Driving Electric. Running the B&B involves a lot of driving around. There are supplies to purchase and food to buy every day. Garden supplies and new plants are going in the ground all the time. At the Adobe we drive a zero-emission electric truck. It's a 1998 Ford Ranger pickup truck that runs solely on battery electric power. It was built by Ford as an electric vehicle and has never had a drop of gasoline in it. We log about 10,000 miles on it each year and charge it up each night with clean electric power.

Our Ranger EV is one of 1,800 that were built in the late 1990's after the California Air Resources Board mandated 2% of vehicles in the state be zero emission. After a few years of making electric cars and trucks the auto makers sued the state and forced a repeal of the mandate. They quickly closed their EV programs and took back all the leased EV's and dismantled them. Of the original 1,800 vehicles, 120 survive and are still being driven. Ours is one of these. If you're interested in the story of these revolutionary cars check out the documentary DVD "Who Killed the Electric Car."

EV Charging for our Guests. The Adobe on Green Street is the only B&B in the USA with free electric vehicle charging for our guests. If you drive an EV (electric vehicle) and can charge with an Avcon conductive charger you can stay at the Adobe and charge over night. Our conductive charger is 220 volts/40 amps.

Clean and Green. Our general purpose cleaning solution is home made. It's water, vinegar, and wintergreen oil. We don't use 409, windex, or other synthetic general purpose chemical cleaners at the Adobe. This means guests with sensitivities to cleaning products are not effected by our cleaning regimen.

Adobe - The Greenest Building Material. Our building is made of adobe, part clay, part sand, and part straw. It is the original green building material. It doesn't outgas chemicals and no trees are cut down to produce it. Adobe is also an excellent insulator and thermal mass, keeping our heating bill down.

Organic Gardening. The Adobe is surrounded by a half acre of gardens. We tend it all organically. We amend the soil and feed our plants with worm castings and fish emulsion. This makes for healthy soil and happy plants.