GreenBlog SF

Check out our San Francisco Green Spaces, small tucked away community parks that may even be smaller than a City lot.  This is wonderful and necessary in a City as dense as ours.  We are 7X7 with lots of living space and now a chance for more open space.
http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2010/02/soon_to_be_sitting_pretty_in_a_series_of_plazas_and_par.html

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, [...]

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

Here’s the latest on the first time home buyers tax credit!!!
http://www.edesignations.com/blog/2009/10/real-estate-loans-first-time-home.asp

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!

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 [...]

Zephyr is sponsoring a video contest, SF Community Voices, to get the word-on-the-street perspective on the 90+ neighborhoods of our one amazing City. Enter the SF Community Voices video contest and declare your love for your neighborhood: favorite hot spots, hidden treasures and insider scoop. Upload your video for a chance to win $500 or [...]