East Bay Green Tours

EAST BAY GREEN TOURS - Monday, November 17, 2008

Please note: This itinerary will be used for Monday, Nov 17, subject to change. 


8:30 am -9:00 am
DOWNTOWN BART/Amanda's Restaurant

2122 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA
Gathering together, Registration

Transportation representatives & displays

• Bicycle Garage
• Bicycle-Friendly Bicycle Coalition
• Peddle Express

9:15 am - 10:15 am
CANCUN RESTAURANT snacks & presentations

2134 Allston Way

Welcome from Advocacy Groups

• Alameda County Green Business Program
• Sustainable Berkeley - Jennifer Cogley
• Sustainable Business Alliance
• Green Chamber of Commerce

Brower Center presentation

• History & Future
• Walk outside to see project

Food

Reps from Cancun, Bobby G's,, Zatar, Venus, Amandas,

• Talk about growing their own food
• Sustainable practices

10 am - 10:15 am

Walk to Berkeley Community College



10:30 am - 11:15 am

Berkeley Community College - A Certified Green Building

Room 315

2050 Center St

Energy Presentations

• Local Clean Energy Alliance
• Sun Light and Power
• Rising Sun Energy Center
• Lawrence Berkeley Labs

11:30 am - 12:45 pm
LUNCH (choice of various locations)
Cancun, Bobby G's, Zatar, Venus, Amanda

• AT BOBBY G'S with special presentation by Ina Pockrass from the Transcendentist (2072 University Ave.)

12:45 pm -1:00 pm
Board Bus & drive to Eco House

1:00 pm -1:45 pm
ECO-HOUSE TOUR AND COMMUNITY GARDEN

1305 Hopkins


1:45 pm -2:00 pm
Board Bus & drive to west Berkeley

2:00 pm -2:20 pm

GO GREEN  MOTORS and 3 PRONG POWER

1500 San Pablo Ave

3Prong Power is delivering enhanced Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV) conversions for early adopter customers.  This technology enables using two distinct power sources and enhances fuel efficiency. Local travel is electric but with a gas tank backup for long distance trips.  For more info: www.3prongpower.com or 510-868-4133


2:25 pm - 2:40 pm
Board Bus

Drive San Pablo Ave- Point out green businesse

• Metro Lighting - Drive-by Sponsor
• Ohmega Salvage - Drive-by Sponsor

2:45 pm - 3:15 pm

BIOFUEL OASIS
2465 4th St, Berkeley

3:15 pm Board Bus

3:30 pm - 4:15 pm

TEA @ THE ECOLOGY CENTER
2530 San Pablo Avenue

• History
• Program overview
• Shelter Built
• To-Go Ware

4:15 pm Board Bus

4:30 pm -5:00 pm
GRATEFUL BODY @Ashby San Pablo
1041 Folger Ave

5:00 pm  -Board Bus


5:15 pm - 6:00 pm
URBAN ORE RECYLCAMATION CENTER
900 Murray St


6:00 pm  - ??

SHUTTLE TO ASHBY BART- past the new Biofuel Oasis "Gas Station

Use one of the Restaurant Coupons at downtown Restaurant!

We wanted to extend a sincere apology to our friends at Sun Light and Power, who have been in Berkeley since 1976.  On our marketing flyer we erroneously listed them as "Sun Light and Power (now Sun Power Corp.)."

They have NOT changed their name, nor have they been bought.  Sun Power Corp is a separate company who resides to the north RIchmond, CA.

For more information visit www.sunlightandpower.com

East Bay Green Tours will provide a valuable, multi-purpose service to East Bay "green" businesses, as well as the overall community.

• First and foremost, the tours will serve as a direct community outreach and advocacy for the people working in the sustainable industry. It will provide tour attendees - and the media - the chance to "See the Green Economy in Action!"

The East Bay - in particular Berkeley - has been a hub for the environmental and progressive movements for decades. The seeds of the environmental movement planted in the 1960s have sprouted and are growing into a beautiful forest - the arc of "conscious capitalism" can be traced immediately to the businesses and organizations featured on the Green Tours.

• In addition, the City of Berkeley has a virtually endless array of offerings to the tourist community, yet surprisingly few structured tours of the City. EBGT will play a vital role in having a destination package for people visiting the region. It will also broadcast the image of Berkeley in the new millennium - a community where the arts & sciences, business and education, social activism and spiritual consciousness are interwoven in the daily lives of the citizens. The world needs to know the new message of Berkeley - EBGT will help promote that message.
  
  
• The tours will be moldable to accommodate virtually any type or tourists or visitor group, including school children, senior citizens, political action groups, foreign dignitaries, and civic/municipalities.

• Lastly, the EBGT will serve as a connection point for people looking to "learn from the experts." Many people are looking for a way to learn about sustainable practices in the field. They can use their time on the tour to create a direct connection with "experts" implementing green practices in their everyday work. In this way, businesses and individuals pioneering the sustainability market can be further branded as "experts," enhancing their career profile and that of the region.

RT's mission is to become the foremost provider of "sustainability tours" to the people of the Bay Area and beyond.

Here is a recent blog entry by Mark McLeod, Executive Director of the Sustainable Business Alliance, Board President of the Downtown Berkeley Association, and Executive Committee Member, Buy Local Berkeley:

"Many of us who have been involved in the building of sustainablecommunities in recent years have done most of their work inside the Bay Area.  As a consequence, we come to take it for granted that similar work is going on throughout the country.  An alternative energy consultant friend of mine just returned from working in several other areas of the country.  He was shocked to see that very little sustainability work was being done in many of the places he visited. 

That means that not only do we have to continue growing the sustainability movement in the Bay Area, but we also have to be the model sustainability community for much of the rest of the country.  We need to discover how to present ourselves in a way that is comprehensible and seductive, but neither condescending nor didactic.  The beauty of Marissa LaMagna's East Bay Green Tours is that they are precisely the kind of modeling that the East Bay sustainability community needs to offer.  The tours are lively, upbeat, spirited, information-rich, and inspiring. 

In a relatively brief period, a member of the tour gets to visit some of the cutting edge sustainability enterprises in the country, and meet and talk with their operators.  In order to succeed in creating a sustainable community, all sectors of the community have to participate.  On East Bay Green Tours, you get to explore some of these sectors -- including green building and construction, non-carbon energy producers, sustainability work clusters, green food producers and distributors, restaurants that have gone green, and green transportation, and sustainable agriculture. 

This November edition of East Bay Green Tours is a remarkable opportunity.  I urge you to take advantage of it, join the tour, and invite your friends and colleagues to do the same.  If you are a Bay Area resident, you get the chance to see the area with new eyes.  If you are from outside the Bay Area, you get to see the kind of work being done that you may decide you want to spearhead in your own community"