Restaurants
Restaurants go green by supplying fresh local produce and meats. This is an eco-friendly alternative than, say, buying aged steak from South Dakota which has to be shipped thousands of miles in order to be presented on your plate tonight. Some residents go so far as to term themselves “locavore” which means they only eat foods that come from a 100 mile radius of where they live. The following is a list of our local restaurants that are making it their goal to present to you fresh local food.

Le Bon Café – Currently undergoing menu renovation, Chef Jean Paul plans to offer an organic spread and a Prix Fixe menu to boast 100% all-natural food.

Chef Bella Vista at the Four Seasons Biltmore Resort – boasts locally sourced produce, seafood, and meats.

Bouchon – With 90% of their menu coming from locally sourced companies, as well as recycling their glass, cardboard, and plastic, Bouchon makes ranks as one of the most green restaurants in Santa Barbara.

Quantum Kitchen and Cocktails – Mondial Catering (the parent umbrella to Quantum) launched a “Green Initiative” which entails educating their staff and clients, researching purveyors within the area as well as adhering to environmental guidelines set forth by the Monterey bay seafood Watch List, using compostable products made from entirely renewable resources in their Food to Go Division, recycling office products, and researching low-toxicity, biodegradable cleaning products.

Spiritland Café and Bistro – Strives to offer as organic a menu as possible, currently boasting 70-90% completely organic and local. Even their cleaning supplies are organically based when possible. Their menu actively lists all items available that are organic or locally sourced.

Downey’s
Elements
Epiphany’s
Fresco at the Beach
Louie’s at the Upham Hotel
Opal
Pierre LaFond Bistro
Roy
Sage and Onion
Spa Café at the Bacara Resort & Spa
Square One
Wine Cask
Natural Café
Sojourner Café



Foods

Fairview Garden Farms – 598 N. Fairview Ave, Goleta. (805) 967-7369 A nonprofit demonstrating the viability of urban farming, the Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Garden is an internationally respected model for small-scale urban food production, agricultural preservation, and farm-based education.

Red Star Coffee – 6489 Calle Real #G. (805) 683-2555 Though not a traditional coffee shop, in that you can’t sit and enjoy a roast right there in the building (as they offer most of their products online), this Santa Barbara based higher-end coffee boutique offers Certified Organic Fair Trade coffee and teas, and does sell them in store.

Tri-County Produce – 335 S. Milpas St. (805) 965-4558

Santa Barbara County Certified Farmer’s Market – (805) 962-5354

Santa Barbara Fish Market – (805) 985-9564

Lazy Acres Market – 302 Meigs Rd. (805) 564-4410



Beauty

The following beauty salons and spas are eco-friendly in their acquirement beauty products that utilize environmentally friendly materials and procedures.

Walter Claudio Salon Spa – (805) 963-7579

Adagio Organic Salon – (805) 882-1150

Aveda Environmental Lifestyle Store – (805) 884-4646

Avia Spa and Salon – (805) 730-7303

The Body Shop – (805) 569-5669

Darin Jon Studio – (805) 962-1884

Le Reve Aromatherapy Day Spa – (805) 564-2977

Salon U – (805) 898-8962

Sumbody – (805) 568-1552



Style

Most of us don’t think about the environmental pressures that our clothing choices make on the world, but all the production, dying, and shipping of garments takes their toll on Mother Earth. Consider using recycled clothing as an alternative to buying new. You can not only help the environment, but save a few of those greenbacks too.

Alpha Thrift Store – (805) 963-8387 Offers recycled clothing and support programs for people with developmental disabilities.
The Closet – (805) 963-8083 Vintage and consignment. Check out the $10 rack.

Consigning Women – (805) 898-1586 Offers new and reused clothing

Edith’s Daughter – (805) 563-3207 Consignment designer clothes

Fashionique - (805) 965-4450 Women’s clothing and accessories in consignment

Goodwill Retail Store - (805)-899-3807

Gypsy Belle’s Art & Vintage Boutique – (805) 898-9525 Vintage threads and accessories

The Hempest – (805) 560-6001 Carries a wide selection of hemp clothing, accessories, food, and body care products from around the world to promote green living

Hempwise - (805) 685-9383 Hempwise is dedicated to supplying environmentally friendly hemp products including shoes, clothing, home furnishings, bodycare, food, books, and paper.

Lillian’s Pretty Woman Boutique – (805) 563-1226 Offers new and reused clothing from around the world

Marcel Hemp – (805) 963-8387 – Hemp clothing is all natural and perfectly sustainable. Numerous products can be made from hemp, including sandals, t-shirts, hats, and various other textiles.

The Rack - (805) 969-0190 Offers reused designer clothing to benefit the Music Academy of the West.

