Sonoma Ecology Center is proud that our youth and volunteer-led SEC Earthlings Club is partnering with the City of Sonoma to support businesses and customers in reducing the use of single-use plastics and non-recyclable food packaging. This effort is being made...
City Nature Challenge is an international event that takes place on the same weekend each year to encourage scientists and citizen scientists to document on the iNaturalist app any and all species they see in nature. Team Sugarloaf has participated in it for the past...
By Ellie Insley, Vice President of the Board of Directors of Sonoma Ecology Center. Ellie is a Landscape Architect; Natural Habitat Restoration Specialist; Life Coach; and Equine Guided Educator. Fire-resilient landscaping may be more important now than ever given the...
Heartfelt passion and dedication to the environment are the building blocks of our newest group, the youth-led Earthlings, explains Julia Megna, Education Project Manager. Julia says she is “blown away” by the energy of this group of about 20 who range in age from 2...
The warm, sunny days we have been enjoying the last several weeks are delightful, but we shouldn’t be enjoying so many of them at this point in what should be our rainy season. “This year is shaping up to be one of the driest on record in our region, with over 50% of...
As someone who has always admired the grandeur of the outdoors and has an ever-present curiosity for exploring, understanding and preserving our natural world, studying environmental science just made sense. As a Southern California native, my summer days as a youth...
