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community:
conscious businesses
This is a list of local Bay Area businesses doing business in a
conscious manner. All the input on this page is from community
members. If you have a business you’d like to suggest we add to
the site, please email us with the information and we will
consider it.
guidelines for submission
CLOTHING
Serrahna
www.serrahna.com
5330 College Avenue (near Broadway)
Beautiful clothes designed by Andrea Serrahn. Done with the
magic of India, fabrics and textiles and colors are a delight to
the senses.
Rockridge Rags
Lynn Brown, owner
5711 College Ave
(between Birch street & Miles Ave)
Oakland, CA 94618
510-655-2289
FOOD
The Organic Epicure
www.theorganicepicure.com
Personal chef, Alix Wall, offers vegetarian menus, including
fish, tailored to your specific dietary needs. She will shop,
cook and leave you with healthy meals.
Three Stone Hearth
www.threestonehearth.com
Community Supported Kitchen (CSK)
We are a worker-owned cooperative, offering nutrient dense foods
to homes and families around the San Francisco Bay Area
Larry Wisch, owner
Bolivar Drive
Berkeley, CA
510-981-1334
Berkeley Natural Grocery
1336 Gilman Street
Berkeley, CA 94706
510-526-2456
www.localfoodswheel.com
This is a website designated to the San Francisco Bay Area’s
local food possibilities. If you are trying to eat more locally
grown food it is a good reference.
www.locavores.com
Another website dedicated to eating locally and with
sustainability.
www.100milediet.org
Dedicated to local food consumption
GIFTS
www.amberchand.com
A website that sells products made by women artisans who
live in conflict areas around the world.
The Tree House
www.treehousegreegifts.com
2935 College Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94705
Every item is eco friendly. Organic and handmade gifts.
HEALTH & BEAUTY
Heather Johnson Studios
www.heatherjohnsonstudios.com
6004 College Avenue (near Claremont Avenue)
Heather Johnson offers wonderful, soothing, rejuvenating
facials.
Bluesage Ayurveda
www.bluesage-ayurveda.com
Jennifer Taylor, ayurvedic practitioner
Jennifer offers rejuvenating abyangha massage and other
ayurvedic services along with Reiki and Acupressure in her
Berkeley office.
Email:
Jennifer@bluesage-ayurveda.com
Phone: 510-547-8737
Holistic Health Care
Julie Devin,
510-597-1502
1310 Harmon Street, Berkeley, CA 94702
Julie Devin is a licensed acupuncturist who has incorporated
naturopathic techniques to create a diagnostic model that allows
your body's own wisdom to be heard and it's unique health issues
to be addressed. In addition, she offers sessions in facial
rejuvenation using acupuncture and micro-current therapy.
www.leapingbunny.org
A website dedicated to working with companies to help make
shopping for animal-friendly products easier and more
trustworthy. Dedicated to cruelty free and animal friendly
products. It has a shopping guide for cosmetics and household
cleaning products.
Margaret Clausen, MA CMT
Massage Therapy and Hypnotherapy
3535 Grand Avenue
510-299-1025
Margaret is an excellent masseuse. She is skilled at deep work
and has an intuitive sense of what the person needs in the
moment.
Tamara Herendeen
2818 San Pablo Ave. Berkeley
415-450-0376
Tamara is a gifted masseuse with an intuitive sense of meeting
her clients specific needs. With 16 years of massage experience
she is able to read her clients with great skill. Her open heart
is evident to all of her clients. Sessions are in her studio,
however she is willing to travel to your home if needed (travel
fees apply)
Yolanda Vasquez
Cranial Sacral Specialist and Yoga Teacher
www.quietmind.com
510-268-9321
3966 Piedmont Avenue, Oakland, CA
Green Twig Salon
Dana Nelson, Owner and Stylist
dana@greentwigsalon.com,
415-642-9229
1515 Church Street, San Francisco, CA 94131
Dana Nelson is an artist. She has the skills and intuition to
create just the right look for you. Green Twig salon is eco
friendly, and Dana is personable, fun and a true artist. Once
you go there you won’t go anywhere else.
The Synergy Company
www.synergy-co.com
The Synergy Company is a company committed to individual,
community and planetary health. They produce exceptional quality
vitamins and nutritional support AND they are committed to
having the lowest possible impact on the earth through their
production choices.
