earth cay event at war memorial opera house

(You’ll feel better for having gotten there with a low-carbon footprint.)įinally if you’re looking for an old-school cleanup, there are plenty. The bike tour stops at multiple spots to showcase how San Francisco and its residents are creating a sustainable city and concludes at the Great Highway. Ride to the festivities with the San Francisco Bicycle Coaltion and the SF Department of the Environment starting at 10 a.m. The Great Highway also hosts a pedal-powered party on Saturday, featuring an art gallery, live music and e-bike demos. to 2 p.m., featuring potato planting, a farm tour, face painting, live music, a pig roast barbecue, a plant sale and a bike-powered smoothie station.

If you’re looking to get your hands dirty in a different way, Alemany Farm is hosting a family friendly “Green Celebration” on Saturday from 10 a.m. The pair will lead a discussion about exactly what ecosexuality is and be signing and decorating copies of their book Assuming the Ecosexual Position–The Earth as Lover, as well as giving away “ecosexy” swag. If you’re looking for an out-of-the-ordinary way to commune with nature, on Friday, the San Francisco Public Library holds a performance and “Ecosex Clinic” with Haight-Ashbury couple and ecosex movement leaders Annie Sprinkle, a sex worker turned sexologist/performance artist, and Beth Stephens, a filmmaker and professor of art at UC Santa Cruz. On Saturday, Valencia turns into a family-friendly and eco-conscious street fair for Earth Day SF, featuring a showcase of green mobility technology, demos by local vegan celebrity chefs, art workshops for kids and a slate of environmental speakers talking about everything from how to save our soil to green political activism. So it’s only appropriate that San Franciscans should celebrate Earth Day’s roots in the city, and SF has a range of Earth Day activities on offer this weekend. But the seed of the idea actually began when peace activist John McConnell proposed a resoultion for a day to honor the Earth to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors back in 1969 as part of a UNESCO conference held in the city that year.įrom there, the concept went national and international, leading to the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency at the federal level and embraced by the United Nations. Gaylord Nelson and the “ Mark Zuckerberg of the environmental movement” Denis Hayes are often credited as the founders of Earth Day, which was first held on April 22, 1970.

Earth cay event at war memorial opera house