Subject: Green Business

• "You Go Down to Moscone Convention Facilities. It's Compostable." And Other Gavin Newsom Environmental Insights from the State of the City Address

  Does Gavin Newsom turn into Stalin when the moon is full? By Benjamin Wachs (This is State of the Citysode III: The Environment. Click here for Part II: Education, and Part 1: Health Care) 00:00 - Gavin begins philosophically. "I like to say that the world's consumption is the sum of all local consumption." Well, he's blown my mind already. 00:35 - "SF Forward" is a five year plan to curb our carbon and consumption. You know, given how inevitable comparisons were between Gavin an

  December 4, 2008

• Pocketbook Environmentalism

  Activist Van Jones shows that being green can appeal to your pocketbook as well as your conscience.

  December 3, 2008

• Hard to Be Really Green

  Let's scrap the city's weak, pale-green environmental standards and actually take the total environment into account

  July 5, 2006

• Best Mortuary

  Pacific Interment

  May 14, 2003

• Hip Hop Responds to Van Jones Drama

  EKAphotographyAli Chagi-Starr, Van Jones (c), and Ron Dellums at Silence the Violence Day, 2007​ By now, everyone and they mama has heard that controversial green jobs adviser Van Jones has been forced to resign from his white house job. There are many differing takes on the subject, from ultra-rightwing commentators like Glenn Beck and his Fox News cohorts, to the liberal lefties over at HuffPo and Alternet. Whatever your take on Jones as an individual and green jobs in general, there's

  September 9, 2009

• S.F. Green Business Program rewards polluter

  November 18, 2009

• Is Toxic Waste is Good for the Environment? S.F. Official Explains Logic behind Green Business Program.

  ​This week's Matt Smith column notes that Sims Metal Management dumps into municipal landfills tens of thousands of tons of waste California Department of Toxic Substances Control scientists say is hazardous. Yet the company somehow received a San Francisco "Green Business Award." The column asked: How could a toxic-waste dumper be stamped officially green? Isn't that taxpayer-funded greenwashing?In response to our inquiry, (but after our deadline) Sushma Dhulipala Bhatia, who directs the

  November 18, 2009