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Steamy, Hot Construction Worker Scene On Stillman

Here you see an image of construction on Stillman and Third Streets that started a few weeks ago, more or less. (What was a precocious orphanage was violently burned to the ground to

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Go Catch A Fish 'THIS BIG'

Today and tomorrow only, Aquarium of the Bay at Pier 39 is playing host to a 25-foot-long, two-ton salmon called "Fin." It's part of the traveling road show by an organization called "Save

Let's Talk About Parking Some More

It's happening Monday, July 2, at SPUR's 312 Sutter Street headquarters from 12:30 to 1:30 pm. Valet parking will be provided. Ha ha ha, just kidding! Here's some things that SPUR,

Surprise: Parking Garage Company Wants to Build LA-Style Garages in SF

More room for cars means less room to house people -- and less room for housing means rent's going to get even higher. Not to mention: more cars means more traffic; slower Muni;

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SFist Photo: Fewer Garbage Cans in San Francisco :(

(And what are the brand names adorning the garbage strewn about our city according to a recent study? Let's see, in order: McDonalds, San Francisco Muni, Burger King, Starbucks, Safeway, FedEx and Jack

Transit Picnic, Yum!

You probably want to know more about this amazing vision, don't you? Yes, you do. Luckily, there's a picnic happening TODAY, hosted by SPUR (the always-correct urban planning group) as thanks to Jake

Get Your Piece Of The Sun

Whoa! Check out the SF Solar Map! Using Googlemap tech, SF Environment and CH2MHill have teamed up to show you where the solar installations are throughout the city. And if you plug in

The (Carbon) Prints Of Tides

Well, isn't it interesting that this is happening right after the Board of Supes votes to leave PG&E and pursue Community Choice Energy? Today, Gavin (Representing the City and County of

Green Wombat's Got The Goods On The B of A/Redwood Forest Foundation Deal

Green Wombat was at the Bank of America / Redwood Forest Foundation announcement yesterday, which took place at the "urban redwoods" next to the Transamerica Pyramid. As part of the bank's $20 billion "green

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Get Your Carbon Footprint Off The Dinner Table

"Low carb diet" had a lot of buzz in the past few years. Perhaps "low carbon diet" is next. A while ago we wrote about the possibility of saving the world through cuisine.

Victory is Very Nearly Ours

The winning city gets ten cute hybrid taxis. To Gavin's credit, whether we win or not, he's pledged that the city's entire fleet will be hybrid by 2011. And we bet we'll be

Free Bulbs

So what does this have to do with Gavin? Why's he suddenly pushing a Yahoo ad campaign that's disguised as greeniness but is actually just a trick to get us to use their

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SFist Watches: Green TV

Two "green TV" programs are set to air in the coming weeks, and both focus on making your home more "sustainable." Tonight at 8 p.m., YourTV20 (yes, it's YOURS) airs an episode

Market-Oriented Fees And Rebates For Vehicles Can Help Planet, Pocketbook

The University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute has just published a study on the effectiveness of a new method to reduce greenhouse gas emission in California. While it may seem strange that an

Hi Al

But what's that? You're going to be speaking there on Wednesday, May 23 at 7PM? About your new book, ? And you'll be signing copies? And we can buy tickets at http://www.ticketmaster.

PG&E: Here, Sit on This Garbage

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

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Time To Rummage Through The Closet: Nike Helps You Recycle Old Shoes

Thumbs up to corporations exercising responsibility--particularly when it can promote exercise. Got old athletic shoes? Put them to good use. Help Nike turn old sneaks into playing surfaces within our community. The company's

Cities in Bloom

A couple good points came out of a talk by SustainLane's Warren Karlenzig at the Commonwealth club last week. He was talking about Green Economies (sustainable) versus Grey Economies (unsustainable), and pointed out

PG&E Grants More Than $100K To Area Schools

Pretty nice when an area powerhouse (pun sort of intended) puts some money into public schools. Pacific Gas and Electric has awarded 22 area schools a combined $108,500 for "for innovative solar

Belmont: More cars! More pollution!

The idea behind the Climate Protection Agreement is that dense housing (that's multi-unit buildings, like a duplex) near transit will reduce car usage and oil dependence and air pollution, transforming miserable freeways to

Goodbye, Jessie; Hello, Mint

Opening the street to pedestrians (aka "humans") has some opponents; some folks claim that it'll make it harder to valet their cars when frequenting the nearby hotels and malls. And to be fair,

Apocalypse Comes Full Circle

There's probably some kind of remarkable statement to be made here, about how it's a carbon-neutral film about monsters frozen in ice by climate change millions of years ago. Discursive wheels within wheels!

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Your CRT monitor is now obsolete

Sure, your bulky old monitor still works fine. But it's obsolete anyway. Here's how we can tell: perfectly good CRT monitors abandoned on sidewalks and streets of San Francisco are now getting tagged

Apples Now Slightly Less Sinful

Our friends to the south have come under some uncomfortable scrutiny lately for all the toxic junk they dump into landfills. Greenpeace in particular has been pretty critical of Apple's use of mercury

Now You Too Can Be Environmentally Conscious While Waiting Forever For a Cab

The company was founded by eight cab drivers who wanted to help save the environment by reducing carbon emissions. So they bought a Prius, painted it green, and started up a company. Right