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Pledge Status

Did Not Report

Pledge Date

Thursday, March 18, 2021

Program Year

2021

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City of Orinda

Orinda, CA

Amy Worth

Mayor

Pledge Summary

Orinda is a community in the San Francisco Bay Area located in Contra Costa County on the eastern side of the Bay Area. We are nestled between hills that are composed of watershed and lands of the East Bay Regional Park District. In our community, there is strong support of environmental stewardship and protection. As the home to much native California flora and fauna, the Community embraces the protection of the Monarch butterfly and the preservation of its native habitat.

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Action Items Committed for 2021

Communications and Convening

  • Launch or maintain a public communication effort to encourage residents to plant monarch gardens at their homes or in their neighborhoods. (If you have community members who speak a language other than English, we encourage you to also communicate in that language; Champion Pledges must communicate in that language.)
  • Engage with city parks and recreation, public works, sustainability, and other relevant staff to identify opportunities to revise and maintain mowing programs and milkweed / native nectar plant planting programs.
  • Engage with gardening leaders and partners (e.g., Master Naturalists, Master Gardeners, Nature Centers, Native Plant Society Chapters , other long-standing and influential community leaders) to support monarch butterfly conservation.
  • Issue a proclamation to raise awareness about the decline of the monarch butterfly and the species’ need for habitat. This proclamation must incorporate a focus on monarch conservation.

Program and Demonstration Gardens

  • Add or maintain native milkweed and nectar-producing plants in gardens in the community.

Systems Change

  • Launch, expand, or continue an effort to change municipal planting ordinances and practices to include more native milkweed and native nectar producing plants at city properties.