handouts on how to help the environment

Over close to 30 years, Friends of Five Creeks developed many information sheets, flyers, and other handouts and small signs. This is a selection.

Anyone is free to use these materials. Nothing is copyrighted. Most of the information remains useful, even though some is out of date — for example, “Global Warming Basics for the Bay Area” remains relevant, but the state of climate change and projections have changed.

Pollution and helping creeks 

• Who’Ya Gonna Call about Water Pollution?
• Five Things You Can Do for Creeks
  En Español (PDF)
  Simplified and Traditional Chinese (PDF)
• De-clutter the environmental way (PDF)
• F5C’s native-plant signs, available to all (PDF; see first-page instructions for viewing as slide show)

Climate change, water conservation

• Saving Water Rain and Shine
• Global warming basics for the Bay Area — how global warming may affect the Bay Area, and what you can do.

Finding the benefits of nature

• Nature Treasure Hunt, for kids of all ages, designed for lower Codornices and Cerrito Creeks but adaptable elsewhere
• Creekside walks in the Berkeley/Albany/El Cerrito/Kensington area
• Places to experience nature in Berkeley, Albany, El Cerrito, and Kensington
• Citizen Science — learning and enjoying while adding to knowledge
• California wildlife and nature web cams
• Codornices Creek “nature cards” — nuggets of nature and things to look for along Codornices Creek from Sixth to Eighth Streets.

Plants and gardening

• Garden with nature — Online info 
• Native Creekside Plants for the East Bay
• Edible and useful wild plants and weeds for our area (PDF)
• Invasive Plants along Codornices Creek from 6th to 8th (may be helpful for other urban creeks)
• Gourmet Eating Meets the Weed Wars: Fennel Pollen Recipes (PDF)

Three native-plant nurseries in the East Bay are Native Here Nursery, Oaktown Native Plant Nursery , and the Watershed Nursery.