http://greenerati.com Green Building and Lifestyle Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:00:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_384" align="alignleft" width="500" caption="Plastiki arrival in Sydney"][/caption] It seemed like just a short while ago that David De Rothschild set sail from San Francisco aboard his boat made of 12,500 plastic PET bottles, the Plastiki touched base in the planned destination of Sydney the other day. De Rothschild and his crew ... http://greenerati.com/2010/07/27/great-plastic-adventure-completes-journey/ [caption id="attachment_377" align="alignleft" width="551" caption="Shai Agassi and Mark Johnson"][/caption] Sometimes when walking into a room you can just feel the buzz and in this case the buzz came from the talk of electric cars and batteries by Better Place CEO Shai Agassi. We actually heard about this guy sometime ago with ... http://greenerati.com/2010/07/19/better-place-ceo-shai-agassi-creates-buzz-at-churchill-club/ [caption id="attachment_373" align="alignleft" width="558" caption="Exhibit Hall Real Estate Connect San Francisco 2010"][/caption] While wondering the exhibit hall of Real Estate Connect San Francisco 2010 style at the Pre-Conference Day, amongst all of the technology we figured that no one would go out of there way to promote Green but then we ... http://greenerati.com/2010/07/14/the-green-side-of-paperless-technology-at-real-estate-connect-2010/ [caption id="attachment_366" align="alignleft" width="248" caption="SWASH Ecoseat"][/caption] Maybe because we just topped off a busy holiday weekend that we are feeling so chipper to post this piece about a toilet seat. Yes, it sounds a little far fetched to us as well. We can see that a low flow toilet (like the ... http://greenerati.com/2010/07/06/saving-paper-vs-water-swash-ecoseat/ [caption id="attachment_356" align="aligncenter" width="688" caption="BP Oil Spill Poster Art"][/caption] During this past weekend, while practically everyone in San Francisco roamed the streets, we spotted some timely art. No it didn’t have anything to do with Pride Week or the upcoming 4th of July festivities. Instead, these posters cleverly highlighted the disastrous ... http://greenerati.com/2010/06/28/bp-oil-spill-poster-art/ We thought that the whole college system was broke, so where the heck will the get the green to build this sustainability built joint use building on the rapidly improving CCSF campus? Maybe they will have giant vegan cookie sale over the next few years. It’s not that we aren’t ecstatic ... http://greenerati.com/2010/06/21/ccsf-joint-use-facility-to-go-platinum-leed/ With the downturn in overall new building, more sustainable efforts have seemingly fallen by the wayside. We’re glad to see that some projects have not totally disappeared. On June 26, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom will cut the ribbon on San Francisco's new Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center, ... http://greenerati.com/2010/06/16/laguna-honda-hospital-will-mark-the-first-green-certified-hospital-in-california/ [caption id="attachment_338" align="aligncenter" width="538" caption="Carnival San Francisco - Green Section"][/caption] Carnaval here in San Francisco may not be as sexy, rambunctious or famous as its counterparts that take place in Rio or New Orleans but that doesn't mean that the 2-day event doesn't mean that the crowds don't enjoy the fun, ... http://greenerati.com/2010/05/31/carnaval-2010-san-francisco-sexy-for-sure-but-it-could-be-more-green/ [caption id="attachment_327" align="aligncenter" width="558" caption="Mousetrap at Maker Faire"][/caption] Unbelievable but true but this past weekend marked the first time that we attended the Maker Faire. True, in terms of numbers, we only stand a few behind those Makers who’ve made it there since its inception. Our Green posse scurried from the ... http://greenerati.com/2010/05/24/makers-fair-draws-sustianable-crazy-inventors-and-artists/ [caption id="attachment_318" align="aligncenter" width="588" caption="BP oil runners"][/caption] In the 99th installment of Bay to Breakers, the usual things occurred: the Kenyans as a whole flat out rocketed to the finish line (one female breaking a world record), the fog covered the course for most of the day and a lot of ... http://greenerati.com/2010/05/18/bay-to-breakers-the-sustainable-side/