Rock ‘n’ roll, rap, hip hop, and funk filled the air of the Outside Lands festival but while the throngs packed San Francisco’s great Golden Gate Park, we took time from the audio overload to explore the some of the green aspects of the festival.
It actually didn’t take long as a set of solar panels […]
Archive for August, 2008
Outside Lands Music Festival Gets Down and Green
Published by Keith August 29th, 2008 in Environment, Golden Gate Park, Photovoltaic Panels, San Francisco and Solar panels. 0 CommentsMy Farm Grows From San Francisco Backyards
Published by Keith August 22nd, 2008 in Organic Food, San Francisco and Vegetarian. 0 CommentsIf Old MacDonald had his farm in San Francisco and wanted to be more sustainable he would definitely be interested in My Farm. This highly spirited group sprang from the good SF soil on a few months ago but already has people talking (and eating).
The San Francisco-based My Farm combines the local CSA produce with […]
A New Home for Old Appliances
Published by Keith August 15th, 2008 in Bernal Heights and San Francisco. 0 CommentsThis is The City. A city with lots of old appliances that seemingly get discarded onto the street or simply get tossed in the city dump. Not a pretty picture for the numerous washing machines, refrigerators and other large appliances that not only create a landfill nightmare but could seemingly be put to use.
So what […]
Richmond Youth Help Solar Power the Eco Village Farm Center
Published by Keith August 8th, 2008 in Alt Energy, Organic Food, Photovoltaic Panels and Solar panels. 0 CommentsWhen San Franciscans and anyone else living in the Bay Area hear about Richmond the first thing that comes to mind certainly isn’t anything related to Green, Eco, or Sustainable anything. That will hopefully change as the semi-rural farm Eco Village Farm Center, which already teaches sustainable farming and growing practices to underprivileged local youth, […]
Light LEED Opens at Arterra SF
Published by Keith August 1st, 2008 in Arterra, Green Building, Green Condos, Green Real Estate, LEED-NC, Real Estate and San Francisco. 0 CommentsWith new owners set to move into the the LEED light Arterra we thought that we’d pay a visit to San Fran’s newest LEED certified condo. Arriving on bikes, we discovered that no bike racks exist for those wishing to inspect the demo models. Thus we had to pull out bikes into into the sales […]