
Upcoming Events

Book Club - Serviceberry
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?

Good Grief: The 10 Steps Documentary & Workshop
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.

Cool Business Collective Meeting
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!

Mending Circle every Third Thursday
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!

Book Club - Bad Environmentalism
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.

Mending Circle every Third Thursday
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!

Cool Business Collective Meeting
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!

Book Club - What if We Get it Right? Part 4
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.

Future Fest & Expo 2025
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.

Mending Circle every Third Thursday
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!

Climate Professionals Mixer
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.

Cool Business Launch Party
Local business leaders are invited to join us as we kick off this new Cool Business Collective. This is your opportunity to connect with each other and learn more about this program to decide if you’d like to join us.

Book Club - What if We Get it Right? Part 3
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.

Mending Circle every Third Thursday
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!

Team Leader Training March 2025
Our Cool Team program brings neighbors or friends together so that we can take care of each other while we take care of the planet.
Enthusiastic community members step up and join one of our free half-day trainings to become Team Leaders. They then gather their neighbors or friends and kickstart community climate action by making a fun, welcoming environment for people to get curious, explore ideas, and take action together.

Book Club - What if We Get it Right? Part 2
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.

Paddle the Petaluma: Back to the River Experience
Cool Petaluma is excited to be partnering with The Floathouse to offer a very special adventure! Come spend the morning with us on a special guided tour that will take us through the river’s fascinating history, from its role as a vital trade route to its current transformation into a hub of recreation and environmental restoration.

Cool Teams Info Session
Are you interested in our Cool Teams program but not quite ready to commit?
The coffee, tea, and pastries are on us as we gather to learn more about the program at the organic french bakery called Sarmentine. We are excited to show you how having fun as a Cool Team can inspire meaningful action in our communities.

Join or Die: Documentary Screening
“Join or Die” is a documentary film about the importance of joining a club and the health of American democracy. The film follows the story of social scientist Robert Putnam and his research on the decline of community connections.

Mending Circle every Third Thursday
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!

Water Recycling Facility Tour #2
Due to popular demand, we’re hosting a second tour!
Join us for an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at Petaluma’s Ellis Creek Water Recycling Facility!

Climate Professionals Mixer
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.

Book Club - What if We Get it Right? Part 1
Our first book, “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.

Purpose Workshop with Blue Zones Petaluma
Feeling a little lost? January is a great time to assess our life’s purpose and align our values and our actions in meaningful ways. To help you find new inspiration, we invite you to attend this free workshop facilitated by our partner, Blue Zones Project Petaluma.

Mending Circle every Third Thursday
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!

Water Recycling Facility Tour
Explore Petaluma's Fascinating Infrastructure: The Ellis Creek Water Recycling Facility Tour
Join us for an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at Petaluma’s Ellis Creek Water Recycling Facility! Discover how our community transforms wastewater into high-quality recycled water, helping protect the environment and support local ecosystems.

Mending Circle every Third Thursday
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!

Shindig 2024
Our THIRD annual Stakeholder Shindig is a time to celebrate all of the amazing community-led climate action work that has been done this year and support next year's efforts to keep going!

Mending Circle every Third Thursday
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!


Climate Cafe - Exploring Our Emotions
Do you feel.... Overwhelmed by the constant stream of horrific climate news? Grief at seeing so much loss and destruction? Anxious about the future? Numb and detached? Frustrated by the "big players" who are doing too little to address the crisis? These are normal reactions to what is happening around us.
This event provides an open, informal, respectful gathering where you can safely explore your thoughts, experiences, and emotional responses to the climate crisis.

Mending Circle every Third Thursday
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!

Team Leader Training Fall 2024
We make this journey fun and impactful by bringing the community together so that we can take care of each other while we take care of the planet.

Climate Professionals Mixer
Calling all climate scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, nonprofits, contractors, writers, artists, and beyond! Cool Petaluma invites all those working to address our climate crisis to a community mixer at Crooked Goat Brewing.

First Friday Bike Ride
At our next First Friday ride we're going to do a classic west side east side west side ride.