Events

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

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

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 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

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 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

Join us to learn the basics of successful gardening with Lori Caldwell, the Bay Area's own Compost Gal!

Don’t have a lot of space, but want to grow your own food?  This program is for you! Perhaps you have just a few feet of garden space or are limit

Reduce your waste! Bring your well-loved broken, non-functioning things: electronic gadgets, appliances, computers, toys, sewing machines, clean fabric items, etc. and try to fix them! This event is open to families and residents of West Contra Costa

Don't miss a fantastic opportunity to enhance your garden and support the planet—let's grow together! The City is offering free compost to Pittsburg residents. The compost is available on a first-come, first-served basis while supplies last. Proof of

Join Acterra and Ride and Drive Clean for a lunch meeting to learn about the health impact of transportation emissions, explore Electric Vehicles (EVs), and discover financial incentives to make EVs more affordable! 

Join us for lunch and an engaging

Join EV experts to learn how you can save money with incentives on a new EV or PHEV. We’ll also cover EV basics like charging at home and on the road and showcase popular models. Sponsored by City of Palo Alto Utilities.

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Brian D. McLaren is an author, speaker, activist, and public theologian. A former college English teacher and pastor, he is a passionate advocate for "a new kind of Christianity" -- just, generous, and working with people of all faiths for the common

A webinar covering direct sowing of edible garden seeds into your soil, with UC Master Gardener volunteer Andrea Salzman.

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On this moderate 4-mile roundtrip hike we’ll enjoy early bloomers in riparian, chaparral, grassland, and woodland plant communities, as we view 15-million-year-old marine fossils from long ago when an inland sea covered this area. As we walk, we’ll k

The City of Pleasant Hill is excited to announce upcoming workshops to shape our community’s Climate Action Plan (CAP). These workshops will provide a space to collaborate on strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, enhance sustainability, and

Explore Berkeley's Aquatic Park and Marina, their history and evolution, and the many ways the city's waterfront areas provide habitat for wildlife and recreation for people. Along with panoramic views, we are likely to see birds, sailboats, houseboa

Walnut Creek's first city-wide repair cafe! Get your small household appliances, jewelry, bicycles and clothes repaired by experienced volunteers. 

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Start the new year off on the right foot by joining the Winter Walk Challenge. Complete the weekly challenges to earn entries in our Monday drawings for ten $20 Amazon gift cards. Plus, your name will be entered in the iPad Grand Prize Drawing just b

Information on how to identify and report maintenance issues and construction hazards, and get them fixed.

This session is part of Bike East Bay’s ‘Green Mobility Ambassadors’ program with topics offered, made possible with financial support from the