We are pleased to collaborate with the San Francisco Green Film Festival to offer a fun and interesting tour of the SF Embarcadero's green scene! Gain exciting new insights along the iconic San Francisco waterfront, while meeting trailblazers offering unique perspectives on sustainability. David Winsberg
from Happy Quail Farms will be Introducing us to his friends in the Ferry Building and Farmers Market.

All tour stops are within a comfortable stroll from each other on this totally carbon free tour....and it comes with a beautiful view!

Date: March 8th
Time 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Meeting location: Hotel Votale Lobby: 8 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94105
Price: $60 per person

A great gift for yourself and others!
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Thank you to all who joined us in January for a truly fabulous Moveable Feast! It was a electirc night of rich camaraderie, delicious food and inspired music and guest speakers. Although the event officially ended at 9:00 pm, many folks had such a good time that they congregated late into the night!

Gather Restaurant served up their delicious array of seasonal pizzas, Revival Bar + Kitchen offered wonderful trout and chicken entrees, and Five Restaurant ended our lovely evening with an incredibly flavorful dessert sampler of butterscotch pudding, peanut brittle, pecan pie, apple cinnamon cake, and whoopie pie.

CHECK OUT OUR FANTASTIC VIDEO FROM MANTRA MEDIA here

For those who couldn't make it to this wonderful 3 course-progressive dinner at 3 restaurants within 3 blocks in downtown Berkeley, mark your calendars for the upcoming dates! March 20th will feature Y. Armando Nieto of The California Food & Justice Coalition, speaking about the Farm Bill.

Many thanks to Lori Cheung, The Pet Photographer, for your lovely photos of the tour, and to Mantra Media for our fabulous new video!

Get behind the scenes and take advantage of this unique opportunity to experience local, high impact models of sustainability in the heart of the East Bay’s Green Corridor!

*CHECK OUT A NEW GLIMPSE OF THE GREEN PIONEERS TOUR HERE!*

Visit destinations such as:

The Skydeck Innovation Center

Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse

Gather Restaurant

The Hub

Hotel Shattuck Plaza

Green Citizen

The Bike Station

The David Brower Center

How much do you know about what you throw away? Where does it go? Could it have been saved? In current times, it has become increasingly important to reduce, sort though, and carefully manage the waste that we produce. It’s important to know the full story extending beyond your curbside bins. Bay Area Green Tours offers an entire tour to educate you about just this, and does a fantastic job. Last Thursday, I took the tour and had a wonderful time. Each stop was informative and interesting. My favorite stop was the first one, the Altamont Landfill in Livermore, CA. Before the tour, I had not thought much about landfills, and did not think that they had much special design. But they do. Landfills are carefully engineered to make maximum use of the land and air space. They are also designed to protect surrounding the wildlife and environment from contamination by the garbage. And the Altamont landfill is special, it is far more advanced than others, and uses a system found nearly nowhere else on the planet at the present moment. It actually captures the methane gas released by the landfill, and uses it to power all of Alameda County’s waste management trucks. When I learned this, I was proud to live in the Bay Area, where we can lead by example to a more sustainable world. Even
with this hope, looking upon the active face of the landfill, you will
encounter the somber realization that what we throw away is an
enormous problem, and must be changed or stopped as soon as possible.

After the landfill, there were a couple other stops, the next
destination being a small, sustainable, and booming business called “Back to the Roots.” This company actually collects all of the used coffee grounds from local Peet’s coffee shops, and uses them to create an entirely new and unique product. They create kits to grow mushrooms in your home. Growing your own food, sharing it with your family is definitely taking it back to the roots. Employing people locally is also taking it back to the roots. The speaker there was a bright and enthusiastic woman, and you could see in her eyes that she truly believes in what she is doing. The last stop of our tour was the East Bay Center for creative Reuse. It is a store that sells anything that might otherwise have been thrown away. When you walk in, it's hard not to think of new ideas for how to use everything. They have buckets of crayons, old posters, leftover fabric, and even jewelry! And here the tour ended with inspiration and the acknowledgment for the need for change. I hope you choose to come on this exciting and interesting tour! It has been my favorite tour so far, and is a fine example of what makes Bay Area Green Tours unique and special.

Zoe Price was one of over 40 students who attended our Re-thinking Waste Tour for Berkeley High School's Green Academy Last Week.

The Bay Area Green Tours Team would like to extend a special Thank You to Give Something Back Office Supplies for their support! We greatly appreciate our community partners and their commitment to supporting organizations such as ourselves. Thank You!