Day 109 / Urban Ore

Jenny, June and I got breakfast this morning and decided rather than head into the city we’d stay in Berkeley all day instead.  It was a beautiful day.  We stopped at our favorite place in Berkeley, Urban Ore.

 

Urban Ore is a giant warehouse and outer yard filled to capacity with stuff.  All sorts of stuff.  Too much stuff to even describe.  It’s kind of like a large recycling center for everything from building materials down to electronics down to home furnishings down to your little 1970′s owl decoration.  Every time I go there I say the same thing to Jenny – “We brought the wrong car”  Because invariably I find something too large that I’d love to take home with me.

 

I approached them today about doing a short interview with me because this place ranks high on my list of favorite businesses and it seemed like a good companion to some of my other interview posts.  Luckily, I was introduced to James Croft.  He is an employee of Urban Ore as well as a kind of representative or docent to the place.  When schools come by to tour he’s the one who hosts them.  The owners of Urban Ore were out of town at the time advocating their zero waste philosophy somewhere else (which they do quite often I learned).  I really appreciated the fact that John was willing to sit down with me because I’m such a fan and it would make a great addition to my blog.  So, Thanks John!

 

If you ever find yourself in Berkeley and you have a little trunk-space left over look up Urban Ore.  Press play on the music player below to hear the 10 minute interview I did with John.