Nature
Saturday, July 11
Trail & Habitat Volunteer Work: Restoring Laguna Honda’s Lost Trails | SF
Did you know that there’s another trail system in San Francisco? The trails have been off the radar for some time. SF Urban Riders is proud to announce that they’re working with the Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center in improving the historic multi use ...Monthly
Free Volunteer Day: Park Clean-Up + Planting (Jefferson Square Park)
Join us at Jefferson Park to help refresh this vibrant community space. Volunteers will plant new vegetation, spread mulch, pull weeds, and pick up litter to keep the park clean and healthy.
A brief speaking program will take place from 9:15–9:45 a.m. To fully enjoy the ...
Nature Play Grove Grand Opening (CuriOdyssey)
This July, CuriOdyssey invites you to discover The Nature Play Grove, the newest stop along our Nature Story Loop, nestled in the Bay View Grove with breathtaking bay views as its backdrop. This isn’t just a play space. It’s built around the science of awe, that ...
Art Walk and Cleanup in Downtown’s Yerba Buena Neighborhood (SF)
One City Day is July 11, and we’re celebrating it the Yerba Buena way: picking up litter and stopping to look at great art along the way. Join an all-ages Art and Cleanup Walk through Yerba Buena, with each litter pickup route designed to wind ...
Dirtybird Outdoor Yoga: Flow + Chill Vibes by the Ocean (SF)
Join us with Outdoor Yoga SF for fresh air, open space and a chance to slow things down for a minute. Take in the beauty of San Francisco’s Baker Beach with Dirtybird beats and sunshine in the air. We won’t ask you to downward bird, ...
Golden Gate Park “Singing in the Park” Community Party (SF)
Make new friends and beautiful, fun music: join us for free monthly community singing in the park! We meet the Second Saturday of every month @10:30am and will always have the pink blanket above so you can find us. The community sing is super kid, adult ...Monthly
Library Day 2026: Book Giveaways + Music on the Farm (SF)
The New Farm will be buzzing with live music, book giveaways, and of course, goats. SFPL launches Everybody’s Climate 2026 with activities for all ages led by Creative Mutual Aid and music provided by Bay Beats bands. Plus, the Bookmobile will be there!
“It’s a farm. It’s a chicken ...
New Farm’s Summer “Library Day” Festival + Meet Goats (SF)
Library Day at The New Farm in San Francisco is a free, family-friendly event celebrating the launch of Everybody’s Climate 2026. Experience live music from Bay Beats musicians, meet goats, enjoy book giveaways, and participate in creative activities led by Creative Mutual Aid. The Bookmobile ...
Sunday, July 12
Lower Nob Hill Trash Cleanup (SF)
Join neighbors and volunteers every Sunday to help keep Lower Nob Hill clean, welcoming, and beautiful. We provide trash grabbers, bags, and gloves for anyone who wants to help out. Meet new people, give back to the community, and make a visible difference one block ...
Free Hoya Plant Party: 6th Annual BAHniversary (San Mateo)
Hoya obsessed or just hoya-curious? Either way, this one’s for you. Bay Area Hoya (BAH) is throwing its 6th annual BAHniversary at the San Mateo Garden Center — a free, drop-in plant celebration open to everyone. Come vote on the Hoya Show, get a diagnosis ...
Workshop: Climate Communication; Emotions & Actions (SF Public Library)
This weekly four-part workshop series, facilitated by Nopal Reyes, engages climate change through various lenses: emotions, art, science and action. In each workshop we take a hands-on, community-oriented approach to communicating climate change so that we can help foster climate discussions in our personal lives. The workshop series concludes ...
Tuesday, July 14
The Plunge Book Talk: Cold Water + Human Endurance w/ Chris Ballard (SF)
KALW welcomes sports journalist Chris Ballard for a discussion of his new book The Plunge, exploring the transformative power of cold water.
What happens when humans willingly step into freezing water—and keep coming back for more?
Join KALW for a live conversation with journalist and author Chris ...
