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Connect the Bay: Latina Coalition Power Savers

SAVE POWER! Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley is getting the word out to the community about PG&E’s Power Saver Rewards program. This initiative asks households to reduce electricity use at times of...

Connect the Bay: AI Chatbots Decoded

Meet Ameca, the ChatGPT-powered conversational robot at the center of the “Chatbots Decoded” exhibit in Mountain View. The Computer History Museum’s Kirsten Tashev engages Ameca in spontaneous convers...

Connect the Bay: Alebrijes in San Jose

Alebrije invasion! In time for Hispanic Heritage month, downtown San Jose’s Plaza de Cesar Chavez Park and surrounding area has been taken over by eight awesomely huge mythological beasts from the fol...

The Trash Punx

Rock On, Trash Out! San Jose nonprofit The Trash Punx was founded by punk rock drummer Justin Imamura, who brings his outside-the-box enthusiasm and passionate commitment to watershed stewardship to o...

BeautifySJ

When San Jose volunteers feel the need to clean, BeautifySJ is there to supply all the tools and services necessary to facilitate their anti-litter activism. Since trash and waterways are a bad look f...

Grassroots Ecology

Weeding Wisdom. Grassroots Ecology volunteers have removing invasive plants down to a science. The conservation nonprofit counts on a steady supply of people power from volunteers of all ages and back...

Riparian Restoration

Helping Natives Thrive. Katheryn Hill knows that when habitat around local waterways – riparian areas – are restored, native animals return to take advantage of the natural connections these corridors...

Keep Coyote Creek Beautiful

Treasure Trove of Trash. The San Jose nonprofit Keep Coyote Creek Beautiful works hard to do just that—through their ongoing series of volunteer creek cleanup work parties within the Coyote Creek wate...

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