Green Change at Ember Stomp
We hosted our popular Green Change Exhibit at Ember Stomp 2025, to help visitors go green and cool the earth. This free festival about wildlife prevention and climate resilience took place in the Marin Fairgrounds in San Rafael, on Saturday, September 6.
Our family-friendly Green Change Exhibit featured fun games and activities for all ages, as well as information about sustainable living. Featured activities included Green Tips, Green Pledges, Anytown USA and Game Changers.
Through these playful activities, people learned about climate action, clean energy, electric vehicles, green homes and gardens, wildfire prevention, healthy food and resilient communities. Our big earth globe attracted hundreds of visitors to our environmental Zone near the lagoon, next to other partners like Resilient Neighborhoods and Zero Waste Marin.
This lively exhibit is produced by Green Change, a nonprofit climate action network that helps thousands of people go green in Marin, the Bay Area and beyond. Thanks to our sponsors at the County of Marin, Marin Community Foundation and MCE for their supporting our exhibit! Green Change is a project of Sustainable Marin.
To learn more, read on.
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Photos & Videos
Activities
Sponsors
Team
Youth
Impact
Event
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Photos & Videos
Enjoy our photos and videos of our Green Change Exhibit at Ember Stomp:
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Photo Album (Flickr, 71 photos and 7 videos)
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Video Trailer (Vimeo, 1 video)
Photos and videos by Green Change volunteers Fabrice Florin and Erica Durwood. Our images are freely licensed with attribution, under Creative Commons (CC-BY-4.0), in return for a photo credit to GreenChange.net and our photographers (see bylines in tags).
Activities
Here were our featured activities at Ember Stomp (click each title to learn more):
Green Tips
Discover practical ways to live more sustainably with our action guides and green tips. From saving energy at home to reducing waste, this activity gave families easy, everyday solutions to shrink their carbon footprint.
Learn about going green with our action guides and green tips.
Green Pledges
Pledge to go green and snap a photo with Mother Earth! Visitors committed to actions like conserving water, eating more plants, or growing their own food — fun reminders that personal choices add up to big climate impact.
Anytown USA
Design your own sustainable town in a race against time. Families collaborated to create communities that balance housing, transportation, energy, and nature — sparking conversations about how we can all shape a greener future.
Climate Jenga
Climate Jenga takes the classic party game to new heights, using it as a powerful metaphor for the climate crisis. Players will face the challenge of balancing energy choices, showing how reliance on fossil fuels can lead to collapse, while renewable energy brings stability. Can you keep the tower standing?
The Price is Right
Step up and test your eco-smarts in this fun, fast-paced game! At our “Price Is Right” booth, visitors guessed which everyday products have a lighter climate impact — from groceries to gadgets. It’s a playful way to learn how your daily choices can make a big difference for the planet.
Stop, Drop & Roll
Stop, Drop & Roll is a fun, interactive game that uses a bean bag toss to highlight the balance between climate change prevention and adaptation. Players will navigate the risks of climate change, learning how missed opportunities lead to greater challenges in the future. Can you prevent the hazards?
Sponsors
Many thanks to our sponsors for this exhibit in 2025:
We’re grateful for their support of Green Change’s community education work this year!
Team
Our exhibit at Ember Stomp was presented by Green Change, our nonprofit climate action network. Many thanks to Green Change team leads Fabrice Florin, Tom Flynn, Al Grumet, and Bridget Mazzini for hosting our exhibit at this inspiring event! And kudos to the three young volunteers who joined our team to engage visitors at this event: Maija Blom, Erica Durwood, and Mae Freas!
We’re also grateful to our friendly Ember Stomp organizers Drew Patterson, Tara Patterson and Rich Shortall for hosting us on behalf of Fire Safe Marin. We really appreciate their professional logistical support for this well-run event.
If you have any questions or comments for our team, please email us.
Youth
This year, we had the pleasure of working with three young climate activists, who joined the Green Change team to host our exhibit that day: Erica Durwood, Mae Freas and Maija Blom.
They were wonderful collaborators and brought invaluable new energy to our team, engaging participants to play games and discuss climate action.
Our young volunteers also benefited from joining our production team for the day, and seeing how climate activists work. They told us it was a valuable learning experience for them.
And it also helped us improve what we do as a team. Most importantly, bringing young people up the activist ladder like this seems important for growing our climate movement, across generations.
Impact
We connected with hundreds of people at Ember Stomp 2025, and helped about 150 participants learn about climate action, which is a great outcome.
During this event, about 60 people played our environmental games. We engaged another 50 people in conversations about climate action, and shared dozens of green tips with them.
We also took photos of 15 participants who made a green pledge to take climate action. And we collected 15 newsletter signups and 10 emails were sent to government officials, asking them to help lower our electric rates
Overall, our exhibit had a positive impact on attendees, with many learning valuable new information. Participants loved playing our environmental games, and we had great conversations about climate actions they would like to take to protect our future. We particularly enjoyed engaging youth and diverse community members throughout the event.
Working with young advocates on our team was also a highlight of our experience at Ember Stomp. This collaboration between young people and older adults was very productive, and we all learned from each other.
Not only did we help visitors learn about climate action, but we also helped these young people with their professional development, and we built more capacity for our climate movement.
All in all, it was a very productive and inspiring day. 🙂
Event
Ember Stomp is Marin County’s annual wildfire prevention festival — a free, family-friendly event dedicated to education, preparedness, and community resilience. The 2025 edition took place on Saturday, September 6 at the Marin Fairgrounds in San Rafael, running from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM.
Organized by Fire Safe Marin, Ember Stomp brings together diverse partners to help residents learn how we can all prepare for wildfire. The festival features wildfire products and service providers, fire-smart landscaping exhibits, live burn demonstrations, a climate action zone, and fun activities for kids. Live music, food trucks, art, and even firefighting goats and sheep make it a lively community celebration.
This year introduced cutting-edge exhibits and simulations around climate resilience, disaster preparedness, and fire suppression innovations — giving attendees a more interactive experience than ever before. In addition to longtime festival favorites, thousands of residents connected with local organizations working for a safer, more sustainable Marin.
We’re grateful to Fire Safe Marin for their leadership, and to the many community partners who made Ember Stomp possible, including:
@ResilientNeighborhoods · @SustainableMarinTeam · @OneTam · @ZeroWasteMarin · Marin Conservation League · Marin County Sustainability Team · Green Change · and many more.
Learn more about the event at firesafemarin.org/ember-stomp-2025
