GreenBlog SF

Some quick tips for how to get organized and add some green and sustainable practices to your life.

Invest in a reusable water bottle….saves so many plastic bottles, and space in your kitchen for the palletes of water bottles.

Reduce your paper billing – whenever you get the chance to pay bills online- do so!

Bring your [...]

Carbon Monoxide injuries and fatalities occur most often during the winter months.  Unlike natural gas, carbon monoxide has no smell and is virtually undetectable.  Closed windows limit fresh air circulation so that the danger of carbon monoxide poising is greatest.
Possible sources of that poinsoning are from gas burning appliances such as ranges, ovens, waterheaters, furnaces, [...]

It’s true.  It’s New Years Day and I love to do things like clean out closets.  So my husband stays smartly out of the way and just came up to tell me that he had insulated our hot water pipes.
  Now you may have guessed, we are a GREEN household and always seeing to improve [...]

Our local San Francisco website for all things GREEN including         San Francisco Programs and Policies, Resources plus links to get anything recycled in SF!
Check it out at: www.sfenvironment.org

We are GREENing the Sky’s now as Southwest Airlines launches a green plane to their fleet.
They made the planes lighter, helping to reduce fuel emissions.  Their approach seems a bit gratuitous for now as they aim for replacing cabin materials with longer lasting product with the aim of reducing waste.  They have achieved LEED standards in Water [...]

Howdy!  Look what I received today in my ValPak mailer.  A coupon from PG&E promoting Recycling, and energy savings.  The info below is what was on the coupon with all of their website links too!
Check out the program put into place by PG&E in San Francisco
It’s easy to recycle your old (still working) refigerator!  Guess who [...]

Hey Folks!
Gavin Newsom just Twittered me about the launch of the new Green Cities Website, which is a collaboration of 10 cities GREEN Goals, we can participate in helping our City “Go GREEN”, read about Best Practices and keep up with what’s happening. Very inpsirational. I’ll be sure to post some of their San Francisco initiatives and [...]

We all use batteries at home and work-lots of them. In California, we buy over 500 million houshold batteries (anythingsmaller than a car battery)… by spending a little more for your home rechargeable batter set-up today, in the long run you will save time, money, and make your local community a safer, ehalthier place to live. That’s an investment you can get charged up about!

Renewable flooring materials like Bamboo cost less than hardwood and look great.
Bamboo grows significantly faster than hard wood so it is sustainable. Some bamboos grow to over 60 feet in just 6 months.
Vertically oriented ‘carbonized’ 5/8 bamboo tongue and groove with pre-urethane top coat performs very well and looks terrific. Note that when comparing [...]

More and more Americans are discovering the benefits of green homes. The advantages affect consumers’ health, wallet and the environment.