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Florida Climate Week
October 5 - October 11
Florida Climate Week (Jacksonville) | 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.
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Monday, October 5
Trout River Boat Excursion | Monday, October 5 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. | Jacksonville University – MSRI 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.
Please arrive at the dock near Jacksonville University’s Marine Science Research Institute (MSRI) by 5:15 pm so we can board, receive the safety instructions, and be on our way!
Tuesday, October 6
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.
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Friday, October 9
City In A Forest: Film Screening & Panel | Friday, October 9 from 6-9 p.m. | The Jessie Ball DuPont Center
Atlanta calls itself the “City in a Forest,” but its tree canopy is under pressure from rapid development. City in a Forest is a documentary that follows the people working to protect that urban forest and asks what it takes to keep a growing city green.
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Saturday, October 10
CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER: POSH Module Workshop | Saturday, October 10
Join SJRK, Jax Oyster Conservation, and RCCO for a POSH Module Workshop! We will talk about the many benefits of oysters to our estuaries, how oyster reefs make us more resilient to the effects of climate change, the many ways we can restore oyster reefs, and the benefits of using Pervious Oyster Shell Habitats (POSH).
We will then construct POSH units by mixing recycled oyster shell, cement, and water into cement mixers and pouring the mixture into molds to cure, before they are deployed in spring.
