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GREEN Seminar Coming UP in San Francisco

3 GREEN ideas for 2010

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 [...]

Installation of a Carbon Monoxide Detector Suggested

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, [...]

My Husband Insulated my Pipes!

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 [...]

Great local Environmental Website

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

Recycle your Fridge, Earn a Gas Credit, Use CFL’s by PG&E in San Francisco

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 [...]

San Francisco Real Estate Links for GREEN Buyers and Sellers

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 [...]

Stay at Green Hotels when you can – Great Link here.

Taken from the California Association of Realtors Green Tip of the Week: Sustainable Sleeps
If you’re traveling, consider staying at green hotels.  Hunt for green lodging at http://www.istaygreen.org
Erika Burke, Realtor, CRS, e-Pro, GREEN has earned the National Association of Realtors GREEN designation.  For more information visit C.A.R.’s Green Web site (http://green.car.org).

Re-Charge It! Camping & Batteries – Lots of ‘Em

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!

Community Gardens in San Francisco

Potrero Hill Community Garden

There are over 50 community gardens in San Francisco.
I’m going to make it my business to visit every one of them! I wonder of one of them has an open plot available. I visited the one on Lawton and 7th Aveunue, just behind the pumpkin patch.  When you purchase your pumpkins with [...]