Come walk with local botanist Romey Haberle for an exploration of spring flowers and other botanical wonders of a lovely, forested wetland. Hidden away by dense vegetation along busy Pearl and N 19th st, the SE corner of Tacoma Community college is a series of wetlands connected by gentle trails.  TCC’s Natural Area and Living Lab is a community open space to enjoy and learn about nature. 

Learn tips and tricks to easily collect all your food waste and fully utilize your residential curbside food/yard waste cart.

Speaker presentations are rooted in the Mystery Science, Next Generation Science Standards lessons. The goal of the workshop is to provide access to local knowledge about tree and native habitat science, and to questions specific to Tacoma about green infrastructure, engineering, and climate change.

Learn tips and tricks to easily collect all your food waste and fully utilize your residential curbside food/yard waste cart. We’ll help you avoid the “yuck factor” and discuss ways to help prevent wasted food in the first place!

This audience-driven session is all about answering your recycling questions. We invite you to bring in items you’re unsure about and get expert advice on which waste stream they belong to. It’s a fun, hands-on way to learn how to recycle more effectively and reduce waste in our community!

Come plant 200+ trees on the Foothills Trail. This event will include hands-on training about trees, tree care, and their importance in heat and stormwater reduction.

Join us for the 17th Annual South Sound Sustainability Expo! This free, family-friendly event brings the South Sound community together to celebrate and promote environmental sustainability and resiliency. Explore a vibrant mix of vendors, activities, and displays showcasing regional organizations working to improve the environmental sustainability and/or resiliency of our region. The Expo is hosted by the City of Tacoma's Environmental Services Department.

Come volunteer with us for 3 hours where you will learn about our critical wetland space in Pierce County, remove invasive plants, and protect the native bio-diverse under story in a handful of select sites!

Take a deep dive into why some items go into your recycling cart in Pierce County and others need to be dropped off to get recycled.

This interactive event is designed to equip students with the knowledge, tools, and connections to take meaningful climate actions in their schools and their broader community.

Visit the Tacoma Nature Center on Saturday, April 23 for a FREE Earth Day Celebration!

Seattle Parks Foundation is proud to present Earth Day 2025: Seattle’s Innovation & Leadership in Climate Equity on Tuesday, April 22, 2025 at Town Hall Seattle. Doors will open at 6:30pm, and the event will begin at 7:30pm. Tickets are on sale now.

En este taller de escritura somática, practicaremos la respiración, la afirmación, la terapia somática, la escritura y el compartir durante nuestro tiempo juntes.

During this somatic writing workshop, we will practice using breath, affirmation, somatic therapy, writing, and sharing during our time together.

Join Teruko Nimura, City of Tacoma Artist in Residence, for a free workshop where you can create your own upcycled Koinobori (a traditional Japanese carp streamer) from upcycled materials, contribute to a large community-painted dragon head, and learn about creative reuse and sustainability.

Celebrate Earth Day with Thurston County and the City of Lacey at a fun, family-friendly event focused on recycling and waste reduction!

This FREE family friendly event celebrates all things creative reuse. Make with existing materials.

Away from screens, listening to the songs of birds, and watching the branches sway in the breeze, we can find peace. As we emerge from our winter cocoons, come practice mindfulness with us and learn strategies to help ground yourself in the season ahead.

The Pierce County Bike Swap will bring the bicycling community together to buy, sell bikes and bike parts, to test ride their future bike, practice bike riding skills, discuss best cycling routes, and much more.

Join us for a neighborhood planting party as we install native plants in the new garden beds at McKinley Overlook.

Come help us remove invasive plants and spread native prairie seeds!

Participants are needed in parks throughout Tacoma to spruce up local parks by trimming limbs, grooming grounds and maintaining restoration areas.

Join this zoom to get your recycling questions answered!

Join us for a special Earth Day Beach Cleanup event and be part of a global movement to protect our oceans and shorelines. Every piece of trash removed from the beach is a step towards a cleaner, healthier ocean ecosystem.

Attend our walk-up tree share on April 12th and take your trees home!

• 11:30am - Bilingual Mindfulness Walk

• 1:30pm - Bilingual Tree Walk

• Mar and Sol will be leading a creative mindfulness activity

• VT-Radio will be sharing music and promoting local organizations

• Food trucks

Join us to test out water filtration methods and learn about pollution; practice sorting recycled materials, compost, and trash; make your own native seed sculptures that can be planted to grow native plants that contribute to a healthier local environment, and more.

Join us in developing UW’s new tri-campus Sustainability Action Plan, which will provide an actionable roadmap toward a sustainable 2050!