Brunch Social and Award-Winning Film Screening Register

Date and Time:
Sat, May 2, 2026; 11:00 AM - 1:30 PM  (Pacific)

Organized By: Loma Prieta Chapter

Location: 3921 E Bayshore Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94303, USA

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Meet our Chapter leaders and learn about our conservation activities to see which ones you would like to participate in.  

Would you like to help save San Francisco Bay? Join our Environmental Stewardship Program and earn a Sierra Club certificate?  Help lobby state legislators to help pass strong environmental legislation? Or, would you like to join a new program to plant milkweed to help save Monarch butterflies? 

We will show Small is Beautiful, an award-winning documentary (25 minutes).

Poster for the film Small is Beautiful. Turtle Island Films, 2024. smallisbeautifulmovie.org                             

Small Is Beautiful tells the story of Sonoma residents’ conservation battle to save the 200-acre, wildlife-rich Sonoma Developmental Center (SDC) campus near Glen Ellen, from large-scale residential and commercial expansion. The film has received the Award of Merit at the 2024 Accolade Global Film Competition in La Jolla, California; competed for top honors in Environmental Awareness at the 2025 Future World Film Festival in Portugal in June; and been nominated for Best Short Documentary at the 2025 Septimius Awards in Amsterdam in September.

"A sweeping indictment of how one local community and its ecology are being overrun by big money and misguided public policy... under the guise of affordable housing." — Bob Johnson, Professor of History, National University, Author of The Colonial Climate

"Little film with a big story... gains worldwide acclaim." — Daniel Johnson, The Press Democrat