Día de la Ingeniería/Latino Engineering Day 2019Join us for a family-friendly collaboration between the Exploratorium and the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE).Latino Engineering Day/Día de la Ingeniería combines panel discussions, presentations on the science and engineering heritage of Latinos, and playful activities such as making NatureBots. This annual, drop-in program is conducted primarily in Spanish and provides opportunities to meet ...
The San Francisco Botanical Garden is one of the world’s premier gardens. Here you can see thriving collections of plants from all around the world. Our day’s activities will include a docent lead tour highlighting plant forms that are fun to draw, a potluck lunch (bring something to share- you ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 suggested donation
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 Age of StupidOscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living in the devastated future world of 2055, looking back at old footage from our time and asking: why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance?
Where: San FranciscoCost: $16 General, $13 Members
'Anthropocene: The Human Epoch'Edward Burtynsky is a contemporary fine art photographer and filmmaker; his remarkable photographic depictions of global industrial landscapes and their incursions into the natural landscape are included in the collections of over 60 major museums around the world.He has been awarded numerous prizes for his work including the inaugural TED ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25 - $100, Free for Members
You know what time is because of your daily experience, but what seems constant and unchanging is not. In 1905, Albert Einstein threw a monkey wrench in our perception of time and space. Join us as we examine a few of these quirks on a conceptual nonmathematical level. Yes, you ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: included with admission
Green Film Festival: 'Earth'Several billion tons of earth are moved annually by humans - with shovels, excavators, or dynamite. Nikolaus Geyrhalter observes people in mines, quarries and at large construction sites, engaged in a constant struggle to take possession of the planet.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $16 General, $13 Members
Green Film Festival: 'Once Was Water'This inspiring film explores the innovative water technologies in Las Vegas, Nevada: the thirstiest city in the driest state. The solutions presented could hopefully serve as a model for the rest of the world.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $16 General, $13 Members
Green Film Festival: 'Motherload'A crowdsourced documentary about a new mother's quest to understand the increasing isolation and disconnection of the digital age, its planetary impact, and how cargo bikes could be an antidote. How can choices within our nuclear families effect change on a global scale?
Where: San FranciscoCost: $16 General, $13 Members
Green Film Festival: '16 Sunrises' Closing Night Wrap PartyFor six months, French Astronaut Thomas Pesquet and his fellow astronauts live on the International Space Stateion, 450 kilometers from Earth. As the space station revolves, they experience 16 sunrises each day, witnessing a planet that is constantly evolving. They capture spetacular footage of superstorms, cosmic phenomena, and life in ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $30 General, $25 Members, $16 film only
Green Film Festival: 'Kifaru'Experience the intimate joys and pitfalls of wildlife conservation through the eyes of Kenyan rhino caretakers who witness extinction happening in real-time. With their protection "Sudan", the last make Northern White Rhino in existence, is the subject of a last resort IVG experiment to save the species they love.
Where: San FranciscoCost: $16 General, $13 Members
