SF News Ed Lee Welcomes BMW Electric-Car Sharing Service Now this is our kinda car-sharing service! Mayor Ed Lee welcomed little-known nonprofit grassroots effort BMW into San Francisco by way of electric-car sharing on Monday. It was all a part of the
SF News Entire Internet Claims San Francisco Will Boycott Apple Products In their rush to be the first to tweet the sensational "San Francisco Bans Apple Computers" headline, several reputable news sources including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Huffington Post* and countless tech
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Spoonbar And Waterbar Want Your Fruit Healdsburg restaurant Spoonbar at h2hotel and Waterbar in San Francisco are looking for fruit. Your fruit. Your heavy-hanging fruit. It's all part of an attempt to reduce their carbon footprints. Your fruit, picked
SF News San Francisco Wins Award For Expensive Parking, Fewer Spaces Or if you want to look at it another way: San Francisco won a Sustainable Transport Award for the SFPark program's dynamic meter pricing and for replacing a citywide swath of parallel parking
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 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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alice Waters Twitter Announcement Watch While we (and you!) rock back and forth in a near-catatonic state of anticipation for Alice Waters' big announcement -- on Twitter, no less! -- we'll keep you saffron-infused-olive-oil-poached abreast of her updates
Arts & Entertainment Why Do We Pinch People Not Wearing Green On St. Patrick's Day? While you're stuffing your face with corned beef, beer, and/or rye during tomorrow's St. Patrick's Day festivities, remember to sport some green. If not, you might get pinched. (You also might get
SF News Newsom Announces City's Toyota Prius Partnership With Wild Gesticulation In front of City Hall at a "green vehicle showcase," Mayor Gavin Newsom yesterday announced a partnership between San Francisco and Toyota to advertise their Prius plug-in hybrids. And, as with anything carrying
SF News Astrid Hayarti, SF Greening Director, Quits According to a tipster, SF Greening Director Astrid Hayarti left her position today. Our tipster writes to us, saying, "Just heard another member of Gavin's team jumped ship. Astrid Hayarti, the so-called Greening
SF News City Launches Eco-Friendly Products Site San Francisco launched a green product site, SFApproved.org, which recommends eco-holy cosmetics, hand sanitizers, computers, office supplies, batteries and other items. According to AP, "The recommendations are based on a review of
SF News (Updated) What Happened to the Main Library's Green Bench? Mayor Newsom and the city's Greening Director Astrid Haryati came up with these nifty plant boxes to segment the long bench that stretches along the main library right off Civic Center Plaza. According
SF News Sarah Palin Calls Global Warming Studies 'Snake Oil Science' During a rare Northern California appearance on Monday, the increasingly bizarre and camera-whorish Sarah Palin opened her mouth, with self-consciously controversial results. It all happened at a media-banned logging conference in Redding, a
SF News Newsom Wants More Wind to Power SF Setting himself up for countless "hot air" punchlines, Gavin Newsom "is calling for windmills throughout the city," reports KCBS. An estimated 29 of them might pop up in SF sometime in the very
SF News $6.4 Million Goes to AC Transit for Green Transit Improvements Today, the Obama Administration announced plans to fork over $6-plus million to AC Transit of Hayward, "to help reduce global warming, lessen America’s dependence on oil and create green jobs." The funds
SF News SFO Finally Installs Carbon Offset Kiosks by Chris Jones So, the new carbon offset kiosks at SFO, first reported here last December, have finally been installed at the Airport. The kiosks, operated by local start up, 3Degrees can be
SF News SF Housing Projects Get Green Still hoping to ride his oppressively green platform all the way to Sacramento, SF Mayor Gavin Newsom has had solar panels installed at two housing projects: Hayes Valley North and South, and Plaza
SF News Free WiFi at Muni Stops In 2013 Part of the plan to make San Francisco run exclusively on sunshine and eco-righteousness, the city plans on erecting 360 new Muni bus stops "that'll further the causes of both solar power and
SF News The Person Who Controls Newsom's Twitter Account Writes Ahem: @GavinNewsom "Just announced plan to build UN environmental center in SF to promote sustainable and clean technologies." Meanwhile, San Francisco is still poor.
SF News Recycling Terorrists? In Our Blue Bins? by Chris Jones C.W. "Phone It In" Nevius is complaining about one of his favorite topics in today's Chronicle: "recycling rustlers." How many columns can one guy write about industrious homeless people
SF News Recidivists Beware, Newsom Signs Composting Law Thank God for garbage disposals. Seriously. On your knees. Because Mayor Gavin Newsom just signed a ruling calling on all San Franciscans to compost their eggshells, coffee grounds, apple peels, dead roses and
SF News Watch Newsom Interview Now Current TV has asked us to plug an interview their doing with Newsom right this very second. For better or for worse, the chat will be about not trashing your coffee grounds (which
SF News Newsom to Address Green Questions on Current Tomorrow Current invited the public to submit and vote on questions for Mayor Gavin Newsom regarding his run for governor and his green platform. Six of the questions will be chosen alongside picks from
SF News Green Prom Night Because being a native San Franciscan isn't adorably dorky in and of itself, Mission Mission first broke news that Mission High School students held a "green prom" over the weekend, complete with environmentally-friendly
SF News Twitter for a Tree You just can't top this one, Gavin Newsom. United Nations Environment Programme promises to plant a tree for every person who follows them on Twitter. Check it: "UNEPandYou: Remember, UNEP will plant one
