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Guns welcome: Packing heat at Starbucks for all the world to see

The 2nd amendment rules , coffee ,tea and a 9 mm. Read more:... more

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Gind for the Green -- Solar Powered Concert Promo

Sunday, August 30th, 2009. SF.

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Chocolate Festival - SF

Indulge in chocolate delicacies, sip wine and enjoy chocolate inspired family... more

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San Francisco International Poetry Festival

This will be amazing! ---------------------------------------------------- Friday,... more

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SF Toilet Torcher Stikes Again

What does this person have against our blue friends? More info:... more

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Star Wars Cantina Band performs in the Mission, SF on Halloween

A group of us dressed up as the Star Wars Cantina Band, entourage, and groupies to bar... more

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SF's Bush Street renamed Obama Street.

crucial. additional west coast operatives:... more

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E-TARD The LifeCaster - outside on his Laptop

This is after I got my Laptop working with Flash, for a long time it would not work... more

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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass- San Francisco

Go Nuts SF!!! Another festival in Golden Gate Park... This one is FREE and packs a... more

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Whiskey Fest- SF

3rd annual WhiskyFest San Francisco will feature more than 200 of the world's finest,... more

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North Beach Bar Crawl - SF

Six Years and running...The North Beach Bar Run is the biggest event of its kind (over... more

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Burrito: The Conquest

Two dudes go on a conquest all over the Bay Area to find the best burrito!!! On... more

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Watching the '08 VP Debate (photos)

Photographs from New York and San Francisco on Thursday, October 2, 2008.

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Blue Angels Practice (photos)

Photographs of the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels practicing their maneuvers over San... more

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G1 Phones Available in San Francisco (photos)

While the national launch of T-Mobile's G1 phone is Wednesday, October 22, 2008, they... more

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The Robin's Nest: A New Set of Circumstances

Plomomedia's environmental focus brings original music and the imagery of San Francisco (including its 2007 oil spill) to the sampled voice of Janine Benyus, author of "Biomimicry" as she likens man-made technology to other natural processes. "Our technologies are natural," she states. "The question is: how well adapted are they?"

Footage shot from 2007-2009 at San Francisco's Sutro Park, Ocean Beach, Land's End, and elsewhere along the coast.

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about Janine Benyus:

Janine Benyus is a natural sciences writer, innovation consultant, and author of six books, including her latest − Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. In Biomimicry, she names an emerging discipline that seeks sustainable solutions by emulating nature's designs and processes (e.g., solar cells that mimic leaves, agriculture that models a prairie, businesses that run like redwood forests).

Janine has cultivated a deep knowledge of the natural world, beginning with direct observation in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, continuing in habitats from Maine to West Virginia where she worked as a backcountry guide, and now, in her home wilds of Montana.

In addition to her biomimicry work, Janine teaches interpretive writing, lectures at the University of Montana, and works towards restoring and protecting wild lands. She serves on a number of land use committees in her rural county.

Janine has received several awards including the 2009 Champion of the Earth award in Science & Innovation from the United Nations Environmental Programme, Rachel Carson Environmental Ethics Award, Lud Browman Award for Science Writing, Science Writing in Society Journalism Award, Barrows and Heinz Distinguished Lectureships, and has been honored as one of TIME International's Heros of the Environment.

An educator at heart, Janine believes that the more people learn from natures mentors, the more theyll want to protect them. This is why she writes, speaks, and revels in describing the wild teachers in our midst.

Janine's international keynotes have introduced tens of thousands of people to biomimicry, including Amana-Key Executive Leadership Training, American Institute of Architects, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, California Resource Recovery Association, Cambridge University's Centre of International Studies and the Environment, Canadian National Roundtable for the Economy and the Environment, Design Futures Council, Global Business Network, Health Care Without Harm, the Prince of Wales' Business & the Environment Programme, National Textile Center, President's Council on Sustainable Development, Schumacher College, Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Wharton School of Business. She also hosted and co-wrote a two-hour public television special based on her book, which aired on "The Nature of Things with David Suzuki" in 71 countries.Plomomedia's environmental focus brings original music and the imagery of San... more

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SF Tesla Society

Cool learning experience for anyone interested in science, advances in high-tech, and... more

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San Francisco Gets an "F" in Air Quality

The American Lung Association's annual report card rates air quality on three major... more

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Sunday Streets in SF!

The city will open up a stretch of roadway connecting the Bayview district to... more

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Straight Outta Hunters Point by Kevin Epps

"Straight Outta Hunters Point", the award-winning Hip Hop documentary by Hunters Point filmmaker Kevin Epps is a stark cinematic portrait of a community struggling to stop the forces of gentrification -- denial of jobs, police brutality, environmental racism and more -- that have pushed 23 percent of San Francisco's Black population out of the City in the past decade. It has won the acclaim of critics and audiences at independent film festivals around the U.S., including Sundance and the Santa Fe Film Fest, where it was described as "a gritty, uncompromising film about the evolution and perseverance of a black culture in the shadow of poverty, race riots and gang-related rap wars."
Drive-bys, drug peddling and heavy dealing, hot rodding, gun toting, pimping, hustling and rapping - and young people can see very few paths out. "Once that culture is bred, it's prevalent," says Kevin Epps, who has called Hunters Point his home for 30 years.
Epps' film touches briefly on the period during World War II, when Hunters Point was the home of African American shipyard workers who migrated from the South with their families in search of better-paying jobs. After the war, when white men returned from the war front to take back their jobs, opportunities for blacks at the shipyard started to dwindle. The area soon became home to the city's poor, unemployed and unwanted.
The documentary leaves audiences with the taste of despair that churns in the bellies of most residents.
"We're numb to the situation because we've been there so long, even though you know it's not normal," Epps says. "I'm trying to communicate to people this is not normal and we can't accept it."
The result is a montage of voices: Mothers sob unable to reconcile their losses; friends and family celebrate another young life cut off too soon; evangelicals rush in to soothe and save souls. "Can I get with you in prayer," one missionary asks as the young man turns his back. Politicians declare at press conferences that the violence must stop. Police vow to stop it. All the while gangsters from both turfs explain themselves and the unapologetic ways of the streets.
"We have so many guns over here," Epps says. "AL47s. 223s."Straight Outta Hunters Point", the award-winning Hip Hop documentary by Hunters Point... more

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Guns welcome: Packing heat at Starbucks for all the world to see

Gind for the Green -- Solar Powered Concert Promo

Chocolate Festival - SF

San Francisco International Poetry Festival

SF Toilet Torcher Stikes Again

Star Wars Cantina Band performs in the Mission, SF on Halloween

SF's Bush Street renamed Obama Street.

E-TARD The LifeCaster - outside on his Laptop

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass- San Francisco

Whiskey Fest- SF

North Beach Bar Crawl - SF

Burrito: The Conquest

Watching the '08 VP Debate (photos)

Blue Angels Practice (photos)

G1 Phones Available in San Francisco (photos)

The Robin's Nest: A New Set of Circumstances

SF Tesla Society

San Francisco Gets an "F" in Air Quality

Sunday Streets in SF!

Straight Outta Hunters Point by Kevin Epps

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