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Earth Month 2023

Happy Earth Month! Whether you're interested in learning how to get started with worm composting, how to electrify your home, reduce wasted food, or build healthy soil, there's a way to celebrate for everyone! Try a StopWaste tip any day throughout the month, or join your neighbors in community for an Earth Month workshop or event. This year StopWaste is spotlighting city and community partner events to take action and work together towards a more resilient environment.

Explore all the events and resources, and be sure to check back frequently as we continue to add to the full calendar. Curious about what activities your city is hosting? Check out links to your city's website below for more.


Ways to Celebrate Earth Month

Make Every Carrot Count

Reducing wasted food is one of the leading solutions to climate change. Taking care and making the most of our food are important acts of environmental stewardship, honoring all of the resources and labor that went into getting it to us. Learn more ways to plan, store, and prepare food to save money and benefit our planet.

Get Kitchen Tips and Tricks

Build Healthy Soil

Use compost to feed your garden and build healthy soil! Applying just 1-2 inches of compost to your soil will help your soil retain moisture, improve its structure, and help your plants access nutrients. Compost also helps healthy gardens sequester carbon in your soil and plants, reducing your climate impact.

  Get Free Compost Make Compost Level Up Your Gardening Skills

Conserve Energy in Your Home

All-electric homes are climate-friendly homes. Did you know you can receive thousands of dollars in rebates from BayREN for energy efficiency improvements to weatherize your home, improve comfort, and save energy? Learn all about the offers available to you.

Claim Your Rebate

Celebrate with the Entire Family

4Rs Action Heroes, assemble! Join youth and families across Alameda County in sharing your stories of action and community that represent how you are part of the (Re)Generation - an intergenerational collective identity for people committed to building a regenerative earth.

Share Your Story

Think Green While You Spring Clean

Your unwanted stuff might be someone else’s treasure. Lessen the stress on the environment and visit the RE:Source guide for alternative solutions like reuse, repair, recycling, and safe disposal options for everything from electronics and clothes to furniture and bicycles.

Explore the Guide


Calendar of Events

 

Saturday, April 1

12:30 pm - 3:30 pm: StopWaste Schools Open House

Join the StopWaste Team at the Davis Street Transfer Station for a day of fun and engaging activities! Explore the journey of waste and take a tour of the garbage pit - the place where all the garbage goes before heading to the landfill. We will also have hands-on action project activity tables to help spark your own ideas for Earth Day actions. Families and children are welcome, but only children 9 years old and up may participate in the walking tour.  

Saturday, April 15

10 am - 3 pm: Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour and Green Home Features Showcase

Learn about the must-have plants for your garden, how to create a pollinator pathway, how to garden for birds, butterflies and bees, which native street trees you might want in front of your home, and more in a series of live garden tours and talks. In addition, tour a Bay Area home with solar panels, a heat pump for heating and cooling the house, an induction range, and more to learn about electrification. 

11 am - 2 pm: San Leandro Family Earth Day Festival

This family-friendly event will feature interactive booths where families can learn about the local watershed, urban reforestation, native-plant gardening, and more. In addition, there will be plenty of engaging, hands-on activities like "seed bomb" making, reusable tote decorating, mural painting, a used toy exchange at the “Buy Nothing Toy Swap".

12 pm - 3 pm: Alameda's Spring Shindig

Celebrate spring with games, crafts, jumpers, music, community vendors,  food and much more!

Sunday, April 16

10 am - 3 pm: Bringing Back the Natives

Learn about the must-have plants for your garden, how to create a pollinator pathway, how to garden for birds, butterflies and bees, which native street trees you might want in front of your home, and more in a series of live garden tours and talks.

10 am - 5 pm: Stroll-ish Spring

Take a stroll down Solano Avenue and enjoy live music and entertainment! Get your face painted, support local vendors, and groove to the music. 

Saturday, April 22

8:30 am - 1 pm: Annual Earth Day Citywide Clean-Up and Community Fair

Come together to collect litter and abandoned debris in various neighborhoods throughout the City of Hayward. After the Clean-Up, visit the Earth Day themed Community Fair at the park for fun activities. Free lunch will be provided to volunteers who register via Eventbrite.

