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Forward on Climate: Time to Take a Stand!
Welcome to the Forward on Climate blogathon on Daily Kos, a week of action diaries by an amazing lineup of Kossacks and a who's who of eco guest writers leading up to this Sunday's #ForwardOnClimate...
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From sea to shining sea: Bay Area moving forward on climate!
As Meteor Blades wrote in last night's Night Owls thread and the SF Chronicle is reporting today in Thousands protest Keystone XL pipeline, yesterday's turnout at the Forward on Climate rally in San...
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The Good Food Revolution Goes Vertical
This is a story about something that is right in this world. It's a story of inspiration and real world solutions, a down to earth celebration of the most basic yet profound connection we have to the...
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HOLY SPOKES!!!!! London commits £1 BILLION to new bicycle infrastructure,...
From the Department of Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is, last week the city of London announced one of the largest cycling transportation development budgets in the history of the bicycle,...
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Eco triptych: Compost giveaway, corporate breakaway, and climate rideaway, in...
Last Saturday was one of those days on the calendar that seems to magically attract all the cool happenings around town. Usually with multiple invitations on the same day you end up having to make some...
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What's the matter with "The Google Bus?"
A couple of days ago I went to a panel discussion entitled A Story of Shuttles at SPUR, the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association. For those of you not living in SF (and the Bay Area),...
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San Francisco Board of Supervisors to Vote Tomorrow on Divesting $500 million...
Tomorrow, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is going to vote on whether or not to urge the city’s retirement board to divest over half a billion dollars from the fossil fuel industry. This is a...
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San Francisco Board of Supervisors UNANIMOUSLY Passes Resolution to Divest...
This just in!San Francisco Board of Supervisors Unanimously Pass Fossil Fuel Divestment Resolution urging the city’s retirement system to divest over $583 million from the fossil fuel industrySAN...
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Cohousing: Life Is Easier With Friends Next Door
Feeling a need for community? Cohousing can provide affordable space and neighbors to share it with. Temescal Creek cohousing community in North Oakland. I wrote a feature about cohousing for the...
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Don't just count the carbon, BIKE THE MATH!
If you're in the Bay Area and want to do something exciting, fun, and meaningful to voice your concerns about climate change and the fossil fuel industry's long-term business plan, here it is... (and...
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We're taking it to Chevron tomorrow!
Tomorrow bright and early a bunch of Bay Area cyclists and I are going to bike the math of climate change to Chevron's shareholders and call for the company to be a part of the renewable energy future...
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Chevron touts big oil profits [= past] while cyclists generate people power...
Well, there couldn't be a better symbolism of yesterday's shareholder meeting at Chevron's San Ramon headquarters than today's headliner in the business section of the San Jose Mercury News: a bunch of...
View ArticleDavid Letterman on Fracking: "Ladies and Gentlemen, We're Screwed!"
Epic rant by David Letterman on the fracking that's going on all over this land...My little attempt at a transcript below the fold...
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The end of the world as we know it: New York City to compost food scraps
If you thought bike sharing was going to be the definitive end of the world for New York's old guard elite, wait till they get their fingers on Mayor Bloomberg's plan to require food composting in...
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Can we haz a Zero Waste at NN14?
Okay, so I admit it. I'm a glutton for non-gluttitude. Sensitive to waste. Trash talker. Reluctant consumer. A reuse geek. A composting fanatic. German.No matter how much I tried to focus on the heaps...
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"Real Mormons Love Everyone!" - SF Gay Pride 2013, Photo Feast
You know you've come a long way in the fight for equality when the people you come across at the Gay Pride Parade in San Francisco are these guys.On the right is Mitch Mayne, one of the driving forces...
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A Declaration of INTERdependence
Independence is a big and important word in American history and culture. A noble concept in and of itself, it reaches far and deep into the country's mythology and its people's collective psyche. The...
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"They're making art out of recycled crap!"
The Art of Recology: The Artist in Residence Program 1990-2013San Francisco Airport Museum, March – October 2013 United Terminal 3 (exhibition viewable by ticketed passengers)This exhibition presents...
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Feeling the Summer Heat: Biking and walking the math of climate change to...
If you're in the Bay Area, this Saturday is a great opportunity to come out to Richmond and let Chevron know that we're serious about moving away from fossil fuels and holding that corporate giant...
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HOLY REALITY CHECK!!! Former Republican Heads of EPA on climate change: Don't...
Hell is indeed freezing over and angels are dancing and popping corks everywhere. In an August 1st op-ed in the New York Times, former administrators of the Environmental Protection Agency William D....
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