The Ecology Center Store Shines a Light on Candles
Candles can be a great way to help you relax or bring warmth to a room. However, candles are also one of the overlooked causes of poor indoor air quality and can especially affect your children’s health. Most candles on… Read more »
Valentine’s Day: Your Guide to Gifting Sustainably & Thoughtfully in Berkeley and the East Bay
Whether you celebrate Valentine’s Day with loved ones or Galentine’s Day with cherished friends, you may be wondering how to balance your commitment to sustainability while gift-giving. The options for showing your love, appreciation, and admiration don’t have to be… Read more »
Ecology Center Store Warming Sale, 2/20/16
Come visit the Ecology Center store, help desk, and library at our temporary digs. We’re remodeling for the next couple months, but we’re still open at a temporary home just down the block at 2506 San Pablo Avenue. There we… Read more »
Workshop: Making Holiday Gifts from Reuse Materials, 12/7/13
Each year around the holidays, we put together workshops and events to help gift-givers source sustainable, local or re-used gifts. Our workshop this Saturday hits the mark to show you how to make affordable, adorable, re-used gifts, and enjoy an… Read more »
Local Love Catering
Serving the East Bay and San Francisco, Local Love is a vegan catering and meal planning company designed to bring the local produce into gourmet, organic, vegan cuisine in a conscientious and thoughtful way. Whether you want a romantic dinner… Read more »
From Nature With Love
A website that specializes in natural ingredients for skin care, soaps, aromatherapy, bath accessories, candles and potpourri items. They offer how-to books for making soaps, candles, aromatherapy and other products. They also sell packaging supplies for home made products.… Read more »
Juniper Tree
Retail store offering supplies for making: Soaps, Bath Salts & Body Scrubs; Candles; Lip Balm; Lotions, Creams & Oils. Also sells:Bath & Spa-Handmade & Quality Lines; Candles & Incense; Home Decor; Perfumes, Purses & Jewelry; Cards & Gift Wrap; Holiday… Read more »
Lumia Organic
Makes and sells candles made from organic, non-GMO, biodegradable vegetable wax. None of their wax blends contain any petroleum products and they use only cotton or hemp wicks and quality essential oils.… Read more »
Fresh Wave
Fresh Wave Sprays, Crystal Gels, Candles, Vacuum Pearls, Laundry Multi-Purpose Additive, Carpet Shake and Pearl Packs use the power of nature for safe, non-toxic odor elimination without the use of perfumes or fragrances.… Read more »
Big Dipper Wax Works
Manufactures and sells natural beeswax candles and body products.… Read more »
Pheylonian Beeswax
Online vendor makes and sells beeswax candles, custom filled glassware, lip balm, bee pollen, survival candles and other such products having to do with beeswax.… Read more »
Her Majesty’s Secret Beekeeper
HMSBeekeeper focuses on local honey, gourmet single source and infused honeys, pollen and propolis, locally made soap, candles, balms, and lotions, as well as beekeeping equipment. Also holds classes periodically, including Mead Making, Soap Making, and Introduction to Urban Beekeeping.… Read more »
Nova Studio
Classes in making soap, candles, scrubs, lotions, lip balm, body butter, perfume, & more.… Read more »
Bay View Greenwaste Management Company
Source of wood chip mulch and compost. They also accept these materials for recycling: Tree Branches, Leaves, Log Wood, Palm, Bamboo. Located behind Candlestick Park and the nearest cross street is 3rd Street.… Read more »
Daddy Van’s
Daddy Van’s is a division of Bear Creek Candle Company, a family owned business in Evergreen, Colorado. All natural beeswax and lavender furniture polish is blended by hand using natural emollients and botanicals. Made with Unrefined Beeswax and pure Lavender… Read more »
Western Farm Center
The store carries complete lines of feeds and supplies for all pets, birds and animals. It also carries bulk vegetable seeds, a complete line of beekeeping supplies, candle making supplies, dog houses, kennels, and a year round supply of baby… Read more »
Three Stone Hearth
Three Stone Hearth is the nation’s first Community Supported kitchen. We developed a unique business model for food preparation and processing. For us, the ethos of “community” works on many levels.
Originally inspired by the CSA model (Community Supported Agriculture),… Read more »
Tips for Eco-Friendlier Travel
Sometimes a vacation is when all our best intentions for eco-friendly living fly out the window, and we find ourselves burning jet fuel and staying in accommodations that have a giant eco-footprint. On other vacations, we’re living close to the… Read more »
Guide for an Eco-Friendlier Holiday Season
Gift Giving | Gift Wrap | Christmas Trees | Meals and Food Service | Travel
Americans throw away an additional 5 million tons of trash – 25% more than usual – between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve. The reality of… Read more »
Air Quality in the Home: Common Pollutants and Sources
The average American spends 90% of their time indoors! The quality of the air we breathe inside our home matters greatly to our health. You may be encountering a wide range of pollutants, which may be mildly or seriously affecting… Read more »
