Tag: San Francisco - Page 3
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Can We Compost Our Anger?
From orange peels to diapers to latex condoms, you can compost a lot of things. But is it possible to compost your anger?
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Is the City the Future for Honeybees? America's Only Urban Beekeeping Store Owner Thinks So
An urban beekeeping store may seem like a San Francisco oddity. But as city bees thrive, these stores may become a normal sight.
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Blueseed To Build Floating Business Incubator Googleplexes Off Silicon Valley
Everything you need for a startup, except an American work permit.
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Guerrilla Grafters Create Illegal, Fruit-Bearing Street Trees
Guerrilla Grafters believe that street trees are too valuable not to use for food production. So they are illegally converting ornamental street trees into edible fruit production.
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Rainwater Harvesting Tree Doubles as Clothes Line (Video)
Stacking functions is a central principle of permaculture design. One San Francisco artist has applied it to a free-standing rainwater harvester design.
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Milking Backyard Goats in Urban San Francisco (Video)
Backyard chickens are already mainstream. Does goat farming come next?
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Artist Compiles 3 Million Images Into A Year-Long Mosaic of Time-Lapsed Skies (Video)
Using a camera programmed to take pictures every ten seconds for a year, artist Ken Murphy creates a beautiful visual montage of San Francisco's changing skies.
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Inflatable Robots: The Cheap, Lightweight Robotic Alternative?
Making robots from fabric that were once made from metal can have huge implications on the future of materials usage. I, for one, welcome our new inflatable overlords.
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Nature Runs Wild in Josef Frank's Beloved Designs
'Himalaya' by Josef Frank. Image SFO Museum. Vivid, almost psychedelic colors, swirling, tangled lines, and playful renderings of animals aren't what most people think of when they hear the stern word "modernism." These traits, though, are what
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Artist Andy Goldsworthy's 'Wood Line' Follows Rich History of San Francisco's Presidio Forest
More than a century ago, the U.S. Army began planting thousands of trees in San Francisco's Presidio as part of a massive forestation project, leaving a legacy of lush
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San Francisco Permaculture Garden Grows Thousands of Pounds of Food
From an awesome tour of an urban permaculture allotment through wild permaculture forest gardening on the BBC to greening the deserts of Jordan, we've seen plenty of great footage of how permaculture design can help
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Plantbombing: Colorful Yarn-Wrapped Plants Soften Up The City
Photos: Derek Powazek Yarnbombing -- or the cozying up of the urban landscape with random acts of gorgeous knitting -- has already been seen popping up in a number of cities. Now San Francisco-based urban knitter and guerilla gardeners Heather Powazek
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Only in San Francisco: Artisan Pickles Delivered by Cargo Bike
OK, it isn't as exciting as Copenhagen's Spermcycle, but Brad Koester comes close with his picklecycle. He delivers his artisan pickled dills, green beans and onions with a Burley Travoy bike trailer, "or other
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Headbanging Recycled Heavy Metal T-Shirt Quilts By Ben Venom (Photos)
Like combining heavy metal and vegan cuisine, the tough masculine image of this extreme musical genre may seem at odds with the folksy domesticity of quilting. Yet American artist Ben Venom skillfully reconciliates these two opposites,
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Artist Turns Secondhand Cars Into Whimsical Geometric Caravans
The general misconception of small spaces is that they must be bland and minimal for the sake of functionality and efficiency. But like other green building myths, that's not necessarily true, as San Francisco-based artist and
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Parklets Popping Up All Over San Francisco
Last week I had the fortune of beating the northeast heat in San Francisco. Instead of seeking air conditioning indoors, I found myself seeking outdoor spaces to congregate.
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California Cities Recycle Old Asphalt Back Into New Road: A Cheaper, Greener Pothole Fix
A green technique for pothole repair is on the rise in California: "Cold In-Place Recycling" is not all that new, but the Bay Area has been adopting it in
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Trash Mash-Up Hits the Streets in Recycled Costumes for the San Francisco Carnaval Parade
At this year's San Francisco Carnaval, the stilt-walkers, samba dancers, burlesque troupes, and funk bands will be joined once again by marchers in 'trash-bag boas and bottle-cap chain mail' -- recycled costumes crafted by members of Trash Mash-Up.
