Chris Brokate

I started my own cleaning business in 1990 and have been a green janitor for over 25 years. In 2013, my business was Green Certified by Sonoma County and named Green Business of the Year by the Sebastopol Chamber of Commerce. I’m a member of the Sebastopol and Russian River Chambers and the Sonoma County Green Business Program. In 2014, after seeing trash flood the river during rains, I organized my first cleanup. With support from friends and fiscal sponsorship from Russian Riverkeeper, I founded Clean River Alliance. Since 2015, volunteers have removed over 300,000 lbs of trash from the Russian River Watershed. In 2016, we began partnering with local houseless individuals through the Vets Connect program—who have since helped collect over 80,000 lbs.