Meet LandPaths - Sharing Our Love Of Nature Every Step Of The Way

Our goal: To provide all 700+ In Our Own Backyard (IOOBY) students with a new IOOBY tshirt for the 2009-2010 school year. With IOOBY tshirts, we hope to deepen the students' relationship to the outdoors by providing a tangible, take home reminder of their IOOBY experience. Every time they see and wear their IOOBY tshirt, it will bring back memories of their IOOBY fieldtrips and hopefully remind them how much they like to be outdoors.

We hope to raise a total of $15,000 for IOOBY to cover the cost of all the IOOBY tshirts and sponsor 2 classes (60 students) to participate in the IOOBY experience.

To sponsor an IOOBY student, class, or school you can:

Buy an IOOBY tshirt (click here to purchase online)

• for yourself - $25
• for one IOOBY student - $25
• for yourself and an IOOBY student - $40 ($20 each)
• for an entire IOOBY class (30 students) - $500 ($16.67 each)
• for an entire school (3 classes) - $1200 ($13.33 each)

To pay by credit card, click here for our secure online donation page.  If you prefer to pay by check, send mail to LandPaths c/o IOOBY T-shirts, PO Box 4648, Santa Rosa, CA  95402.  For questions or to specify adult t-shirt size, contact us at education@LandPaths.org.  

Save a bag and support LandPaths at the same time!

Now through early July, Whole Foods Markets in both Sebastopol and Santa Rosa will donate a nickel to LandPaths every time you Bring Your Own Shopping Bag.   

Whole Foods Market is extremely proud of our community involvement and the relationships that we make within our local organizations! One popular community giving program is the 5¢ Bag Refund program. When customers bring in their own bags for groceries they have the option of receiving five cents credit (per bag) or donating the money to a selected charity. Up to three organizations are selected each quarter, or about four times a year.

This program has been enormously successful and generates much needed revenues for the area's nonprofit community. In Santa Rosa alone, over 20,000 bags were reused in the first quarter of this year and the bag refunds donated to local organizations!!

This quarter (ending July 5th), both the Santa Rosa and Sebastopol Whole Foods Market stores chose LandPaths as a beneficiary of the 5¢ Bag Refund program. LandPaths fills a vital role within Sonoma County's environmental community and we are proud to lend our support to this organization. We encourage you to support LandPaths by reusing your shopping bags each time you visit the Whole Foods Market in either Sebastopol or Santa Rosa and identifying LandPaths to the cashiers when asked about donating your bag refund. You can also donate to LandPaths through the Sebastopol Whole Foods Market's Change for Change program (ask a cashier for details).

Thank you for re-using your shopping bags, honoring the environment and supporting both LandPaths and your local Whole Foods Market!