Green Change Exhibit:

Fun activities about going green

Check out the Green Change Exhibit, a unique climate action center that we created to help people live sustainably.

Our family-friendly exhibit features a big earth globe, fun games for all ages, and information about going green. Our playful activities help people learn about climate action, clean energy, electric vehicles, green homes and gardens, healthy food, and resilient communities. 

Over the years, we have brought our travelling exhibit to a variety of local events, from Earth Day Marin to the Fairfax Eco-Fest and Ember Stomp. In 2024, we hosted our exhibit in 5 large events, helping over 1,000 visitors learn about going green. And we collected nearly 100 green pledges about climate actions they plan to take in their own lives!

This popular exhibit was produced by Green Change, our nonprofit climate action network, and a project of Sustainable Marin.

Many thanks to all our participants, creators, volunteers and partners for taking action for a more sustainable world! Special thanks to the County of Marin, the Marin Community Foundation and MCE for sponsoring our exhibit this year!

OVERVIEW

Come play fun games and learn about climate action in our Green Change Exhibit!

Our popular exhibit is a great way to promote sustainable living through fun activities. We inspire people of all ages to take climate action in their own lives, with joy, hope and a positive attitude. 

Featured activities include: 

• Earth Bike – Come see our big earth globe pulled by an e-bike 

• Take Action – Learn about going green with our action guides and green tips

• Green Pledges – Pledge to go green and get your photo taken

• Anytown USA – Create your own sustainable town in a race against time 

• Human Triangle – Cooperate with others to move the earth to a better place

• Game Changers – Play fun climate games: Climate Jenga, Stop, Drop & Roll

• Earth Island – Draw your dream home in this art activity for kids of all ages

• Green Change Booth – Sign up for the Green Change newsletter

See activity photos and descriptions below.

Through these playful activities, participants learn about a wide range of climate actions: clean energy, electric vehicles, green homes and gardens, healthy food and resilient communities. Read on to learn more.

IMPACT

Here were the main outcomes of our Green Change Exhibit in 2024:

• 5 public events featured our climate action exhibit 

• 1,000+ visitors learned about going green through our exhibit

• 100+ participants made a green pledge to take climate action

We engaged over a thousand participants of all ages and backgrounds, from across Marin and the Bay Area.  

We inspired them to take climate action in their own lives, grew our community of climate champions, made young people feel part of our movement, and promoted our partners.

Participants learned about many ways to go green with clean energy, bikes, electric vehicles, green homes, healthy food climate justice, and young activists!

And we took photos of over a hundred green pledges about actions that people told us they plan to take in the coming year! 

We are grateful to all our participants for sharing our positive vision of building a more just and sustainable world, through action!

Special thanks to our sponsors! We are grateful to the County of Marin, the Marin Community Foundation and MCE for sponsoring our Green Change Exhibit this year.

ACTIVITIES 

Our Green Change Exhibit offers fun activities and information to help you live sustainably. Here are some of the activities we hosted in 2024.

Earth Bike

Come see our big earth globe, pulled by an e-bike. 

Be sure to take a selfie in front of our favorite planet.

You’re welcome to pet the earth, but please don’t rock it! 🙂

Created by Fabrice Florin, Green Change Director. Photo by Gianni La Carrubba, Fairfax Festival.

Green Pledges 

Make a pledge to take climate action this year.

What will you do to go green this year? Can you make a Green Pledge to take one climate action to cool the earth? Write it down in big letters, and the Green Change team will take your photo in front of our big earth globe. We will post it on our site and invite you to share it and inspire more people in your community to take climate action! See some of the pledges people have made already.

Activity created by Green Change director Fabrice Florin. Photo by Fabrice Florin in our Green Change Exhibit at the Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival

Take Action

Learn how to go green in your own life.

This information table will help you learn about climate actions you can take to live sustainably. Our green coaches can tell you about a hundred action guides and green tips we created for you. They are featured on our big signs, which include QR codes linked to our online information. 

Sign design by Phyllis Florin. Photo of Green Change host Tom Flynn taken by Fabrice Florin at Earth Day Mill Valley.

Anytown USA 

Create your own sustainable town in a fun environmental game.

Help transform a polluted sprawl into a sustainable town, in a race against time to end our climate crisis before it’s too late.

