Green Apple Festival-America



Friday, April 17th, 8:30am-4:30pm: Green Home Building
	Habitat for Humanity–Greater Bay Area (San Francisco): Join with Habitat for Humanity and help build LEED certified homes in San Francisco’s Bayview District. These energy-efficient and solarpowered homes will both help save their new owners money on energy bills and help slash their carbon footprint. www.habitatgsf.org

Friday, April 17th, 8:30am-4:30pm: Green Home Building
	Habitat for Humanity–East Bay: Join with Habitat for Humanity and help build LEED certified homes in Oakland. These energy-efficient and solar-powered homes will both help save their new owners money on energy bills and help slash their carbon footprint. www.habitateb.org

Friday, April 17th, 9am-12pm: SF Park Restoration–Bayview Park and Palou Phelps Park
	San Francisco Recreation & Parks Natural Areas Program: Bayview Park supports perhaps the most diverse assemblage of plants and animals in San Francisco’s natural areas system. Join us in weeding invasive plants from the hill to promote the growth of native plants, protecting and restoring San Francisco’s natural heritage. Palou Phelps Park is primarily a steep grassland with trails, city views and habitat for a variety of bird species. Join us in weeding invasive plants from the hill to help protect and restore natives. www.sfnap.org

Friday, April 17th, 10am-4pm: Global Warming Grassroots Action
	350.org: Volunteer with an innovative, web-based global warming campaign! Spend Earth Day connecting with global warming activists all over the world, as we plan towards a global day of action on October 24, 2009! Responsibilities will include making phone calls to people in other countries and helping answer questions about organizing. www.350.org

Friday, April 17th, 10:30am-12:30pm: True Blue Cleanup Crew (multiple locations)
	Blue Planet Run: Join Green Apple Festival volunteers and Blue Planet Run in becoming part of the solution to the global water crisis. Participants will learn about the global water crisis via our water fact sheet, do our bodies good by walking 6K and clean up the beach to improve habitat and reduce pollution. We will all pledge to reduce our water consumption and learn ways to use water more efficiently, saving water and money! www.blueplanetrun.org

Friday, April 17th, 12-4pm: Habitat Restoration
	Literacy for Environmental Justice: San Francisco is one of the greenest cities in the nation, but the communities of Bayview and Hunters Point are asking, who is it green for? Help restore a native wetland in the southeast corner of the city, renewing a natural habitat in an area of S.F. that disproportionately bears the burdens of environmental injustices. Join us at Heron’s Head Park to learn about local environmental justice issues while pulling non-native plants, restoring bird habitat and planting native species. www.lejyouth.org



Saturday, April 18th, 8:30am-4:30pm: Green Home Building
Habitat for Humanity–Greater Bay Area: See Friday’s listing. www.habitatgsf.org

Saturday, April 18th 9am-12pm: Restore Wetland Habitat
	Save the Bay: The Bay Area’s wetlands are nature’s pollution filters, but to function properly, they need our help. Join Save the Bay in restoring a unique wetland habitat that is home to Bay Area native species from shorebirds to steelhead trout. Remove non-native species such as perennial pepperweed and mustard to improve the health of the wetlands—and thus the Bay. Other activities may include learning to identify and collect native seeds and transplanting seedlings in our on-site native plant nursery. www.savesfbay.org

Saturday, April 18th, 9am-12pm: SF Park Restoration
	SF Recreation & Parks Natural Areas Program: Glen Canyon Park features a large urban canyon that has incredible spring wildflower displays, dramatic rock formations, and Islais Creek, one of the city’s few remaining streams. This 60-acre wilderness, formerly called the San Miguel Hills, not only provides critical habitat for wildlife, but serves as a relaxing and healthy sanctuary from the city’s urban bustle. Join us in weeding invasive plants from the canyon to protect and restore one of S.F.’s rare native wildflower displays. www.sfnap.org

Saturday, April 18th, 9am-1pm: Golden Gate Park Restoration
	SF Recreation & Parks (Golden Gate National Park): World-renowned Golden Gate Park is a San Francisco treasure and is home to beautiful gardens,trails, vistas, natural areas, lakes, wildlife—and the 2007 and 2008 Green Apple Festival. Join with GAF volunteers in restoring trails, weeding gardens, removing debris, spreading mulch and improving habitat for native birds and butterflies—and people too! www.sfgov.org/site/recpark_index.asp

Saturday, April 18th, 11am-2pm: Community Workday
	Koshland Park Community Learning Garden/ChangeSF/Hayes Valley Neighborhood Parks: Join organic gardening enthusiasts at Kosland Park in weeding, planting, mulching, tilling and cleanup. Koshland Park is a unique community garden, serving over a thousand youth and families each year, teaching them about the environment and how to grow healthy food. We teach organic gardening to students from John Muir Elementary, offer green job training to local teens, and hold fun educational events for the surrounding community. koshlandgarden.blogspot.com \| www.ChangeSF.net \| www.hvnparks.com

Saturday, April 18th, 11:30am-2:45pm / 2:30-5:30pm: Ghirardelli Goes Green
	SF Environment/Ghirardelli Square: Join fellow S.F. Environment and non-profit volunteers at the first ever major green event at San Francisco’s famed Ghirardelli Square. You will be monitoring recyclables,compostables and trash bins to make sure festival-goers correctly deposit the item with which they are parting ways. You’ll also hand out tip sheets on green living practices, educating festival-goers in Earth Day solutions that are also economic and quality-of-life solutions. Free chocolate! www.sfenvironment.org \| tinyurl.com/ghirardellisq

Saturday, April 18th, 9am-3pm: Audubon Canyon Ranch Habitat Restoration
	Audubon Canyon Ranch’s Bolinas Lagoon Preserve: Join one of northern California’s most beautiful Audubon reserves in enhancing and maintaining our newly planted habitat restoration sites. Work will be outside, surrounded by native flora and fauna—during peak wildflower time! www.egret.org

Saturday, April 18th, 9:15-11:30am: Beach Cleanup
	Save The Waves/ChangeSF/Mavericks: Join Mavericks, the Save The Waves Coalition, and the California Coastal Commission’s Adopt-A-Beach program in helping clean up the beach, improving habitat for people and wildlife alike. www.savethewaves.org \| www.ChangeSF.net \| tinyurl.com/maverickssurf

Saturday, April 18th, 10am-5pm: Building and Habitat Construction of Oiled Bird Rehabilitation Facilities
	IBRRC—International Bird Rescue Resource Center, Northern California Headquarters: We need electricians, builders and bird enthusiasts to help construct a cage, a shed, and a rehabilitation pond to aid oiled birds in recovery. Atone for your addiction to oil, from which these birds suffer, by helping build the facilities needed to aid in their recovery and return them to the wild! www.ibrrc.org/no_cal_center.html

Saturday, April 18th, 12-5pm: Farm Spring Planting and BBQ
	Alemany Farm/ChangeSF: Join Alemany Farm volunteers in farm maintenance and planting crops, as well as in celebrating our completed work with a BBQ. Alemany Farm empowers San Francisco residents to grow their own food, encouraging people to become more engaged with their communities. We grow organic food and green jobs for low-income communities, while sowing the seeds for economic and environmental justice. www.alemanyfarm.org \| www.ChangeSF.net



Sunday, April 19th, 10am-12pm: True Blue Cleanup Crew–Half Moon Bay
Blue Planet Run: See Friday’s listing—today’s along a salmon stream!

Sunday, April 19th, 10am-5pm: Building and Habitat Construction of Oiled Bird Rehabilitation Facilities
IBRRC - International Bird Rescue Resource Center: See Saturday’s listing.