Green Change at the Fairfax Festival
We hosted our popular Green Change Exhibit at the Fairfax Festival 2025, to help visitors go green and cool the earth. This free community festival took place in Fairfax, CA on Saturday, June 7.
In the morning, we presented our Earth Bike to thousands of visitors at the Fairfax Parade, leading a climate action cohort with our partners at Sustainable Marin, 350Marin, Resilient Neighborhoods, Fairfax Climate Action Committee and more.
In the afternoon, we hosted our Green Change Exhibit at the Fairfax Pavilion, where we welcomed hundreds of participants of all ages. Our unique mix of playful activities and practical tips invited more people to go green and build a better world. Featured activities included Green Tips, Green Pledges, and Anytown USA.
Through these playful activities, people learned about climate action, clean energy, electric vehicles, green homes and gardens, wildfire prevention, healthy food and resilient communities.
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. Many thanks to all our volunteers, partners, sponsors and friends for supporting our work. Kudos to our sponsors at the County of Marin, Marin Community Foundation and MCE for supporting our exhibit! Green Change is a project of Sustainable Marin.
To learn more, read on.
Table of Contents
Photos & Videos
Parade
Activities
Partners
Sponsors
Team
Impact
About Fairfax Festival
Previous Events
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Photos & Videos
Enjoy our photos and videos of our Green Change Exhibit at the Fairfax Festival:
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Photo Album (Flickr, 86 photos and 10 videos)
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Video Trailer (Vimeo, 1 video)
Photos and videos of this event were shot by Fabrice Florin, with additional photography by Tom Flynn, Bridget Mazzini, George Osner, Dean Boen, Brian Hunwick, Marcy Santana, and Kristy Thomson – all were edited by Fabrice. 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 (identified in tags).
Parade
Green Change director Fabrice Florin rode his Earth Bike at the Fairfax Parade 2025, to inspire people to go green. This unique parade float features our beautiful planet pulled by an ebike, as an invitation to live sustainably and burn less fuel.
As he presented it to thousands of visitors in downtown Fairfax, he reminded them that Mother Earth is getting hot and needs their help to cool it down. Many of them cheered our call to action.
We led a climate action cohort during the parade. Partners in our group included the Fairfax Climate Action Committee, Resilient Neighborhoods, Sustainable Marin, and 350Marin, among others.
Activities
After the parade, we brought the Earth Bike to the Fairfax Pavilion, where we hosted the Green Change exhibit, with fun activities for all ages. Over a hundred participants enjoyed playing our environmental games and learning about sustainable living – and many made a green pledge to take climate action.
Here were our featured activities at the Fairfax Festival (click 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 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.
Learn more about Green Pledges.
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.
Learn more about Anytown USA.
Partners
This year, we had the pleasure of working with other climate action partners during the parade, including:
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Jody Timms – Fairfax Climate Action Committee
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Wendi Kallins – Sustainable Marin
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Kathren Murrell Stevenson and Jennifer Hammond – Resilient Neighborhoods
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Silke Valentine – 350Marin
They were wonderful collaborators and it was a pleasure to work with them to raise awareness about climate action. Thank you!
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 Fairfax Festival was presented by Green Change, our nonprofit climate action network.
Many thanks to Green Change team leads Fabrice Florin, Tom Flynn, and Bridget Mazzini for hosting our exhibit at this inspiring event, with logistical support by Phyllis Florin and Richard Mazzini. Special thanks as well to our content associate Devin Ruy for editing this page and promoting it on social media. Great teamwork, everyone!
If you have any questions or comments for our team, please email us.
Impact
We helped many people go green at the Fairfax Festival 2025.
We reached thousands of people at the parade, inspiring them to take climate action. It was also a good opportunity to promote our climate action partners, as we drew attention for our cohort with our big earth globe. And Fabrice gave shout-outs to each organization as he spoke into his microphone, which was amplified by a portable loud speaker.
We welcomed hundreds of visitors at our Ecofest exhibit, who learned valuable information about climate action with our Green Tips. We also played dozens of games with Anytown USA – and took photos of 12 participants who made a Green Pledge to take climate action, proudly holding their action sign in front of Mother Earth.
Overall, Green Change had a positive impact on festival attendees. Participants loved playing our environmental games, and we had great conversations about climate actions they would like to take to protect our future.
We practice a unique form of community education, which offers playful activities to inspire people to learn about — and take — climate action. Over the years, this has been an effective way to engage our communities to live more sustainably — and feel good about it.
All in all, it was a very productive and inspiring day. 🙂
