Leave it to the State Compensation Insurance Fund, the quasi-public workers’ compensation insurer based in San Francisco, to bring more green building to the Bay Area. Okay, we’re stretching it a little to call Vacaville the Bay Area but what’s a few miles for a true green building.
The fact that the $77 million green campus […]
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State Compensation Insurance Fund Building Goes Green
Published by Keith October 31st, 2008 in Alt Energy, Bamboo, Green Building, Green Savings, Health, LEED-NC and Solar panels. 0 CommentsLettuce eat Green
Published by Keith April 18th, 2008 in Bamboo, FSC, Flyash, Green Building, Health, No VOC Paint and San Francisco. 0 CommentsRestaurants here in San Francisco open, and close, almost as often as the fog rolls in so we don’t usually pay an extreme amount of our precious attention to another restaurant du jour. Mixt Greens recently opened but they don’t qualify for new kid on the block status nonetheless they do deserve green props. Thus […]
Ab Fab and Green
Published by Keith February 22nd, 2008 in Bamboo, Green Building, Health and San Francisco. 0 CommentsDaahling you look fab and Green. That’s what people may be saying after experiencing treatments in San Francisco’s eco chic Epi Center MedSpa. Yes, the whole concept sounds soooo Los Angeles to us too. Some of us don’t even get the whole mani-pedi thing so it might take a little coaxing to have some lipo […]
Back to School - The Green Way
Published by Keith November 8th, 2007 in Bamboo, Green Building, Green Hotels, Health, Orchard Garden Hotel and San Francisco. 1 CommentSchool was never like this when we were kids. Recycled this, renewable that. We certainly weren’t phi beta kappas but the Mission based Children’s Day School gets an A- for its recent Green additions. We expect it to bump that grade to a full fledged A when some of the other Green items come on […]
Eco Mani-Pedi
Published by Keith August 28th, 2007 in Bamboo, Environment, Green Building, Health and San Francisco. 3 CommentsWe’re so pretty. Oh so pretty and Green. We’re normally not big spa-goers but when we can get our feet pedicured in a space that’s so air quality friendly then we’ll ready for the treatment. Normally day spas smell like toxic chemical factories with the paints and sprays and we’re just talking about the walls […]
Epitomy of Green
Published by Keith January 13th, 2007 in Bamboo, Eco Homes, Golden Gate Park, Green Building, Green Real Estate and Real Estate. 0 CommentsOne local real estate agent should check the dictionary before tossing around fancy marketing slogans like “The Epitome of Gracious Green Living,” which she attached to a new Oakland Hills home. True the interior and exterior wood trim is either FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) Certified, recycled, or local. Some of their wood came from Golden […]
Who’ll Stop the Rain?
Published by Keith September 21st, 2006 in Arterra, Bamboo, Eco Homes, Environment, Green Building, Green Condos, Green Real Estate, Health, LEED-NC, Mold, Mother Nature, Overcladding, Rainscreen, Real Estate, San Francisco, Scandinavia, Trespa and Uncategorized. 1 CommentWith the Arterra, San Francisco’s first LEED certified San Francisco condos, just about ready to go into pre-sales it’s no surprise that some visitors in the sales office appear from curious to confused.
Some prospective buyers who drifted around the sales office came for the Green factor but others don’t know green from pink. The salesroom […]