In California, and San Francisco in particular, we see almost as many Obama for president placards in home and business windows as we see Stop the Spray signs. It seems like the precursor for a B-grade sci-fi film with the storyline pitting the the government versus this evil moth. But this isn’t Mothra we’re talking […]
Archive for the 'Environment' Category
Stop the Spray or Mothra Might Ruin the Economy
Published by Keith June 13th, 2008 in Environment, Health, San Francisco and oakland. 0 CommentsFilm Review- A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil
Published by Keith May 16th, 2008 in Environment, Money, Movies, New York City and Solar panels. 0 CommentsWhen discussing the world most progressive “eco” cities one might toss out San Francisco for it various green initiatives (such as banning plastic bags), New York City for its effective subway system, or Munich with it’s use of alternative energy especially solar but after watching this recent documentary “A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, […]
First 100% off-grid green building in San Francisco
Published by Keith May 9th, 2008 in Alt Energy, Bay View, Environment, Grants, Green Building, Health, LEED-NC, Money, San Francisco, Solar panels and Water Recapture System. 0 CommentsIn San Francisco, some well financed and publicized condo projects like the Arterra spend big marketing dollars to push its LEED – NC status (wonder why they didn’t shoot for LEED on its other project the Hayes?) while the EcoCenter at Heron’s Head Park LEED certified facility opened in relative obscurity.
This landmark youth education facility […]
Ecocity World Summit 2008
Published by Keith April 25th, 2008 in Environment, Organic Food, San Francisco and Vegetarian. 0 CommentsThe 7th International Ecocity World Conference continues this week here in San Francisco and if a positive aspect exists about globalization, it can be seen at this conference. A buzz exists in what feels like a combination of the World Cup (the passion), the U.N. (the international flavor) and something like Greenpeace (the Green aspect). […]
Living Green Exhibit - 15 City Tour
Published by Keith March 28th, 2008 in Eco Homes, Environment, Green Building and San Francisco. 0 CommentsSan Francisco’s Union Square may be noted for it’s abundance of shopping, hotels, tourist joints and even outside movies but a Green Home? Don’t call your Green Real Estate agent quite yet. The temporary green home occupied the prime real estate last week as part of the Better Homes and Gardens & Green Works Living […]
Sustainability on the Slopes: Kirkwood Ski Resort
Published by Keith March 21st, 2008 in Alt Energy, Environment, Photovoltaic Panels and Snow Resorts. 0 CommentsEven though the calendar displays spring, a lot of us aren’t ready to hit the beach just yet. In fact, we’re still hitting the slopes. Is it possible to think sustainably when we strap on our bindings? There’s no way around the fact that snowboarding and skiing (much like golf) aren’t sustainable but the world […]
Biofuels: Energy, Food and People
Published by Keith March 14th, 2008 in Alt Energy, Environment and biodiesel. 0 CommentsIs it going to come down to a choice between eating or driving? Is that what are future holds? If it does, it looks like the driving contingent may win (or in other words many others will lose…or starve). That’s a distorted overview of last night’s EcoNow presentation that highlighted the current and future state […]
San Francisco Carpet Recycling
Published by Keith February 29th, 2008 in Bay View, Environment, Green Savings and San Francisco. 1 CommentThe other day when we had some carpet replaced (with Green Label certified of course) in our home-office the carpet installers generously offered to take the old carpet away for only $60. When we asked where they would take the used carpet they unfortunately mentioned something about a dump (or was that landfill?) That didn’t […]
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 […]