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greenhouse, creating benches out of sustainable materials such as reclaimed wood, nails, screws, and tools, and building
<br /> an outdoor potter's bench.
<br /> Grant #: 10 -49, San Francisco Department of the Environment, Food to Flowers!, San Francisco, West County,
<br /> $18,000.00 - Funds will be used to continue the recycling efforts at Food to Flowers! and to purchase additional
<br /> compostable bags.
<br /> Grant #: 10 -50, The East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse, Green Education Program, Oakland, West County,
<br /> $ 10,000.00 - Grant funds will be used to provide in- store, hands -on education to teachers demonstrating and promoting
<br /> reuse education, promote and expand the new membership and incentive programs for educators, work with community
<br /> organizations and school districts to build a stronger partnership, evaluate the Depot's outreach efforts, and further
<br /> develop the information exchange on the website to create an online database of reuse education lesson plans.
<br /> Grant #: 10 -51, Peralta Parent Teacher Group, Peralta Environmental Stewardship Program, Oakland, West
<br /> County, $26,764.00 - Grant funds will be used to continue to shape the unique model for integrated curriculum that
<br /> looks deeply at the environmental issues our children will be faced with in order to take care of the planet. Peralta Parent
<br /> Teacher Group intends to become a model of successful practices around resource conservation for schools throughout
<br /> Oakland, the Bay Area, and the rest of the Country.
<br /> Grant #: 10 -52, SF Greenstacks, SF Greenstacks Eco Spots, San Francisco, West County, $12,000.00 - Funds will
<br /> be used to supplement existing programs by supporting the purchase of LCD screens for 8 of the City's 27 branch
<br /> libraries, as well as creating professional recycling /composting displays that will travel between branches.
<br /> Grant #: 10 -53, Sobrante Park Leadership Council, Sobrante Park Leadership Council Recycle and Education
<br /> Project, Oakland, West County, $32,000.00 - Students will learn about the importance of recycling and waste reduction
<br /> using the 4Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle, and rot) and share their information with their peers, family and friends (the
<br /> community). Students will implement a waste reduction program at their school.
<br /> Grant #: 10 -54, KIDS For the BAY, Four Rs Action Program, Berkeley, West County, $50,000.00 - KIDS for the
<br /> BAY will provide important education about local solid waste management and resource conservation issues, and inspire
<br /> real waste - reduction behavior changes in students, their families, and classroom teachers, through the Four Rs Action
<br /> Program: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Rot.
<br /> Grant #: 10 -55, San Francisco Clean City Coalition, SF Clean City — Wood Refurbishing and Reuse Enterprise,
<br /> San Francisco, West County, $50,000.00 - Grant funds will be used to create a new social enterprise that will focus on
<br /> diversion of wood from the landfill, refurbishing wood furniture into reusable items, repairing of wood pallets as an
<br /> income generating service, and reuse of broken pallets into planter boxes and other saleable niche wood products.
<br /> Grant #: 10 -56, Department of the Environment — City and County of San Francisco, SF Environment Now, San
<br /> Francisco, West County, $10,000.00 - Grant funds will be used to increase diversion in San Francisco neighborhoods by
<br /> supporting Environment now, an innovative workforce development project focused on developing a new mechanism to
<br /> create environmental stewards and increase diversity of the grassroots movement.
<br /> Grant #: 10 -57, Northern California Recycling Association, Zero Waste Franchising and Contracting Advocacy,
<br /> Berkeley, West County, $10,000.00 - Funds will be used to collect and develop new waste contracting language that
<br /> facilitates zero waste rather than hinder it. The project will study state of the art in zero waste contracting for trash and
<br /> recycling collection as well as the land filling of residuals, collect zero waste contractual agreements for around
<br /> Califomia and the US, prepare a series of draft language segments which will be reviewed and fine -tuned by the a Zero
<br /> Waste Advocacy Committee, hold 3 focus groups attended by NCRA members, and prepare a summary document and
<br /> robust web site that educates all interested parties and allows serious discussion of the study results.
<br /> Grant #: 10 -58, Center for Recycling Research, Pedi -Truck for Recycling, Berkeley, West County, $5,700.00 -
<br /> Funds from this grant will be used to put one Pedi -Truck into service at a variety of events in the Bay Area. The
<br /> secondary purpose of this grant is to assess the capacity of the factory direct vehicle in daily work of venue and event
<br /> recycling.
<br /> Grant #: 10 -59, Community Action for a Sustainable Alameda (CASA), Community — Based Outreach to Increase
<br /> Food Scrap Diversion, Alameda, West County, $20,000.00 - Grant funds will be used to increase participation in the
<br /> City's recycling and organics programs through community based social marketing. The objectives of the project are to
<br /> reduce greenhouse emissions.
<br /> Grant #: 10 -60, Public Design Studio, Commercial Reuse Building Material Facility and Green Workforce
<br /> program Development, San Francisco, West County, $10,000.00 - Grant funds will be used to support the creation of
<br /> the Bay Area Commercial Reuse Building Material Facility and Green Workforce Program. This program will reduce
<br /> waste and increase resource efficiency by facilitating a reliable supply stream of reclaimed materials, implementing a
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