Green Guide to Flagstaff

A Green Guide to
Flagstaff

Table of Contents

1. History
2. Map
3. Green Businesses

- Farmers Market
- Easton Collection Center
- Corbin Composting
- NAU Climate Action Plan
- NAU Applied Research Building
4. Restaurant
- Green Scene Cafe
- Essential Blends Juice Bar
- Mother Road Brewing Company
- Pizzicletta
- Northern Pine Restaurant
5. Local/Regional Green Programs
- APS Going Green & Going Smart
- Green Certificate
- Flagstaff ReThink Waste
- Community Gardens
- Flagstaff Carbon Neutrality Plan
- NAU green Fund
- Community Compost Hub
- Dark Sky Energy Efficiency

About Flagstaff

Located in Coconino county in the northern region of Arizona sits the friendly
college town of Flagstaff. Founded in the year 1876, a moderately sized town
with ranging views of the snow dusted mountains. Flagstaff is a dark sky city
so the views at night are second to none as the Milky way hangs in your
peripheral constantly as you explore the downtown area at night. Whatever
you do with your time here, take time to explore the different restaurants and
businesses that utilize green practices, along see climate work in action as
Flagstaff pledge to be carbon neutral by 2030.

Map

Green Business Local/Regional
Green Restaurant Green Programs

Green Businesses

Farmers Market

Once a week in the downtown region of Flagstaff, the town hosts a farmers
market for local farmers to sell their produce and products to the city's
population. Not only a fun community event but a way for the community to
purchase locally sourced products. This gives farmers the opportunity to sell
their sustainable goods as well as other hand crafted products. The farmer
market also includes educational material teaching how to start growing their
own products and encourage a strong sense of community.

https://www.flagstaff.com/farmers-market

Easton Collection Center

Address: 3101 N Fort Valley Rd, Flagstaff, AZ 86001-8348
Phone: +1 928 774 5213

The Easton Collection Center is home to the Flagstaff museum. This

agricultural masterpiece is not only a gorgeous piece of infrastructure but also

designed to be eco friendly. The roof is insulated with a layer of ife to create a

living roof used not only in the building's aesthetic but also to reduce

temperature, thus reducing energy consumption. Not to mention the interior

illuminated with natural light, solar panels that provide electricity, and energy

saving fixtures. All of which create a beautiful atmosphere to explore the

depths of history with.

Corbin Composting

Corbin Composting is a small locally grown company that began in the year 2010 by
Northern Arizona Alumni Cara Corbin with the goal of reducing waste and initiating a
residential compost habit. The company works closely with local farmers. With these
goals in mine they hope to lower the carbon footprint of the town as well as cultivate
healthy soil within our community. By composting items that can be degraded they
can prevent unnecessary waste filling up landfills.

https://www.corbincompost.com/

Northern Arizona University Climate Action Plan

The College of Northern Arizona University takes up a chunk of the land of
flagstaff. As the college is part of the community they have taken action to
lower their carbon footprint in order to make flagstaff a healthy and eco
friendly place to reside. Northern Arizona University has begun maximizing
energy and water efficiency, and transitioning to carbon-free electricity. This
can be seen by the windmills that provide power to specific buildings on
campus.

https://in.nau.edu/Green-NAU/Climate-Action-Plan/

NAU Applied Research Building

The College of Northern Arizona University is home to many groundbreaking
research within the field of Pathogens and microbiology. This building was
designed with sustainable strategies. Reflective roofing that reduces the urban
heat island effect. Recyclables denim used as insulation, a living roof upon one
of the building's pods. As well as primarily illuminated by natural lighting. The
US green Building council gave the building a certificate for an efficiently
designed building that is a figurehead of sustainability.

https://in.nau.edu/facility-services/applied-research-and-development-buildin
g/

Green Restaurants

Historic Brewing Co.

