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Thank you thank you thank you to Greenoptions and all of the great minds behind it for offering this platform. In this journal we will follow Ecocities - the projects happening around the world and the humans that make them happen.

We’ll start with today’s posts, but if you would like to see the full range of stories, people and multimedia we have gathered around the Ecocity topic, visit the main site at www. ecocitymedia.org.

Be well!

First a disclaimer, this post is targeted toward entrepreneurs and employees of companies in Northern California–specifically people working in Alameda, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, or Santa Cruz Counties. The nonprofit organization Acterra is soliciting applications for its annual Business Environmental awards, which are open to businesses, government organizations, and in certain cases, nonprofit organizations.

If you know of similar awards for organizations outside of the San Francisco Bay Area, please let us know by commenting below.

Looking at past winners of the Acterra Business Environmental Award, it is clear that a wide range of organizations can win for a variety of projects.

If you’ve ever been to San Francisco, or lived there for a time as I have, you can’t help but be charmed by the city, but also aware of the natural beauty of the entire 9 county bay area. That charm and beauty, in many cases, was won in difficult and often contentious battles between environmentalists, governments and developers to name a few.