Connecting Community, Economy, and Ecology

center-festival-small.jpgSustainable Fairfax is one of the first groups in Marin to pioneer sustainability, with a legacy of educating the town council, supporting the community, providing services to the town, and conducting educational events since 1999. Through our work, we’ve come to realize that sustainability is not just an end goal, but also an approach to decision making. Learn more about Sustainable Fairfax >>

Marin Clean Energy Action Needed

marin_clean_energy.jpgMarin Clean Energy is on it’s way to becoming a reality in 2010! Eight towns and the County voted last fall to join together to set up our community based clean energy system. Now we’re into the nitty-gritty details and you can help all of Marin get the best Marin Clean Energy System we can have.

   MCE has the potential to integrate energy efficiency and local power generation. Energy efficiency is the cheapest 'clean energy' available and we would create good local jobs. Public Goods Funds are available to Marin and we should make sure that we get the funding, because Marin Clean Energy can do better Energy Efficiency, Solar, and Low-income programs than PG&E.

Please email your MCE county representative and your MCE town councilor and say that we need to bring energy efficiency and local power generation front and center into all MCE proposals.

Marin County Supervisors:

 Hal Brown This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it &  Charles McGlashen   This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
Belvedere:  Tom Cromwell This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it &  Barbara Morrison This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
Fairfax: Lew Tremaine This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
 &  Larry Bragman This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
Mill Valley: Shawn Marshall   This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it  &  Ken Wachtel This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
Ross: Chris Martin   This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it       &      Bill Cahill This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
San Anselmo:  Barbara Thornton This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it   &  Ford Greene This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
San Rafael:  Damon Connolly      damon@ damonconnolly.com  &    Barbara Heller This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
Sausalito:  Jonathon Leone This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it   &    Mike Kelly This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
Tiburon:  Richard Collins This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it  &     Jeff Slavitz This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

 
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Fairfax Scoop

scoop.jpgWhen Ray Martin opened the Scoop in 2001, he was the first Bay Area entrepreneur to sell organic ice cream flavored with sustainably sourced and local ingredients, such as on organic ice cream base from Straus organic creamery in Marshall, strawberries from Russ Sartori's farm in Tomales, raspberries from Mt. Barnabe Farms in San Geronimo, lavender and honey grown in West Marin. Fairfax Scoop has gone on to become one of Marin's hottest destinations for ice cream served in cookie-like, waffled cones and cups made fresh, on the premises, also from organic ingredients. A dozen flavors are served at any time; these always include one soy ice cream and one sorbet.

Recently they churned up the best peach ice cream I've ever had and a creamy, bracing lemon poppy seed. Other interesting taste treats are Grasshopper, mint ice cream colored green with spirulina, with chunks of Newman's Own organic mint cookies; and Hula Dance, coconut ice cream rippled with fudge, macadamia nuts and white chocolate. At Christmastime, their eggnog ice cream is unbeatable, as is a pumpkin made with sugar pie pumpkins from Allstar Organics in Nicasio.