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Green Your Finances: Focus on Investing

ONLINE. Looking to align your money with your values? We’ll bust the performance myth, explain the difference between divestment and engagement, and clarify terms such as Socially Responsible Investing (SRI), and Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) ratings, and share tools for aligning your investments with your values. Register online for link. 6p—8p. Free

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Community Mercantile: Local Reuse Store has Zero-Landfill Mission

Reduce, reuse, recycle. It’s what we’ve all been taught. But at the Davis Community Mercantile, co-founder Stephanie Koop has repurposed this mantra, encouraging people to instead “retrieve, recycle and reuse”. To Koop, sustainable living means making the most of what you already have: zero waste, nothing to the landfill. Six-months ago, Koop and her friend

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Split Plant Sale

ARBORETUM. First two hours open to members only; join at the gate for a $10-off coupon. Members also receive 10% off purchases + exclusive access to one-acre nursery filled with thousands of native, low-water plants. 9a—1p

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Grand Opening: Davis Community Mercantile

Long-time Davis residents Stephanie Koop and Larry Fisher have an abiding passion for ecological causes. As our home planet groans under the weight of mass consumerism, these dedicated activists have taken a bold and significant step forward in lessening our carbon footprint by forming Community Mercantile. This nonprofit venture focuses on keeping a wide variety

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Arboretum Plant Sale Oct. 2022

The public is welcome to shop the UC Davis campus’s one-acre nursery for an incredible selection of Arboretum All-Stars, California natives, and thousands of other attractive, low-water plants perfect for our region. Campus Location: Arboretum Teaching Nursery Location of Event: UC Davis Campus Price: Free Email: arboretum@ucdavis.edu Phone: 916-752-4880 Presented by: UC Davis Arboretum and

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Climate Movie Circle at the Blanchard Room

You’re invited to the launch of the new Climate Movie Circle. It’s a free monthly screening of a climate change-related documentary followed by an optional (yet engaging!) group discussion led by Cool Davis volunteers. There will be a variety of titles shown, including family-friendly movies. We will follow County guidelines regarding Covid. For the first

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