Growing the Rancho Pascuales ecovillage

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We’re thrilled to announce our recent collaboration with Rancho Pascuales ecovillage in Colima, Mexico. By working with the Pascuales Partners to fill their sustainable spaces with retail, office, and residential dwellers, we are helping to fulfill our shared vision of sustainable prosperity and development. The ecovillage will collaborate with local and regional communities of the Colima area to protect its rich traditions, ancient culture, and the local...

Live aboard the Creative Spirit yacht in San Rafael

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As an unconventional real estate company with far reaching roots in community, sustainability, and alternative living, we sometimes come across the out-of-the-ordinary living situations…

Green Key Real Estate is thrilled to share a rare living experience in the Bay Area — living, working and rejuvenating aboard the Creative Spirit — a yacht anchored in the lovely Loch Lomond Marina in San Rafael.

Legally live aboard this beautiful 58...

WISE Traditions – Connecting our health with the health of the land

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I will be attending the WISE Traditions 2012 Conference in Santa Clara (Nov 8-12). It may be a stretch for some to understand how a conference whose tag line is “Nutrition and Behavior” would have anything to do with real estate.

For me, it all comes together through food and my relationship to place....

Ripple the World with Goodness

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Intense times call for intense inputs of positive and uplifting inspiration.

It is for this deep inhalation of goodness that I go every year to the Daily Acts event: Ripple the World! ...

Green Key at Rebuilding Together SF Fall Build Day

Our Green Key Rebuilding Together team

At Green Key, we walk our talk about healthy communities. Recently our team lent a some hands to Rebuilding Together SF, a local nonprofit providing critical structural improvements in low-income areas around San Francisco. We refurbished the office space of one the oldest community agencies in the Golden Gate.

Check out more from the Fall Build Day....

Highlights from Bioneers

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The Bioneers conference is such an honor and inspiration to attend. The entire conference is steeped in the awareness that we are on an heroic quest to evolve human existence into ecological balance.

Learn more about some our highlights from the event....

Sharing Success: What makes a restaurant “green”?

Ericka and Thomas with owner of new Crepevine Mountain View restaurant

We are proud and excited to announce the completion of a successful restaurant project that was a collaboration between Thomas Neece, Green Key’s Director of Building and Developer Services and the family owned bay area restaurant chain, Crepevine....

How you can build a community one block at a time

The Block Repair Game community building activity picture

The recent Art of Community event was full of inspiring people and ideas. I was among a couple hundred people dedicated to creating and instigating cooperative culture. Now that’s my kind of fun!

This post shares one of the highlights from the event, a community building activity, that I really want to pass along.

What if we didn’t accept the limitations enforced by property lines?...

Have enough community in your life?

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Gathering.  Sharing.  Collaborating.

Its what we humans do.  Confoundedly, we find ourselves in homes, neighborhoods, and cities that are more supportive of driving, buying, and watching.  Lucky for us, we live in a time when we are changing all that!  Green Key is proud to partner with people and events that catalyze sustainable communities.

Events like the Art of Community are at the forefront of this evolution....

Our CCO on KPFA progressive talk radio with Caroline Casey

Our Chief Community Officer Cassandra Ferrera will be live on 94.1 KPFA this Thursday, August 3rd at 2pm as she joins Caroline Casey on the Visionary Activist show.

They will be having a rousing conversation about several upcoming conferences, gatherings, and festivals within the progressive movement: The Art of Community, GAIA Festival and the West Coast Women’s Permaculture Gathering.  Details about the events will be shared, and tickets will be included as...