Group and Corporate Activities
with Explore Ecology
How Will You Make a Difference?
Team Building and Community Engagement
Explore Ecology offers a wide variety of corporate opportunities for team building and community engagement. Please email Jill (at) ExploreEcology.org for more information and pricing.
Channel Champions Beach Cleanups: Group and corporate cleanups keep our beaches clean, boost team spirit, and inspire further action.
Community Cleanups: Show the community that you care! Clean up neighborhoods around your office with an Explore Ecology Educator.
Art From Scrap Workshop: Visit Art From Scrap for a creative reuse store tour and workshop or have us come to you with supplies and a guest art teacher.
Art Bar: Feature our colorful Art Bar at your next event or meeting. Filled with materials to inspire your employees to connect and create!
Book a Speaker: Request an Environmental or Garden Educator to visit your business or group to speak about topics ranging from Organic Gardening to Waste Reduction.
Learn at Lunch: Enjoy a class or workshop during your lunch hour.
Worms Rule! Vermicomposting Workshop: Don’t throw your food scraps away. Compost them! Red wiggler worms are ready and willing to turn your trash into vermicompost; a rich, nutrient-dense soil amendment. Worm compost bins can be kept indoors or outdoors and are perfect for cutting down food waste at work and at home. In the workshop you’ll learn how to create and take care of your own worm bin, harvest compost, and make and use compost tea.
Garden Guardians: Meet at a local school garden for a fun, active, and outdoor volunteer opportunity! Projects include mulching, composting, planting, and building.
Clean Ups with Explore Ecology
Channel Champions Beach and Community Cleanups
“We had a remarkable time at the beach with Explore Ecology! Our team members enjoyed the cleanup, the presentation, and especially being outside together, making a difference!”
Meaningful time in nature builds company morale, increases connections between team members, and leads to happier, healthier, and more engaged employees.
Our Beach and Neighborhood Cleanups offer rewarding hands on opportunities. Each cleanup include a short presentation from an Explore Ecology educator about ocean and watershed preservation and protection, ample time on the beach for the cleanup, and a tallying up of trash found, so employees can feel proud about the impact that they made!
Cleanups are available year round.
Worms Rule! Vermicomposting Workshop
Schedule a Vermicomposting Workshop for your employees. Learn how to collect food scraps at work or home, divert them from the landfill, and turn them into vermicompost a nutrient rich soil amendment.
Worm composting is easy, doesn’t require a lot of space, tools, or materials and is a lot of fun.
Learn how to compost using worms by scheduling a Composting Workshop with an Explore Ecology Garden Educator. You will learn how to create and take care of a worm bin, harvest vermicompost, and make and use compost tea.
Workshops: Cost: $25 per person with a minimum of 10 people.
Red wiggler worms will be available at the workshop for $25.00/gallon.
Art
Get creative with Explore Ecology! We offer Art Workshops, a mobile Art Bar, and tours of Art From Scrap, our Creative Reuse Store.
Art From Scrap Experience
Visit Art From Scrap for a creative reuse store tour, waste reduction mini lesson, and workshop!
Art Bar
Feature our colorful Art Bar at your next event or meeting. An artistic buffet filled with materials sure to invoke creativity. The Art From Scrap Art Bar will inspire your employees to connect and create!
Art Workshops
Taught by our staff and local guest artists, we offer a wide array of workshops, from natural dyeing to collage. Book an in person or virtual workshop today to spark your team’s creativity!
Garden Guardians
Meet at a local school garden for a fun, active, and outdoor volunteer opportunity! Learn from our Garden Educator as you mulch, compost, plant, and build.
Speakers
Book an Explore Ecology Educator to speak about all things environmental! We can visit your office, meeting, or gathering and present on a wide variety of topics.
Learn at Lunch
Book a mini presentation from an Explore Ecology Garden or Environmental Educator. These short, informative talks educate and inspire your employees.
Joey is grateful to have grown up with an abundance of nature around him and is happiest in the water or in the sun. From a young age, Joey felt a responsibility to take care of the Earth in return for all the ways she has taken care of him. This led Joey to pursue a degree in
I love coming to work and getting pets from everyone. In my spare time, I like to sleep, eat, hike, and explore nature. Did I say eat and sleep?
Emma Serr is an artist and a student studying Studio Art at SBCC. Emma has a background in art and customer service, having worked as a camp counselor at sewing camp and assistant for sewing events and classes, and display manager and cashier in previous positions, and was recently a nanny to several young children. Emma first found us as a customer who loved what Art From Scrap represents!
Veronica grew up in San Diego and spent her last four years in San Luis Obispo studying Animal Science at Cal Poly. As an undergrad she learned lots about livestock, agriculture, and wildlife. Veronica is very passionate about conservation and sustainable agricultural practices. Veronica has spent many summers working in environmental education at various zoos and museums and loves introducing kids to the plants and animals that coexist with us. In her free time, she likes to sit at the beach and read, take dance classes, roller skate, and walk around fancy neighborhoods to look at the houses.
Lu’s love of all things Earth began at James Madison University in Virginia, where they got their Bachelor’s degree in Biology. Lu has a Master’s degree in Spatial Ecology- the study of how creatures interact across landscapes- from East Carolina University, where they studied rock pools along a river and the critters that dwell in them. Lu is thrilled to be teaching budding scientists about the Earth and why it’s important for us to protect and preserve the environment. 
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Jenny joined Explore Ecology first as an Environmental Educator, then as a Program Coordinator, and most recently moved into the newly created Programs, People & Culture position. Prior to Explore Ecology Jenny worked in science research and consulting, however her passion has always been science education and outreach. Jenny loves all things related to the ocean, especially free diving, and enjoying the beauty and wonder that is the underwater world. Her greatest life passion is traveling, which she hopes to do more of again soon.
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