San Francisco

Bag it!

Plastic bags are the enemy of the ocean 2
Posted 2 months ago
This Saturday, join your friends, neighbors, frenemies and complete strangers in a community-wide effort to get the plastic crap out of the ocean.
Smarter cities

The 15 most sustainable U.S. cities 28
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
Seattle is the most sustainable big city in the nation, according to a list compiled by Smarter Cities, an NRDC project that looks at the progress American cities are making toward going green. Find out which other 14 cities made the list.
San Francisco solar energy incentive program shines bright in first year 0
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
Mayor Gavin Newsom blogs about San Francisco's local solar energy incentive program.
All Politics Is Green

Quiz S.F. Mayor Gavin Newsom about his green agenda 1
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is running for governor in California, and boy oh boy is he thumping on the green platform. Here's your chance to determine and shape the environmental issues that our political leaders discuss with the media.
So Long, Saturn

I sold my car, and I couldn’t be happier ... I think 20
Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago
The road from deciding to ditch your car to actually doing it can be bumpy -- find out how one urban driver navigated her way to auto-freedom.
The Future of Driving?

Shai Agassi: Green’s Steve Jobs 6
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
If Steve Jobs is a distant, "cult of personality" figure, Better Place's Shai Agassi is the Gen X enviro-evangelist, appearing before audiences large and small to sell the story of making the world a better place through electric transportation.
The Bay vs. The Bag 1
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
Gavin Newsom at Greennet Conference 0
Posted 7 months, 4 weeks ago
Green:Net '09: San Fran will follow Berkeley

Newsom says San Francisco will adopt Berkeley green financing model 0
Posted 8 months ago
Do not mail

What works for telemarketers might work for junk-mailers 0
Posted 8 months ago
I have a foolproof plan to fight spam: if the government gave out Viagra for free, then most spammers would quickly go out of business as their market would be undercut. Foolproof. Our friends at ForestEthics are trying to do the same for junk mail, except they have an even better plan: a Do Not Mail Registry, modeled on the effective Do Not Call Registry.
SanFran anti-transit activist puts $1 million between the city and bike infrastructure 6
Posted 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Do You Know the Way to San Jose?

Electric-car infrastructure coming to California’s Bay Area 3
Posted 1 year ago
Visiting the Victory Garden outside San Francisco City Hall 0
Posted 1 year, 1 month ago
Portland: Trail Blazers

Portland, Ore., tops sustainable-cities ranking 1
Posted 1 year, 1 month ago
Grist and Dell hit the road in search of a sustainable future 1
Posted 1 year, 1 month ago
Graduate Cool

A recent grad follows her passions and finds a green job she digs 0
Posted 1 year, 2 months ago
X-Prize 1
Posted 1 year, 2 months ago
Stuffed and Starved author on the myth of consumer choice 1
Posted 1 year, 2 months ago
Slow Down, Slow Food!

Slow Food Nation was magnificent in many ways, but overshot its mandate 17
Posted 1 year, 2 months ago
New York chef urges people to get back in the kitchen 1
Posted 1 year, 2 months ago