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Paving the Future of Environmentalism: Resilience Through Community Action-2025 Earth Day Festival
Sunday, April 19, 2025 | 12PM-3PM
For Earth Day 2025, BAYCS hosted a festival bringing together 22 local youth-centered climate booths and students from across the Bay Area for an action packed day of community, hope, and celebration for our planet. The festival included climate justice, electrification and sustainable crafts, thrift booths, tea making, live music and a food truck. Guests learned about the future of the climate movement through hands-on activities and built lasting connections with climate-aware friends.
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Gallery
A collection of photos taken during the Earth Day Festival
Booths
Look below for a full list of the interactive youth-led booths from the festival!
Project Super Plants
Club leaders from the PSP team will host a booth teaching attendees about how excess carbon emissions threaten our biodiversity and how the native California Melic Grass counteracts this by sequestering more carbon and preserving native ecosystems. Attendees will then be invited to plant their own Melic Grass and take it home in biodegradable pots.
Persistent Planet
Persistent Planet is a youth-led organization dedicated to advocating about environmental justice issues using art and education. Through seasonal workshops, social media, murals, and tabling events, we strive to speak out and inform others about the issues happening toward disproportionately affected communities. In light of the difficult period we are now experiencing for climate and environmental news, and the unpredictability for the future, we hope to use painting and mosaic tile artwork to write goals for our future and answer a personal question: What is your environmental dream?
Credo High School - Recycled Fashion
Coming from the North Bay, Credo High School and their One Planet Leadership Club is presenting an outfit from their annual Trashion show. Visit the booth and create a piece out of collected trashy supplies and incorporate it into the design. Together, let us bring awareness to positive alternative solutions already being put into action to help combat a disposable mindset. Remember, this is the one planet we have! The final design will be displayed at the Community Art Center in Cloverdale, CA.
California Youth Climate Policy/Ten Strands
Stop by our table to learn more about the California Youth Climate Policy (CYCP) Leadership Program, an exciting opportunity for high school students (9th–12th grade) to lead real climate action in their schools and communities.
We’ll be sharing how youth across California are becoming Climate Policy Ambassadors—gaining knowledge, mentorship, and hands-on experience to advocate for climate justice and policy change in their communities. Find out how you (or a student you know!) can join Cohort 3 this summer and become part of a powerful youth-led climate movement.
We’ll be sharing how youth across California are becoming Climate Policy Ambassadors—gaining knowledge, mentorship, and hands-on experience to advocate for climate justice and policy change in their communities. Find out how you (or a student you know!) can join Cohort 3 this summer and become part of a powerful youth-led climate movement.
Roots for Tomorrow
Our booth will host an interactive coloring and map analysis activity for participants to explore issues of environmental injustice in the bay area. Participants will look at the effects of historic redlining on residents' relative exposure to urban pollution and other environmental health hazards. They will also learn about past and present initiatives aimed at addressing environmental health inequalities and learn how they can promote environmental justice in their own communities.
Mycelium Youth Network - Mission High Environmental Justice
The Mission High Youth Leadership Council will facilitate a teach-in about the history of redlining and gentrification and how these discriminatory practices and processes contribute to environmental justice in our city. They will engage with participants through a mapping activity containing layers that show the city's pre-colonial landscape, heat zones in the city, allocation of green spaces, and redlined neighborhoods. Their workshop will also include a bell pepper planting activity for participants to bring home and take care of in preparation for our warmer days!
International School of SF's Environmental Club
The International School of San Francisco environmental club booth will teach participants about California’s journey to a sustainable power grid. Visitors can expect to learn loads, play a competitive trivia game with their friends, and maybe collect a special prize.
Young Leaders in Climate Action
Young Leaders in Climate Action is a youth-led organization dedicated to making climate literacy more accessible to young people, particularly middle schoolers in the Bay Area. Through environmental science and climate justice workshops, project development opportunities, and mentoring, we are working to create the next generation of climate leaders. Our table will be doing demos of experiments that will happen during our summer workshops. We hope to see you there!
Sierra Club AHS
The Sierra Club is hosting a letter writing event where participants will write a letter “to the earth” pledging their commitment to doing their part to heal climate change. For example, “Dear Earth, I pledge to pick up litter I see.” Letters will be displayed on our booth.
Fossil Free California
BAYCS - Grass Babies
Swing by our booth to participate in a fun take-home DIY project where you get hands-on experience by crafting a cute grass baby with decorations of your choice! You get the opportunity to combine art with climate activism in this brief activity while showcasing your artistic talent.
BAYCS - Thrift
In today’s society, constant consumerism–including fast fashion–is incredibly normalized. Frequently, people forget the harm it is inflicting on our environment from excess greenhouse gas emissions to significant water waste. Lucily, we have a perfect solution–thrifting! At our thrift booth, you’ll have the opportunity to get new clothes in a sustainable way and discuss sustainable fashion with BAYCS team members.
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