Get Active, network with the Green Industry plus have a beer!

 http://sfgreendrinks.org/

http://sfgreendrinks.org/

San Francisco Green Drinks (SFGD) is a volunteer-run, non-profit organization that actively promotes green networking, education and volunteer events in the San Francisco Bay Area. SFGD’s mission is to be the eco-conscious hub, both on and offline, for local individuals, organizations, and businesses that aim to strengthen and support the local environmental and green community.

What We Do: On the first Tuesday of every month San Francisco Green Drinks holds a large social networking event for several hundred green professionals at 111 Minna, a popular art gallery and bar just south of Market Street.  A broad range of community partners, businesses and non-profits contribute to the event, enriching our community with their knowledge, opportunities and ongoing services.  SFGD also utilizes and promotes online resources, such as a community event calendar and volunteer network, that strive to bring together sustainable thinkers with those looking to participate and take action.

Hoping to see you there!

SF's 529 acres of underutilized city into a network of green spaces.

What if SF could create green spaces with all it's underutilized areas of development...?

As we have reported, Berkeley Professor Nicholas de Monchaux's Local Code proposal for activating San Francisco's "Unaccepted Streets" called for transforming the patchwork of 529 acres of underutilized alleys, street-ends, and pathways into a network of green spaces. Were San Francisco to build out the more than 1500 identified sites, de Monchaux estimates that the city would save $4.8 million in air pollution mitigation, $6.9 million in energy savings, and a staggering $1 billion in stormwater infrastructure.

From the proposal:

The final outcome of our proposal is a pedestrian network of places, and a virtual network of spaces as well. A focused web threaded through real and virtual fabric; our systematic interventions turn away from the idea of urban infrastructure driven by cars and highways to a more robust, and perhaps natural, notion of urbanity. Instead of the old metaphors of lungs and circulation, we propose a robust, networked logic of health and social welfare, a distributed immune system for the 21st-century metropolis.

While the project didn't win UCLA's WPA 2.0 design competition, Professor de Monchaux and the five other WPA 2.0 finalists were afforded an audience in late November with President Barack Obama's Director of the Office of Urban Affairs Adolfo Carrion and HUD Deputy Secretary Ron Sims, who both apparently showed great interest.

"My goal now is to initiate some of those conversations with local agencies," said de Monchaux. "I think a very interesting next step would be to implement some of the designs locally, create a community based laboratory to see how these designs would perform."

http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/12/15/quantifying-the-value-of-san-franciscos-unaccepted-streets/

The Green Zebra Eco Action Center and the new reMake Lounge Kickoff Event!

Please join us for the official launch of the Green Zebra Environmental Action Center and The Remake Lounge! Come learn about solar lease programs, composting, rainwater catchment, and other ways you can live a more sustainable lifestyle. Make your own green cleaning products, an art piece from scrap, or learn to mend your clothes.

We'll have music, electric bike test rides, eco-friendly cocktails featuring VeeV-- the world's first acai spirit-- plus local, sustainable, organic nibbles from Living Room Events! We'll also have great raffle prizes you can win just for attending!

	Donations welcomed and will support our mission to inspire the maker spirit, foster community, and keep materials out of the landfill.

Date:	Thursday, August 27, 2009
Time:	5:30pm - 8:00pm
Location:	Crocker Galleria (Ground Floor)
Street:	50 Post St.
City/Town:	San Francisco, CA

Phone:	4159351064
Email:	events@remakelounge.com

Here is the Facebook event to RSVP on:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=119904902675

Turn your backyard into a Food Production Farm!

Why simply grow food for your family when you can become a local food producing farm for your neighbors too!

Their vision from the website:
At the end of the day... we're all going to have to make our own decisions and come to our own conclusions about what each one of us can do to ensure that what we enjoy today will continue to be here for our friends and family tomorrow.

At MyFarm it is our mission to make growing food and growing community one in the same. We believe in the power of the individual. But we believe true power comes from working together towards a better future for all.

Our vision is a truly secure and regenerative food system. We want to offer everyone in our community a chance to participate in achieving greater personal sustainability by installing local organic gardens, selling organic vegetables to neighbors and continually seeking ways for others to lend their ideas, their time and their hands to our growing organization.

Check out My Farm to either find neighbors to buy great organic food from or to become a local farm!
http://myfarmsf.com/

CA Academy of Science for Earth Hour!

Yours truly, EcoWarrior2012, was at the amazing California Academy of Science on Earth Hour March 28th for a public event. I met with Aaron Pope, who is the Director of Sustainability for the Academy and built the Climate Change exhibit currently running. Aaron offers his suggestions below on how to best get adults to take action for climate awareness issues... Enjoy!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfDnnUbPVts

For more information on the CA Academy of Science, click here.

Kites can Power our Future!

I really, really, really love this idea (especially the Rosie the Riveter plan) please watch the video and read on...

In this brief talk, Saul Griffith unveils the invention his new company Makani Power has been working on: giant kite turbines that create surprising amounts of clean, renewable energy.

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/492



makanipower.com/vision.html