Archive for January, 2008
Cheers to biodynamic wine
Published by Keith January 25th, 2008 in Environment, Mother Nature, Organic Food and Solar panels. 1 CommentLast week as we overnighted in the LEED Gold Gaia Hotel in American Valley, we thought that we should take advantage of what everyone else in the region does – wine tasting. But we figured to be a little different. We hit a few wineries of varying organic, green, sustainable qualities and found a few […]
Going LEED Gold at the Gaia Hotel
Published by Keith January 18th, 2008 in Eco Hotels, Environment, Green Building, Green Hotels, Photovoltaic Panels and Solar panels. 0 CommentsWe had heard a lot about the LEED Gold Gaia hotel in American Canyon (even we had to look up American Canyon and we live in San Fran) but we hadn’t actually visited it. Yes, we can only tell so much from a press release. The hotel, rather unassuming, sits right off busy Highway 29 […]
555 Mission Going Green
Published by Keith January 14th, 2008 in Green Building, Green Condos, Green Real Estate, LEED-NC and San Francisco. 0 CommentsFrom time to time we hear talk about builders and developers saying that they can’t or won’t build Green because of “initial first cost” and Green buildings being “more expensive” to build (not true) but we’re glad to see what going on with 555 Mission Street. Apparently there were many Green naysayers in the […]
OpenEco 2008 in San Francisco
Published by Keith January 11th, 2008 in Coal, Environment, Mission Bay, San Francisco and Solar panels. 0 CommentsWhat do you get you when you put four experts in a San Francisco energy camp called OpenEco 2008? You get something between a bar brawl and poetry recital. Actually the opening segment for yesterday’s Sun Microsystems sponsored-UCSF based-camp began with Dave Douglas, VP of Eco Responsibility at Sun Microsystems leading a spirited discussion panel […]