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Green Lifestyle News tagged with San Francisco

Urban Farming, a Bit Closer to the Sun / Highlighting Rooftop Gardens From SF to NYC!
Green Lifestyle  (tags: rooftop gardens, urban farming, Bay Localize, San Francisco, NYC, Green Roofs for Healthy Cities )

Larry
- 161 days ago - nytimes.com
City dwellers have long cultivated pots of tomatoes on top of their buildings. But farming in the sky is a fairly recent development in the green roof movement, in which owners have been encouraged to replace blacktop with plants, often just carpets of su
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Homeowners Can Harness the Wind / Growing Movement to Erect Wind Turbines on or Near Urban Rooftops
Green Lifestyle  (tags: home energy, wind power, renewable energy, wind turbines, San Francisco, Urban Wind Power Task Force, Sustainabililty )

Larry
- 340 days ago - sfgate.com
In San Francisco, veteran homebuilder Robin Wilson had one installed on a pole as part of a "green" makeover of her Mission District home last year. Wilson's two-unit building, dubbed La Casa Verde, was featured in Sunset magazine as an "idea" home.
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Solar For the People / 'One Block Off the Grid' Is Organizing Consumers to Collectively Purchase Solar Energy Systems
Green Lifestyle  (tags: One Block off the Grid, going solar, San Francisco, collective purchasing )

Larry
- 417 days ago - commongroundmag.com
By aggregating groups of consumers, they figured they could wrangle discounts from suppliers and bring down the often prohibitive cost of solar power systems. They threw together a website and started spreading the word at farmers' markets and other commu
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San Francisco Goes Wireless and Real-Time to Reduce Traffic
Green Lifestyle  (tags: parking, wireless, real-time, congestion, San Francisco )


- 495 days ago - terrapass.com
Check your smartphone to find a parking meter.
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Urban Garden Takes Root in San Francisco's Civic Center for Slow Food Nation
Green Lifestyle  (tags: urban gardens, San Francisco, food )

Larry
- 501 days ago - sfgate.com
The Slow Food Nation Victory Garden, whose organic veggies are a far cry from the stuff being sold at the fast food joints a few feet away on Market Street, aims to show the possibilities and benefits of urban food production. Mayor Gavin Newsom and renow
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San Francisco Firm Harvests Potential of Unused Land / Designs and Plants Organic Vegetable Gardens for Clients
Green Lifestyle  (tags: organic gardening, veggies, San Francisco, green business, green services )

Larry
- 520 days ago - sfgate.com
MyFarm, a new San Francisco business took the family's local and organic diet to a new level: by designing and planting an organic vegetable garden in their Marina district backyard. The Vollens pay MyFarm a weekly fee to maintain and harvest the veggies
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Summitgoers Push for Sustainable Cities
Green Lifestyle  (tags: sustainable cities, eco cities, Ecocity World Summit conference, San Francisco, Ecocity Builders, peak oil, green energy )

Larry
- 563 days ago - sfgate.com
The overall conference theme was of reversing our 60-year trend of sprawl development and building or redeveloping far more compact cities - before we run out of the energy and money to do so. One panel was, "Why Better Cars Build Worse Cities," and...
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A City Committed to Recycling Is Ready for More
Green Lifestyle  (tags: San Francisco, recycling, law, city, government, eco-friendly, environment, goodnews, greenliving, humans, Sustainabililty )

Holly
- 568 days ago - nytimes.com
The mayor of San Francisco wants to make the recycling of cans, bottles, paper, yard waste and food scraps mandatory instead of voluntary, on the pain of having garbage pickups suspended.
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San Francisco Hotel Installs Solar Panels
Green Lifestyle  (tags: green business, green hotels, solar power, san francisco, carbon neutral )

Kango
- 595 days ago - triphow.com
The Carlton hotel, San Francisco, has installed a solar array which will provide for 12% of the hotel's energy use. The balance of the hotel's energy use is fully offset via Carbonfund.org, making the Carlton a carbon neutral establishment.
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VegNewsLetter / April 2008 / From VegNews Magazine
Green Lifestyle  (tags: Best way to Save Animals, veggie singles, vegan, Veggie media, Peace Diet, Go Veg, Love Animals-Don't Eat Them, San Francisco )

Larry
- 602 days ago - care2.com
Modern Love Issue. V in the News: Slaughter, Lies, and Videotape; Veganism Is Good for You; Good Tax News?; Event Spotlight: Seattle Green Festival, MeatOut Rock City, & Earth Day; Recipes; Save Some Green!; Online Lollygagging; and more V!
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Guerrilla Gardeners: When Push Comes to Shovel
Green Lifestyle  (tags: community, gardening, Guerrilla gardening, Urban gardeners, San Francisco, Alemany Farm )

Larry
- 606 days ago - sfgate.com
In our society, we have a bizarre notion that if you own a piece of land, you can do anything you want, including neglecting it and letting it become an urban blight." Guerrilla gardeners argue that vacant land should serve the community, and that
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FARMING THE CITY / Can San Francisco's Vacant Lots Become Garden Plots?
Green Lifestyle  (tags: local food production, San Francisco, Haight-Ashbury, urban gardeners, food security, localization )

Larry
- 614 days ago - sfgate.com
Kevin Bayuk, in the garden of his Haight-Ashbury district apartment, proposes using volunteers to garden and harvest at empty lots and donate the food to local food banks. Bayuk and other urban gardeners with big dreams but little capital are striving to
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San Francisco Moves to Greenest Building Codes in U.S.
Green Lifestyle  (tags: building codes, green building, San Francisco, eco-design )

Larry
- 616 days ago - sfgate.com
"George Bush is doing nothing to fight climate change on the national level, but with this groundbreaking ordinance, we're doing our part on the local level," said Nathan Ballard, a Newsom spokesman. "Many people don't realize that buildings have a big ca
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Common Ground Magazine / March 2008
Green Lifestyle  (tags: green media, San Francisco, voluntouring, trash, eco-art )

Larry
- 634 days ago - care2.com
In this issue, you'll find stories on "voluntouring" without crossing the globe, the best ways to rebuild a city when disaster strikes and the cultural relativity of time. There are also several decidedly non-travel-related pieces, proving that no matter
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Slow Food Nation Festival Plans Slowly Take Shape in San Francisco
Green Lifestyle  (tags: Slow Food Nation, artisanal food producers, Mayor Gavin Newsom, sustainable agriculture, Alice Waters, San Francisco )

Larry
- 644 days ago - sfgate.com
"My real interest in this event is to make an impression on the next president of the United States," said Chez Panisse's Alice Waters, the nation's top Slow Food proponent and most visible Slow Food Nation promoter.
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