Resources

Transition Berkeley recommends the following resources and organizations. 

Transition Movement

• Transition Network

• Rob Hopkins - Imagination Taking Power (Transition Movement Founder)

Business

• Visit Berkeley

• Discovered In Berkeley

• Office of Economic Opportunity, City of Berkeley

• Sustainable Economies Law Center (legal support for starting worker owned cooperatives and more) 

Climate Change & Advocacy

• Climate Action Plan, City of Berkeley

• Environment and Climate Commission, City of Berkeley

• Facilities, Infastructure, Energy and Sustainability, Policy Committee, City of Berkeley

• Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force (CEMTF) (a county wide coalition addressing the inequities and causes of the climate emergency, online events)

• 350 Bay Area (mobilizing communities to achieve a clean energy future with racial, economic, and environmental justice)

• 350 East Bay (focused on climate action in the east bay, meetings and advocacy)

• How to Reduce Your Climate Footprint, NY Times

• Sierra Club, San Francisco Bay (advocacy, membership, outings and more)

Communication

• Bay NVC (Nonviolent Communication)

• Culture of Empathy (Center for Building a Culture of Empathy) ​

Economy and Finance

• Essential Knowledge for Transition 

• Slow Money Northern Cal

Emergency Preparedness and Fire Safety

• American Red Cross

• Berkeley Disaster Preparedness Neighborhood Network (BDPNN)

• Community Emergency Response Training (CERT), City of Berkeley

• Disaster Preparedness, City of Berkeley

• Fire Safe Berkeley (help for preparing your home from risks of wildfires)

Energy Efficiency ​​and Renewable Energy​

• Bay Area Sunshares (discounts on solar and EV vehicles) 

• East Bay Community Choice Energy (EBCE)​

• East Bay Green Home Tour (tours of homes with sustainable features)

• Green Building, City of Berkeley

• Quit Carbon (get a personalized home electrification plan)

• The Switch is On (tools to help electrify your home)​​

Growing Food​

• Bay Area Seed Interchange Library (BASIL) (healthy vegetable, herb, and flower seeds that are available free to the public at the Ecology Center in Berkeley)

• Berkeley Community Gardening Collaborative (school, community. nonprofit garden projects and more)

• Berkeley Youth Alternatives Gardens (BYA)

• Richmond Grows Seed Lending Library

• Spiral Gardens (community food security project)

• Urban Adamah (educational farm and community center)

• UC Gil Tract Community Farm (community farm on land owned by UC Berkeley)​​

Government

• City of Berkeley City Council

Habitat and Native Plant Gardens

• Berkeley Partners for Parks (supports parks and open spaces through city involvement and fiscal sponsorships) 

• Bringing Back the Natives Tours (tours of local gardens annually in April and May)

• California Native Plant Society (CNPS) (information and advocacy for growing native plants in California)

• Calscape (guide to regional native plants, hosts for butterflies/moths, nurseries and more)

• Friends of Five Creeks (volunteer group supporting healthy watersheds in the east bay)

• Homegrown National Park (Entomologist, Doug Tallamy shares information about the essential role native plants play in our own yards in supporting biodiversity, resources and invitation to be included in the national map)

• iNaturalist (record your observations and share with others)

• Merlin Bird Id (phone app developed by Cornell Lab of Ornithology) 

• Parks, Recreation and Waterfront Commission, City of Berkeley

Housing 

• East Bay Cohousing (cooperative community living support)

Repair, Recycling, Composting & Zero Waste 

• Berkeley Tool Lending Library (tools for household repair, gardening, cooking, bicycle and more)

• Berkeley Recycling Center (takes regular items as well as harder to recycle items like metal, batteries, etc)

• CalPIRG (advocate for public interest for better health and safety, dealing with issues like plastics, pesticides etc)

• Culture of Repair (repair resources and events)

• Ecology Center (city recycling services, farmers' markets, internships and education, seed lending library, sustainable books, products and more)

• ifixit.com (repair guides, tools and advocacy)

• Refill Stores (The Ecology Center EcoStore, Fillgood, The Filling Station)

• Stop Waste (resources for repair, reuse, recycling and gardening for home, business or school) 

• The Story of Stuff Project (short films highlighting the problems with consumption and waste and what we can do about it) 

• Zero Waste Commission, City of Berkeley ​​

Transportation 

• Bike East Bay (provides bike advocacy and classes)

• Biofuels and Urban Farming Supplies

• Cycles of Change (bicycle programs and resources for east bay youth)

• Electric Mobility, City of Berkeley (resources for using electric cars, bicycles, scooters, and adaptive vehicles)

• Ride and Drive Clean

• Transportation Commission, City of Berkeley

• Walk Bike Berkeley

• Waterside Workshops (bicycle education, repair and reuse)

• 511.org (transportation options, routes and schedules)

Travel 

• Bay Area Green Tours (sustainable farming and food tours)

• Global Exchange (human rights organization dedicated to social, economic and environmental justice) ​

Water Conservation

• East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD)

• Greywater Action (resources for saving water through greywater reuse, rainwater, )

• Save Our Water (California indoor and outdoor water conservation)

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