Events

Join MCE at the 2025 Because of Youth Festival for an unforgettable experience! This event brings together young changemakers like you for a day of inspiration, connection, and hands-on learning.

Why attend?

• Connect with inspiring young leaders and

See Your Neighbors’ Native Plant Gardens and Electrified Homes!

Join the free Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour and Green Home Features Showcase on-line event on April 5 & 6 from 10 am-3 pm to see beautiful native plant gardens that attract birds

Join Save Mt. Diablo in celebrating Earth Month by giving young trees some love! We will be weeding around and possibly watering oak and California buckeye trees of various ages along Irish Creek. This project is in partnership with the East Contra C

Don't miss the famous Expo and Plant Sale! Rodgers Ranch Heritage Center, historic house, and urban farm is one of Pleasant Hill's best kept secrets.

The Expo features:

• Thousands of Plants: Unique heirloom varieties from the farm; tomatoes, pepper

Join us for a celebration of pollinators and their friends at the Ruth Bancroft Garden! Learn how you can help protect them and their habitats in your own garden and beyond.

This drop-in community day is free to attend in the Plaza and Great Room, wh

Are you ready to create a low-water garden bursting with color? Come bring your ideas and join EBMUD, Master Gardeners of Contra Costa County, and Dave Phelps, Landscape Architect and Garden Educator for a presentation and discussion on simple low wa

East Bay Regional Park District has many ways to celebrate Earth Day. Join them for an Earth Day themed activity like a family art project, take a hike or ride in nature, shop at a native plant sale or volunteer at an Earth Day clean-up event in a pa

Celebrating John Muir’s 187th birthday, the 55th Anniversary of Earth Day and the National Park Service Centennial, plus the 70th Anniversary of the John Muir Association

Live music, historic re-enactments, dozens of exhibitors.

Admission and parking

Join us for Walnut Creek’s biggest Earth Day celebration! On Saturday, April 19th, Civic Park will come alive with a dynamic, family-friendly festival celebrating the intersection of sustainability and movement.

🎭 Live Performances – Enjoy the energy

Our annual Earth Day event and our second year for the extremely popular Repair Cafe. This event is for Rossmoor residents. 

Check back in early April for a full schedule of what's happening !!

More information HERE

Featuring Laura Dern, Donald Glover, Woody Harrelson and more, Common Ground is the highly anticipated sequel to the successful documentary, Kiss the Ground, which touched over 1 billion people globally and inspired the United States Department of Ag

The Ruth Bancroft Garden, Contra Costa Water District, and East Bay Municipal Utility District have partnered to offer a self-guided tour of 17 home gardens in Walnut Creek and Concord! The tour will showcase the beauty and diversity of waterwise gar

Join Mt. Diablo Resource Recovery for a fun-filled Earth Day Celebration. We will come together as a community to honor our planet and learn how to live greener. This FREE, family-friendly event is packed with exciting activities, live demonstrations

Join the City of El Cerrito, City of Berkeley, BART, ECRA Walk and Roll, and Bike East Bay for the first GO GREEN! Mobility Fair at the El Cerrito Plaza BART. There will be games, music, food and much more!

Learn about how our region is transforming

Sustainable Lafayette will be hosting a free Earth Day Festival to celebrate our beautiful town and local environment. Lafayette Earth Day will be April 27, 11am-2pm, at the Plaza Downtown (3530 Plaza Way). Earth Day 2025 will include family-friendly

Celebrate Earth Day at PHIG on April 27th! Enjoy an afternoon in the Garden with fun activities for kids and adults.

• Hear from local experts on topics such as composting, soil - water quality and conservation, climate change, wildlife habitat, garde

Explore El Cerrito’s Hillside Natural Area

Activities for young and young-at-heart. All Events are Free!

Activities both days. Nature walks, history walks, scavenger hunt, lichen hike and much more!

See the full schedule of events and download a flye

See Your Neighbors’ Native Plant Gardens and Electrified Homes!

Join the free Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour and Green Home Features Showcase in-person Tour from 10 am-5 pm on May 3 & 4 where more than 50 homeowners in Alameda and Contra Costa

Our third annual Earth Day Festival, now at St. Timothy's Episcopal, brings together the local interfaith community along with partners of civic, school, and community organizations with a common purpose: channel our collective energies to more respo