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Ecology Center (Berkeley)

environmental education and climate body

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ5333281 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Ecology Center is a non-profit organization based in Berkeley, California to provide environmental education and reduce the ecological footprint of urban residents.

Programs

California Alliance of Farmers' Markets

The Ecology Center coordinates the California Alliance of Farmers’ Markets, a newly formed coalition of farmers’ markets from around the state of California, committed to working together for the betterment of the farmers' market industry.

Climate Action Coalition

The Ecology Center coordinates the Berkeley Climate Action Coalition (BCAC), a network of local organizations and community members working to implement the City of Berkeley’s Climate Action Plan. The BCAC includes residents, non-profits, the City of Berkeley, neighborhood groups, faith based organizations, schools, businesses, UC Berkeley, and others.

Curbside Recycling

Ecology Center launched the first curbside recycling program in the nation in 1973. The Ecology Center has since contracted with the City of Berkeley to continue to provide curbside recycling service to residents.

EcoHouse

EcoHouse is a demonstration home and garden located in a North Berkeley residential neighborhood. Classes, workshops, and tours of the house and garden are designed to teach people from all walks of life how to make their living spaces healthier, more productive, energy and water efficient, and ecologically friendly. EcoHouse demonstrates ecological ways of living that are accessible and affordable to people of all ages, ethnic/racial backgrounds, and income levels.

Farmers' Markets

The Ecology Center runs the Downtown Berkeley, South Berkeley, and North Berkeley farmers' markets.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1973—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Ecology, Center and Berkeley can be independently traced.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5333281. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1973.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ecology Center (Berkeley)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.