The Ecology Center is a non-profit organization based in Berkeley, California

Berkeley, California

Berkeley is a city on the east shore of the San Francisco Bay in Northern California, United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland and Emeryville. To the north is the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington...

 to provide environmental education. It works with the City of Berkeley to reduce its ecological footprint

Ecological footprint

The ecological footprint is a measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems. It is a standardized measure of demand for natural capital that may be contrasted with the planet's ecological capacity to regenerate. It represents the amount of biologically productive land and sea area necessary to...

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Farmers' Markets

The Ecology Center runs the Downtown Berkeley, South Berkeley, North Berkeley and Albany

Albany, California

Albany is a city in Alameda County, California, United States. The population was 18,539 at the 2010 census.-History:In 1908, a group of local women protested the dumping of Berkeley garbage in their community...

 farmers' markets. The North Berkeley market offers 100% organic products, with the other markets focussing primarily on organics, with all of them having imposed a ban on GMOs. The markets host local farmers, many of these small family farms, and food artisans from the greater San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a populated region that surrounds the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California. The region encompasses metropolitan areas of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, along with smaller urban and rural areas...

, all year round. Frequent shoppers include local restaurants and different houses of the Berkeley Student Cooperative.

Curbside recycling

The Center has contracted with the City of Berkeley to provide curbside recycling service to residents.