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The Best of Fast Company: Cloud Computing, Crowdsourced City Design, and the Greenest Brands Chosen By You
This week at Fast Company, we looked at the sustainable qualities of cloud computing, ideas for San Francisco city design crowdsourced from the locals, a list of green brands chosen by consumers, and a major US military purchase of biofuels.
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North Face Environmental FAIL: Disease-Preventing Footwear Claims Retracted
If a manufacturer claims that a consumer product suppresses bacterial growth to the
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Green Guide Network Launches New Cities and Job Board
The Green Guide Network, an online city-specific guide to green in your area has just added a few more cities to the loop. Not in one of those cities? No problem, you can use the guide for travel tips if you happen to be
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PARK(ing) Day 2009: San Francisco and New York Reclaim Urban Spaces (Slideshow)
The fifth annual PARK(ing) Day was last Friday, and promised to be the biggest and best one yet, but we wanted to get out and see for ourselves. TreeHugger previously looked at how previous years stacked up, so to speak,
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PARK(ing) Day 2009: San Francisco and New York Reclaim Urban Spaces
The fifth annual PARK(ing) Day was last Friday, and promised to be the biggest and best one yet. We looked at how previous years stacked up, so to speak, but how would this year's compare? Intrepid TreeHuggers set out to experience it firsthand. First u
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StreetFilms Covers PARK(ing) Day in NYC and San Francisco
Thanks to All Those Who Took Part in PARK(ing) Day 2009! If you don't know what PARK(ing) Day the videos (above and below) by our friends at StreetFilms are a good intro. It shows just how much fun the event can be, and how many cool ideas those who
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PARK(ing) Day: Rethinking Urban Infrastructure Around the World (Slideshow)
Today is the fifth annual PARK(ing) Day, a day where artists, activists and citizens temporarily transform metered parking spaces in cities around the globe into public parks and other social spaces. It's pretty cool;
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PARK(ing) Day: Rethinking Urban Infrastructure Around the World
In cities around the globe today, artists, activists and citizens will temporarily transform metered parking spaces into public parks and other social spaces, as part of an annual event called PARK(ing) Day.
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Get ZeroWasted Pub Crawl & Sustainable Scavenger Hunt this Saturday in San Fran
Don't have plans for saturday night? You do now, with the Zerowasted Bar Crawl going on Saturday, September 19 in the Mission. Join fellow TreeHuggers and beer-lovers alike as you try your wits at their
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San Francisco Gets World's First In-Airport Carbon Offset Kiosks
Whether carbon offsets are more buying indulgences for your eco-sins or a viable way of addressing environmental impact of flying is a perennial hot-button topic, and this next bit of news is likely to just to stir the
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Compostable and "Biodegradable" Plastics Provide False Sense of Responsibility
It seems everywhere I go these days, another restaurant is serving drinks in "biodegradable" plastic cups and food with potatoware disposable cutlery. And it really bugs me. But why would I be against making wasteful disposable
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Which San Jose Fest Generates the Least Waste?
In 2008, this event achieved a goal of 94% waste diversion and their 2009 event beat that record with a 97% waste diversion. This 97% also happens to have the esteemed distinction of "highest diversion rates ever
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Bridges Are For People: Inhabiting the Bay Bridge
The Bay Bridge that connects San Francisco to Oakland is an amazing bit of engineering; it had an upper deck for cars, a lower deck for trucks and two sets of railway tracks. It is strong enough to support the weight of 37,041 three bedroom modular
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Good Video of San Francisco's Last Sunday Streets of 2009
Check Out the Conference Cycle! Our friends at StreetFilms did an excellent job (once again) with their coverage of San Francisco's last edition of Sunday Streets 2009. Were any of our readers there? Please let us know about your experience in the
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Giants Ban Nasty Chemicals... From Team Uniforms
As the San Francisco Giants continue their chase for a Wild Card berth in the October playoffs, fans are bound
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Pearl Jam Runs on People Power at San Francisco's Outside Lands Music Fest
Fans were cranking out the music at Friday's Outside Lands music festival in San Francisco. Cranking with their hands, on a sort of exercise bike. You crank, you hear Eddie Vedder and the crew through the headphones.It's
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FluffyCo Eco-Mobiles Bring Plants, Circuses, Birds to Life
How much do we love FluffyCo? If we counted the ways, the Bay Area label's so-new-you-can't-even-buy-them-yet mobiles would be right at the top waving to the unwashed masses below.
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Take a Hambone Along for the Ride
(Image: NY Times As the world becomes a more perfect place, where elephant landmine victims walk again, streetsigns are best used as jewelry, and coal plants get the royal STFU, we're gonna need more handy little things like the VeloPocket. Along with
