PG&E: Here, Sit on This Garbage

PG&E set up what they call a "sustainable pop-up cafe" in the Tenderloin last week; but it closed after a single day, so it doesn't sound very sustainable to us. It was part of PG&E's sponsorship of Hood Games 6, a skating/art fest, and featured furniture made out of debris reclaimed from the dump; coffee was supplied by Ritual Roasters; and patrons got green mugs from which to sip. And it was all offered up for free, which is probably why it couldn't be sustained for more than a few hours. (More pix from their PR lady are posted on our Flickr account.)

PG&E claims that the pop-up cafes will appear periodically around San Francisco all summer thanks to their Let's-Green-This-City ad campaign, an attempt to distract us from how unsustainable and grey the vast majority of their energy is. (How sustainable was the energy for the construction tools? The food equipment? The vehicles to transport the whole shebang? Unless it was powered by a bunch of hamster wheels, not very, we bet.) You can subscribe to the green-our-city PR here.

Alas, while very nice and artsy, this reclaimed-furniture thing doesn't directly translate into any kind of sustainable solution -- what, are we all supposed to trek down to the dump next time we need a credenza? -- but, hey, free mugs!