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Fewer branches on greener Christmas trees
Tags: · Christmas tree, San Francisco
Slideshow: California’s high-speed railway plan
The planned California High Speed Rail system, which voters endorsed with a yes vote on initial funding in November, would offer travel times competitive with air travel and less than half what comparable trips would take by car.
The concept drawings here, provided by the CHSR Authority and graphic animators Newlands & Company, Inc., illustrate how the system would work and be meshed with existing infrastructure.
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Tags: · Anaheim, California High Speed Rail Authority, LA/Ontario Airport, Los Angeles, Oakland, Sacramento, San Francisco
Take back the tap — off to a flowing start
September 15th, 2008 · No Comments
By Harriet Blake
Drinking tap, not bottled, water is gaining momentum in restaurants from coast to coast. The “Take Back the Tap” campaign began in March in San Francisco, although some restaurants had already been forgoing bottled water on their own. It grew to include cities such as Alburquerque, Memphis, Omaha, Portland,  Seattle and San Diego, and this past summer, the Big Apple.
The program is sponsored by Food and Water Watch, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit consumer rights organization that looks at corporate control and abuse of the country’s food and water resources. The New York Take Back the Tap campaign also is sponsored by Riverkeeper, a Hudson River environmental protection group.
“Our goal is to make sure that people have safe and affordable drinking water,” says Food and Water Watch (FWW) executive director Wenonah Hauter. “Food and Water Watch promotes a clean water trust fund that protects [the country's] 1.5 million miles of water structure.”
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Tags: · Bottled Water, Container Recycling Institute, Food and Water Watch, New York, Riverkeeper, San Francisco, Tap Water, Waterfest
From Planet To Plate: Slow Food Nation Celebration In San Francisco
By Catherine Girardeau
This coming Labor  Day Weekend, San Francisco will celebrate the intersection of taste, sustainability and social justice that is the Slow Food movement. Non-profit educational organization Slow Food USA is throwing a four-day party they’re calling Slow Food Nation.
SFN’s Executive Director Anya Fernald hopes the debut event, expected to draw some 50,000 people, will reach out beyond the obvious coalition of foodies, health-nuts and environmentalists to, “build momentum and demand for an American food system that is safer, healthier and more socially just.” Highlights of the festival, which runs Friday through Monday, will include the:
- “Slow Food Rocks” concert, serving up not only Gnarls Barkley and the New Pornographers but gourmet beer and locally-grown and locally-produced food;
- 50,000 square feet of “taste pavilions” for which nationally-recognized regional food experts have hand-picked authentic gastronomic specialities from every state;
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Tags: · Alice Waters, Carlo Petrini, Michael Pollan, Organic Food, San Francisco, Slow Food, Slow Food Nation, Wendell Barry
Green Artists Come Together, In Houston And Online
By Julie Bonnin
Artists are in a unique position to comment on the state of the world and environmental concerns. Using found objects is one well-known mode of artistic expression that reinforces the idea of finding beauty all around us, while imbuing value in discarded items from a throwaway culture.
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Tags: · Green art, Green House Art Gallery, Greenmuseum.org, Houston, San Francisco
Paper, Please: Los Angeles Votes to Ban Plastic Bags
By John DeFore
In another development sure to result in gray hair, if not legal action, for those in the plastics industry, the city of Los Angeles voted this week to ban plastic bags by July of 2010.
The city’s action isn’t a law, though: It will only become one if the state of California fails to [...]
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Tags: · ban, Los Angeles, ordinance, plastic bags, San Francisco
San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral Looks Heavenward — For Solar Power
San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral will install a state-of-the-art solar photovoltaic power system with the help of $65,000 from Pacific Gas and Electric Company, city and church officials have announced. PG&E said its donation to Grace Cathedral is part of the company’s $7.5 million commitment to increase solar power in San Francisco.
“We’re working to make [...]
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Tags: · Churches, Grace Cathedral, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Francisco, Solar Power
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