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El Cerrito Earth Day Celebration
Help Make El Cerrito a cleaner & Greener community!
Saturday, April 19, 2025 | 9am - 12pm
Each year in April, the City celebrates Earth Day with a morning of volunteerism.
We invite you to join or organize an Earth Day work party! The City of El Cerrito welcomes volunteers to:
- Help tidy parks & public spaces
- Pick up litter to reduce the amount of trash that ends up in our creeks, waterways and the Bay
- Remove invasive plants and weeds
- Participate in activities that beautify our community’s natural areas
The City encourages individuals, families and groups to register their work parties in advance by completing a Work Party Registration Form or emailing earthday@ci.el-cerrito.ca.us with details on site location, number of volunteers and type of work that will be performed by April 13, 2025.
Interested parties may also select a work activity from the list of work parties below.
The City provides volunteers with gloves, bags and tools to borrow for their work party activity.
We recommend all volunteers dress appropriately for the weather, wear sunscreen and bring their own tools and water bottles.
Volunteers will be provided with snacks and refreshments at the Maintenance Corp Yard (7750 Schmidt Lane, El Cerrito). A plant and seed giveaway will also be hosted by the El Cerrito Community Garden Club for work party volunteers.
We are always open to feedback and suggestions. If you have an idea for a work party, please email us.
You're Invited to Join the Following Earth Day Work Parties!
El Cerrito Library Foundation (6510 Stockton Ave.)
9am - 12pm
Litter Pick-up, Laying Mulch, Cutting Back Ivy, Trimming Shrubs and Bushes.
El Cerrito High School Garden (7309 Eureka Street - Between Ashbury & Colusa Ave)
9am - 12pm
Broom & Weed Pull, Litter Pick-up, Laying Mulch, Fruit Tree Pruning.
Arts and crafts activities for younger attendees.
Fairmont Elementary School Garden (724 Kearney Street - Parking Lot Between Stockton / Lexington)
10:30am - 12::30pm
Planting, Weeding, Laying Mulch, Garden Bed Maintenance.
Cutting Blvd. Triangle Clean-Up (6722-6730 Cutting Blvd - Triangle Between Cutting Blvd. and Elm St.)
9am - 12pm
Garden Bed Maintenance, Laying Mulch, Pulling Weeds, Litter Pick-up.
El Cerrito Green Team: Northern Gateways Cleanup (Meet by del Norte BART Station - Key Ave. and Knott Blvd.)
9am - 12pm
Litter Pick-up.
El Cerrito Trail Trekkers and Friends of the Hillside Natural Area Broom Pull on Motorcycle Hill (Meet at the Snowdon Ave. entry to Motorcycle Hill, east of the Ganges Ave Intersection)
10am - 12:30pm
Broom Pull, Weeding, Litter Pick-up.
Celebrate Earth Day all month, and know that you can celebrate Earth Day every day of the year!
Go Green! Mobilty Fair
Saturday, April 26, 2025 | 11am - 3pm
Address: 515 Richmond Street, El Cerrito, CA 94530
Cost: Free
Join the City of El Cerrito, City of Berkeley, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), ECRA Walk and Roll & Bike East Bay for a GO GREEN! Mobility Fair at the El Cerrito Plaza BART north parking lot, on Saturday, April 26, 11am - 3pm. Bring the family - there will be games, music, food and much more!
Our area has a rich toolkit of sustainable, affordable, and fun travel options to supplement or replace personal car ownership. Whether your destinations are 15 minutes or hours away, learn about getting to the places you love and need without the expense of owning a car.
Learn about how our region is transforming streets into safe spaces that bring neighbors together, improve our air quality, fight climate change and connect our Bay Area communities. A range of electric mobility devices will be on display including e-bikes, e-scooters, and neighborhood electric vehicles (NEVs). Meet your neighbors, share your vision for mobility and engage with City and community representatives and planners. Every voice and journey matters as we move forward together!
- Games, bike smoothies, and crafts
- Test ride electric bicycles
- See neighborhood electric vehicles (NEVs) and e-mopeds
- Learn about discounted mobility options
- Find exciting destinations via local buses
- Discover new parking solutions for taking BART
- Bike parking (park at your own risk; bike racks provided courtesy of Albany Strollers & Rollers)
- Music by Nashville Honeymoon, Hot Rod Juke Box and more!
