Event Overview
This amazing event brings together more than 250 community leaders, partners, officials, and friends to support Green Foothills programs that protect local nature and wildlife. Our guest speaker this year is Obi Kaufmann, the award-winning author, artist, and naturalist, who will share his thoughts on how urgent environmental campaigns connect to poetry, place, and policy movements at every level, from local to global.
Enjoy good food, learn about our work, and mingle in a beautiful open-air setting. Proceeds cover a significant portion of our annual budget, so attending this event is a great way to help Green Foothills.
Tickets are available at two price points: Regular Ticket for $175, and Discounted Ticket for $75. We want everyone to be able to join us. If the regular price is a barrier for you, please feel free to select the discounted ticket option—no questions asked. We kindly ask that you choose the Regular Ticket if you’re able to. Your support helps make this event possible and ensures we can continue our work throughout the year.
For more information, contact Jocelyn Rodriguez at 650.968.7243 or jocelyn@greenfoothills.org.
About Our 2026 Guest Speaker
Obi Kaufmann
Obi Kaufmann is an award-winning author of many best-selling books on California’s ecology, biodiversity, and geography. Most famously, his 2017 book The California Field Atlas, currently in its eighth printing, recontextualized popular ideas about what he calls “California’s more-than-human world.”
Following his initial Field Atlas, his subsequent books include 2019’s State of Water—Understanding California’s Most Precious Resource, followed by three more Field Atlases called the California Lands Trilogy: The Forests of California, The Coasts of California, and The Deserts of California. In the Lands trilogy, Obi successfully realized his vision to present a comprehensive survey of California’s physiography and biogeography, including its evolutionary past and unfolding future. His latest book, 2024’s The State of Fire, Why California Burns, is among his most popular and timely books to date.
Obi regularly travels the state, and when he is not backpacking, he gives talks and hosts seminars in his “Poetry, Place and Policy” series, engaging local communities on pressing issues in the watershed. His seventh book, California Inside Out, Mapping and Ecology of Mind, will be out in the Fall of 2026.
Tickets
Proceeds from Nature’s Inspiration cover a significant portion of Green Foothills’ annual budget, so attending this event is a great way to help support our mission. We offer tickets to the event and a variety of sponsorship opportunities. Tickets for 2026 will go on sale in July.
Become a Sponsor
Nature’s Inspiration underwrites a significant portion of Green Foothills’ annual expenses. We depend on funds raised from this event to support our work so that we can create the greatest impact. Your generous support makes it possible for us to champion climate resilience and biodiversity through the protection of open space and natural resources in San Mateo, Santa Clara, and San Benito Counties. Since 1962, our advocacy has resulted in the permanent protection of more than 200,000 acres.
Our Growing List of 2026 Sponsors
Sponsorships for 2026 are now on sale! Go to our sponsor or pledge page to sign up. For more information, contact jocelyn@greenfoothills.org.
Nature’s Inspiration underwrites a significant portion of Green Foothills’ annual expenses. We depend on funds raised from this event to support our work so that we can create the greatest impact. Your generous support makes it possible for us to champion climate resilience and biodiversity through the protection of open space and natural resources in San Mateo, Santa Clara, and San Benito Counties. Since 1962, our advocacy has resulted in the permanent protection of more than 200,000 acres.
O’Brien Family Charitable Fund
KPMG
Ann and Mark Monroe
Laura Wells
Barbara C. Erny
Lisa and Edward Munro
Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District
Peninsula Open Space Trust
Nancy and Greg Serrurier
Stephen Abbors
Marilyn and Bill Bauriedel
Susan Hansch and Richard Wright
Anonymous
Gregory and Lauren Boro
Councilmember David Cohen
Michael and Romelia Delay
Marshall Dinowitz
Jean Forstner and Matson Wade
Craig and Teresa Gleason
Jerry Hearn and Rebecca Reynolds
Tor and Nancy Lund
Margaret and Jamis MacNiven
Joanne and Douglas McFarlin
Dan and Helen Quinn
Katie Sanborn and Barbara Wright
Jeffrey Segall and Helen He
Margo Sensenbrenner
Don Weden
Barlow and Nancy Westcott
Bryan Beck and Kaia Eakin
Helen and Dan Chapman
Colorprint
Melissa and Ernest Demaray
Megan Fluke
Linda Gass and Rob Steiner
Melissa Hippard
Lori and Sudhanshu Jain
Arthur Keller
Zoe Kersteen-Tucker and George Tucker
Enid Pearson
Diana Reddy
Charles Schmuck
Carolyn Straub and Stephen McHenry
Arpana Tiwari
Charles Tomberg
Mariquita West
James Wickett and Magdalena Yesil