Great Green Opportunity

Saturday, June 27th • 10am to 7pm
Cow Palace: 2600 Geneva Ave. Daly City, CA 94014 (map)

SFBAY Greenfair

is a powerful way to reach your best prospects and potential employees in the market. By combining our proven experience in event planning with the power of The Bay Area Newspaper Group print and online media, we’re confident that SFBAY Greenfair will offer you the most dynamic opportunity of the year.

If your business helps customers to live greener and smarter SFBAY Greenfair is a powerful way to reach your best prospects in the market. By combining our proven experience in event planning with the power of The Bay Area Newspaper Group print and online media, we’re confident that SFBAY Greenfair will offer you, the most dynamic opportunity of the year.

LIVING GREEN- Business, Home, Life!!!

SFBAY Greenfair’s Mission:

*Stimulate sales for eco friendly companies to reach both businesses and consumers.
*Educate thousands of people on all the attributes on going GREEN.
*Enable eco—focused, non-profit organizations and charities to spread the word on our earth’s challenges.
*Provide a venue for green companies to recruit and hire qualified candidates for available positions.

We’re committed to attracting the public to each of our events with a highly targeted multimedia advertising campaign.

As an ongoing event, UC Davis student groups are collecting bicycles that will be sent to Namibia as part of a sustainable economic development project sponsored by Mike's Bikes.  The bicycles will be used by newly trained Namibian bicycle mechanics and entrepreneurs, and will improve the mobility, earning power, and quality of life of numerous Namibians.  Every year, over 1,000 bicycles are abandoned on campus, and by law must be auctioned off by TAPS: they cannot be donated for charitable purposes unless the original owner can be contacted.  We want to put this year's crop of bicycles to better use. 

Contact:  Nathan Weaver at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . 

Coming to UC Davis on May 28th

1322 Storer, 5pm-7pm

How can we human beings sustain our environment and create a better world?

· Though Global Climate Change is the greatest challenge we now face, this film seeks to restore in people a sense of optimism, and calls upon citizens to overcome the challenge.

· Filmmaker Kevin Dukelow sought answers to difficult questions, and journeyed across California to gain insight from internationally respected sustainability experts.

· See never before screened footage and learn how you can make a difference.

· Features a Q&A with the film’s director.

UC Davis Dateline

March 20, 2009

By Dave Jones

Groundskeeper Mike Griffith is among the one-quarter of Davis campus employees who bicycle to work. But Griffith takes it a step farther. Actually, he keeps on pedaling — after switching from his commute bike to his work bike.

Not just any old bike, but a professional-grade three-wheeler with heavy suspension, 21 gears and hydraulically operated rear disk brakes — and a custom-made cargo bed to haul his work gear, or loads of dirt and mulch.

“This is UC Davis-friendly,” said Griffith, whose 20-year career with Buildings and Grounds puts him smack-dab in the middle of a sea of bicycles every day as he rakes and prunes and sprays.

In switching to the work bike, Griffith voluntarily gave up his gas-powered cart — the ultimate in environmentally friendly gestures.

“This is in line with the campus philosophy,” Griffith said. In fact, the campus sustainability committee awarded a $2,145 grant to help buy what Griffith calls a “human powered utility vehicle.”

Buildings and Grounds, Transportation and Parking Services, and Fleet Services also contributed to the purchase price. The total cost (not counting lock, brake lights and a bell, courtesy of the Bike Barn): $3,432, compared with $5,000 to $7,000 for a new power cart.

It was all Griffith’s idea. The UC Davis graduate — he earned a bachelor’s degree in managerial economics while going to school part-time and holding down his grounds keeping job — co-wrote the grant application, researched and test-drove the various work bikes on the market, and made the purchase.

“Mike is incredibly motivated about this,” said Cary Avery, grounds superintendent with Buildings and Grounds. “We are very proud of him.”

The bike arrived on March 4, and, so far, so good, Griffith said. “This bike will do all of the work that the other carts will do,” he said. The bike fits around all the bollards and gates that keep cars and trucks off various paths around campus, and the cargo bed can carry 600 pounds.

To read the entire article, visit:

http://www.dateline.ucdavis.edu/dl_detail.lasso?id=11270