Join us and volunteer outside to get your hands dirty, breathe fresh air, and make a difference in your local green spaces to help create a healthy planet! We’ve got 8 tips on how to prepare for your next volunteer day!

Since reopening our community workdays this fall, we have hosted more than a dozen volunteer events that turned out over 500 people!

“And now, the moment of truth… Will we see water at Terman today?!” How frequently this question has crossed my mind in the past three years as we prepared to visit Adobe Creek at Terman Middle School in Palo Alto, one of our most notoriously dry locations for water quality monitoring. Ever since we began our Palo Alto water quality monitoring program in December of 2013--right in the middle of the drought-ridden, sun-soaked winter--we have played this guessing game.

Each June, some serious number crunching happens at Grassroots Ecology. It’s the end of our fiscal year, which means that it’s time for our staff to look over all our records from the past 12 months, to see the extent of our collective impact.