Even at 9 a.m. in the morning, a buzz filled the air even before the first official Slow Food Nation event kicked off in San Francisco’s War Memorial Palace. One of the food rock stars Michael Pollan moderated the discussion topic: The World Food Crisis with panelists Raj Patel, Vandana Shiva, Carlo Petrini, and Corby […]
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Slow Food Nation Invades San Francisco
Published by Keith September 5th, 2008 in Organic Food, Quotes, San Francisco and biodiesel. 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 […]
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, […]
San 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 […]
Biodiesel Station in San Francisco Coming Soon
Published by Keith May 23rd, 2008 in Organic Food, San Francisco and biodiesel. 0 CommentsIt’s hard to believe that one of America’s greenest cities lacks a true biodiesel station. Yes, San Francisco has an Olympic station on Third Street however is only supplies commercially licensed diesel vehicles with “B20” which even in controversial bodies world isn’t that green. If the building and fire departments sign off then Dogpatch Biofuels […]
First LEED Certified MedSpa
Published by Keith May 2nd, 2008 in FSC, Green Building, LEED-NC, Organic Food and San Francisco. 0 CommentsRelaxation!
Fashion!
Celebrity!
Botox!
Booze!
Interiors!
Green!
Yes, most of this list refers to the Brit series Ab Fab but if Eddy and Patsy turned in their smokes and cocktails for organic and sustainable munchies then they too would be excited for the opening of the Epi Center MedSpa, the first LEED certified MedSpa in the country. (Another LEED spa exists in […]
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). […]
Ecolicious event at San Fran W Hotel
Published by Keith April 4th, 2008 in Organic Food and San Francisco. 2 CommentsMaybe due to the fact that we got suckered by a couple of good April Fools jokes and the fact that this Ecolicious event offered organic cocktails caused us to check out this so called green event. Just how green would it be? Would this be a legit eco event or just eco spin? Would […]
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 […]