Upcoming Events
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.
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!
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.
City Council Candidate Climate Forum
A Climate Action Petaluma, Cool Petaluma, & Daily Acts Collaboration
Candidates will have an opportunity to share their background, priorities, and insights on local climate action.
Cool Petaluma Info Session
Wondering if this program might be right for you and your neighbors? Join us for a one-hour information session that will help you experience what it is like to be a Team Leader so you can decide if you are ready to step up and put your block on the map!
Carbon Gardening Happy Hour, part 3: Drought, Floods, and Working with Water
Come grab dinner or drinks and join us for a conversation about how water drives the carbon cycle, the shared causes of drought and flood, rainwater harvesting and more!
For this third event in our Carbon Gardening series, join Connor DeVane of Daily Acts and Spencer Sutton of Integrative Native Artisans for happy hour at Aqus! Arrive at 5:30 to grab dinner or drinks and settle in…..
Cool Petaluma Info Session
Wondering if this program might be right for you and your neighbors? Join us for a one-hour information session that will help you experience what it is like to be a Team Leader so you can decide if you are ready to step up and put your block on the map!
Cool Petaluma Social at Aqus
Come hang and socialize with Cool Petaluma supporters, team leaders, team members, volunteers and staff.
Carbon Gardening Happy Hour, part 2: Beyond Your Backyard
Come grab dinner or drinks and join us for a conversation about ways to drawdown and store carbon in soil!
For this second event in our Carbon Gardening series, join Ann Baker: landscape architect and Petaluma Climate Action Commissioner; and Dr. Jeff Creque: co-founder…..
Cool Petaluma Info Session
Wondering if this program might be right for you and your neighbors? Join us for a one-hour information session that will help you experience what it is like to be a Team Leader so you can decide if you are ready to step up and put your block on the map!
Cool Petaluma Info Session
Wondering if this program might be right for you and your neighbors? Join us for a one-hour information session that will help you experience what it is like to be a Team Leader so you can decide if you are ready to step up and put your block on the map!
First Annual Stakeholder Shindig!
Cool Petaluma is delighted to host our first end-of-year celebration!
Everyone is invited to join us as we recount the community’s accomplishments from 2022 and share our exciting plans for 2023.
Join the Thermostat Challenge!
With Ukraine bracing for a long, cold winter and the northeast United States already rationing heating oil, let’s challenge ourselves to turn down the heat and put on some warmer clothes.
eBike Meetup for Curious People
Interested in eBikes? A group of local ebike owners will be showing off their ebikes and will be available for conversations about their experiences, good and bad. The idea is that you will better be able to determine the ebike what’s right for you.
Cavanagh Center & Trathen’s Home Garden Tour & Social
Let’s take a field trip! Join us for a fun and informative Saturday morning at the Cavanagh Center and Trathen’s home garden to learn about saving money and water while creating beautiful landscapes. We’ll talk about sheet mulching, rain gardens grey water and planting water-wise plants.
First Friday at Five Bike Ride
Mark your calendars with this recurring event!
At 5 pm every First Friday of the month, join us at Walnut Park on the corner of D St. and Petaluma Blvd. South. From there, we’ll set off around town to help create a real bicycling culture in Petaluma!
First Friday at Five Bike Ride-October 2022
Mark your calendars with this recurring event!
At 5 pm every First Friday of the month, join us at Walnut Park on the corner of D St. and Petaluma Blvd. South. From there, we’ll set off around town to help create a real bicycling culture in Petaluma!
Step Out at Seven - Petaluma Passeggiata
Passeggiata – Italian for a leisurely walk or stroll, especially one taken in the evening. Just step out of your home and take a walk every Thursday.
Tri-City Electrification Workshop
Electrification Workshop
Cool Irvine has partnered with several organizations to bring you this informative Electrification Workshop! Sean Armstrong, energy efficiency expert with Redwood Energy will be answering your questions.
Petaluma Jugglers
Join Aqus Community and Cool Petaluma for a fun afternoon of juggling in the park!
Step Out at Seven - Petaluma Passeggiata
Passeggiata – Italian for a leisurely walk or stroll, especially one taken in the evening. Just step out of your home and take a walk every Thursday.
Cool Block Leader Info Session
Join us for a one-hour interactive information meeting to learn about the basics of the Cool Block Program. This will help you decide if you want to join the 300+ existing Cool Block Leaders in Petaluma who have already volunteered to lead their neighbors on this rewarding journey.
Advanced Energy Center Tour and Social
Let’s take a field trip! Join us for a fun and informative evening in downtown Santa Rosa! This is the perfect place to learn about home electrification and all of the available incentive programs.
Motherload Movie in the Park + Swag Stamping
Join the City of Petaluma, Bike Petaluma, and Cool Petaluma in the screening of this award-winning documentary that uses the cargo bike as the vehicle for exploring parenthood in this digital age of climate change.
Ask and Expert: Safe Streets
THIS EVENT HAS PASSED AND THERE IS NO RECORDING.
Learn more about what you and your blockmates can do to shrink your CARbon footprints while making Petaluma’s streets safer and healthier for everyone.
Ask an Expert: Conflict Resolution
WATCH THE RECORDING OF THIS PAST EVENT.
Conflict can bring us closer together or it can pull us apart. In this session, we'll review conflict principles and tools for bringing nonviolence into our interpersonal conflicts.