1. Tour Offerings 2. Berkeley High School Green Building Tour
Portola Middle School Tour
1. EBGT Strategic Advisor Emmet Brady Moving On 2. Center for Safe Energy: Lake Baikal Group Visiting 3. Sponsor Spotlight 4. Thank You to Mechanics Bank! 5. New Book: Nonprofit Guide to Going Green by BetterWorld's Matt Bauer 6. East Bay Express Rocks! 7. Sustainable Business Alliance Events
Annual SBA Post-Holiday Party
January 20th, 2010 • 5:30pm-8pm
Luka's Tap Room in Oakland *
SBA Monthly Luncheon
February 5th, 2010 •12-1:30 pm
Mandarin Garden Restaurant
Shattuck & University
1. Event at Ecology Center
Reduce Your Footprint in 2010: a Free Community Workshop
February 25, 2010 • 7-8:30 pm
Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, 1924 Cedar St
1. Events at Brower Center 2. After Copenhagen: A Report-back from Bay-Area Activists 3. Walter Hood presents Strawberry Creek Plaza at Center Street Proposal 4. Help Haiti Recover from Earthquake
Happy New Year Friends!
We welcome the clean slate of a new decade, and the opportunity to let go of what was not working in the past. We are moving together into a new era of fresh ideas and breakthroughs in sustainable policies and practices.
May the new year bring you progress and inspiration!
Warm wishes,
Marissa LaMagna and the EBGT Team
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
School of Social Justice and Ecology's teacher Kate Trimlett with students
CURRENT TOUR TOPICS
We currently offer tours covering the following topics:
▪ Re-Thinking Waste ▪ B Corporations ▪ Shared Solutions ▪ Green Corridor Overview ▪ Non-Profit Organizations ▪ Products & Services ▪ Automotive/Transportation ▪ Future in Green Collar
Jobs
* Green Building
* Renewable Energy
* Food/ Garden
We're very excited about Gather, the wonderful new restaurant on the first floor of the Brower Center that serves all organic, mostly local food. We look forward to offering tours in the Spring in conjunction with Gather to visit the sources of their food in the area.
Do you know about any particularly cutting edge businesses in the Bay Area? Feel free to email any suggestions on extraordinary companies blazing innovations in sustainability. For more information:www.ebgt.org
SPONSORSHIP
If you are interested in supporting an individual or group who wants to come on a tour and is in need of funding, please consider SPONSORING a student or a class on future tours to help them prepare for a sustainable future. We have several groups who would like to come on educational tours and could use community support.
Lake Baikal, Siberia
The Pearl of Siberia - Lake Baikal
The Berkeley-based Center for Safe Energy, a project of the Earth Island Institute, works with grassroots environmental leaders from the former Soviet Union. During the week of February 20-28, the Center for Safe Energy will host a group of 12 ecotourism leaders from Siberia’s Lake Baikal region.
Lake Baikal is the world’s oldest and largest freshwater lake! During their visit to the Bay Area, the group will tour Ano Nuevo State Park, East Bay Regional Parks, and various ecotourism companies and organizations to meet with their counterparts. They’d love to join East Bay Green Tours for one of our Eco tours and are seeking sponsorship. They are also interested in finding host families for the week they are here.
If you or someone you know is interested in offering housing and/or sponsorship, please contact: Melissa Prager, cseprograms@igc.org
EBGT Co-founder Emmet Brady
Many Thanks to Emmet Brady
EBGT would like to thank our Strategic Advisor Emmet Brady and congratulate him on all his exciting new projects! EBGT would not be where it is today without him. Emmet's passion for a more sustainable planet, myriad talents, and critical insights have contributed much to EBGT and we wish him every success as he branches out in new directions. A member of the Biomimicry Speaker's Guild and owner of a science fusion events company PMAGevents, Emmet provides speaking, dance djing and art-science fusion events. Find out more at PMAGevents THANK YOU EMMET!
SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT
A HUGE THANK YOU TO MECHANICS BANK!
We would like to salute and thank Mechanics Bank for their generous contribution to Educational Tours. Thank you for supporting the education of youth about the future of "Green Collar Jobs" within our local community!
