What is Green Living?

At Barbary Lane Communities you will benefit from a cleaner and healthier living environment. A healthier living environment means a healthier you. Whenever possible we will use non-toxic materials and supplies, conserve natural resources, and embrace energy efficiency throughout your community. For example, the cleaning supplies and paints we use at Barbary Lane Communities are non-toxic and won’t harm you or the environment. Additionally, we’re working to have a City Car Share Program available to you right outside your front door.

Our dedication to your health also includes the food we serve. Your meals will include regionally grown fresh and seasonal foods bringing you “Farm to Table” whenever possible. We’ll even feature wines made with organically grown grapes that avoid the use of synthetic chemicals and pesticides. You’re encouraged to join our garden club where our focus is to garden using draught resistant and native plants to conserve water and eliminate pesticide run-off into Lake Merritt. You will live better today while helping to preserve the larger community.

What Is Green Building?
Green building is a way to approach the design, construction and operation of your apartment home that allows for healthiest living space possible and the least negative impact to our environment. Barbary Lane Communities at Lake Merritt has taken great strides to use Green Living Principles whenever possible. We will continue to seek opportunities to increase the efficiency and operation of our beautiful building. We are committed to educate and engage our residents in matters that affect the ways in which we impact and help preserve our environment.

Why Be Green?

Barbary Lane Communities embraces these principles because we believe it’s beneficial to your health and vitality and keeps our community connected to important issues locally and globally. Your carbon footprint is the direct affect of your actions and lifestyle have on the environment in terms of the amount of greenhouse gases we produce. Responsibility for sustaining our world as a healthy environment for future generations rests with us all. Everyone has a responsibility to the world we live in now and the world we leave future generations. As Mahatma Gandhi once said “one must care about a world one will not see”.