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 Most of the information remains useful, even though some is out of date — for example, “Global Warming Basics for the Bay Area” remains relevant, but the state of climate change and projections have changed.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
- Saving Water in Drought
- Global warming basics for the Bay Area — how global warming may affect the Bay Area, and what you can d
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 enjoy nature in Berkele, Albany, Cerrito and Kensington (COVID handout)
- Citizen Science — learning and enjoying while adding to knowledge
- 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
- How to Plant Natives and Control Erosion
- Planting Natives from Containers
- Native Creekside Plants for the East Bay
- Edible and useful wild plants and weeds for our area
- Invasive Plants along Codornices Creek from 6th to 8th (may be helpful for other urban creeks)
Three native-plant nurseries in the East Bay are Native Here Nursery, Oaktown Native Plant Nursery , and the Watershed Nursery.
Bookmark-type handouts