The Ecology Center of San Francisco is a locally grown non-profit organization that formed on the idea of supporting the urban ecosystem through collective community building. We help residents, businesses, and other entities create ecological and educational spaces that thrive based on their natural systems derived design. We help facilitate and conduct research into local food production, natural building, soil ecology, biodiversity mananagement, appropriate technology, and greywater systems. Some of our work includes designing, preparing, and planting edible and native gardens and creating natural building projects (like cob benches) in schools, homes and public spaces, and collecting and sharing of information in the form of our website, lending library, workshops and community engagement.

We are a small, community supported organization that hopes to collaborate with others to help develop the idea of schools as future centers of community life in neighborhoods, and towards that goal we want to work with children, teachers, parents, administrators, non-profits, businesses and others, to find new ways to collaborate efforts, explore new ideas, and create spaces throughout the school that promote cultural awareness, equitable and sustainable community development, and ecological thoughtfulness and action; where teachers are getting more than just an occupation, students are getting more than just an education, and parents and community members are developing relationships that are meaningful and productive. Not to say any of this is not already happening, but we would like to - as interest ferments - explore this idea more.

We hope you share a common vision and would like to be a part of our involvement in the community. If so please send us and email or give us a call with your questions, workshop and research requests, and tell us your suggestions or how you would like to be a part of ECOSF

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