East Bay Green Home Tour

05/25/2025

The East Bay Green@Home Tour will take place Saturday, June 7. Register now! It's free, with open houses scattered throughout the East Bay. Learn more at

TopGreen@Home TourWelcome to the East Bay Green@Home Tour 2025After the tremendous success of last year’s Electric Home Tour, Acterra is excited to bring the experience to the East Bay. This summer, the East Bay Green@Home Tour 2025 will showcase the future of sustainable living. On Saturday, June...

02/25/2025

Planning is underway for the 2025 East Bay Green Home Tour, which has been renamed the Green@Home Tour. The great folks at Acterra will be taking the lead on this spring's in-person tour. They are looking for electrified homes to showcase. How about yours?

05/22/2024

It's coming right up! Register for the free East Bay Green Home Tour, taking place Saturday June 1. In the morning, there's a one-hour virtual tour with 3 homes (10-11AM), and in the afternoon there's an in-person tour with 12 homes (1 - 4PM). Homes are in Albany, Berkeley, Oakland, Piedmont, and San Leandro. See heat pumps, induction stoves, greywater systems, and more up close and talk with homeowners. REGISTER AT eastbaygreenhome.com

04/04/2024

Mark your calendars! The East Bay Green Home Tour is scheduled for Saturday, June 1. NEW FORMAT: This year's tour includes a short virtual tour in the morning and an in-person tour of 10+ homes in the afternoon (all Alameda County). We are currently looking for tour sites! Have you been updating your home with climate-friendly features like heat pumps, induction stoves, solar, batteries, greywater systems, etc.? Please reach out if your home would be a good tour site. Thanks!

05/15/2023

The East Bay Green Home Tour is a perfect way to start your weekend. Grab your coffee, pull up in your PJs, and see what your East Bay neighbors are doing with their homes to combat climate change, improve air quality, generate clean energy, and move towards a safer, healthier, greener future. Then head outside! Register today.

Green Home Tours are free, virtual tours of Bay Area homes. They are a chance to learn from your Bay Area neighbors what they are doing with their homes to combat climate change, improve air quality, generate clean energy, and move towards a safer, healthier, greener future. Green Home Tour extras i...

05/15/2023

This article explains how heat pumps work. Register for the Green Home Tour this weekend to see what many varieties of heat pumps look inside East Bay homes and condos.

As a tool in a strategy to electrify everything in our homes, heat pumps are a key part of fighting climate change.

05/15/2023

The (free) Green Home Tour is coming up this Saturday! Watch 4 East Bay neighbors show you how they approach simmering pho, roasting chiles, and puffing roti on induction cooktops.

Researchers say gas heaters, stoves and other appliances pose risks to your health and the climate. They're comparatively small risks, but if you want to eliminate them, subsidies can cut the cost.

03/31/2023

Get gas out of the kitchen, for your health's sake! See many induction stoves, cooktops, and hobs during the East Bay Green Home Tour May 20th.

I’d encourage everyone to learn more about the dangers of gas in the home, and if this hits a nerve, sign up to the gas free pledge.

03/31/2023

Heat pumps are outpacing gas furnaces. See several types on the East Bay Green Home Tour May 20.

U.S. sales of heat pumps overtook sales of gas furnaces in 2022. But what is a heat pump? And why do some call it a key climate solution?

03/15/2023

Mark your calendars: the 2023 East Bay Green Home Tour takes place Saturday, May 20th at 10AM. As usual, it is VIRTUAL and FREE and features a whole new line-up of East Bay homes. Bite-sized presentations cover topics like 1) Rebates to get fossil fuels out of your home, 2) Cooking culturally specific cuisines on induction stoves, and 3) What's the latest on rooftop solar in 2023? Registration is open at eastbaygreenhome.com

05/13/2022

It's happening this weekend! Last chance to register at EastBayGreenHome.com. Check out what your neighbors are doing with their homes to adapt to climate change with clean energy, water conservation, carbon sequestration, and fire resistance.