SF News Tree Wars Brewing Over Removal Of Nonnative Eucalyptus A city plan to remove about 18,000 nonnative plants from San Francisco public parks over the next 20 years has some residents up in arms over "plant fascism." The plan has been
Arts & Entertainment Feel Bad For This Poor Big Sur Tree What's more important than the tranquility and environmental delicacy of Big Sur? Sean Parker, it seems. The early-aughts throwback, if you recall, held his wedding in Bug Sur (a place that, for many,
SF News Sean Parker Faerie Wedding Trashes Big Sur Campground According to The Atlantic, Internet rich person Sean Parker's $10 million faerie fantasy wedding took its toll on more than our credulity and forebearance. Unpermitted preparations for the wedding also trashed an ecologically-sensitive
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, At Justin Herman Plaza... Greenpeace crunchies inflated a giant tiger to celebrat International Day of Forests, holding a banner calling attention to one of Indonesia's most noted rainforest destroyers: "APRIL." “APRIL is Indonesia’s second largest pulp
SF News First Spare the Air Day Is Tomorrow, New Year's Day You know that bonfire you and your hippie friends do at Ocean Beach every year on New Year's Day. Find other plans. Tomorrow, New Year's Day, will be the first Spare the Air
Arts & Entertainment Tips For Cyclists & Motorists On Bike To Work Day by Alissa de Vogel The San Francisco Bike Coalition's annual Bike to Work Day happens tomorrow, Thursday May 10th. With a 71% increase in commuter cycling in San Francisco over the last five
SF News SF To Launch Christmas Tree-Mutilation Program Tuesday In what promises to be an unyielding display of unbridled Christmas horror, officials at City Hall will gather on the front steps on Tuesday to witness the 25th annual chipping of Christmas trees
SF News Marketing Firm Fined $7,000 For Red Balloon Barrage Back in March, as SFist first reported, thousands of red balloons were released into the air from Yerba Buena Gardens, a stunt that was part of game release launch for Home Front. Although
SF News Great Pacific Garbage Patch A Hoax? You know the Great Pacific Garbage Patch that's splashed on your TV screen during Earth Day? The one that's supposed to scare you into bringing your own bag to Whole Foods? That alleged
SF News Would You Kill a Redwood for a Pinot? Aren't there enough wineries in Northern California? Do we really need another? Especially when it could mean the death of a redwood forest? As the LA Times reported in August, Codorniu’s Artesa
SF News SF: Greenest City in U.S. & Canada In addition to having the filthiest streets in the nation, San Francisco has just been anointed the greenest city in the United States and Canada, according to a study by Siemens. The report
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Assembly Votes to Ban Sale of Shark Fin The state Assembly voted against fishermen who rip off shark fins and toss the still-barely-living sea creatures back into the ocean. "AB376 bans the sale, trade or possession of shark fins, a delicacy
SF News Let Them Eat Free Electric Car Power, Says Mayor Ed Lee In a continuing effort to reduce the city's carbon emissions -- while boosting the smugness of Prius owners, of course -- Mayor Ed Lee's office will announce the availability of free power for
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Jason Schwartzman kills it as awkward prep school kid, Max Fischer, in Rushmore, one of Wes Anderson's finest flicks. Bill Murray is also a fave as Max's fathers' friend/mentor, Herman Blume,
SF News Thousands of Unwanted Phonebooks Returned to SoMa AT&T Office Oh snap. This morning at AT&T's 739 Folsom office, Phonebook Free SF delivered thousands of unwanted phonebooks to the company's doorstep. See, San Francisco Supervisors and environmental groups are trying to
SF News Editor's Inbox: Spare the Air Ruins San Carlos Man's Christmas Stubborn big-government naysayers, listen up: when Spare the Air says do not burn Duraflame logs, the mean do not burn Duraflame logs. Take, for example, Mike, a reader from San Carlos, who sent
SF News Barrage of Game-Promotion Ballons and Fliers Pollute San Francisco [UPDATES] Why were there so many red balloons floating around downtown San Francisco today? Well, someone thought it would be a great (albeit pollutive and thoughtless) way to hawk a new video game. We
SF News Low-Flow Toilets Stinking Up Mission Bay Matier & Ross report on a frightening and malodorous problem caused by San Francisco's low-flow toilets, and it's costing the city millions of dollars. Behold: Skimping on toilet water has resulted in more
SF News San Francisco To Consider Unsolicited Yellow Pages Ban Yesterday, Board of Supervisors President David Chiu introduced a ban on unsolicited Yellow Pages in San Francisco that would force phone companies to get consumers' permission before dumping the directories on their doorsteps.
SF News Berkeley Plastic Bag Ban On Hold Get it? On hold? Anyway, a plan to ban plastic bags in the city of Berkeley faces serious delays after the Coalition to Save the Plastic Bag raised a stink. "A ban on
SF News S.F. Handbill Laws Might Get Stricter City officials met on Monday in an effort to combat those pervasive delivery menus and nail salon fliers abundantly placed on our front doors that more often than not get blown in the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Get a taste of Seattle hip-hop tonight with the gritty yet smooth Champagne Champagne, along with Seattle's Mad Rad, and the Bay Area's C U Next Weekend and Moe Greene. 9 p.
SF News San Jose's Plastic Bag Ban is Better than Ours Not that we compare ourselves to San Jose that often, but our neighbor to the south has just become the largest city in the country to ban plastic grocery bags. We've been plastic-free
SF News Spare The Air Day Announced Due to the dry and glacial weather brought to you this winter season by La Niña, a Spare the Air Day has been called for today, Wednesday, Dec. 1. This means you're barred
SF News Gov. Schwarzenegger Supports Plastic Bag Ban You know that not-so crazy plastic bag ban spearheaded by San Francisco Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi? Well, openly Republican (heh) Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger now also supports the eco-intelligent ban. So, you know, kudos to
