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Your Ecological Footprint

Tue, 2012-01-24 12:53 — mdmcdonald

How are you and your neighborhood doing in terms of your ecological Footprint? There are many ways to calculate ecological footprint and many different tools that can be used. Below is a mainstream assessment tool that will give you a quick sense of your ecological footprint and how to reduce it.

http://www.myfootprint.org/

To know more about your environment in San Francisco, go to:

http://www.sfenvironment.org/our_programs/topics.html?ti=19

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US - West

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Energy

Environment

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Health Matters in San Francisco

Tue, 2012-01-24 11:55 — mdmcdonald

San Francisco has some of the healthiest neighborhoods in the nation according to U.S. health statistics. What specifically makes San Francisco's neighborhoods healthy? What are their current challenges negatively impacting the health or San Franciscans?

How is your neighborhood doing? What do you need to work on in your neighborhood to improve the health of your community?

Take a look:

http://www.healthmattersinsf.org/index.php

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US - West

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Health

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Why are 26 Cities Green With Envy?

Sun, 2012-01-22 01:15 — Kathy Gilbeaux

by Ivette Torres - ecotuesday.com - January 9, 2012

Well in 2011, San Francisco took the title as the “greenest city in North America”. The study, conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit studied the environmental performance and commitments by 27 major metro areas in the U.S. and Canada, and we won!

This is greatly due to the efforts of this month’s guest speaker, Johanna Partin. Johanna serves as Director of Climate Protection Initiatives in the office of San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, where she advises Mayor Lee on citywide sustainable energy, climate, transportation, green building and other programs promoting sustainability for San Francisco.

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US and Canada Green City Index - Assessing the environmental performance of 27 major US and Canadian cities - A research project conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit, sponsored by Siemens (71 page .PDF report)

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