Diablo Trails Challenge
For over 38 years, Save Mount Diablo has worked tirelessly to preserve and increase the open space on and around Mount Diablo. With distances suitable for everyone from those hitting the trail for the first time to experienced ultra-runners, the Diablo Trails Challenge was created to help celebrate and support their achievements. More...

What are the three most important pieces to growing a vegetable garden?  Well, besides having a little piece of land, it is sunlight, water and good soil.  Even if that little piece of land isn't in your back yard, the East Bay has several different options for you to work out that green thumb!  

Need to find a little piece of dirt to call your own or maybe share? More...

Celilo Group Media, a leading green media company, is seeking a dynamic individual to fill the role of Community Outreach Manager for EcoMetro Guide covering the East Bay area. EcoMetro Guide and companion web site ecometro.com are unique localized green media products promoting local and sustainable businesses and healthy living. This is an exciting opportunity with a growing green media firm. More...

By Erin Russell

The Olympic spirit is something I find contagious whenever the games come around. It is always history in the making and the few days that I have been at Whistler last week were no different.  

History in the Making

When Vancouver won the bid for the winter Olympics, they made a pledge to have the first sustainable games in history. More...

By Jennifer Hallstrom

With the New Year here it is a great time to think back at the last 12 months and the goals and efforts personally made to be a bit more eco-friendly. It is also a wonderful time to set new goals for this year to be even better.

In the fall, the EcoMetro Guide crew took part in the Ecology Center’s Climate Change Action Project group in Berkeley. More...

By Pam Tanner, Denver EcoMetro Guide Market Director

The excitement of the holiday season is over and you may be feeling the pressure of either making a New Year’s resolution related to your health or fitness goals.

Most of us begin the New Year and the prerequisite fitness resolution with the best of intentions, only to hit a wall within two or three weeks and struggle to maintain our motivation to continue. Below are some suggestions to help you develop a routine and achieve your goals: More...

-Elliott Mamauag, EcoMetro Guide East Bay Market Director

Every knitter's heart does a little purl every time they see a sheep. Not simply because of the inherent cuteness contained therein, but because they are imagining the lifetime of warm and cozies that can come from the irrepressible growth of wool. 

Knitting has always been the ultimate sustainable craft; the purest, most organic materials used in the craft grow from an animal's back. More...

Buy green power
PG&E (joinclimatesmart.com, 800-743-5000) The unique ClimateSmart program funds conservation and protection projects that capture carbon emissions, instead of funding renewable energy programs. The average cost is $5 per month.

Alameda Power (alamedamp.com, 510-748-3900) sources 85% of its energy from renewables, but customers can contribute to the Clean Future Fund for 1 cent/kWh, or an average $3.75 per month. Fund contributions go towards pursuing new renewable resources. More...

-Heather Hale, Sustainable Business Accounts Manager

The seasons here in the East Bay are definitely changing. We've had our first two heavy rains, and there's a new crispness to the air. Leaves are turning wonderful shades of red, orange, and rust, and many trees are losing their leaves altogether.

You're probably picking the last of your homegrown tomatoes, if you haven't already. But wait! If you're packing all that gardening equipment away until early next spring - and you haven't tried fall and winter gardening yet - you're missing out on six months of outdoor fun! More...

Working with local schools on their fundraisers we often hear their great ideas to raise money and awareness for green living. This fall one of the schools fundraising with EcoMetro Guide, Glenview Elementary opened its first-ever produce stand, a project of the PTA’s school food and nutrition committee. Open from 2-4pm every Tuesday afternoon, the stand includes a “tasting” table, where all Glenview students have the opportunity to taste the fruit or vegetable of the week. More...