[2] Integrated with such innovations, like Green-Powered Digital Gateways, Sherk's approach incorporates interdisciplinary, standards-based, hands-on learning, community ecological planning and design, and state-of-the-art communications and technologies.

A Living Library[10] was Sherk's ongoing work[11] she began in March 1981,[12] which consisted of natural environments in urban areas that functioned as community and educational spaces.

[1] She established these spaces in order to build education centers children and outreach opportunities for communities in San Francisco and New York City.

Branch Living Library and Think Parks incorporate local resources--human, ecological, economic, historic, technological, aesthetic--seen through the lens of time--past, present, future"—Bonnie Ora Sherk[14] Participants receive green-skills job training, and learn about environmental issues.

Through engagement with the natural, in a heavily urbanized region, The Farm became a place created to suit the people of San Francisco's needs.

[19] Sherk felt that people lacked a “spiritual and ecological balance within ourselves and larger groups and nations,”[20] and felt that a space like the Farm could offer a solution to this issue through community connection, education, and creating a space within the urban landscape to uncover the natural environment that exists within the landscape and demonstrate our connection to life and the ecosystem.

The lunch itself was served by the lion keeper, and consisted of a cigarette, followed by a plate of steak, green beans, and a baked potato, as well as a salad, a half-loaf of bread, a beverage, and other accompaniments.

[24] In Bonnie Ora Sherk's Sitting Still Series, 1970 (digital projection, photo documentation of performances) the artist sat for approximately one hour in various locations around San Francisco as a means to subtly change the environment simply by becoming an unexpected part of it.

At the first performance, Sherk, dressed in a formal evening gown, sat in an unholstered armchair amidst garbage and creek runoff from the construction of the Army Street freeway interchange.

The Sitting Still Series was exhibited in total as part of Public Works: Artists Interventions 1970s - Now, curated by Christian L. Frock and Tanya Zimbardo at Mills College Art Museum, September - December 2016; Sherk's first image from the series graces the cover of the exhibition catalogue designed by John Borruso.

[25] It most recently was shown at Fort Mason's Center for Arts and Culture exhibition, Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames Since 1970.

[26] In 1970, the first SECA Vernal Equinox Special Award, which recognizes conceptual and experimental projects, was presented to Sherk and Howard Levine by the SFMOMA.