Address: 4366 E Huntington Dr, Flagstaff, AZ
Phone: +1 855 484 4677

Flagstaff Historic Brewing Company is a brewery known for their taproom and

brewing facility. part of the initiative of creating Green Drinks. Every month

people of all walks come along to discuss and introduce strategies to create an

initiative of more sustainable business. Historic brewing hosts this and have

been making steps themselves to make their brewing and process entirely

locally sourced and more efficient to create a much more sustainable business

practice. They give tours of their brewing process and have it entirely open

windows so customers can see how they are making brewing a much more

sustainable practice.

Mead Hall

Address: 108 E Route 66, Flagstaff, AZ 86001-5756
Phone: +1 928 266 0425

Due to Flagstaff being a college town it's to be expected a lot of restaurants

will feature some level of alcohol being served. Mead Hall is a viking themed

restaurants that prides themselves on authentic brewing practices in order to

create their mead. Their mead is produced all in house and can be purchased

to be taken home in recyclable glass containers. The honey and yeast used in

the processes is mostly sourced from local producers.

Green Restaurants: Green Scene Cafe

Address: Northern Arizona University, 705 S San Francisco St, Flagstaff, AZ 86001, United States
Phone: +1 928 523 2372

On Northern Arizona University's Campus on the second floor of the Health

and Learning Center in the north part of campus. The Green Scene Cafe

mission is about sustainable, fresh, and health conscious menus. One of the

greatest detriments to eating healthy and sustainable food that is convenient

that doesn't take up time out of your busy day. This cafe provides a quick way

for students to eat healthy food as well as make sustainable food also

convenient.

Essential Blends Juice Bar

Northern Arizona University offers a couple of on campus dining that provide
healthy and sustainable ways of eating. Outside of the gym in the Health and
Learning Center is a small smoothie bar that offers power blends of fruits
vegetables, and other ingredients of the customers choice. All vegetable
ingredients are sourced locally. With time being of the essence as a college
student, where you constantly never have enough time. This juice bars
provides athletes and anyone in the HLC a nutritious meal.

https://in.nau.edu/dining/essential-blends/

Mother Road Brewing Company

Address: 7 S. Mike's PLace, W Phoenix Ave and S Mikes Pike St, Flagstaff, AZ 86001
Phone: +1 928 774 9139

Mother Road Brewing Company is another flagstaff brewery that makes

sustainability one of its mission statements. They use the camping philosophy

of leaving your surroundings better than you found it and apply to the

business as they partner with organizations and support local companies in

order to reduce their environmental footprint. The Mother Road Brewing

company in 2021 started a system to recapture their carbon used in the

brewery process and re-inject it directly into the beers.

Green Restaurants: Pizzicletta

Address: 203 W Phoenix Ave, Flagstaff, AZ 86001-5512
Phone: +1 928 774 3242

Pizzicletta is a pizza restaurant in Flagstaff known for its incredible traditional

Neapolitan pizzas. Written on every menu is how every part of the process

that goes into making a pizza is down in house. The organic produce is

sourced from local farms and they choose humanely raised pork that is

acquired from both the US and Italy. The pizza dough itself is made from

scratch and naturally fermented for 3 or more days to make the most

incredible pizza that you must try.

Green Restaurants: Northern Pine Restaurant.

Address: 2200 E Butler Ave, Flagstaff, AZ 86004-6006
Phone: +1 928 266 1929

The restaurant Northern Pine has a sophisticated family-friendly atmosphere

that serves a variety of meals. Northern Pines is another restaurant that has

begun adapting strategies in order to lower their carbon footprint. They

started sourcing ethically raised meat products and buying what produce they

need from local sources. However they are still early in this process of making

the changes as many of their dishes require multiple types of ingredients that

can’t be all sourced locally. Yet I think we should reward efforts toward change

as the more businesses that see it profitable to become more sustainable will

have more business owners making steps to improve their communities.

