Members can post events to the calendar! Just sign in and click "Add Event." Watch a video tutorial here. If you'd like to join, click "Sign up" in the upper right corner.

Past Events (1865)

Date range
August 7, 2012
Tuesday
  • Mayors' Healthy Eating Cook-off

  • Aug 7, 2012 from 10:00am to 12:00pm
  • Location: Todos Santos Plaza
  • Description:

    The "Iron Chef"-style cook-off starts at 4 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 23, in Todos Santos Plaza. That's when individual chefs will be given a grab bag of produce selected by Gershen. The produce comes from the Pacific Coast Farmers Market and Vince Scalise,

  • Created by: Tina King Neuhausel
August 1, 2012
Wednesday
  • Wasteland

  • Aug 1, 2012 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm
  • Location: The Rheem Theater
  • Description:

    Renowned artist Vik Muniz journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dumb, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of "catadores" - self-designated pickers of

  • Created by: Sheila Hill
 
  • Eagle’s Nest Full Moon Hike

  • Aug 1, 2012 from 11:30am to 2:00pm
  • Location: Eagle’s Nest Trail
  • Description:

    Join SPAWNERS and Ranger Bob Flasher on a seldom used hiking trail above the San Pablo Reservoir.  Exotic vegetation, especially in Mediterranean climates, is bringing about significant changes in native plant communities.  But these invasive plants

  • Created by: Femke Oldham
July 31, 2012
Tuesday
 
  • Film Night Event Featuring "Bag It" and Author of "Plastic Free"

  • Jul 31, 2012 from 12:30pm to 2:45pm
  • Location: Lafayette Library & Learning Center
  • Description:

    Sustainable Lafayette’s Summer Film Series concludes with a “can’t miss” event featuring Bag It, and much more, on Tuesday, July 31st at 7pm at the Lafayette Library.   Bag It has been garnering awards at film festivals across the nation. What starte

  • Created by: Steve Richard
July 24, 2012
Tuesday
  • Fruit Gleaning Project

  • Jul 24, 2012 to Dec 31, 2012
  • Location: Your House
  • Description:

    Please help The Urban Farmers (a nonprofit organization) to get fresh fruit to hungry people in our community! It's easy - here's how you can help:

    - Register your fruit tree 

    - Share this information with a friend

    - Volunteer to help harvest 

    Learn more

  • Created by: Sheila Hill
July 17, 2012
Tuesday
  • Green Film Night Featuring SWITCH

  • Jul 17, 2012 from 1:00pm to 2:30pm
  • Location: Lafayette Library & Learning Center
  • Description:

    Sustainable Lafayette is hosting a summer film series at the Lafayette Library (Community Hall).  The second documentary, SWITCH, will be shown on Tuesday, July 17th at 7pm.  Test audiences have called this ‘the most important energy film since An In

  • Created by: Steve Richard
July 15, 2012
Sunday
  • Herb Day 2012 - FREE

  • Jul 15, 2012 from 5:00am to 10:00am
  • Location: Rodgers Ranch
  • Description:

    The Herb of the Year is the Rose.  Come and learn about Rose care and maintenance, how to make Rose beads, making a spiral herb garden and  container gardening with herbs and succulents.  Enter into several of the many raffles during the course of th

  • Created by: Sheila Hill
July 13, 2012
Friday
  • All in Good Time: Sustainable, Seasonal Bouquets

  • Jul 13, 2012 from 2:30am to 6:30am
  • Location: The Gardens at Heather Farm
  • Description:

    Your interest in sustainability has prompted me to tell you about a program this Friday, “All in Good Time: Sustainable, Seasonal Bouquets”. This seminar, an effort between The Ruth Bancroft Garden, the Garden Conservancy and The Gardens at Heather F

  • Created by: Sheila Hill
July 11, 2012
Wednesday
  • Mistletoe Creek Historical Walk

  • Jul 11, 2012 from 11:30am to 2:00pm
  • Location: EBMUD Watershed Headquarters
  • Description:

    Learn about a valuable but little-known part of our local historic heritage. We will visit twelve “check dams” built in the 1930s along Mistletoe Creek, which runs on the eastern end of the reservoir. SPAWNERS and local ranger Tom Bracket will lead a

  • Created by: Femke Oldham
June 30, 2012
Saturday
  • Recycled Paper Art

  • Jun 30, 2012 from 3:30am to 5:00am
  • Location: The Gardens at Heather Farm
  • Description:

    with Arlene Molina, GHF Education Coordinator, Recycling Artist and Sandi Sherwood, Paper & Book Artist

    Ever wonder what to do with all those magazines and greeting cards we all have hanging around? This is the class for you. This is a FUN family clas

  • Created by: Eileen Linn
June 26, 2012
Tuesday
  • Sustainable Lafayette Summer Film Series

  • Jun 26, 2012 at 1:00pm
  • Location: Lafayette Library & Learning Center
  • Description:

    Sustainable Lafayette is hosting its second annual summer film series at the Lafayette Library & Learning Center featuring "In Organic We Trust" (6/26), "SWITCH" (7/17), and "Bag It" (7/31).  Free coffee and cookies.  $5 donation suggested.

  • Created by: Steve Richard
June 24, 2012
Sunday
  • Caring for 7 Billion: Growth, Transition & our Changing Climate

  • Jun 24, 2012 from 8:00am to 10:00am
  • Location: Edith Stone Room, Albany Public Library
  • Description:

    Join members from the Institute for Population Studies (IPS), Transition Albany and Transition Berkeley as we explore the complex relationships between population growth, social equity and climate change, and the importance of Transition Towns in pur

  • Created by: HowMany.org
June 23, 2012
Saturday
  • A Flower Garden in a Jiffy

  • Jun 23, 2012 from 3:00am to 4:30am
  • Location: The Gardens at Heather Farm
  • Description:

    with Patrice Hanlon, GHF Garden Manager, Susan Handjian, Garden Consultant/Coach

    Do you always envy those beautiful & colorful flower gardens you see every summer and fall? Do you have a sunny spot crying out for color? And it’s not just the flowers t

  • Created by: Eileen Linn
June 16, 2012
Saturday
  • Succulent Terrariums

  • Jun 16, 2012 from 3:00am to 5:00am
  • Location: The Gardens at Heather Farm
  • Description:

    with Sheryl Vierra of Waterwise Landscapes

    Get your hands dirty at the build a terrarium workshop. The class provides a lecture on the different types of terrariums and how to construct & maintain a terrarium along with a list of suitable plants for f

  • Created by: Eileen Linn
June 9, 2012
Saturday
  • Wilkie Creek Outdoor Classroom Work Day

  • Jun 9, 2012 from 3:30am to 6:00am
  • Location: Wilkie Creek Outdoor Classroom
  • Description:

    Help us pull weeds and plant native flowers at our Outdoor Classroom behind De Anza High. All ages welcome. No experience necessary. We'll provide tools and snacks. You bring a reusable water bottle and sturdy shoes.

    RSVP: (510) 665-3538

  • Created by: Femke Oldham
June 2, 2012
Saturday
  • Living with Creeks Workshop

  • Jun 2, 2012 from 4:00am to 6:00am
  • Location: El Sobrante Library
  • Description:

    Living with Creeks Workshop
    Saturday, June 2, 2012
    10am-12pm
    El Sobrante Library, 4191 Appian Way

     
    We want to help you care for your creek! If your property has a creek or a waterway flowing through it, it is your responsibility to maintain it. As a

  • Created by: Femke Oldham