BABEC 2019 Fall Conference: Advancing Biotech EducationPlease join us for an engaging and inspiring day of community with other science teachers from across the Bay Area! Come see our new classroom resources and learn how biotech activities can help you teach NGSS.Strategies for Strong Workforce Program FundingLearn how to engage with new state funding options for ...
Where: San BrunoCost: Free
Guided Nature Walk Experience the beauty and rich natural history of this 535-acre preserve. Our guided nature walks are on Saturdays throughout fall and spring. Participants are divided into small groups and paired with a trained Bouverie volunteer to explore the mixed evergreen forest and flower-carpeted oak woodland.Visitors of all ages are welcome. In order ...
Did you know that our oceans are getting noisier, that plants might grow better with classical music playing, or that NASA scientists have converted solar flares into sound waves to learn about the sun? From rabbit ears to bat echolocation, from owls in flight to dolphin sonar, the sense of ...
A Shoreside at MSI promises to be a fun morning of exploration and discovery! At our beach front facility participants will work as a team to pull in a large seine (net) to catch local fishes, set a mud grab to gather bottom samples and invertebrates, and learn the difference ...
Enjoy shark science, shark experts, shark art, shark films, shark conservation, food and live music!Event Schedule- Main Event Free!!11am: All art & science activity stations open, food truck & refreshments available.11am-1pm: Live Music - Ukulele Friends 11:30am: Special Programs (see below)1pm: Ocean Life Parade & Costume Contest2pm-4pm: Live Music - Heather Combs & Max Delaney2pm: Special Programs ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Golden Gate Raptor Observatory Hawk Talk & Raptor ReleaseThe Hawk Talk begins at noon, when a GGRO volunteer speaks about hawk migration and identification, and what we do here at the GGRO. Conditions permitting, a banding volunteer will bring up a newly banded hawk, talk about the banding program, and release the hawk in front of the crowd. ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Green Film Festival: 'The Woman Who Loves Giraffes'Think the Jane Goodall of giraffes and you'd get Canadian zoologist and feminist trailblazer Dr. Anne Innis Dagg, whose unprecedented work and scholarship on South African wildlife was stonewalled by institutional chauvinism. This film highlights both her pioneering research and her timeless fight for gender equity.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $16 General, $13 Members
Green Film Festival: 'Golden Fish, African Fish'The Casamance region in the South of Senegal is one of the last areas of traditional fishing in West Africa, and crucial to the food safety of many African countries. But the challenges of industrial fishing companies and harsh working conditions are putting the region in danger of collapse.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $16 General, $13 Members
Marinship and California’s Second Gold RushDuring WWII, Sausalito (including the Bay Model building) was home to a shipyard called Marinship. Join Charles Wollenberg, history instructor at Berkeley City College and UC Berkeley for this talk and learn how the story of Marinship fits into the larger history of the "Second Gold Rush," the extraordinary process ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Green Film Festival: 'Silent Forests'Meet passionate and tenacious conservationists as they fight to stop forest elephant poaching in Arfica's Congo Basin region. Institutional challenges like corruption and lack of funding threatened to derail their attempts to save those that remain.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $16 General, $13 Members
Green Film Festival: 'Mossville: When great Trees Fall'As a centuries-old black community, contaminated and uprooted by petrochemical plants, comes to terms with the loss of its ancestral home, one man standing in the way of a toxic petrochemical plant's expansion refuses to give up.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $16 General, $13 Members
Green Film Festival: 'Ay Mariposa'Journey along this emotional odyssey in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas with advocates who show their fierce commitment to home, justice, wild beauty, monarch butterflies, and the future of the US-Mexico borderlands.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $16 General, $13 Members
Green Film Festival: 'Cooked: Survival by Zip Code'A life and death story about extreme heat, the politics of "disaster", and survival by zip code. This story explores the systematic ways that climate disasters like heat waves disproportionately affect lower income and marginalized communities.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $16 General, $13 Members
Green Film Festival: 'The Green Lie'The big companies would have us believe that we can save the world just by buying the right stuff in our own homes. In this film, greenwashing experts explore how we can fight back against the dangerous lies of big business.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $16 General, $13 Members
Green Film Festival: 'The Pollinators'A cinematic journey about the current international bee crisis and what it means for our food security. This film explains the problems of modern large scale agriculture and offers ideas on how it can be improved, illustrated through the migratory pollinators that are a vital cornerstone of our entire food ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $16 General, $13 Members
