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Recycling waste grease in San Francisco

Nov 24th 2007 1:06PM - 6 Comments

The City of San Francisco announced earlier this week that it will start a free grease recycling service called SF Greasecycle. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, commercial food preparation establishments (think restaurants and hotels) can ...

San Francisco will use biodiesel in emergency fleets

May 19th 2006 7:31PM - 0 Comments

The City of San Francisco announced Thursday that the city's fire department will begin a six-month pilot program to use B20 in fire trucks and other emergency vehicles. The pilot program will be limited to the SE part of SF, and biodiesel use will ...

Cruising San Francisco Bay by the sun in 2009

Nov 10th 2007 10:04AM - 5 Comments

We know that ocean-going shipping is actually one of the largest transportation sources of green house emissions so anything that can reduce that is a plus. The vessel pictured above won't make much of a dent by itself but if all goes well it could ...

Big biodiesel news from Houston and San Francisco

Jun 1st 2008 11:05AM - 0 Comments

Biodiesel may no longer be quite the industry darling it was a year ago, but that doesn't mean everyone is taking a hold on approach. There were two big pieces of biodiesel news out this weekend, one from Houston, Texas and the other from San ...

133 Smarts pack San Francisco's Lombard Street!

Aug 17th 2008 8:05PM - 10 Comments

It appears that early American buyers of the Smart ForTwo are trying to make the diminutive Two-Seater into a true cult car and today's event in San Francisco is the latest example of that. Anyone who has ever scene a movie or TV show set in San ...

Hybrid diesel buses coming to San Francisco

Jun 5th 2006 8:26PM - 0 Comments

San Francisco is in the green auto news quite a bit lately (see our posts on their biodiesel emergency fleet here and their hybrid taxis here), and here's another way the city is making its public vehicles more green. The city announced last week ...

Hybrid hacks are a hit in San Francisco

Apr 1st 2009 2:24PM - 9 Comments

Creative Commons by Ian Fuller While the use of hybrids as taxis has met with mixed reviews in New York, they seem to be something of a hit in San Francisco. Its first 15 Ford Escape hybrids have all clocked about 300,000 miles on their odometers ...

San Francisco green garage offers EV charging

Apr 5th 2008 10:36AM - 2 Comments

Luscious Garage is as green as a garage could be. As ABG reported back in September, this female-owned shop specializes in service for hybrids and was constructed with every possible attention to environmental details. It not only hosts the monthly ...

San Francisco helps you hire a hybrid

Apr 19th 2008 10:10AM - 1 Comment

Have you been planning on flying into San Francisco and renting a car to get around? The folks down at city hall would prefer that your rental be a hybrid and they are willing to help you pay for it. The free money for making a more ...

Aussie Solar Ferries coming to San Francisco

Jan 30th 2007 3:34PM - 2 Comments

Click the above image to view our high resolution gallery of Solar Sailor solar ferries I read about the plan for San Francisco to introduce two solar-powered, 600-passenger ferries during 2008 to shuttle passengers between San Francisco and ...

Will Indianapolis or San Francisco be the electric car capital of the US?

Dec 16th 2008 4:47PM - 2 Comments

Photo of downtown Indianapolis by Serge Melki. Licensed under CC license 2.0. Silicon Valley wants to be the new Detroit. Meanwhile, Indianapolis wants to be the new Silicon Valley. That seems to be the gist of opposing reports, in the ...

VIDEO: San Francisco mayor in talks with Project Better Place

May 14th 2008 3:20PM - 4 Comments

We've told you all about Shai Agassi's (above left) ambitious Project Better Place and how PBP has plans to create a charging and battery-swapping infrastructure to support fleets of electric cars in Israel, Denmark and possibly Japan. We've also ...

Giant San Francisco mural includes biodiesel fire truck

Aug 8th 2007 7:32PM - 1 Comment

That San Francisco is trying to use biodiesel in many city fleet vehicles is no secret (see links below). From emergency vehicles to buses, the city is looking to turn veggie oil into fuel all over the place, even in paintings. All SF's ...

San Francisco looking at bike sharing, through Clear Channel

Oct 8th 2007 11:12AM - 4 Comments

Many European cities, including most prominently Paris and Copenhagen, have large bicycle sharing programs. The programs offer bicycles that are parked at stations all over the city that people can use either for free or a small charge whenever they ...

Better Place to setup shop in San Francisco Bay area

Nov 21st 2008 5:25PM - 0 Comments

This week in San Francisco, Better Place founder Shai Agassi and the mayors of San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland announced the launch of an electric vehicle charging system in the Bay Area. An investment of $1 billion will be needed to install a ...

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