San Francisco
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What doesn’t kill you makes you gourmet
Editor’s note: The following essay and map are excerpted from Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas and are republished with permission by UC Press as part of Grist’s California agriculture series, an exploration of the people, farms, and issues shaping the state. Click for a larger version. The Bay Area is a tale of two […]
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San Francisco descends into self-parody with a bike for every personality
Oh, San Francisco. You with your flowers-in-the-hair and bikes for every person.
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Winter from hell: Don’t panic about having enough food, panic about all the crap we throw out
Nowhere to go.Photo: Sarah Goodyear When extreme weather is in the forecast, people stock up. They storm the markets, sweep the shelves clean, and load shopping carts with bottled water, canned goods, diapers, corn flakes, milk, batteries, Pop-Tarts, you name it. There are only three days’ worth of food on the shelves of American supermarkets […]
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California green job growth outstrips tired old brown economy
Many of these new green jobs are in traditional occupations that have now taken on an emerald tinge as they're applied to sustainable endeavors.
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'The Daily Show' investigates San Francisco's Happy Meal toy ban
Starting in December 2011, McDonald's restaurants in San Francisco are turning Happy Meals into Crappy Meals, reports the Daily Show's Aasif Mandvi.
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EPA names the nation's top smart-growth cities
When it comes to smart growth, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says the smartest cities are New York, Baltimore, Portland, and San Francisco.
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Richard Goldman, founder of the Goldman Prize, dies at age 90
The planet lost a great and generous hero on Monday when philanthropist Richard N. Goldman died at the age of 90.
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Can professional sports do more than politics to save the planet?
Pro sports teams are greening stadiums, forging corporate partnerships with green themes, and encouraging sustainable practices among fans.
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In praise of fast food
Yes, cooking is wonderful, and so is communal eating with family and friends. But there's something powerful about standing up in a crowded cityscape and eating something simple and delicious that has been cooked before your eyes.