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our story
The idea of Bay Area Green Tours was sparked when Founding Executive Director, Marissa LaMagna, attended a fourth-grade field trip to a wastewater treatment plant in New York City.
She couldn’t help but wonder, “Where does all the waste go?”
Ever since that formative experience, Marissa has been an ambitious environmentalist, working for proactive change to advance the health and wellbeing of our shared planet and future generations.
In 2008, she began Bay Area Green Tours as a side project of the San Francisco Green Festival. It has now grown into an independent organization, providing a bridge to solutions for more sustainable practices and new future possibilities by showcasing local green models focused on creating a sustainable future, and empowering people to incorporate environmental responsibility and social justice into their personal and professional lives.
She couldn’t help but wonder, “Where does all the waste go?”
Ever since that formative experience, Marissa has been an ambitious environmentalist, working for proactive change to advance the health and wellbeing of our shared planet and future generations.
In 2008, she began Bay Area Green Tours as a side project of the San Francisco Green Festival. It has now grown into an independent organization, providing a bridge to solutions for more sustainable practices and new future possibilities by showcasing local green models focused on creating a sustainable future, and empowering people to incorporate environmental responsibility and social justice into their personal and professional lives.
our mission
We create interactive tours and experiences highlighting the sustainable economy in action, to inspire and educate youth and adults to build a more enduring and resilient future.
"The tours are lively, upbeat, spirited, information-rich, and inspiring. In a relatively brief period, you get to visit some of the cutting edge sustainability enterprises in the country, and meet and talk with their operators."
- Mark McLeod Executive Director, Sustainable Business Alliance