This year's theme is Critical Hope.
Critical hope means facing the realities of structural injustice honestly, while still believing - and working toward - a better future together.

Plenary Address:  Karina Lopez, Frontline Catalysts
Keynote Speaker: Nancy Skinner, California Energy Commission

Sample of workshop titles and presenting organizations. Stay tuned for full program of 20 workshop options

• Seeds to Solutions- Climate Literacy Curriculum for Grades K-5

• Seeds to Solutions- Climate Literacy Curriculum for Grades 6-12

• Ice Cores and other hands-on climate activities (CSU East Bay, Community Resources for Science)

• Teaching Wildfire in High School Biology & Chemistry (UC Berkeley)

• K-12 Ocean Climate Literacy (NOAA/Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary)

• Waste Solutions in Schools (StopWaste)

• Dream Communities (Frontline Catalysts)

• Community Climate Mural Creation (Brushstrokes for the Bay)

• Design Challenge Learning for Climate Justice (The Tech Interactive)

Affinity Groups: A facilitated opportunity to meet and exchange climate literacy ideas/challenges with your peers from across the Bay Area.

Tabling: ~30 organizations will share resources, materials, and climate/environmental program information

New for 2026

• Youth climate leadership panels (Megadome Theater)

• Climate videos, data visualization, and multimedia showcase (Planetarium)

Agendas, slide decks, handouts, materials and other resources from prior Climate Literacy Exchange events:

• 2025

• 2024