Ending Food Waste in a Hungry World
As food is essential to life, so tackling food waste is integral to the zero waste approach. It is tempting to think that compost is the universal solution to the problem, but data shows the shocking...
View ArticleBay Area Green Tours Sales Associate
Bay Area Green Tours Sales Associate (Part-Time) Bay Area Green Tours is a non-profit 501(c)3 whose mission is to organize educational tours and events that demonstrate the sustainable economy in...
View ArticleGrowing your own vegetables: A few tips for beginners
By Jeni Chan, BAGT Intern As the warm spring days march on, the sun and blue skies can inspire the urge to sit in a cool green garden with a glass of lemonade. If you’re like me though, you have to...
View ArticleWater, Waste & Green Careers Tour
by Angelique Chan, BAGT intern & Albany High School Student BAGT Interns Angelique Chan and Tenzin Daden took their own classes from Albany High School on an amazing Green Tour in San Francisco...
View ArticleLongtime BAGT Staffer is a Climate Rider!
By Beth Gelfand Fueled by an understanding that it’s more important than ever to work toward a sustainable future, I was thrilled to participate last month in Climate Ride, a 320 mile bike ride (over 4...
View ArticleBack By Popular Demand! Open to the Public Farm Tours
San Mateo Coast Farm Tour: September 28th. Early Bird Discount Now! DATE: Saturday, September 28th, 2013 TIME: Full day tour 9:00 am – 6:00 LOCATION: San Mateo Coast COST: $99.00 Includes lunch &...
View Article5 extra tickets for our SOCAP Entrepreneurship Tour. Sept. 3rd!
Visit Some of the Bay Area’s Top Entrepreneurship Hot Spots! Learning about social entrepreneurship at the HUB On September 3, 2013, Bar Area Green Tours will partner with SOCAP13 to offer the first...
View ArticleKeep The Field Trips Alive! Support our Crowd-funding Campaign!
Launch of our Crowdfunding Campaign! Do you remember what it was like to go on a field trip? I know how excited I used to get when our teachers would tell us we would be leaving the school for a day —...
View ArticleAs a Child I Wondered – What’s Under the Sidewalk?
As a child growing up in midtown Manhattan, I walked the sidewalks wondering “what’s underneath the cement?”. I spent time in Central Park so I knew about dirt, but wondered where else it existed....
View ArticleParticipate in our Dine Out Series to Support Educating Local Youth about...
Are you a local Bay Area restaurant owner, work at a one or know someone who does? We would like to invite you to join our November/December “Dine Out” series.Throughout the months of November and...
View ArticleZero Waste Families
Some families practice the zero waste philosophy, most notably the Johnson family of Mill Valley, California. In 2008 Bea Johnson and her husband Scott, wanting a better world for their two young sons,...
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