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We're just starting a water quality, community garden, and art project at Josie de la Cruz Park in City of Oakland - Local Government. We're hoping we can get the park staff to allow us to put up a board like this to first get ideas from the Fruitvale Community and Fruitvale Community Garden folks!

We love our funding partners, Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment New Voices is a very cool program that someone would be lucky to direct.

Join Our Team
The Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment is hiring! We are looking for a dynamic and dedicated New Voices Are Rising Youth Program Lead to mentor East Bay youth in our environmental justice leadership program and support our New Voices Are Rising Associate Program Director Mykela Patton with administration, community engagement, and other program-related activities.

For 20 years, our New Voices Are Rising program (New Voices) has worked to promote youth leadership and environmental stewardship to improve air quality, community health, and climate resilience for Bay Area residents. The New Voices Youth Program Lead manages planning, ex*****on, and evaluation of the Summer Climate Justice Leadership Academy and school-year Fellowship program.

The Rose Foundation values a diverse team whose lived experiences inform their relationship to social justice and community equity work. We encourage BIPOC folks to apply, as well as candidates who identify as women, femme, non-binary, or LGBTQ+. We encourage candidates who are comfortable conversing in Spanish, or another language commonly spoken in California communities of color, to apply.

Help us raise up the youth leaders of tomorrow!

Apply Today!
https://rosefoundation.applytojob.com/apply/Vkfk68dWWJ/New-Voices-Are-Rising-Youth-Program-Lead
Click the above button for more information about the role like job qualifications and how to apply. We are looking to fill this position as soon as possible, with a priority application review date of June 30, 2026.

This weekend's tour is in the Temescal neighborhood Before we do a tour, we always check on the newest numbers and species seen in that particular watershed on iNaturalist.org Here's the project that we created for the Temescal Creek watershed. We spy as the lead observer.
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/temescal-creek-watershed-observations

The anonymous donor who dropped $50,000 into Wholly H2O's coffers two weeks ago started a trend. In the last five days, we've received a bevy of grant money. For us at Wholly H2O, we really consider our grantors like part of our team and certainly part of our extended family. I not only want to thank them, but make them proud.

Many thanks to Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment who have been long funders who just gave us the money needed to continue our work protecting from nasty stormwater in Fruitvale at and Jose de la Cruz Park, to the Bill Graham Memorial Fund, also regular funders for adding to our abilityy to maintain staff, and to Rotary Club of Oakland, giving a second round of funding so we can repaint 100' mural of Sausal Creek through campus directly over the actual creek!

What? You'd like to contribute as well? https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/06f93c79-e78c-4a1d-8ff6-1c58cd542930

Bay Area Residents,
The things we discover as we research our new tour at Aquatic Park. One of our excellent interns, Melane Nock-Salgado, wrote this for our tour.

"In 2023, California enacted Senate Bill 272- "Sea level rise planning and adaptation" which requires regional and local action to address rising sea levels.

The Bay Area is facing an anticipated 16-inches of sea level rise by the year 2050. The increased velocity of water flow through the Aquatic Park tide tube systems due to sea level rise paired with the increased frequency and severity of storm activity will intensify the flow of tidal bay water and stormwater through the central tide tubes, accelerating the cracking and the erosion of the roadbed and leading to the collapse of the surface of I-80, West Frontage Road, West Bolivar Drive, and the Bay Trail. Berkeley and the wider Bay Area are also at risk for seismic activity. While the weight of the highway roadbed is the primary factor for the eventual upcoming collapse of the tide tubes, an earthquake would greatly accelerate the failure process.

In December 2025, the California Transportation Commission (CTC) approved $350,000 for 2026-27 to fund the planning for the renovation of the Aquatic Park subsurface culverts that run underneath I-80, local roads, and the Bay Trail. Total cost of the project is estimated to be $4.6 million and to be completed in 2030."

Did you know that there are over 1600 different species of native bees in California? And that the Bay Area is hotspot of biodiversity?

Join Emil Petrinic and Wholly H2O for a fun and informative bee walk. We'll get some basics from Emil and head off for a leisurely walk looking in every bloom for native bees.

Purchase tickets here!
https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/native-bee-walk-with-emil-petrinic-at-the-gardens-at-lake-merritt

You're coming, right? Dimond Park in Sausal Creek has a fascinating history, both human and natural history. We'll learn:
Ohlone uses of plants, animals and the creek
The Peralta Family colonization
Sausal Water Company
Redwoods - where they were and weren't
What does it mean to daylight a creek?
Devastating effects of stormwater and what you can do

Walking Waterhoods: Sausal Creek in Lower Dimond Park Sausal Creek winds through this dramatic canyon that has seen thousands of years of human activity. As European colonists moved into the area, displacing the Huichin Ohlone, the area now known as Dimond Park went through several iterations as an elite homestead, water source, recreation area, Boy Sc...