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Date:
08/13/2009Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » Curbed
· Writing » Topic » scienceView article as originally published San Jose is not to be outdone by Oakland's slight-less-smelly air and San Franciso's squeaky-clean city hall! They're going to start processing their organic waste, turning it into compost and methane at a plant sandwiched between a recycling plant and a solid waste processor. Sounds like a nice neighborhood. So what does this mean for San Francisco? We certainly produce no shortage of biological waste, much of it strolling... [Read more...]
Date:
08/11/2009Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » Curbed
· Writing » Op-Ed » Urban Planning
· Writing » Topic » scienceView article as originally published Can we revive the recent conversation about faster Muni and growing population in the Richmond one more time? We'd like to point out this post about Transit-Oriented Design (TOD) on the blog of the same name. In a nutshell: Faster transit and denser populations go hand-in-hand: more space for people equals less space for cars, which equals more need for transit, traffic calming, and pedestrian amenities. Or you can... [Read more...]
Date:
07/27/2009Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » Curbed
· Writing » Op-Ed » Urban Planning
· Writing » Topic » scienceView article as originally published San Francisco City Hall is an inescapable black hole! Okay, so everybody knows that already. But we're talking about electricity: every day, the building consumes power several hundreds of times greater than that of a residential building. Several HUNDRED times? How is that even possible? What is Mister Green Mayor DOING over there, splitting the atom? Fortunately, the Public Utilities Commission is working on cleaning up City Hall's act,... [Read more...]
Date:
07/15/2009Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » Curbed
· Writing » Op-Ed » Urban Planning
· Writing » Topic » miscNo big surprise: the great new pedestrian plaza at Market and Castro has been extended for four more months. Well of course. Streetsblog reports "surprise and pleasure at how well the plaza is functioning" but who the hell is surprised that people would rather have a nice sit-down than dodge cars amongst baffling traffic lights? The conversation is now turning to making the plaza permanent -- it's still a... [Read more...]
Date:
07/09/2009Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » Curbed
· Writing » Topic » scienceView article as originally published We're not sure what to gasp about first with this story, so let's start with the largest number: 107 years, the age of the oil refinery Richmond. Of course, the equipment itself isn't that old -- it's only been around for a mere 70 years. (Practically brand new!) Chevron wants to replace the old equipment with newer machinery that, the company says, is better and cleaner. That sounds nice,... [Read more...]
Date:
07/06/2009Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » Curbed
· Writing » Op-Ed » Urban Planning
· Writing » Topic » scienceView article as originally published California recently tried to take away $1 billion (billion!) in gas-tax funds from transit -- but no, the 3rd district court of appeal just ruled, the state can't do that. Voters approved the gas tax specifically to fund buses and trains, but so far Arnold's stolen $152 million from Muni, and $30 million from BART last year alone. The governor plans to appeal the ruling; so when fares to go... [Read more...]
Date:
06/22/2009Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » Curbed
· Writing » Topic » scienceView article as originally published On Monday, we pined for a walking tour of prominent local palm trees. And you delivered! Or more specifically, Jason Dewees, palm broker to the stars, delivered. He emailed to let us know about this fancy Google map that details the locations of over sixty amazing trees. We know what we are doing this weekend! Mr. Dewees, you have us eating out of the palm of your hand. Controversy... [Read more...]
Date:
06/17/2009Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » Curbed
· Writing » Topic » scienceView article as originally published ["What Message Does This Sign Send?" by jm3] Here is a topic that may generate almost as many angry comments as our post comparing the Mission and Marina: according to the Christian Science Monitor (and pretty much everyone else), blacks are abandoning San Francisco. Er. Um. Yikes. The evidence seems pretty much impossible to argue with: blacks make up 6.7% of the population, down from 13.4% forty years ago.... [Read more...]
Date:
06/16/2009Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » Curbed
· Writing » Topic » scienceView article as originally published People sure are talking about prefab homes a lot lately. Sort of like scaling up your IKEA furniture until it's an entire building, these factory-built dwellings boast assembly-line efficiency that just isn't possible with on-site construction. The latest prefab headliner: ZETA Communities' experimental house in Oakland. ZETA (which stands for Zero Energy Technology and Architecture) is aiming to build homes that produce as much energy as they create, also... [Read more...]
Date:
06/04/2009Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » Curbed
· Writing » Topic » scienceView article as originally published UCSF celebrated the opening of its brand new Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Building yesterday afternoon. It's pretty much as noble a project as you'd expect from the name: studying various forms of cancer, the Mission Bay building will more than double UCSF's lab space. It is, to put it mildly, a very good thing. But the building's buzz isn't limited to the medical field: we're seeing a lot... [Read more...]
