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Point Reyes Green Home Tour

You Mon Tsang September 14th, 2009

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The Community Land Trust Association of West Marin (CLAM) is a nonprofit, community-based organization that works to expand housing in the Tomales Bay area for people of low and moderate income. CLAM can acquire property through donation or purchase, then rent or sell the housing on it at below-market rates. The housing remains permanently affordable for future generations.

On Sunday, October 4, 12:30pm – 5:00 pm, CLAM is organizing their 3rd Annual Point Reyes Green Home Tour, which showcases Carbon Footprint-Reducing Techniques, at the Dance Palace, 503 B Street, Point Reyes Station.

The 3rd Annual Point Reyes Green Home Tour is a rare chance to tour homes in the Point Reyes area built with eco-friendly practices and green materials. Homes showcased this year include a deep energy retrofit using Passive House methods, a mini eco-farm, windmill, living roof, recycled and reused materials, and many more affordable ways to reduce our carbon footprint.

The program starts at the Dance Palace Community Center in Point Reyes Station on Sunday, October 4, at 12:30p.m. with a tour orientation. The guided tour of four homes, in Inverness and Point Reyes Station, leaves promptly from the Dance Palace at 1:00 p.m. and concludes at 5:00 p.m. Straus ice cream served at one of the homes.

Tickets for this educational and fun event are $25 in advance, $30 at the door. They are available online at www.clam-ptreyes.org, at the CLAM table at the Point Reyes Farmers Market, or by mail to CLAM, P.O. Box 273, Point Reyes Station, 94956. Proceeds support the work of the Community Land Trust Association of West Marin (CLAM), creating affordable, eco-friendly homes in the communities surrounding Tomales Bay.

Support this great cause and pick up great ideas to green your house!

California Coastal Cleanup Day: Sep 15, 2007

You Mon Tsang September 12th, 2007

From The California Coastal Commission Web Site:

California Coastal Cleanup Day is the premier volunteer event focused on the marine environment in the country. On this day, 50,000 volunteers turn out to over 700 cleanup sites statewide to conduct what has been hailed by the Guinness Book of World Records as “the largest garbage collection” (1993). Since the program started in 1985, over 750,000 Californians have removed more than 12 million pounds of debris from our state’s shorelines and coast. When combined with the International Coastal Cleanup, organized by The Ocean Conservancy and taking place on the same day, California Coastal Cleanup Day becomes part of one of the largest volunteer events of the year.

West Marin locations (http://www.coastal.ca.gov/publiced/ccd/counties/marin.html)

  • Agate Beach (Meet at 8am in the Agate Beach parking lot)
  • Brighton Beach (Meet 9am at the end of Brighton Avenue)
  • Bear Valley Visitor Center – Pt. Reyes National Seashore (Meet 9:30am at the Bear Valley Visitor Center, Pt. Reyes National Seashore)
  • Duxbury Reef (Meet 9am in the Common Wheel Retreat Center parking lot on Mesa Road)
  • Kent Island (Meet 9am at the Rod and Boat Club on Wharf Road)
  • Muir Beach (Meet 9am at the Muir Beach parking lot)
  • Slide Ranch (Meet 9:45am at the office at Slide Ranch. Bring a bag lunch.)
  • Stinson Beach (Meet at 9:00 a.m. at the lifeguard station )

FREE Thank You BBQ for all cleanup volunteers, sponsored by the Bay Model Association and the Sausalito Lions Club. There will be a special performance by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Water Safety Team. (http://www.spn.usace.army.mil)


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