Waste: 89% Diversion From Landfill

With a waste management system in place, all of our foods and liquids are recycled or composted.

All of our events are low-to-no waste (we use corn cups and straws).

All of our used kitchen grease is donated to www.gotgrease.org for bio-diesel fuel preparation.

Interface Carpet Tiles - When one gets ruined we can just replace that square.

NO UV coating on our flyers. Although paperless promotion is better, the UV coating makes flyers non-recyclable and adds to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Energy: 89KW in August

Lighting Retrofit with LED (light emmiting diods).

Encourage employees to take the stairs (behavior change is equally important).

PG&E Energy Audit & Zen Compound is retrofitting all lighting and will receive a $17,000 rebate when complete.

We have offset all of our energy usage with using PG&E Climate Smart.

Did you know? That energy works with supply and demand?  34cents/KW hour during the day and 7cents/KW hour at night. To see if you

are eligible for a rate adjustment, call PG&E  1-800-743-5000

Water: 20,000 Gallons in September

We received a water audit from the PUC

Low flow toilets - 1.26 gallons/flush

Waterless urinals 

Leak inspection - a slow drip can waste 50 gallons a month!

Araitors on all faucets to minimize the flow

Did you Know?

The PUC offers you rebates up to $200.00 for upgrading to a toilet that uses 1.26 or less gallons?  We 

found ours for $149.00 at Home Depot!

Innovative Solutions

Vertical Garden Urban Surface Area Vegetation - cites were designed without consideration for plants or animals. We have 

installed a test and are actively working on developing a solution.

Resource Monitoring and Tracking - If you want to conserve, it is necessary to know where you are starting from and where 

you want to go.

In Progress

Solar Lotus - 7-pointed solar sculpture in which will track the position of the sun.

Urban Food Production- a garden on our roof will produce food for our Prana Restaurant

Surface Area Vegetation - we want to cover our whole building with native plants to promote biodiversity by providing a habitat 

for bees and butterflies.

Energy Generating Dance Floor - a dancefloor that harnesses energy from the movement of dancing patrons.

Urban Wind Power Generation- there are several wind solutions that we are currently investigating, the city of SF is trying to 

make the permitting process and rebates to make investment in Wind power more attractive for SF companies and homes.

Community

All of our attempts to evolve our business are learning experiences that we share with our competitors.

Coopetition--the fusion of competition and cooperation -- is the belief that collaboration is the only way to solve the current challenges that we 

all face as businesses and individuals.

Business Council on Climate Change - we have been active members in the BC3 since its inception, Director of 

Sustainability, Mike Zuckerman, served on the original Advisory Council and we have hosted several mixers.

Third Spaces - we have been assisting other venues in San Francisco to go green, now it is taking on a more organized role 

and forming communication with a growing number of like-minded venues in SF and beyond.

Zen Compound LLC has been selected as a finalist in the Small Business of the Year Ebbies Awards by the SF Chamber of 

Commerce.

Zen Compound attended Event Recycling Workshop at City Hall.

We have offered our space without charging a rental fee to countless organizations who are doing amazing things in our 

community. Check out our press page for more details.