More than 350 citizens and business owners participated in Sustainable Walnut Creek: Going Green Together on Oct. 20, 2007.

The purpose of the conference was to share information and creative ideas on the various ways we as a community can improve the local and global environment, and to become inspired so that citizens and businesses might take action on their own.

Dan Ashley with Mayor Sue Rainey

KGO-TV anchor Dan Ashley was emcee of the event, which also featured Bay Area Backroads host Doug McConnell, who narrated a presentation about things the City is already doing and things citizens and businesses have done to be more green at home and at work. Jan Berman of PG&E also spoke.

Inspired by the successful Community Conversations program conducted in 2001, Sustainable Walnut Creek: Going Green Together gave 80 citizens an opportunity to break into small discussion groups to discuss ways the community can be more sustainable.

Discussion groups in Hofmann Theatre

For a collection of stories about what citizens and local businesses are doing, click here.

For the results of the audience survey from the Going Green event, click here.

Back to Going Green page, click here.

Take Action Now!

Going Green Together Attendees completed a Personal Action Plan.
Take a look at their responses to the following questions (Adobe Acrobat Reader required):

Eco-Fair attendees check out light
bulbs at PG&E booth

1. What can I do to "Go Green"?
2. How can I work with my business/workplace/school/church or other affiliate group to "Go Green" together?
3. How can the City of Walnut Creek support my efforts to "Go Green"?

Download a Personal Action Plan Worksheet that you can use to brainstorm your own Green Ideas. 

Thanks to the following sponsors:

• City of Walnut Creek
• PG&E
• Valley Waste Management
• Allied Waste Services
• Highwire
• Sunrise Bistro
• Longs Drugs
• Pacific Rim Recycling
• Contra Costa Times
• Walnut Creek Journal
• Regional Parking, Inc.

Exhibitors at the Eco-Fair

• Allied Waste
• Contra Costa Water District
• East Bay Municipal Utility District
• PG&E
• Valley Waste Management
• 511 Contra Costa
• Central Contra Costa Sanitary District
• Central Contra Costa Solid Waste Authority
• County Connection
• City of Walnut Creek
• Clean Water Program
• Contra Costa Green Business Program
• The Gardens at Heather Farm
• Healthy Restaurant Association
• Lindsay Wildlife Museum
• Ruth Bancroft Garden
• Save Mount Diablo
• Walnut Creek Open Space Foundation
• Friends of the Creek