CONSERVANCY COMMONS

Join the Earth Month Staff Challenge! Share your efforts to live and work more sustainably by participating the GOGA Earth Month Staff Challenge! Join your NPS colleagues and help us meet our goal of 80% staff participation! Any action big or small counts! Learn more about how to participate and the Week 3 challenge - Be Water Wise - on the Staff Challenge Blog.
 

Noon, Building 201 Fort Mason, 3rd floor Conference Room. Did you miss the special All Staff Meeting in March? Then grab your lunch bag, and join Greg Moore for this encore presentation. Greg will provide background about his transition as the Conservancy’s President & CEO and also share a bit about his personal story, the story of the Conservancy, and explore the story of our organization's future. Please RSVP to Nathan Bowers at NBowers@ParksConservancy.org.

4-6 pm. Crissy Field Center. The PYC DEI film series presents "The New Environmentalists," short films about winners of the Goldman Environmental prize. In celebration of Earth Month, let’s get together and watch grassroots environmental heroes from around the world make incredible changes in their communities. Tri-agency staff and interns welcome. Click link to sign up on the Training Portal.

11am - 3 pm. George "Rocky" Graham Park, Marin City. The Parks Conservancy and HPHP Bay Area partners are celebrating National Park Rx Day this year in Marin City. Family-friendly fun will include art, yoga, boxing, swag, informational booths and more. Come on out and show your support.

8:30 am - 4:30 pm. Fort Mason, General's Residence. Registration is now open for the 3rd Biannual Sustainability Summit on Monday April 30, 2018. Keynote Speaker, Kevin Bayuk, will provide an overview of Project Drawdown’s Top 100 Solutions to reverse global warming – how humanity can reach the point of “drawdown”, when the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere begins to decline on a year-over-year basis. Come learn what NPS and partners regionally are doing toward more sustainable parks. Click HERE to view a detailed program flyer.

6 -8:30 pm, Presidio Nursery. Join us as we celebrate Hispanic Heritage. At this Trail Mixer, you’ll create paper flowers led by Latino Outdoors, learn how to make your own Yerba Buena tea, get salsa lessons from dance instructor Natasha Tia, and take a tour of the native plant nurseries before getting your hands dirty from transporting seedling into pots. All while enjoying complimentary brews from Fort Point Beer Company, “noshies” from Whole Food, and a lounge from REI. Note: The event is for adults 21+, so bring your ID. Follow link to purchase tickets.

9 am - 1 pm. Crissy Field. Save the date for our next Park Day at Crissy Field! Park Days are a fun way to get out in the parks, see our progress at specific sites, help care for the parks we love, and reconnect with colleagues in an informal environment. Additional details and RSVP instructions coming soon. Contact Hilary Beardsley at hbeardsley@parksconservancy.org if you have any questions. We hope to see you there!

1:30 - 5:00 pm. Crissy Field Center. Complex childhood trauma is often misunderstood, misdiagnosed, and treated as an afterthought in many settings. Educators will learn how trauma affects the developing brain and the lifelong issues associated with it, before discussing best practices for integrating a trauma-informed lens into education settings and programs. Click to sign up on the Training Portal.

1 - 4 pm. Presidio Nursery. Stacy Jacobsen (Presidio Nursery Seed Collection Ecologist), Desmond Murray (Presidio Nursery Education Manager), and Marion Anthonisen (Biological Techinician for the Presidio) will lead this workshop focusing on basic taxonomy, botanical identification resources, and plant identification with an emphasis on troubleshooting morphological keys. The class will discuss and employ a full range of plant ID resources available to the beginning botanists and plant enthusiasts. Follow link to sign up.

1 - 4 pm. Lands End. Join us for a day of discovery at Lands End as we search for wildlife together! The Lands End Nature Challenge is part of The City Nature Challenge, an international effort to connect people with the natural world. Together, we will take pictures and document all wildlife we find. We’ll post our photos to an application called iNaturalist, where plants and animals can be identified by other nature enthusiasts. Follow link to sign up.

This week we welcome Christian Jordan, a new Visitor Services Representative who will be working with our Alcatraz team.