We are, as we enter our fifth year of operation, one of the longer-lasting environmental stores and resource centers on the Internet. Our offices are still technically in a garage in the Richmond District of San Francisco, though they have gotten upgraded somewhat. There does still remain some question as to whether it's actually a garage or a tropical spaceship. That part may never change.

It did indeed all begin upstairs, in the living room of the founder Lawrence Comras, with a series of discussions among some of the nation's foremost environmental scientists, writers and thinkers, about what "green" really means.

Brought together through an extraordinary series of serendipitous meetings, this core group attracted others of like mind, until about fifteen of us--some huddled in the garage (we now have heat), others scattered across the country, became the Green Home Team.

"Original team"