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Transport: smart, smarter, smartest
By Kate Taylor and Ray Fort • September 24, 2009 • 2 comments
San Francisco is physically small (11km by 11km), and it’s densely populated—an ideal combination for public transport to really excel. Public transport options, car shares, car pools, and travel on foot are all part of how we’re getting around. More …
Eat real, eat local
By Kate Taylor and Ray Fort • September 10, 2009 • 0 comments
We headed across the bay to Oakland to eat some 'real food' at the Real Food Festival the other week. It got us thinking—what is real food? In San Francisco the mantra of 'eat organic' is a good one, but since you never really know how organic your organic actually is in California, it's not as good as 'eat local'. More …
Can a city make composting compulsory?
By Kate Taylor and Ray Fort • August 27, 2009 • 1 comments
San Francisco has already banned plastic bags and polystyrene food containers for takeaways. Now the city has made recycling and composting (yes, composting!) mandatory. The goal is to send nothing (yes, nothing!) to landfills or incinerators by 2020. So, will it work? More …
Mob mentality
By Kate Taylor and Ray Fort • August 13, 2009 • 0 comments
There's a new 'green boom' in San Francisco, with start-ups springing up and entrepreneurs exploding with ideas. Combined with an excess of newly redundant thinkers and doers willing to work for naught, and new internet technologies, the atmosphere is similar to the heady dot-com days of 2000. Kate and Ray report on the green start-ups that are making the most waves. More …
Herbivore's wonderland
By Kate Taylor and Ray Fort • July 16, 2009 • 2 comments
We recently booked a group dinner at a restaurant and noticed that in our party of 20, there were six vegetarians. Vegetarians aren't on the outskirts of many walks of life in San Francisco. These city dwellers are generally liberal and well-educated people, and they know what have to worry about in the industrial food age here in the US. More …
A bike movement
By Kate Taylor and Ray Fort • July 2, 2009 • 3 comments
Despite its numerous hills, San Francisco routinely places in various top ten lists for 'best bicycling cities' in the country and world. It’s about to get better. Read all about the city's bike infrastructure, bike bars, bike nudity and bike-powered music ... More …
Meeting our meat
By Kate Taylor and Ray Fort • June 18, 2009 • 1 comments
We’re part of the Marin Sun Farms CSA (community supported agriculture) and get a monthly 'meat box' from our farm. As a member of the CSA programme we are not only a share-holder in the future farm harvests—and therefore support their ability to plan and manage the farm for that year—but we also know where our meat comes from and how it was raised. Just how much do we know, you ask? More …
How sustainable is San Francisco?
By Kate Taylor and Ray Fort • June 4, 2009 • 1 comments
Very. Kiwi Kate has just moved to America's eco-city, where she lives with her American partner Ray. Their fortnightly blog will explore the sustainable life in San Francisco—and perhaps give us some ideas to try out here in Enzed. Introducing new Good bloggers, Kate and Ray ... More …
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