HOME
EcoHome Improvement
Taja di Leonardi, MBA co-owner
Nina Boeddeker, PhD co-owner
2619 San Pablo Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94702
510-644-3500
Committed to sustainable and healthy living. Exceptional
standards on sustainability.
INSURANCE
Cynthia Blumgart
www.cynthiablumgart.org
State Farm
1950 Addison Street
Berkeley, CA 94704
510-858-2132
MISC
Ron Scrivani
www.accountery.com
Scrivani Warehouse at 416-26th Street
416-26th St, Oakland CA, 94612
510-325-5703
A business and artist location.
We focus on the development of business ideas that are forward
thinking, and provide meaningful service to our community. Our
current business in development is the Assembly of Memory Box's.
We will take your photos and memorabilia from a trip, event, or
group and display them in a creative 3-demenitional box to
display. Our Creative memory business also provides Scrap
Booking classes. We sell Creative memory books and materials.
Lucid Design
http://luciddesign.net/
Michael Zipkin, 510-526-9533
Graphic design services. Existing clients include Spirit Rock,
IONS, the Moving Center School (5Rhythms) and Andrea Juhan's
5Rhythms Center for Therapeutic Study.
http://luciddesign.net/
Matthew Cardin, Photographer
415-505-0222
www.350degrees.com
Books on Sustainable shopping:
The rough guide to shopping with a conscience by Duncan
Clark
RESTAURANTS
Blue Bottle Coffee
1552 Beach Street
Oakland, CA 94608
510-653-3394
Excellent organic coffee, available at Berkeley Farmer's Market
on Tuesday afternoons
Café Gratitude
www.withthecurrent.com
1730 Shattuck Avenue (near Virginia)
Berkeley
415-824-4652
Café Gratitude is our expression of a world of plenty. Our food
and people are a celebration of our aliveness. We select the
finest organic ingredients to honor the earth and ourselves, as
we are one and the same. We support local farmers, sustainable
agriculture and environmentally friendly products. Our food is
prepared with love.
Cha-Ya Vegetarian Japanese
1686 Shattuck Avenue (near Virginia)
Berkeley
510-981-1213
Vegan Sushi. Excellent fresh taste. No reservations, often busy.
Fellini's
1401 University Avenue (cross street is Acton)
Serves organic coffee
Jerusalem Organic Kitchen
1897 Solano Avenue
Berkeley 510-525-7888
Middle Eastern café using 100% organic vegetables and free-range
meats-
Juice Bar Collective
2114 Vine Street (cross street Shattuck)
Berkeley, CA 94709
510-548-8473
Healthy, largely organic take-out food
Razan's
2119 Kitteredge Street (cross street is Shattuck)
Berkeley
All organic foods both vegetarian and meat.
SCHOOLS
Park Day School
www.parkdayschool.org
370 -- 43rd St.
Oakland, CA
510-653-0317
Park Day School is a diverse, independent K-8 school with a 30
year history of progressive education. We believe a successful
learner is one who is confident, caring, and creative. We
believe success is measured by a student’s ability to define his
or her place in the world, guided by intellectual skills and a
social perspective.
YOGA
Berkeley Yoga Center
www.berkeleyyoga.com
Cybele Tomlinson & Melanie Green
1250 Addison Street, Suite 209
Berkeley, CA 94702
510-843-8784
Yoga Bear
www.yogabear.org
Yoga Bear is a volunteer-run, nonprofit organization based in
San Francisco dedicated to providing cancer patients and
survivors with more opportunities for wellness and healing
through the practice of yoga. By partnering with yoga studios,
Yoga Bear matches cancer patients and survivors with yoga
classes in the community free of charge.
Guidelines for submission
If you have a local business and want to be added to this list, please email me with your information, business type, contact info
and a 50 word (max) paragraph about your business. I will review the information and consider adding your information. Guidelines are that the business be on a conscious path, working for positive change in the world.
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Local first, supporting the economies of the Bay Area
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Organic: using as much organic material to create products
Recycled
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Materials: goods made from recycled materials
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Humane and cruelty free products – respecting the dignity of all living
beings when making products
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Eco balanced – that however the business is run it has a consciousness
about its footprint on the planet, and that there is a sense of giving
back, to community, to the earth.
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Collaboration: That the business have an attitude of collaboration
and
co-creation rather than an authority based model.
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Gratitude: That the business owners have a deep sense of gratitude and
respect for all life and all beings.
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