Redesigning Women - (805) 962-5301 Offers women’s clothing on consignment

Unity Shoppe Thrift Store - (805) 564-4402 Offers new and reused items to families in times of need

Yellowstone Clothing - (805) 963-9609 Vintage clothing



Paper

Wootton Printing – (805) 968-6800 Uses soy ink and recycled paper in black and white copy machines.

Pacific Press – (805) 687-8400 Their Digital System uses fewer chemicals to decrease hazardous waste.

Kinkos - (805) 966-2700 If requested, Kinko’s will replace the standard 30% post-consumer recycled paper in one black and white copier at every branch with 100% post-consumer recycled, process chlorine-free paper.



Construction

New building construction is currently one of the biggest expenditures of greenhouse gasses in the world. In order to help cut down on these carbon emissions, it is highly important that the buildings be built with passive flow heating, ventilation via natural ventilation currents, watering, and so forth. Pre-green buildings take in heat energy through their roofs and thus act as heat islands and throw heat back out into the environment. This in-turn affects the surrounding community, and enough roofs like this eventually change the weather of an area. Green roofs help to use this heat in productive ways. Green buildings also utilize rain water for irrigation, as well as facilitating grey water (untreated household waste water which has not come into contact with toilet water, kitchen sinks or dishwashers) for use in toilet fixtures to save on potable water.

Built Green Santa Barbara – A Network of builders, contractors, architects, developers, subcontractors, suppliers, lenders, etc. that aggregate to form a building plan that is dedicated to being environmentally sustainable. Check out their website at www.builtgreensb.org.

Green Project Consultants – This new Santa Barbara company acts as a liason between green product suppliers and consumers to help builders construct or modify existing structures in order to make them environmentally sustainable. www.GreenProjectConsultants.com



Businesses

These businesses have taken at least the first steps toward reducing their impact on the environment through a variety of means.
Art From Scrap – This nonprofit is essential to teaching students and the general public the truly infinite way to reduce environmental impact through creative thinking. Centered around hands-on artistic creation, Art From Scrap encourages those involved to pursue a new way of looking at refuse as something of potential value; as well as how to reuse, recycle, and reduce environmental impact.

Patagonia – This powerhouse of a garment store’s corporate office is located in Ventura, and though they produce amazing quantities of high caliber clothing every year, they do so with amazingly little environmental impact. They have also instituted “Common Threads Garment Recycling” program, in which they accept and recycle a variety of used garments. To learn more, visit their website at www.patagonia.com

Simple Shoes – Operates under a “Green Toe” initiative to assure all products are environmentally sustainable.

Deckers Corporation – Though you may not have heard about this corporate office located in Goleta, you certainly have heard of their products. The parent corporation stated by UCSB graduate Doug Otto in 1973, Deckers Co. has grown into an international company with three footwear brands: Tiva, Simple, and UGG Australia – all environmentally conscience companies.


Resources
If you’re new to the whole concept of giving green this Christmas, a good place to start your shopping experience is the California Department of Conservation Gift Guide
(http://www.greengiftguide.com).
This list isn’t comprehensive, but it is a good place to start if you’d like to go eco-friendly and don’t have a good way to go about doing it locally. From recycled glass-blown fine jewelry to clothing for Mom and Dad, this list covers most basics and home décor items. Featured items include an all-weather L.L. Bean Adirondack chair made from recycled plastic jugs, Birkenstock socks made from recycled plastic water bottles, and decorative items made from recycled aluminum cans.



Other Good Resources

Going green means doing what you can to help live sustainably. Offsetting your carbon usage by planting trees is just one way to help. There are many more. From green furniture to energy systems, to flooring, to landscaping, to clothing, to cleaners, living green can mean a myriad of different things. Haven’t found all that you were hoping for in these listings? Want to do more? Check out the following valuable sites.


The Sustainability Project
(www.sustainabilityproject.org) – Noted for their vanguard approach to ecologically friendly living. This site shows you what they do and how you can contribute to the movement.

www.livinggreen.org – A Santa Barbara based online guide to living green.

www.lessismore.org – City of Santa Barbara’s recycling website lists all the ways to conserve as well as dispose of refuse.

www.communityenvironmentalcouncil.org - Website dedicated to Santa Barbara’s ongoing improvements into the world of sustainable living.

www.greensantabarbara.com – Website hosted by Simple Shoes that showcases all things green in Santa Barbara.

Congratulations to the 2007 Green Award Recipients!
B & H Flowers, Incorporated, Carpinteria
www.bandhflowers.com

University of California, Santa Barbara, Design and Facilities
http://facilities.ucsb.edu

Valle Verde Retirement Community, Santa Barbara
www.valleverdesb.com

Chumash Casino and Resort, Santa Ynez
www.chumashcasino.com

Clos Pepe Vineyards, Lompoc
www.clospepe.com

Find out how they made it green at
www.greendifference.org - A website of the coalition of Santa Barbara County agencies and organizations helping people make an environmental difference, and sponsor of the Green Award’s.