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Point Reyes Green Home Tour

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!

Point Reyes Is Slow Food

July 22nd, 2008

The Slow Food movement is defined:

Slow Food is good, clean and fair food. We believe that the food we eat should taste good; that it should be produced in a clean way that does not harm the environment, animal welfare or our health; and that food producers should receive fair compensation for their work, and that all people should have access to this good and clean food.

Given the agriculture and culinary experiences in West Marin, slow food proponents should love the Point Reyes area and indeed they do.  A huge Slow Food confab over Labor Day weekend will happen in San Francisco and two of the ten “slow journeys” will head to West Marin.

The Marin Creameries tour, which features cheese, oysters and wine (count me in!) is already sold out (oh no).  As of this writing, the Mysterious Bolinas tour, which features the wonderful and quirky farms of Bolinas still has some room.