To reduce global warming, players have to green up their homes, green up their towns and help cool the earth. This fun challenge invites you to replace problems that harm our lives with sustainable solutions.

In this fast-paced matching game, you must find the right solution for each problem, in categories like energy, food, transportation or land use.

Learn more about this fun game.

Activity created by Green Change director Fabrice Florin. Photo by Fabrice Florin at Eco Evolution.

Human Triangle

Collaborate with other players to move the Earth to a better place.

In this fun cooperation game, 3 players have to work together to pull the Earth from the pit of despair and lift it up to a better place.

It’s a great way to develop your collaboration skills and have fun at the same time!

Activity created by Green Change partner Geo Monley. Photo by Dana Dworin at Earth 2050.

Climate Jenga

Transform our energy system to avert collapse!
Climate Jenga is based on the iconic party game, Jenga. In Jenga, players take turns pulling out wood blocks one by one from a stack until the whole stack crashes down. In Climate Jenga, this game dynamic is presented as a metaphor for human-caused climate change.

Players discover that fossil fuel use in the game leads to the removal of blocks, resulting in the stack becoming increasingly unstable. Players must solve the climate challenge before the tower comes crashing down! 

Activity created by Green Change team lead Al Grumet. Photo by Sonia Lee at Earth 2050.

Stop, Drop & Roll

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!

Stop, Drop & Roll is a bean bag tossing game, in which players attempt to land bean bags in six different target zones.

If a player misses the target zones, then a hazard is created, imperiling future play. Players can eliminate a hazard, but must sacrifice a toss in order to do so.

The game highlights the root causes of ecological overshoot, the risks of climate change, and the relationship between.

Activity created by Green Change team lead Al Grumet. Photo by Fabrice Florin at Eco Evolution.

Earth Island Home

Draw your own dream home on Earth Island!

This fun art activity for children of all ages empowers children to imagine a better world. 

We will help you draw a place where you can live safely with your friends and family, in harmony with nature. First draw an island, then your house, with friends and animals. You will then add electricity and water, with safe places for your trees and wood, to make your home Earth-friendly and fire-safe.

Activity created by artist Vi©kisa. Photos by Fabrice Florin at Earth Day Mill Valley.

TAKE ACTION

At Green Change, we help each other take climate action in our own lives.

To make it easy for you, we have prepared a list of recommended actions, which you can learn about in our online Action Guides and Green Tips.

We invite you to take one of these actions:

• ENERGY: Use Renewable Electricity • Use Home Batteries • Switch to LEDs

• TRANSPORT: Drive an Electric Car• Ride an Electric Bike • Take Public Transit

• HOME: Electrify your Home • Weatherize your Home • Prepare for Wildfire

• FOOD: Eat Less Meat • Don’t Waste Food • Grow Your Own Food

• LIVING: Live Lightly • Save Water • Use Less Plastic

• POLITICS: Support Climate Justice, Support Young Activists, Support Green Leaders

Hundreds of participants stopped by and appreciated this unique opportunity to learn about all the actions they could take to make a green change in their lives.

VOLUNTEER

Would you like to volunteer with Green Change at our next events? 

We present our popular Green Change Exhibit at a range of environmental and climate action events. Our family-friendly exhibit features a big earth globe, with fun activities for all ages, as well as information about going green. 

We are always looking for volunteers to help us in a variety of roles that day: set up our exhibit, greet visitors, host activities, take photos & videos, talk about sustainable living or load-out. 

Would you like to volunteer with us for this cool exhibit? 

Sign up here to let us know which events, shifts, roles and activities interest you the most. 

We typically have several volunteer shifts for each event. Shifts last a couple hours and you will have plenty of time to visit the rest of the event before or after your shift. Free food is provided for volunteers who work a full shift. 

After you sign up, we will get back to you with a proposed volunteer role and time slot. You’re also welcome to email us at volunteer@greenchange.net if you prefer.

We hope you can join us! Our popular Green Change exhibits are a great way to promote sustainable living through fun activities. And the events we attend can attract thousands of participants who are already interested in climate action and wildfire prevention. 

Would any of your friends or family like to volunteer with us? If so, we’d be grateful if you could share this information and links with them.

We hope to work with you soon!