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The fight to save Market Match continues! The Ecology Center joined the Agricultural Institute of Marin, alongside other members of the 160 member Save Market Match Coalition, to organize a Lobby Day on March 20, 2024. The event drew 100…
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The Ecology Center has a decades-long record of battling disposable plastic packaging. From the nation’s first styrofoam foodware ban (1988) to the Report of the Berkeley Plastics Task Force (1996), to Berkeley’s Disposable Foodware Reduction Ordinance (2019), the Ecology Center…
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The neighborhood of Linda Vista in San Diego almost lost the Market Match program, a federal and state-funded grant program led by the Ecology Center that provides a dollar-for-dollar match on CalFresh/SNAP spending at participating CA farmers’ markets.
Market Match–a…
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