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News: Mayor Gavin Newsom Launches Rainwater Harvesting Initiative in SF

If you've ever wanted to start rainwater harvesting (and live in San Francisco) now's a good time to start. Yesterday, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom announced a Rainwater Harvesting Initiative in t...

Free Drop-Off Locations for Household Hazardous Waste
San Francisco

We're really pleased that San Francisco's been trying so hard to promote responsible disposal of hazardous wastes, batteries, and electronic devices. The other day, we received a handy brochure in the...

250 Square-Feet of Heaven in San Francisco

We think we live in a pretty small apartment, and we were recently impressed by a couple looking to move into a 400 square-foot space. But what about 250 square-feet? Could you do it? (Do you do it...

Mark Your Calendars: 2008 Architecture and the City Festival

Last year, we missed out on most of San Francisco's Architecture and the City Festival. We won't be making the same mistake twice. The festival starts on September 1 and runs through the end of the...

San Francisco's Curbside Composting Program

You know all the jokes about San Francisco being "crunchy" and full of hippies? Well, this tidbit won't help squelch those rumors; we have a curbside composting program as part of our movement to g...

Volunteers Needed to Tend Slow Food Nation Victory Garden in San Francisco

Like to garden? Live in or near San Francisco? Want to make a strong statement about the Slow Food movement?...

The Tenderloin National Forest

One of our biggest pet peeves about city life is the lack of public vegetation. Because of this, we're constantly on the hunt for the "undiscovered" parks that are hidden in our city, San Francisco...

Blogging NPR: San Francisco Plastic Bag Ban Interests Other Cities

On March 27, 2007, San Francisco passed a bill to ban plastic bags from all grocery stores and pharmacies. Now, a year later, the ban's influence is being seen around the world....

Green Event: Design Green Now

DGN is a series of free panel discussions exploring the integration of innovative tools in the greening of consumer products.Venues are up and down the West Coast.We're looking forward to the SF event...

San Francisco Recycled Paper Bowl by Picapicadesign

Picapicadesign created this San Francisco Recycled Paper Bowl by hand molding it from paper pulp made from recycled paper grocery bags. An old map of San Francisco is on the interior of the bowl....

Look!: Kitchen Counter Compost Chute

Not to brag, but San Francisco and Alameda counties have pretty awesome recycling programs. We get a big barrel for recycling (no sorting required!), a small barrel for trash (that we often don't fi...

Blogging Common Ground: Tomorrowland

Are you an "outside of the box" kind of thinker? Like way, way, way outside of the box? If your answer is yes, then you should definitely take a look at the cover story in this month's issue of Comm...