Academy of Sciences, Why haven't we gone yet?

http://www.calacademy.org/sustainabe_future/

a website I like to look at: Industrial Design Served

Other stuff: I am looking into our native plant trip, and have e-mailed different places, even though they haven't gotten back to me yet, the park conservancy is a good place. I think the way parks exist in San Francisco is definitely different. 

Sarah

Green NASA Ames

NASA Ames is working hard to reduce its carbon footprint, encourage sustainable institutional practices, and motivate employees to choose environmentally-responsible work and lifestyle habits.

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/greenspace/green-nasa-ames.html


-Queena

water and wind

New York City Tap Water in a Bottle
http://www.tapdny.com/

Wind Power Helps Ski Resort During Recession
http://tinyurl.com/adsgqv

-susan

Platform 21

http://www.platform21.nl/page/4394/en

I thought this might appeal to some of the projects/directions people are going. Check it out!

things to check out

GIJS BAKKER
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4
7 p.m.
TIMKEN LECTURE HALL, CCA, SAN FRANCISCO CAMPUS
1111 Eighth Street (at 16th and Wisconsin)

FREE and open to the public


Concept over Craft

Gijs Bakker began his career in jewelry in 1965 but soon began pushing beyond the field's traditional boundaries, venturing into the realms of the conceptual and the radical, and expanding in scale to household appliances, furniture, interiors, and public spaces. In 1993, together with the design critic and historian Renny Ramakers, he cofounded Droog Design, a now-world-famous Dutch brand.

Bakker has worked for Polaroid, Artifort, Castelijn, HEMA, Royal VKB, and recently ENO studio in France. He trained at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and the Konstfack Skolen in Stockholm. He has taught for more than 40 years at the Delft University of Technology and the Design Academy Eindhoven.

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DWR Design Competition

Enter the Modern + Design + Function competition.
Think you might have what it takes to create the next American classic in modern furniture? M+D+F 2009 is a juried exhibition of innovative furniture by emerging designers in the San Francisco area. Organized by the DWR Potrero Studio and juried by local creative professionals in the design, architecture, art and fashion worlds, M+D+F provides an opportunity for peer, public and professional recognition for up-and-coming designers and firms. Interested in entering? Submission packages are due by April 3 at 6pm. The winning entries will be presented at the Potrero Studio on April 30.

Visit HERE for more information about entering M+D+F 2009.

DWR Presents: M+D+F
DWR Potrero Studio
2299 Alameda St
San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: 415.734.9172

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Cut and Paste

Saturday. February 28th 7PM
http://cutandpaste.com/events/2009/feb/28/sanfrancisco-2009/

Sunshiney San Francisco wakes up to memories of gold-rushing crazes, rainbow-striped protests, and summers of love. In its long history as a leading city on the Pacific, this old town’s been knocked down more than once—earthquakes and fires, bursting dot-com bubbles—and always gotten back on its feet. Today, the City by the Bay stands tall as a bastion of liberal attitudes, free spirits, and open arms. Hills nestled against lapping waves and streets bustling with geek savants, bon vivants, cosmopolites, and one of the largest creative communities in the world, San Francisco brings its fair share of aesthetic genius to the tournament.

--susan

Green Suburbia in Sonoma

An article that I thought was interesting and thought some of you would find interesting...

http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/009448.html

-Sibil

To whoever's working on E-waste? (I'm sorry! I forgot your name! waaah..), and everyone else (you may find this interesting)

http://www.weirdstuff.com/sunnyvale/html/index.htm

It's a store that sells really really old computer stuff from desktop/laptop keyboards, chairs, mouse, cpu, and tons and tons and tons of other stuff. Mostly for techies and collectors.

Dorothy

Catch of the Day

Hi all,

Here's some interesting articles.

http://boingboing.net/2009/01/29/surfriders-catch-of.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/sep/13/france.international

These are taken from a blog from a Filipino writer.

http://jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/07/27/no-plastic/
http://jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2007/12/28/backlash/
http://jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/03/04/how-gameshows-help-save-the-environment-really/

Dorothy

On Sustainable Agriculture at Ferry Building
http://www.cuesa.org/

Great Resource for San Francisco Specific Topics
http://www.sustainable-city.org/

Victor

The San Francisco Ecological Intelligence Pop Quiz

Hey guys,

Take a looooooook of this link. It might be helpful.

http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/Where-Your-Trash-Goes.htm

Jerry

Where does my water come from?

Hi everyone,

I was doing the research of water. And I found a site was interesting and useful called Aquafornia, which talks about irregation and water sources in California. You can click on the link of your city, and it'll tell you where your city's water comes from. I'm gonna quote the information to my presentation tomorrow. I'm wearing goggles and trying to dive deeper into that site see if I can find more stuff.

http://aquafornia.com/where-does-californias-water-come-from

Jerry

Hey guys, I started working on the googlespreadsheet but it turns out that the information we have in each group doesn't lend itself to a spreedsheet very well. I uploaded the pictures to this blog so that we can reference it.

Greener Gadgets Design Competition

Me, too. First time using it. Cool.......... Here is a LINK to 50 Greener Gadgets Design Competition. Take a look, pretty cool ideas inside.




Terry

2 cool pdf

First time using this thing...just wanted to share these two really cool articles I found. One is about the global food crisis and how it relates to environmental and economical problems... the second one is a design 4 sustainability manual, its very interesting, and you can download both pdf and keep them for future reference. They both approach problems from a global perspective though, I hope you find them useful.

Best

Pedro

www.unglobalcompact.org/docs/news_events/9.1_news_archives/2008_09_24/food_sustainability.pdf

www.d4s-de.org/

http://www.d4s-de.org/

Plastic smashtic

Not San Francisco in particular, but a good resource!

Rise Above Plastic

For academic resources/Journals

I am still waiting for a reply, from them about our native planting adventure. But in case anyone is curious about other volunteer opportunities in San Francisco

Save The Bay

Sarah V

Warning : This is a testing post!!

Hi you all,

This link connects to the article the water problem in San Francisco which had been posted on New York Times in ... 1906

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D0DEFD9113AE733A2575AC0A9619C946797D6CF&emc=eta1

Jerry