Green Programs

APS Going Green & Going Smart

Arizona Public Service Co. (APS) is the company responsible for Flagstaff local
electricity distribution. In the year 2021 APS launched its Going Green and Going
Smart Program. This program assists businesses in sustainable business practices,
as well as how to be more energy efficient. They provide education and the
information needed for companies and businesses to make leaps of improvement
within their respective communities. They utilize financial incentives in order to
convince businesses to make the first steps towards a green journey.

https://greenbizaz.com/

Green Certificate

The Flagstaff Chamber of Commerce has a program to award businesses
going green with the Green business certification. Which is supported by APS
and UniSource Energy Services. This certificate is used to award companies
with their steps towards sustainability as well as indicate to consumers which
businesses are running a certified green business. This certificate is achieved if
you have proven to purchase materials with recycled contents, recycle
material, reduce waste, reuse materials, green purchasing, energy efficiency,
water conservation, and Vehicle trip reduction.

https://www.flagstaffchamber.com/green-business-certification/

Flagstaff ReThink Waste

The Flagstaff Sustainability office has developed a strategy called “Flagstaff
ReThink Waste.” This is a community plan to achieve a point where flagstaff is
producing zero waste by the year 2050. This plan is multi faceted as well as it
would also cover reducing greenhouse gas emissions related to Waste and
material consumption. They have begun by increasing access to waste and
recycling services, a dedication to reusing material and reducing the amount
of waste produced, Increasing recycling initiatives within the community and
cooperating with food waste to begin community composting.

https://www.flgrethinkwaste.org/

Community Gardens

One step towards being sustainable is self-sufficiency, however not all housing
provides the ability to grow your own produce.The Flagstaff office of
sustainability has created a community garden where you can rent out plots
to grow your own locally sourced food. The role of community agriculture
strengthens relationships with neighbors and helps to build a healthy body
and ecosystem. Furthermore the Flagstaff east public library holds a seeds
library so garden plot owners can get free seeds to grow whatever they desire.

https://www.flagstaff.az.gov/4630/Community-Gardens

Flagstaff Carbon Neutrality plan

The Flagstaff Climate Program is another program developed by the Flagstaff
Sustainability office. Listened on their website is the goal to achieve carbon
neutrality by 2030, they set clear goals of reducing emissions by 44%. They
hope by adopting these changes the city’s community will be more resilient to
the impacts of climate change. Currently they are working on making shifts to
how buildings are heated, travel within the community and a more efficient
way of disposing waste.

https://gis.flagstaffaz.gov/portal/apps/sites/#/flagstaffclimate

NAU green Fund

Northern Arizona University makes up a large part of the Flagstaff community,
and as a big part of the community they are also dedicated to helping create a
green future for our community. NAU has a program known as the Green
Fund. It is a funding source for those looking to start making investments or
research into ways to create a more sustainable future. With nearly 600,000
dollars to give out in Grants and other projects. They provide the necessary
groundwork of funding for those businesses and individuals looking to make
positive changes.

https://in.nau.edu/Green-NAU/NAU-Green-Fund/

Community Compost Hub

In order to reduce unnecessary waste going to landfill the city of flagstaff provides
several options within the city for residential composting. There are three locations
spread out and located in the same location as the aforementioned community
gardens. The entire system is managed by volunteers and communities. On the
website they also provide information on what can and can’t be composted as well
as guides to composting. They also provide an opportunity for volunteers to pick up
compost from your home and bring it to the compost centers if you are unable to
leave your house.

https://www.flagstaff.az.gov/4633/Community-Compost-Bins

Dark Sky Energy Efficiency

Due to the fact that the city of flagstaff is home to the lowell observatory. In
the year 2001 Flagstaff adopted the responsibility of being a dark sky
community. Which creates strict rules on light pollution. This has benefited the
community as dark night city lighting codes have implemented efficient light
sources for outdoor lighting. With the lamp posts far between each other
requires less energy use to keep the city illuminated at night. Not that you
need it with the full view of the stars always above you.

https://flagstaff.az.gov/3799/Dark-Sky-Community

We hope you enjoy your time in Flagstaff!