Arts & Entertainment What To Do During Earth Hour Tonight Millions across the globe are participating in Earth Hour tonight (and as we speak). For those who feel like being out and about tonight, here are some Earth Hour events going on in
misc Dim Bulbs in San Francisco? In an effort to conserve energy, Board of Supervisors President David Chiu introduced legislation yesterday that "would prohibit downtown commercial buildings from leaving the lights on after hours," according to reports. If passed,
SF News San Francisco Takes Gold in Low Ozone Competition According to a new study in The New England Journal of Medicine, you're most likely to die of a respiratory illness in Riverside, California, and least likely in our very own SF. San
SF News Berkeley Wins Solar Award Due to installing the "most solar systems per 1,000 citizens by any city in the Bay Area," the city of Berkeley has won a coveted the "City Solar Award" sponsored by NorCal
SF News Duraflame Sues Over Winter Spare the Air Days Concerned about your right to feel toasty, Duraflame has filed a lawsuit against the Bay Area Air Quality Management District for their 'Spare the Air' days, which bans the burning combustible materials (i.
Arts & Entertainment Haiku Giveaway: 2006 Eight Arms Syrah, Release Party in Berkeley on Sunday Those who wish to purchase the Eight Arms Syrah will be supporting Eight Arms' "Go Green Drink Red" campaign, in which $1 per purchase will be donated to The Conservation Fund’s Go
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Greening Your Holiday Meal ACME was one of the first restaurants in town to feature local grassfed beef, sustainable seafood, and organic produce on its menu and have paved the way for the fledgling sustainable movement. For
SF News Jenner Headlands Almost Preserved The Jenner Headlands -- that gorgeous, relatively untouched stretch of coastal land a few hours north of San Francisco, where "the Russian River meets a Pacific Ocean" -- is a breath away from
SF News Newsom Declares Civic Center the "Sustainable Resource District" of Tomorrow! Part of Mayor Gavin Newsom's plan or save the Earth/become Governor of California, Civic Center has been declared "a sustainable vision for the heart of San Francisco." That is to say, it's
SF News San Francisco, Not as Sustainable as Portland? SustainLane Media, the world wide web's "largest people-powered guide to sustainable living," came out with its annual ranking of the most sustainable U.S. cities. And San Francisco came in at no. 2.
misc Composting in Multi-Unit Apartment Buildings We've become more and more hippie-ish in our near eight years living in San Francisco. We've mostly dwelled in compost-practicing households here, where it was a convenient process and just as easy to
SF News Carless Sunday to be Carless Market Street? Also, as you all know, driving down Market Street is kinda impossible, so why not? Lining up against the idea, natch, are merchants along Market Street who fear that the closure's will hurt
SF News Carless Sundays Not Complaintless Complaints to commence in 3...2...1.... The main people howling against the idea is the business community at Fisherman's Wharf who are concerned that they'd lose money because people would be unable
SF News Mystery Oil Closes Alameda Beach Crown State Memorial Beach Park in Alameda closed down after "quarter-sized tar balls and an oil sheen" were found along the shoreline, stretching about half-mile long. No one knows yet where the oil
Arts & Entertainment Artist In Residence Program at the Dump Before Sunday's Latin-tinged Carnaval drunkfest and the self-consciously zany Live Masturbate-a-Thon, be sure to check out San Francisco's dirty and unique Artist In Residence program happening down at the dump. DeYoung ruler/society
SF News Pink Bags One Step Closer To Losing Their Prominence on the 30-Stockton Honestly, we don't know if we really want to live in a San Francisco without pink plastic bags. While they still live on, today they moved closer to obsolescence. Today plastic bags were
SF News Spare the Air Day Tomorrow, But No Free Rides In addition to Ride Your Big Wheel to Work Day, tomorrow, May 15, is also Spare the Air Day. But here's the nasty rub: there will be no free transit. Pft. How dare
SF News Make-Me-Governor Tour: More Green Nonsense When he's not gracing photo exhibits at Valencia Street art gallery parties with Todd Oldam and John Waters (the latter, we hear, now lives in Nob Hill now. Who knew?) with his stellar
misc From the Editor's Inbox: Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Prejudice from: [name redacted] to: [email protected] date: Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 9:46 PM subject: cologne and santa cruz Mr. Brock, While I appreciate your coverage of the spray situation I
SF News Light Brown Apple Moth Spray Off Today a major setback struck the final solution, if you will, against the light brown apple moth. Superior Court Judge Paul Burdick ruled that "aerial pesticide sprays must halt over Santa Cruz County
SF News Will You Turn Off Your Lights for an Earth Hour? Tomorrow, March 29, from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. millions of people will turn of their lights to make a statement about climate change. It's all a part of Earth Hour,
SF News San Francisco's Tap Water Reigns Surpeme Although last week's test on the American tap water by chemists claims to have detected the sex hormone estradiol -- found such vertebrate animals as birds, reptiles, and fish -- a more recent
SF News The Vatican Revises Thou-Shall-Not List On the environment, both Pope Benedict XVI and the late Pope John Paul II frequently expressed concern about the fate of the Earth. During Benedict's papacy, Vatican engineers have developed plans for some
