Down in Menlo Park, where Tesla Motors recently opened its industrial chic showroom, people might not think “Who Killed the Electric Car?” but rather “Who Can Afford the Electric Car?”. Nevertheless we’re totally juiced about the nearby showroom that displays a half dozen juicy Tesla Roadster electric car models that make the Prius look like […]
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Tesla Motors Cool New Menlo Park Showroom
Published by Keith July 25th, 2008 in Gavin Newsome, Green Savings and Money. 0 CommentsSan Francisco Victory Garden
Published by Keith July 11th, 2008 in Gavin Newsome, Mother Nature, Organic Food and San Francisco. 0 CommentsThe area in front of San Francisco’s city hall doesn’t exactly represent lush farmland but that doesn’t prevent it from being a viable SF food source. For the first time since 1943, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, Slow Food Nation founder Alice Waters and more than 100 volunteers planted the first edible garden in the […]
City Speaks with San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and Alice Waters
Published by Keith June 6th, 2008 in Foundations, Gavin Newsome, Organic Food and San Francisco. 0 CommentsBack in the day before “sustainable” and “organic” represented the trendy food terms, Alice Waters created her restaurant Chez Panisse as a place for her friends and her friend’s friends to eat. On Monday, she spoke with San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome who took time off from trying to balance the city’s budget while turning […]
Largest Green Fleet in the Country
Published by Keith December 5th, 2007 in Gavin Newsome, Greenhouse Gases, Health, San Francisco and biodiesel. 3 CommentsSan Franciscans utter a lot about our lovely municipal transit system otherwise known as MUNI but now they have even more reason to spout off about it. Normally when we hear MUNI coming out of someone’s mouth it usually follows on the heels of “Damn.” Now we can change that utterance to “Green Muni”. […]
Orchard Garden Hotel preview
Published by Keith October 5th, 2006 in Environment, FSC, Gavin Newsome, Green Building, Green Hotels, LEED-NC, Luna Textiles, Orchard Garden Hotel and Uncategorized. 0 CommentsThe Orchard Garden Hotel continues to experience a delayed opening. Yes, the soon to be LEED certified hotel originally scheduled to open in September now has a realistic November on its sights.
The delays didn’t detract from the evening where Mayor Gavin Newsom joked that instead of a ribbon cutting ceremony the evening offered more of […]