Normally San Francisco offers tough parking challenges for those silly enough to drive a car in this fair city. The past Friday, the challenges became that much tougher with Park(ing) Day. In this case the 50 some odd “parks” (temporary repurposing of a metered parking spot turned into mini parks and social meeting spaces) and […]
Archive for September, 2007
Park(ing) Day shows off Human Space
Published by Keith September 25th, 2007 in San Francisco. 2 CommentsBuild It Green Home Tour San Francisco 2007
Published by Keith September 24th, 2007 in Eco Hotels, Green Building, Green Condos, Green Real Estate, Green Savings, Real Estate, San Francisco and West Coast Green. 1 CommentIf San Franciscans and out-of-towners didn’t get enough Green Home examples at the just concluded West Coast Green then yesterday’s (Sept. 23) Build It Green Tour would have sent them completely over the Green ledge. The modest seven home tour offered up a smorgasbord of Green homes, condo, new construction and remodels with a Green […]
Organic Architect Freed Gets Fiesty
Published by Keith September 21st, 2007 in Environment, Green Building, Health, San Francisco and West Coast Green. 1 CommentIt’s not like Organic Architect Eric Corey Freed needs more publicity but we feel obligated to dole out some props. As one of the West Coast Green noted speakers his “An extremely unusual look at Green building” certainly caused a stir during day one. We knew that we were in for a Freed special when […]
Green Miracle in SF
Published by Keith September 20th, 2007 in Eco Homes, Environment, Green Building, Green Real Estate, Real Estate, San Francisco and West Coast Green. 0 CommentsTo us or anyone living in San Francisco it almost seemed like a miracle. There it was: a one bedroom, new construction home with a great location right across from city hall with a $249,000 price tag. Did we mention that it’s Green? Michelle Kaufman’s fab Green pre-fab with a name that sounds like a […]
Green San Francisco mini mall
Published by Keith September 11th, 2007 in Green Savings, Health, No VOC Paint and San Francisco. 3 CommentsIt could be considered the country’s (or at least San Francisco’s) first Green mini mall or mini Green department store. Over on Polk Street, near a lot of mass transit and foot traffic, the recently opened Green Home Center had eco-sexuals checking out not only the shops but the interior as well.
Talk about making use […]
Rainbow bio-fuel
Published by Keith September 4th, 2007 in Organic Food, San Francisco and biodiesel. 0 CommentsWe can see it now, shopping for organic apple cranberry granola and flax seed oil while fueling up a bio-diesel car. It’s been a slow process but bio-fuel users will soon (hopefully) be able to fuel up their bio-diesel cars at SF’s own Rainbow Grocery.
The market has been dealing with permit issues where they currently […]