For the past 6 years, Keep Oakland Beautiful has been helping the city of Oakland bloom. Each fall this public/private partnership hands out free flower bulbs. (Most recently at Home Depot.) Individual volunteers and community based organizations plant them throughout the city.

OAKLAND, California (February 09, 2010) – The Oakland Digital Arts & Literacy Center (ODALC) is teaming up with Whole Foods Market and the City of Oakland to hold a contest that calls upon local artists to design a billboard poster conveying what it is about Oakland that inspires them.