EcoHouse TourTour the Ecology Center's environmentally friendly demonstration site. Learn about a broad-spectrum of simple improvements that can be made to green an urban home. The tour includes: Berkeley's first city-permitted wetland / greywater system, solar panels, on-demand and solar water heater, water saving fixtures, natural and recycled building materials, rainwater ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $15 General, $10 Members
The Salt Marshes: Then and NowApproximately 85% of San Francisco Bay's wetlands have disappeared over the last 200 years due to industry and development, impacting the wildlife that lived in and around them. Some of the plants and animals have made a comeback and a few have adapted to the changes. Learn a little about ...
Where: FremontCost: Free
'Merchants of Doubt'Engage in an important dialogue heating up the world's conversations: climate change. Climate change has been politicized and in turn polarized many within the discussion. Wherever you fall with the issue, author Naomi Oreskes in her book, Merchants of Doubt, presents a compelling argument. Oreskes explores the story of how a loose-knit ...
Where: OaklandCost: $15 General, $10 Members
Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth's Climate If we had a real climate emergency - the ecological equivalent of the sub-prime mortgage meltdown - could geoengineering help cool the planet, avert crisis, and sustain future life on earth? Or is geoengineering closer to scientific hubris, boasting of technically daring and outlandish schemes, such as contraptions that suck ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
