Partnerships

Community Climate Action Partners

Piedmont Connect works with a variety of collaboration partners: League of Women Voters of Piedmont, Piedmont Racial Equity Campaign, Piedmont Appreciating Diversity Film Series, Piedmont & Millennium High Schools’ Green Clubs, City of Piedmont Planning, Public Works and Recreation Departments.

Piedmont Connect and LWV Piedmont Climate Speaker Series

Piedmont Connect and League of Women Voters of Piedmont, the city’s two leading environmental education and advocacy organizations, jointly developed a Climate Speaker Series that launched in September 2022 and ran through April 2023. 

We hope citizens will participate to learn more about what’s possible and what’s necessary to transition to a net-zero-emission economy within the timeframe required to meet our obligations under the 2015 Paris global climate accord. 

Climate Speakers

Miss any or all of the speakers? Watch the entire Climate Speaker Series on LWVP’s YouTube Channel:

Mark Jacobson: Transitioning California and the World to 100% Clean, Renewal Energy and Storage for Everything

Daniel Sperling: Electric Vehicles: Can They Deliver on their Promise?

Rupa Basu: Health Impacts from Heat: What to Know and What You Can Do

Paul Gosselin: Sustainable Groundwater Management in California

Rebecca Burgess: How Textiles Affect Climate Change

Sara Paul: Wildfire Mitigation in the Bay Area: What Can Be Done?

Piedmont Gardens featured in 18th Annual Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour, Hosted by Piedmont Connect

Over 650 people toured two native-dominant gardens in Piedmont on the 18th Annual Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour on April 30, 2022 from 10am-5pm.

Piedmont’s Garden Tour hosts were Nancy & Robert McKee-Jolda and Hope & Larry Salzer. These landscape stewards qualified for the Tour because:

• Over 70% of their garden is planted in California native species

• Their landscape is maintained with watershed-friendly and biologically-beneficial practices:

  • no chemical additives (neither fertilizers, nor pesti/herbi/fungicides). Only organic materials like compost are used for supplemental soil balance and plant nutrition

  • focus on plants with low supplemental-water needs

  • chose a variety of native ‘keystone’ plant species which support numerous native faunal lifeforms (especially Lepidopteran species and a broad array of native pollinators)

  • used electric or hand-powered landscaping tools rather than tools using harmful, polluting fossil fuels

Wednesday Walkers receive exclusive Piedmont Connect Native Garden Tour Sneak Previews

Piedmont Recreation Department’s Wednesday Walkers program offered sneak preview tours on April 20 & 27, 2022 of Piedmont’s two qualifying native-dominant gardens on the 2022 Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour.

Dozens attended the PRD’s two “Walking on Wednesdays” tours to learn about, ask questions, and view the Piedmont gardens accepted to the 2022 Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour.

Piedmont Connect, City & Recreation Department Partner for Earth Day

Residents investigated Piedmont's local environmental treasures in a City-wide scavenger hunt to celebrate Earth Day 2022. Piedmont Connect created fun, challenging scavenger clues and donated native starter trees as prizes. Explorers searched Piedmont’s great outdoors, solving puzzles and riddles to find local sustainability features and learn about ways to conserve our natural resources. The family-friendly hunt was accessed through the Actionbound app and prizes were given to all explorers.

Piedmont Connect 2021 Guided Front Garden Tours Connected with Piedmont Recreation Department’s Walking on Wednesdays program

Piedmont Connect was invited by Piedmont Recreation Department’s Walking on Wednesdays program to give two, 90-minute guided tours of a curated selection of the gardens on Connects’s Fall Front Garden Tour. These well-attended tours broke attendance records for the Recreation Department’s Walking on Wednesdays program. If you are interested in joining the Wednesday walking group, register online: Piedmont Recreation Department’s Community Pass website.