Florida Climate Week
October 5 - October 11
Florida Climate Week | October 5-11, 2026
Now in its sixth year, Florida Climate Week is a powerful celebration of engagement, education, and collective action focused on climate and resilience challenges facing our state.
Jacksonville Events
Riverview Boat Excursion | Monday, October 5 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. | Riverview Park Boat Ramp
Join St. Johns Riverkeeper, Riverview Collective Community Organization (RCCO) and COJ Sustainability Department during Florida Climate Week sponsored by the VOLO Foundation as we explore the Trout River and discuss opportunities for access, water quality and infrastructure improvements.
The trip will take place from 5:30pm to 6:30pm on October 5th. Please arrive at Riverview Park Boat Ramp by 5:15pm so we can board, receive the safety instructions, and be on our way!
UNFILTERED – The Truth About Oysters: Film Screening & Panel | Tuesday, October 6 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. | Highlands Regional Library
This Emmy award-winning documentary reveals the oyster’s hidden double life. On our plates, they’re a delicacy and a livelihood. Beneath the surface, they’re one of nature’s most powerful tools — a keystone species that filters and cleans vast volumes of water, buffers shorelines from storms, and anchors entire estuary ecosystems.
But the reefs are vanishing. Ninety percent of the world’s ancient oyster reefs have collapsed in the last thirty years, and Florida’s own Apalachicola Bay is slipping toward the same fate under the pressures of pollution, coastal development, and overharvesting. The film makes a hopeful case: shell recycling, artificial reefs, and freshwater management can still turn the tide.
That work is already underway right here in Jacksonville. Along the Ribault, Trout, and St. Johns Rivers, we’re putting these same nature-based solutions into practice — building Pervious Oyster Shell Habitat (POSH) modules and Vertical Oyster Gardens to restore living shorelines, and helping launch a recycled oyster shell collection system that gives discarded shells a second life as new reef. Every oyster we return to the water is another filter cleaning the St. Johns.
After the film: Stay for a conversation with local panelists who are harnessing the power of oysters to restore and filter the St. Johns River — and learn how you can get involved.