About Green Mary

Our mission is to go out of business.

We hope that “greening services” become unnecessary as society embraces waste-free events and daily living. In the future, we hope to see everyone  bringing their own cups and reusable water bottles everywhere. Bottled water will be a thing of the past and everyone will have their own fabric napkins and non-plastic utensils will be a no-brainer. In this great future there will be all sorts of biodegradable wares made of locally grown bamboo, hemp, and birch, all features of reduced reliance on fossil fuels for their manufacture or process.  In the meantime…

Having greened events have from Joshua Tree to Mendocino and from Ft. Bragg to Lake Tahoe, Green Mary now we focus on the San Francisco Bay Area:  greening locally while affecting globally. We take into account all the components of the work we do and choose the most sustainable options to ensure smart practices at the deepest levels. We apply a carbon tax to all our events to offset our participation and driving and contribute those proceeds to The Climate Center.

Green Mary’s green team believes firmly in eco-education and in sending event participants away with more eco-information than they showed up with and strive for the best diversion rates at each event, often reaching up to 95% of event waste kept out of the landfill.

Green Mary on top of the list
Green Mary is on the top of the list of Greeners within San Francisco’s Department of The Environment

Green Mary is a preferred vendor for

• City of San Francisco
• Berkeley
• San Francisco Parks and Recreation

Green Team Experts
Very experienced staff and crew throughout the Bay area

Passion for the environment
As of 1989 and the State Zero Waste Mandate (AB) 939, events must achieve a 50% waste diversion. You can either hire Green Mary to make your event that awesome event you always wanted it to be – or you can be picking plastic bottles from bags food waste at 2 in the morning

Volunteer recruitment
Volunteer recruitment, education and hands on training

Triple Bottom Line
Greening your event is the obvious work.
Additionally, we work with Food Runners, COTS, Redwood Gospel Mission Inn to Feed hundreds of people each month.

Commitment
Green Mary has been a San Francisco Bay Area green resource for 15 years

Customized event management

We keep our our prices low with

• Trained team members in multiple counties
• Economy of Scale: By greening over 250 event dates each year and with multiple events on any given weekend we can maximize our own time resources and pass that savings on to you
• Our history and familiarity with local venues, vendors, resources, haulers leads to time savings for us and fiscal savings for you

Green Mary is a Certified Woman-Owned Business

“This is the true Joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it what I can.”

-George Bernard Shaw