We Are Eating the Earth - by Michael Grunwald (384 pages) - Humanity has already cleared land the size of Asia and Europe to grow food, and agriculture now generates a third of global carbon emissions. By 2050, we’ll need to feed nearly 10 billion people, but we can’t keep tearing down a rainforest acre every few seconds without pushing the planet deeper into climate chaos. Michael Grunwald shows how flawed solutions, like biofuels and vertical farms, are worsening the crisis, while highlighting scientists and entrepreneurs developing new crops, cattle, and safer pesticides.

A Cool Petaluma & Blue Zones Project Petaluma Collaboration

Do you have clothes with holes? Knitting projects to finish? Buttons to re-attach? Bring your knitting needles, sewing kit, or even your sewing machine and mend with us! 

Discover how your business can save energy and water, reduce costs, and stand out as a leader in sustainability.

Plus, get a tour of the brand new Reuse Hub!

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Are you are one of those fortunate souls with a packed pantry or garden full of plentiful produce? Are you worried that some of it might go to waste? If so, we have a solution for you!

Please join Cool Petaluma, in partnership with the Petaluma Regional Library and Sonoma County Food Recovery Coalition, in sharing that abundance with our community.

Learn how to make your home more comfortable and energy-efficient without breaking the bank!

A Cool Petaluma & Blue Zones Project Petaluma Collaboration

Do you have clothes with holes? Knitting projects to finish? Buttons to re-attach? Bring your knitting needles, sewing kit, or even your sewing machine and mend with us! 

Local business leaders are invited to join us as share ideas and best practices to build a healthy, happy, and planet-friendly city. This collective effort is more powerful, and it’s more fun!

Abundance - by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson (304 pages) -Arguing that many of today’s challenges stem not from bad intentions, but from outdated systems, the authors explore why progress in America often feels stuck. Examining political and cultural obstacles, Klein and Thompson offer a hopeful roadmap for creating a society that delivers more opportunity, innovation, and well-being for all. (Petaluma is mentioned in this book.)

Are you are one of those fortunate souls with a packed pantry or garden full of plentiful produce? Are you worried that some of it might go to waste? If so, we have a solution for you!

Please join Cool Petaluma, in partnership with the Petaluma Regional Library and Sonoma County Food Recovery Coalition, in sharing that abundance with our community.

A Cool Petaluma & Blue Zones Project Petaluma Collaboration

Do you have clothes with holes? Knitting projects to finish? Buttons to re-attach? Bring your knitting needles, sewing kit, or even your sewing machine and mend with us! 

This and every Wednesday in August and September

Local business leaders are invited to join us as share ideas and best practices to build a healthy, happy, and planet-friendly city. This collective effort is more powerful, and it’s more fun!

Abundance - by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson (304 pages) -Arguing that many of today’s challenges stem not from bad intentions, but from outdated systems, the authors explore why progress in America often feels stuck. Examining political and cultural obstacles, Klein and Thompson offer a hopeful roadmap for creating a society that delivers more opportunity, innovation, and well-being for all. (Petaluma is mentioned in this book.)

interested in learning life-saving skills? Do you want to become CPR & AED certified? Join us for this free event! Spaces are limited.

A Cool Petaluma & Blue Zones Project Petaluma Collaboration

Do you have clothes with holes? Knitting projects to finish? Buttons to re-attach? Bring your knitting needles, sewing kit, or even your sewing machine and mend with us! 

You are invited to a welcoming, inclusive sharing space, where we pause our emphasis on activism and instead safely and respectfully explore our emotional responses to living in these times. This can help transform our thoughts and feelings, allowing new energy and ideas to emerge.

Local business leaders are invited to join us as share ideas and best practices to build a healthy, happy, and planet-friendly city. This collective effort is more powerful, and it’s more fun!

Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age by Nicole Seymour (304 pages) – Does environmentalism have to be so serious, so unfunny, so doom and gloom? In this book, Nicole Seymour examines the movement in an irreverent, campy, frivolous, playful, even funny way.

A Cool Petaluma & Blue Zones Project Petaluma Collaboration

Do you have clothes with holes? Knitting projects to finish? Buttons to re-attach? Bring your knitting needles, sewing kit, or even your sewing machine and mend with us! 

Local business leaders are invited to join us as share ideas and best practices to build a healthy, happy, and planet-friendly city. This collective effort is more powerful, and it’s more fun!

Watch as people grappling with despair over climate change lean into their painful feelings and in the process find joy, connection and a renewed sense of possibility.

Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer (128 pages) – While harvesting serviceberries alongside the birds, Kimmerer considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from Indigenous wisdom and ecological systems to reimagine currencies of exchange?

A Cool Petaluma & Blue Zones Project Petaluma Collaboration

Do you have clothes with holes? Knitting projects to finish? Buttons to re-attach? Bring your knitting needles, sewing kit, or even your sewing machine and mend with us! 

Local business leaders are invited to join us as share ideas and best practices to build a healthy, happy, and planet-friendly city. This collective effort is more powerful, and it’s more fun!

What if We Get it Right? by Ayana, Elizabeth Johnson.

Sometimes the bravest thing we can do while facing an existential crisis is imagine life on the other side. This provocative and joyous book maps an inspiring landscape of possible climate futures.

Because this has so much good, juicy content, we are dividing our book club conversation into four parts.

Our annual expo for local resources is growing once again to become Future Fest 2025!

Now in our fourth year, we are partnering with both the City of Petaluma and Petaluma City Schools to expand our reach and our offerings.

A Cool Petaluma & Blue Zones Project Petaluma Collaboration

Do you have clothes with holes? Knitting projects to finish? Buttons to re-attach? Bring your knitting needles, sewing kit, or even your sewing machine and mend with us! 

Working to mitigate and adapt to climate change is getting even more challenging. It can feel like an uphill struggle to maintain motivation and sanity, so it's crucial to support each other by connecting with our colleagues.