, East Palo Alto
Saturday, April 18, 8:30am-11:30am
Join us for our annual Earth Day Cleanup and help protect wildlife. This year, it will be held on the west side of the Dumbarton Bridge in East Palo Alto. Bring a hat, sunscreen, and water. We'll supply gloves and trash bags. Be prepared to get dirty! RESERVATIONS REQUIRED. Space is limited to the first 50 people. Minors must be accompanied by an adult. For reservations, call 408-262-5513 ext.106.

Earth Day Community Service Environmental Education Center, Alviso
Saturday April 18, 10:30am-12:30pm
Find out what you can do at home to take care of our planet. Come lend a hand in our chemical-free native plant garden by removing non-native plants, pruning, mulching, or various other jobs that help protect wildlife and clean up our gardens. Great service project for scout groups, high school students needing community service hours, church groups, or home-schooled groups. Bring your own gloves or borrow a pair of ours. Tools provided. Dress in layers and bring water. Be prepared to get dirty and wet. Ages 9 and up. Participants under 18 must be accompanied by a chaperone. RESERVATIONS REQUIRED. Call Lindy at 408-262-5513 ext. 102.