12 pm - 2 pm: Composting 101

Join Farm2Market and guest speaker, CompostGal, Lori Cadwell, to learn all about composting, including how to compost, the benefits, and trouble shooting of composting. Great for all levels of experience.

8 am - 12 pm: Compost Giveaway

Dublin residents can take home one bag of FREE compost at the annual Compost Giveaway event at Emerald Glen hosted by Amador Valley Industries. The compost is made from Dublin residents’ yard trimmings and foods scraps. This is a great way to see how Dublin’s food waste journey is circular and directly benefits the community! Dublin residents only*

9 am - 12 pm: CVSan Earth Day

Join your friends and neighbors to beautify and clean up Castro Valley. Volunteer to pick up litter, plant trees and native plants, spread mulch, pulled weeds, and more.

8 am - 12 pm: Dublin Pride Volunteer Day

Join in this annual event that provides a variety of volunteer opportunities for the community to give back to their city. All volunteers are required to register and sign a volunteer waiver.

11 am - 3 pm: Fremont Earth Day

Join for a day to celebrate Earth Day and increase environmental awareness in the community. Activities will include a Bicycle Fix-a-Flat Workshop, Earth Day art, medication take-back, free confidential document shredding, learning about gardening and composting, and more!

2 pm - 5 pm: Home Electrification Fair

Are you thinking about switching from gas to electric? There are plenty of good reasons to make the switch: healthy, safety, long-term saving, and of course climate. Attend the fair to get any and all questions answered about the benefits, energy-saving tips, where to find trusted contractors, available rebates and tax credits, and more!

8 am - 12 pm: Livermore Compost Giveaway Day!

Pick up two free bags of compost, and enjoy the fruits of your labor! When you place food scraps, food-soiled paper, and yard trimmings inside your organics cart, it gets processed into rich compost that builds healthy soil. * Livermore residents only.

9 am - 1 pm: Oakland Earth Day

Get outside to celebrate Earth Day with neighborhood clean-ups of streets, sidewalks, schools, parks, and along creeks and other waterways. Volunteer registration opens on April 1st; individuals and small groups are encouraged, but not required, to RSVP.

8 am - 12 pm: Piedmont Free Compost Giveaway

Pick up one cubic yard of compost while supplies last. Bring your own shovel, gloves, and container(s), to pick up compost. Volunteers will be on deck to help you bag and load the compost into your vehicle. * Piedmont residents only.

Sunday, April 23

9 am - 12 pm: Earth Day Shoreline Cleanup

Have fun with family, friends and neighbors, cleaning up the beach! Come to the Earth Day Shoreline Clean Up at Shorebird Park in Emeryville any time from 9 a.m. to noon. If you have them, bring collection buckets and/or bags, garden claw, reusable water bottle, and coffee mug. Wear layers, sunscreen, hat, and work gloves. Additional tools will be available for use until supplies run out.

Saturday, April 29

1 pm - 3 pm: Gardening for Renters

This class can help you navigate small spaces so you can garden! Topics will include: container and indoor gardening, working with your landlord, free/low cost resources, reuse options, and maintaining your garden.

Saturday, May 6

10 am - 5 pm: Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour and Green Home Features Showcase

Visit more than fifty beautiful, water-conserving native plant gardens. All of the homes have native plant gardens; more than a dozen will be sharing their green home features, such as solar panels and batteries, induction ranges, heat pumps, and more. Learn how to design a native plant garden, lower your water bills, garden without using pesticides, and electrification. 

Sunday, May 7

10 am - 5 pm: Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour and Green Home Features Showcase

Visit more than fifty beautiful, water-conserving native plant gardens. All of the homes have native plant gardens; more than a dozen will be sharing their green home features, such as solar panels and batteries, induction ranges, heat pumps, and more. Learn how to design a native plant garden, lower your water bills, garden without using pesticides, and electrification. 


City Websites & Activities 


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