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Mayor Edwin M. Lee today announced the dates for community engagement events to get the public more involved in the City’s budget process and hear from residents about their budget priorities to build a balanced two-year budget for San Francisco. Mayor Lee will co-host District-based Budget Town Halls with members of the Board of Supervisors and provide other forums to hear from San Franciscans about their budget priorities and ideas. [...]

A short conversation about the importance of San Franciscans ability to stay safe in their homes after an earthquake during repairs and how this can contribute to the resiliency and speedy re-building of San Francisco. This is episode 1 of 10 episodes which illustrate easy steps to take before an earthquake to stay safe in your home after a major earthquake.

Outstanding Neighborhood Watch Group from NENtv on Vimeo.  

The new SF Public Utilities Commission Headquarters, located at 525 Golden Gate Avenue, is possibly the greenest office building in America. Applying evolving water and power technologies with new light management and computer controlled environment, the SFPUC has created a building which looks towards the future of environmental building construction, and reaches for the ultimate green engineering accolade, the LEED rating of “Platinum”.

In this podcast, Alejandro Murguia, San Francisco’s new poet laureate, talks about his history as a poet and community activist, and his involvement with the acquisition of the building that is now Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts. As the new poet laureate, Alejandro is charged with organizing events with various communities and youth at the San Francisco Public Library. Tune in to hear what else he has in store [...]

The reasons an individual might take a permaculture course varies widely, but one thing most people have in common when coming into this realm is the desire to help in some way. It may be that they want to help with environmental issues or that they want to help build a stronger and more resilient community, or it might be they want to help their immediate family meet their needs [...]

The NEN, in partnership with the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Services, the City Administrator and the Dept of Technology are proud to launch Citidex - the City’s online rolodex for neighborhood groups. What is Citidex? Citidex is on an online database that inventories neighborhood & merchant associations from all over San Francisco so that everyone can find the groups they want to join or communicate with. How does it work? Citidex is [...]

Building Stronger Neighborhoods, One Smartphone At A Time by Stephen Hood, Blockboard Walk down any sidewalk in San Francisco, step into any cafe, or climb aboard any bus — you’re sure to see people staring at their smartphones.  Whether it’s email, Facebook, or Twitter, it seems like everyone is using their phone to talk with people far away while simultaneously ignoring the ones right next to them.   But what [...]

NEN Clean & Green Summit 2010 (pt2) from NENtv on Vimeo.   In the second part of our NEN Clean & Green Summit 2010 highlights coverage, NENtv catches up with SF Dept. of the Environment’s Sunshine Swinford about her favorite parts of the day, Jennifer Gorospe about testing for heavy metals in our soils, and Bonnie Ora Sherk and Jennifer Clary about why we should daylight more creeks in San [...]

                                                  Please use the arrows to navigate the slideshow. As construction of the new span of the Bay Bridge is well underway, we were able to get a visual tour of the progress and future outlines of what will become a new icon for the Bay [...]