SF News Station to BioStation On Tuesday, Gavin cut the ribbon on the city's very first commercial B20 biodiesel refueling station. B20 fuel is fuel made up of 20% biomass, 75% diesel, and 5% tomato juice and the
SF News You Down With CCA? The idea is to contract out a company to implement renewable energy so that by 2017, 51% of the city will be powered by renewable energy. The money to get this going would
SF News SchwarzenWatcher Pimps His Ride In the show, Schwarzenegger will get his 1965 Chevy Impala all fitted up with a biodiesel engine. Why, we've never watched the show, but we hear pimping out cars with biodiesel is all
SF News Family In The City The articles profiled a couple who live on Guerrero Street and their two kids (5 and 1) -- on the one hand, an affordable area because of the high-density housing and street traffic,
misc Bring on the Bio Diesel Buses How this will work is that the city will buy two trucks, hire a bunch of drivers, and go around the city collecting grease. Talk about a fun job. According to the SFPUC,
Arts & Entertainment Wind Bag Wants Your Plastic Bag What Beck wants to do is start up a campaign where his radio listeners and TV audience (all five of them) will send in their paperplastic bags and he'll then he'll get a
SF News But Wait! There's More! What will dog owners do now? Currently, the little plastic bags aren't biodegradable but can be recycled-- it's just that it's really hard to get them recycled. Or, at least this is true
SF News Free Plastic Bags! The vote passed by a 10-1 margin with only cranky old Ed Jew providing the nay vote. We would assume that the vote would draw usual cries of "oh no they didn't" but
SF News Naked People to Speak for the Trees This Saturday, between 10 in the morning and noon, Fine art photographer Jack Gescheidt will take pictures of naked people in the trees. But done artistically, of course so don't expect glossy photos
SF News Greening Your Office Refilling printer cartridges and keeping them out of landfills is one example of how a company can reduce office waste and increase their bottom line while helping the environment. Businesses are catching onto
SF News Fire Down Below After a competition featuring thirty entries, various organizations in support of keeping bonfires on Ocean Beach have selected five winning entries. The contest was held after park authorities were convinced by the Ocean
SF News Don't Be A Litter Bug So today, Gavin introduced a new campaign to stop littering. This time, the campaign will be mainly educational as that appears to be the problem. We don't understand why people wouldn't think littering
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews Loose Change's Human Nature We liked the staging and we dug some of the music and we got into the dancing and we thought some of the staged sets were pretty innovative and extremely well-done. Yes, it
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Refrigerate Your Moon Cakes? Did you know that Chinese New Year is celebrated for 15 days? The last day, March 4, 2007, is the Lantern Festival. So, we're not too late in getting this crucial holiday food
Arts & Entertainment IndieFest: <i>The Substance Of Things Hoped For</i> We’re sure there are a lot of great films at Indiefest, but we screened one of the best on Wednesday night at the Roxie - The Substance of Things Hoped For. Daphne
SF News Taking Out the Trash But as we've started up with the recycling, we’ve started to remember the downside of recycling, mainly the mess it creates. Our tiny, tiny kitchen is now overwhelmed with bottles and cans
SF News Is Polyester Our Doom? According to the article, while clothing made from artificial fibers takes more energy to produce than from natural ones, it takes way less energy to maintain it. It can be washed in cooler
SF News Give a Hoot, Don't Pollute Complaints were made because the increased street cleaning would mean increased amounts of time people had to go out and move their cars. It might also affect business in the area as it
SF News ...And They Have a Plan In order to do this, we'll need to do things like go bike riding instead of driving, use car pool lanes, plant more trees and keep those trees that we have from dying,
SF News Bags Redux Luckily, we might not have to ponder these things anymore, something for which we are entirely grateful as it'll allow us more time to ponder more meaningful questions such as whether to watch
SF News Greening San Francisco Bring your own bag Paper bags are just as bad as plastic in their own way, so whenever possible, bring your own bag to the grocery store. Pretty much every grocery store carries
SF News San Francisco's Got A Brand New Bag Naturally, everyone is a little upset. Gavin, who supported the measure, said he was deceived. Ross Mirkirami, the one who first proposed the measure, isn't very happy and wants to schedule a hearing.
SF News Let it Ride At last night's meeting, they talked about ways to make up the budget shortfalls. Proposed ideas are the usual ones: lots of fee increases (parking, license and tickets) and selling residential parking passes
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Liz Hickok Why Jello? It actually started because I had been photographing scale models that other people had made. I’ve been a photographer for a long time. I was in Havana shooting and came
SF News New Rules The biggest one is an increase in the minimum wage, from $6.75 an hour to $7.50. Next year, it'll go up to $8. In San Francisco, however, the minimum wage is
