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Imagine a vessel made from approximately 12,500 reclaimed plastic soda bottles and you will have one of the most interesting creations (and story) of our time.
The Plastiki started as an idea of David de Rothschild and thanks to further inspiration by the famous Kon-Tiki voyage (led by Thor Heyerdahl), the idea slowly became a reality. [...]
Amber Bieg is on a mission: to account for every single tree in San Francisco.
It all started 5 years ago when Bieg was planting trees in the North Beach area of San Francisco. She realized that “it was really inefficient for one individual, or even a group, to go out with GPS units and survey [...]
Having a Christmas tree has become a tradition for most of us and it is one of the most valued symbols during Christmas season. The downside is the countless dead trees that line our streets after the holidays. Not only is it unsightly, it is also wasteful.
This year, San Francisco-based Friends of the Urban Forest [...]
If you’ve been actively following the news here on GreenFudge, you may remember an article posted a couple weeks ago on composting becoming mandatory in San Francisco. Well, it would seem that the people of the East Bay Municipal Utility District have taken it upon themselves to push the composting law to the next level [...]
Last Friday, we posted a breaking news article on an oil spill that occurred in the San Francisco Bay. At the time, we did not have many details of the spill available to us, but now we have up-to-date information on what’s been going on.
The spill occurred Friday morning, during a fuel transfer between the [...]
Not 30 minutes ago, the US Coast Guard reported an oil tanker leaking fuel into the San Francisco Bay. The slick that was caused is at least a mile long so far, and still expanding. Oil was leaked from the Panama-flagged Dubai Star during a fuel transfer this morning, and they are unsure how much [...]
If you intend to travel to San Francisco, be sure to mind your eco-manners. Failure to comply with new recycling and composting laws can get you slapped with a $500 fine. That’s right– it is now officially illegal to throw food waste into the trash.
Reported earlier this year, the people of San Francisco were not [...]
