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
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
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...
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.
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.
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!
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
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
"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
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
"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.
LEED for Existing Buildings, or LEED-EB, the three-year-old program provides a laundry list of steps that building owners and managers can take to operate and manage their properties more efficiently.
It isn't just a question of finding enough college-educated engineers. The green-tech industry also will need thousands of skilled laborers, people trained in construction and electrical work.
Our rallying point was "The Handmade Pledge," a highly successful online collaboration between some of the key players in the DIY scene -- Etsy, Design*Sponge, Craft magazine -- launched last October at BuyHandmade.org. The pledge, which at press time numbe
