Post Tagged with: "sustainability"

Unearthing Community at Alemany Farm from NENtv on Vimeo.     Alemany Farm, in the north-east of San Francisco, is the city’s largest food-producing plot. But this place is more than about food: skill-sharing, opportunities for residents from nearby low-income housing, and community all thrive in this remarkable space. NENtv delves deeper into why Alemany Farm is so unique.

San Francisco’s Policy Thumb Gets Greener By Isabel Wade & Eli Zigas On a spring morning last week, Mayor Ed Lee signed a bill that places San Francisco at the forefront of major cities supporting urban agriculture.  The law, which changes the city’s zoning code, was the culmination of a year of collaboration between the Mayor, Supervisor David Chiu, the San Francisco Urban Agriculture Alliance and supporters from across the city. The [...]

San Francisco,  Residents enjoy the clear streets in San Francisco’s Mission District Mayor Edwin M. Lee today announced the return of Sunday Streets to the streets of San Francisco with a full schedule of car-free events, starting Sunday, March 20 th , along the Embarcadero and a new Chinatown-North Beach route this summer.  The inaugural event held along the Embarcadero for the fourth year in a row marks the beginning [...]

Take Public Transportation with the Fossil Fool from NENtv on Vimeo.   Few rappers wax lyrical about public transportation. Paul Freedman, aka The Fossil Fool, does and he uses bicycle-powered amplification to do it. Catch Paul’s performance at the 2010 Earth Hour Community Celebration exclusively with NENtv.

Thanks to all of you who joined the NEN Clean & Green Summit 2010. “One of the best-run City events I’ve ever attended” was just one of the many comments we got at the end of the day. Check out this NENtv recap to find out more about the day, what NEN Director Daniel Homsey thinks about the extraordinary people who gravitate to the NEN Summits, and what Green Zebra’s [...]

From the NENtv archive: In this fourth of four parts (see part 1, part 2, and part 3 for previous episodes) we return for our retrospective of the NEN Clean & Green Summit 2008 as the NEN’s Daniel Homsey visits Casa Verde in the Mission District, which many believe to be San Francisco’s greenest house. After you’ve seen the video, register for the bigger and better NEN Clean & Green [...]

From the NENtv archive:In this third of four parts (for more, see part 1, part 2, and part 4) we return for our retrospective of the NEN Clean & Green Summit 2008 as the NEN’s Daniel Homsey tours the Mission District to discover some of the neighborhood’s best green secrets. In this episode, Daniel talks with Astrid Haryati, Greening Director with the Mayor’s Office, about why breaking up the sidewalk [...]

From the NENtv archive: In this second of four parts (for more, see part 1, part 3, and part 4) we return for our retrospective of the NEN Clean & Green Summit 2008 as Daniel Homsey pins down three special guests for their green insights. Gia Grant from Clean City Coalition explains how the Coalition helps people to navigate the labyrinth of government – an arduous task at the best [...]

On Saturday, March 27th at 8:30pm, people all over the world will celebrate Earth Hour by turning off their lights and spend an hour exploring ways to live more sustainably. This will be the third year that we’ve participated as a City in this global event and each time it has occurred under different circumstances. The first year San Francisco was an early adopter of the initiative and our participation [...]