Comments on: Berkeley’s Green 4th of July

By: Allison

Allison — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:44:00 +0000

Thanks for the great info. This will help me to see if our local creek clean up can go greener.

By: catniplady

catniplady — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:40:00 +0000

Thanks for the information on Green Mary. Wow, that opened up my eyes about seeing the disposable nature of public gatherings…and the potential for recycling all around. Keep up the good blogging, Beth.

By: Lisa Sharp

Lisa Sharp — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:41:00 +0000

How amazing!!!!!! We can’t even recycle glass anywhere in the town I live in. :(

By: Condo Blues

Condo Blues — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:05:00 +0000

We had the same plastic recycling containers at our recent Comfest (a big festival of local music, local food, and local artists/businesses) in Columbus, Ohio. I really wish more of our local street festivals had recycling bins present. Our city recently moved from recycling just #1 & 2 plastics to recycling #1-7 plastics! In addition to paper and metal of course.

By: Allie

Allie — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:17:00 +0000

Wow! Berkley really sounds like a wonderful place to live. And it sounds like you had a great 4th! Love the pictures!

By: Green Bean

Green Bean — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:23:00 +0000

How cool! Berkeley is miles ahead of most of us in terms of community-greening. I recently visited my sister there and, once we got of the BART train, were greeted by Zip Car and City Car Share cars everywhere. They have a city wide food composting program and no one blinks at my sister keeping chickens.

I guess my only beef with Berkeley is it still is a bit “fringe.” I don’t mean that in a negative way but in a way that it is hard to convince the rest of the country to go the way of Berkeley. They come up with the ideas but then those ideas need to be brought mainstream. I don’t see any reason why their “trash system” couldn’t be seen at every city and community event across the country, though.

By: jennconspiracy

jennconspiracy — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:42:00 +0000

I missed you at the Berkeley Marina! I was there from about 11AM on the grass with a view of the road in and the freeway with the traditional Afro-Cuban rumba jam. It was nice over there.

I have to say, I was impressed with the ground squirrels, er, recycling efforts, too.

The water bottles were awesome - James and I both had our insulated cups and refilled them from the bubblers when we were out walking around.

We bailed at 7, though - and went home - we would have been able to see the fireworks from his back deck except for the fog... but, hey, that's a 4th of July tradition in these parts...