BETTERWORLD BOOK: NON-PROFIT's GUIDE TO GOING GREEN
Congratulations to BetterWorld President Matthew Bauer on the release of his book Non-profit's Guide to Going Green. "Timely and clearly written, with contributions from experts from around the globe, Nonprofit Guide to Going Green leads the way in helping charities in all countries meet this challenge." - Amazon.com
LOOK FOR US IN EAST BAY EXPRESS
Many thanks to East Bay Express who is generously supporting EBGT by providing publicity for the tours in their publication. East Bay Express is a locally owned publication with a strong commitment to local business and community. Look for their new Small Business Monthly Supplement on January 27th, helping to inform local business owners and business-conscious readers on issues related to conducting and growing business in the East Bay. Pick up East Bay Express today and keep an eye out for our newly minted tour spotlight within its pages!
The Sustainable Business Alliance is getting ready for exciting changes in 2010. We are reviewing our programing and will be offering lots of new ways to support and educate local businesses.
Annual SBA Post-Holiday Party
January 20th, 2010 • 5:30pm-8pm
A celebration of good community, good work and good spirits! In conjunction with Green Drinks & The Green Chamber of Commerce.
Luka's Tap Room
2221 Broadway Oakland
Complimentary appetizers from 5:30-6pm
provided by StopWaste.Org!
SBA Monthly Luncheon
February 5th, 2010 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Mandarin Garden Restaurant
Shattuck & University
ECOLOGY CENTER
Reduce Your Footprint in 2010: a Free Community Workshop
Are you part of a congregation, neighborhood association, workplace, PTA or other community group? Are you a concerned citizen? Come discover resources right here in Berkeley to help you reduce your personal and collective carbon footprint.
The City of Berkeley, the Berkeley Energy Commission, the Ecology Center, and the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists invite you to a fun and informative workshop to help you and your community group reduce global warming emissions. At this workshop you will:
▪ Find out how your lifestyle practices and the choices you make as individuals and community groups impact greenhouse gas emissions ▪ Discover how you can significantly reduce your personal and community emissions though an exciting and no-cost 4-session program ▪ Be given the opportunity to participate in, form, or have the Ecology Center facilitate a free Climate Change Action workshop series in your community ▪ Receive information for implementing energy efficient and renewable energy options in your home, workplace, congregation, school, and other shared spaces
Come join us!
Reduce Your Footprint in 2010
Thursday, February 25, 2010 7-8:30 pm
Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, 1924 Cedar St.
Attendance is Free
Info: 510-548-2220 x240, debra@ecologycenter.org
EVENTS AT THE BROWER CENTER:
After Copenhagen: A Reportback by Bay Area activists
Presented by EcoEquity, 350.org, International Rivers,
Tuesday, January 19th / 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
In the Goldman Theater
Topics will include the North / South impasse, the emergence of organized "Most Vulnerable Countries" blocs, the actual demands of the 350 ppm pathway, US strategy, offsets and other loopholes, REDD, historical responsibility, class, and the potential for a global fair-shares emergency climate mobilization.
Free
Information: toma@ecoequity.org
Walter Hood Presents Strawberry Creek Plaza at Center Street Proposal
Presented by Ecocity Builders
Thursday, January 28 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Informed by stakeholders and the community, and guided by the Downtown Area Plan recommendations, landscape architect and urbanist Walter Hood, commissioned by nonprofit Ecocity Builders, has developed a proposal for a new public space on Center Street. A pedestrian plaza for downtown Berkeley is currently called for by all versions of the new Berkeley Downtown Area Plan. The Hood proposal received a good initial reception at the Planning Commission, and has been vetted with extensive stakeholder and public process over two years.
Free
Information: kirstin@ecocitybuilders.org
Help Haiti recover from Earthquake
Haiti Disaster Relief Organization - Partners in Health (PIH) & Doctors Without Borders
Partners in Health is an organization working with hospitals, trained medical staff, and years of experience on the ground in Haiti. They have an impressive track record and do good work. Here is their latest update.
If you would like to donate, they could really use your help right now.
If you’re on Facebook, you can also become a fan !
Doctors Without Borders operates one of the only free trauma centers in Port-au-Prince as well as an emergency hospital in the capital for pregnant women, new mothers, and newborn children. All three of its primary medical centers have collapsed, but DWB/MSF has already set up temporary shelters and is offering emergency care on the ground. For more info on their work in Haiti click here. To make a donation click here. - Courtesy of CREDO
Best wishes for a transformative, inspiring new year in 2010!
- The East Bay Green Tours Team
EBGT Suite 280
Brower Center
2150 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
