The ECOLOGY CENTER provides the public with reliable information, tools, hands-on training, referrals, strategies, infrastructure, and models for sustainable living. Our programs enable people to adopt practices that are environmentally and socially responsible. We run Berkeley's residential curbside recycling program, the Berkeley Farmers' Markets, Farm Fresh Choice food justice program, Terrain magazine, EcoHouse demonstration home and garden, the Ecology Center Store, and a variety of Information and Climate Change Action programs.
We will be closed from December 25th to January 1st,
reopening on January 2, 2009.
Happy Holidays!
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Each year we publish our Guide to an Eco-Friendlier Holiday Season with tips on gift giving, holiday foods, trees, and travel. We also organize Ecology Center craft fairs and store sales to provide access to local, sustainable, and healthy gifts. Check out the 2008 Green Holiday Guide and tap into these resources:
- Guide to an Eco-Friendlier Holiday Season
- Farmers' Market Craft Fairs
- Ecology Center Store Holiday Sales
- Toy Clinic with Free Lead Testing
- GAIA Craft Fair
- Guide for Eco-Friendlier Travel
- How to Green an Event Guide
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In “Bay Area Wheat Makes a Comeback,” SF Chronicle reporter Tara Duggan discovers that heirloom wheat is being grown within a 100-mile radius of the Bay Area. Flour and wheat berries from Sonora wheat are available at Full Belly’s farm stand at the Tuesday Berkeley Farmers’ Market. Whole wheat bread made from the wheat is available at Morrell’s Bread at the Thursday and Saturday Berkeley Farmers’ Market. [Photo: Bernat Casero] |
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The East Bay Express reports on the Ecology Center’s new project to help neighbors, families, co-workers, friends, and other groups to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions: “Through a series of free workshops, the center is offering tips and ideas for how each of us can significantly downsize our carbon footprints. The workshops…feature small groups of people exchanging ideas for how to reduce global warming and save the planet.” Read the article. Learn more. Join a group! |
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Bill Moyers sits down with Michael Pollan, Knight Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley, to discuss what direction the U.S. should pursue in the often-overlooked question of food policy. Author and Berkeley Farmers' Market shopper Pollan advocates for a food future much like what the Ecology Center is creating in Berkeley. |
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The revised Berkeley Climate Action Plan is now available for your review and comment. The City of Berkeley requests your input! The public comment period ends January 16, 2009. Visit their site, berkeleyclimateaction.org, where you can read the plan and give your input. |
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GAIA, a sponsored project of the Ecology Center, presents "The Story of Stuff." This short film offers a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the dark underbelly of our materials economy. It'll teach you something. It'll make you laugh. And it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever. |
 Teacher Resources
If you're a teacher, be sure to check out our
improved online educator resources. Terrain
for Schools is an environmental education
curriculum program designed to use the articles
in Terrain Magazine.
The lesson archives are searchable on our website,
complete with printable PDF versions! The Bay
Area Environmental Education Resource Guide
is a great place to find information about field
trips, free and low-cost educational materials,
and more! |
Green Holiday Guide, Craft Fairs, Special Holiday Sales
Locavores Discover Heirloom Wheat at the Berkeley Farmers’ Market
Ecology Center Launches Climate Change Action Groups
Bill Moyers Interviews Michael Pollan on Food Policy
Watch the "The Story of Stuff" Online 
