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Eco Author | 11:39 am | February 23, 2009 | Shopping | Add a comment
Petaluma Village Premium Outlets built the first public electric vehicle charging station in Sonoma County, and offers this service at no charge to shoppers who own EVs to help support this important environmental effort. Shopping centers such as Petaluma Village Premium Outlets are ideal locations for these charging stations. Customers can spend time shopping while their vehicles recharge.
The equipment at Petaluma Village Premium Outlets adds a refueling site along a major highway corridor, which has lacked charging stations. The center, adjoining the Highway 101 freeway, can be a strategic link in a chain of public charging sites that stretch from Sonoma County to San Francisco.
Eco Author | 10:36 am | December 4, 2008 | Attractions, Restaurant, Shopping | Add a comment
GEELA is the State of California’s highest and most prestigious environmental honor. The award program recognizes individuals, organizations and businesses that have demonstrated exceptional leadership for voluntary achievements in conserving California’s resources, protecting and enhancing the environment and building public-private partnerships.
“This honor recognizes Equity Office’s dedication to improving the overall environmental performance of the Ferry Building” said Harout Hagopian, Regional Director of Operations for Northern California, Equity Office. “After the building’s re-opening in 2003 we were committed to enhancing conventional commercial real estate operations to become more sustainable and compatible with the Ferry Building Marketplace’s organic and local food reputation. Today the Ferry Building remains dedicated to the best sustainable green business practices.”
The Ferry Building is a San Francisco historic icon that first opened in 1898. Impeccably restored in 2003, it is now a mixed-use building with two floors of office space and a bustling food marketplace and transportation hub on the ground floor. The Ferry Building provides unique opportunities for the management team to explore the business case for sustainable development and practices as part of its building operations. Examples include: procuring an industrial-size compost dumpster for retail food scraps, annual green office & restaurant supply open houses, recycling tips & recognition in the office tenant email newsletter, switching from bottled water to filtered tap for meetings, trash audits reported to individual tenants and at group meetings, and education about public transportation ease to and from the Ferry Building.
Eco Author | 10:47 am | November 21, 2008 | Shopping | Add a comment
Small Frys children’s store in the heart of Noe Valley offers one of the largest selections of environmentally friendly organic baby clothing available anywhere in the Bay Area. We feature organic clothing from Under the Nile, Sage Creek, Kooshies, I Play,and Pip. Our organic tights come from Country Kids and organic leg warmers from Baby Legs. We feature organic blankets from resources including I Play, Robbie Adrian and David Fussenegger. We also carry the highly sought after Ergo brand organic baby carrier.
Organic clothing is environmentally friendly in its production and manufacturing processes and our selection makes buying it easy for you.
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