Posts Tagged ‘greenest city’

by max on December 12th, 2009
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One of the things I admire about San Francisco is the lack of pollution and abundance of natural gas-powered/electric buses.  Well, San Francisco’s landmark building the Transamerica just got certified by LEED as a “green” architecture, bringing San Francisco to the lead as the g ...
by max on September 16th, 2008
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Check out Better Streets, which focuses on building better streets for San Francisco.  Above is what Folsom Street would look like trees.  (Take a look at the Street View of current Folsom Street on GoogleMaps here) As you can see, there’s still a lot of room for improvement for the 2nd gre ...
by max on September 7th, 2008
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San Francisco is the #1 walkable city in the U.S., according to WalkScore.com. I completely agree as San Francisco might not big a super-big city, it’s pretty safe and you can get to any place in the city by walking. Of course, a lot of us prefer to drive “then” walk.  I am sure this isn’t ...
by max on September 7th, 2008
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San Francisco is ranked as the second most green city in the US. I can tell that San Francisco would be such a city as most of the city buses are electrically powered, there’s thousands of Chinese people who recycle like crazy, and most importantly, everyone cares about the environment. I see mor ...