Wednesday, July 15
“Dawn Chorus” Listening Party: Hear Tilden’s Birds Through Pro Field-Recording Gear (Berekeley)
A Berkeley field recording artist hands you professional in-ear monitors wired to broadcast-grade microphones — and you hear the dawn chorus the way a sound engineer does. Every bird in its own frequency layer, the creek underneath, sounds your naked ear physically cannot access. Participants ...
Thursday, July 16
Sonoma Coast Foraging Campout: Seaweed, Urchin + Plant Walks (July 16-19)
Join our Sonoma Coast Foraging Campout! It includes 3 nights of camping with hot showers, all meals with farm and foraged fresh ingredients, and 4 days of Sonoma Coast ecological and foraging programming, including:
seaweed harvesting + seaweed foot bath making
sea urchin foraging, cooking, + urchin ...
Friday, July 17
Sunrise Urchin (Uni) Foraging (Sonoma Coast)
Save Kelp, Eat Urchin!
Join us at sunrise for a sea urchin foraging class, where we will help remove some of the overgrown sea urchin population – so we can eat it! We will teach you how to open and enjoy this incredible delicacy. You may ...
Sunday, July 19
AIDS Walk San Francisco 2026 (Golden Gate Park)
On Sunday, July 19, AIDS Walk San Francisco celebrates its 40th Anniversary; a powerful milestone honoring four decades of remembrance, resilience, and action. What began in the early years of the epidemic as a bold act of love and defiance has grown into one of ...
Climate Action Workshop Series: Art, Science + Emotions (SF)
This weekly four-part workshop series, facilitated by Nopal Reyes, engages climate change through various lenses: emotions, art, science and action. In each workshop we take a hands-on, community-oriented approach to communicating climate change so that we can help foster climate discussions in our personal lives. The workshop series concludes ...
2026 Climate Justice Workshop: Find Your Role + Get Involved (SF)
You probably know about the major troubles of climate change: rising global temperatures, biodiversity loss, ecosystem degradation, and the negative impact to the livelihoods of many people around the world—to name just a few. But the issues are so big, it feels insurmountable. What can one person ...
Thursday, July 23
Free Talk: Resilience + Recovery After Hurricane Helene’s Climate Crisis (SF)
Casey King explores strategies and practices that helped people avoid paralysis, and even to find hope, after Hurricane Helene claimed 108 lives and destroyed over 126,000 homes in Western North Carolina in 2024. We, too, can learn to avoid despair, while continuing to work on the most ...
Sunday, July 26
2026 Climate Doc Screening: “A Radical Thread” w/ Director Q&A (SF)
In this soulful, gorgeous new documentary by Jeanne C. Finley, a back-to-the-land community fights off corporate Goliaths intent on environmental devastation while using the same collective ethos to stitch an 83-foot tapestry that visualizes their story.
Set against the dramatic scars of 19th century hydraulic gold mining, A Radical Thread follows a ...
Wednesday, July 29
“Howl at the Moon” Hike at Jack London State Historic Park (North Bay)
This rare midweek evening hike ventures to the summit of Jack London State Historic Park under the rising Buck Moon.
At the height of summer, July’s Buck Moon is named for the time when deer are growing new antlers in velvet, a sign of seasonal strength. ...
Saturday, August 8
Trail & Habitat Volunteer Work: Restoring Laguna Honda’s Lost Trails | SF
Did you know that there’s another trail system in San Francisco? The trails have been off the radar for some time. SF Urban Riders is proud to announce that they’re working with the Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center in improving the historic multi use ...Monthly
Golden Gate Park “Singing in the Park” Community Party (SF)
Make new friends and beautiful, fun music: join us for free monthly community singing in the park! We meet the Second Saturday of every month @10:30am and will always have the pink blanket above so you can find us. The community sing is super kid, adult ...Monthly
Saturday, September 19
40th Annual Russian River Watershed Cleanup
Join us in our annual tradition of gathering together and showing the river some love by helping us remove the trash and plastic pollution that accumulates over the summer at 20+ locations, from Ukiah to Jenner. Let’s see if we can do even better than ...