Bike East Bay will be hosting a Family Cycling Workshop from 10:30am - 12pm for kids who are able to ride a bike and are ready to take to the paths and roadways with their parents (suggested grade range 2nd-6th). Reservations are required! To save a spot, register for the cycling workshop at the following link: Family Cycling Workshop.
We need volunteers! If you re interested in volunteering at the event, please sign up at: https://forms.gle/1Nn3LhBuMSmWsn3J9
The GO GREEN! Mobility Fair is easily accessible via the Ohlone Greenway. Walk, ride, take BART, or AC Transit!
GO GREEN! Exhibitor List
Mobility
BART (event sponsor)
Contra Costa Transportation Authority
Hero2.org (mobility app)
Pacific E-Bikes (test rides)
Rad Power Bikes (test rides)
Richmond Ride Today (bike share)
Total Industries (neighborhood electric vehicles, including GEM car and Taylor-Dunn)
Transit-oriented development
North Berkeley BART (North Berkeley Housing Partners - BRIDGE Housing, East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation, and Insight Housing)
El Cerrito Plaza BART (Related California and Holliday Development)
Civic organizations
City of El Cerrito (event sponsor)
El Cerrito Environmental Quality Committee
Community groups
Bike East Bay (event sponsor)
El Cerrito Chamber of Commerce
El Cerrito/Richmond Annex Walk & Roll (event sponsor)
Music, Food, and Games
Nashville Honeymoon (11 a.m. to 1 p.m)
Hot Rod Jukebox (1 p.m to 3 p.m.)
Face painting (Forrest Johnson)
Crafts (El Cerrito Creative Reuse Artist Residency)
Bike smoothies (courtesy of City of Albany)
Corn hole
Big Jenga
Big Yahtzee
Big Connect Four
Trail Trekker's Bioblitz - 2025 city nAture challenge
Saturday, April 26, 2025 | 10am - 1pm
Join Trail Trekkers to explore, discover, and learn about the wildlife and biodiversity in the Hillside Natural Area (HNA). With oak woodlands, small creeks, and open meadows, the HNA hosts a remarkable amount of biodiversity, but there is still so much we don’t know.
BioBlitz is part of the 2025 City Nature Challenge, a friendly, global competition among cities to make the most observations of their local plants and wildlife. These observations helps (1) El Cerrito’s planning to manage and conserve the HNA while making it more fire resilient, (2) the SF Bay Area’s stats and rank in the CNC global competition, and (3) scientists more broadly to understand biodiversity and the effects of climate change.
No experience needed - ambassadors & wildlife experts will be on hand to help us explore. If you can, please install the iNaturalist app on your device and create an account. If you can’t, please join us regardless. For more information, please visit the El Cerrito Trail Trekkers website.
MAke earth day every day by:
- Giving up meat and/or dairy for a determined period of time,
- Starting a vegetable garden or a butterfly attracting garden,
- Planting a no mow native CA grass in your yard,
- Volunteering for those in need,
- Avoiding plastics,
- Reducing food waste at home by reducing the amount of food that spoils in the fridge or on the countertop, or
- Electrifying your stove top
- Etc.
Whichever way you choose to honor Mother Earth, let us know by utilizing #ECEarthDay25 on social media. Sharing your story will definitely inspire others.
For Earth Day, also consider improving your recycling and composting habits.
Click the links below to view up-to-date information on how to sort recycling and organics properly.
THANK YOU TO VOLUNTEERS AND SPONSORS
Individuals, families, and groups of volunteers helped to spruce up the landscaping around the library, removed broom from Hillside Natural Area near the Recycling Center, cared for Cerrito Creek, distributed information about El Cerrito’s smoke-free policies to businesses, picked up litter and helped to plant trees in Arlington Park. Following the work parties, volunteers were honored at an appreciation lunch at the Community Center. Click to view event photos from previous Earth Day work parties and luncheons in our Online Photo Gallery.
The City of El Cerrito’s Earth Day celebration is supported by donations from individuals and local businesses that have included: Bacstrom Import Company, Best Burrito Corp, Bushwacker, East Bay Sanitary, Natural Grocery Company, R & R Auto, Seidell Enterprises, Inc., Speed Oil Change Center, Therapeutic Body Care, and Well Grounded Tea & Coffee Bar.
Questions?
For more information on the City of El Cerrito's annual Earth Day event, or to find out how you can get involved next year, please send an email or call (510) 215-4338.