Green Team West Marin

What is the Green Team?

The project mission is to educate and support citizens in taking action to live more earth-friendly lifestyles. We help individuals reduce their consumption and discover how living with less waste is cheaper and simpler! The potential for social change is great as neighbors convert to sustainable practices and collectively ask their retailers to stock earth-friendly products.

Small groups of Bay Area neighbors and co-workers learn to live more earth-friendly lifestyles through the support of a Green Action Guide, web resource listings and a trained coach. Participants learn to reduce their solid waste, home chemicals, energy, water and auto fuel consumption.

The program brings together teams of 6-8 individuals in neighborhoods to learn home conservation methods and put this education into practice.

How it works

Using an information-packed guidebook written for the Bay Area, participants choose between suggested actions in each of five topic areas: solid waste, chemicals, energy, transportation and water. With the help of a trained coach, participants:

- Commit to a series of 6 meetings with 5-8 other people.

- Choose from the suggested actions in the topic area.

- Use the book to implement these changes with help from team members.

- Share results and discoveries at the next meeting.

- Lead one meeting with the help of their coach.

- After the last meeting, receive individual and team statistics showing financial and resource savings.

A $25 program fee per participating household covers the guidebook, and program coach. A reduced fee of $15 and full scholarship are available as needed.

Interested in learning more?

Contact:  Frederick Smith, Executive Director, Environmental Action Committee of West Marin at eac@svn.net or call (415) 663-9312.