Byke valet parking July 1, 2008
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The SFBC sponsors valet bike parking for just about every event that qualifies as an event in San Francisco. I volunteered for a two hour shift Sunday morning for the Pride Parade. Lots of pretty bikes and people in varying degrees of costume. Naked does count as a costume, right? In any case, hooray for byke pride!
Vineman Aquabike March 22, 2008
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Free rice December 5, 2007
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Charity + vocabulary game. Click here to play.
Mt. Sutro December 2, 2007
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I spent a fun fun morning “bouldering” on Mt. Sutro. The Stowers version of bouldering involves arming oneself with loppers and a pickax, scrambling up the hillside on Mt. Sutro, locating large rocks, and sending them crashing down the hill to the trail, where volunteers then carried, wheelbarrowed, or rolled (in order of increasing rock weight) the specimens to the retaining walls we constructed today.*
I also ran into my acupuncturist, whom I haven’t seen in ages, but she’s expanding her practice to our canine friends, including house calls.
Click here for still pictures, and check out a video of the work we do on YouTube. And of course, thanks to Nature in the City and One Brick for organizing and providing volunteers. An even bigger thanks to the Mt. Sutro Stewards for providing pizza and home brewed beer afterwards.
* In one or two cases, I may have slightly miscalculated certain momentum and friction relationships and may have suffered a vivid flashback of recent pop culture. But for the record, this is all conjecture and no boys were harmed in the building of these walls.
Take that, suckers! November 18, 2007
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A mass of over 200 people showed up to restore Stern Grove Park this morning. I volunteered through One Brick, but SF Connect, Lincoln HS, the Police Academy, the Department of Public Works, the Department of Corrections, SF Greenery, and the Academy of Arts all had strong showings.
I spent much of this morning decimating the population of elm suckers and ivy runners in the historic barbeque pit area of the grove. I can hear the botanically inclined objecting that I’m trimming neither ivy nor elm in the picture, but nonetheless, my five minutes of redwood time turned out to be an unbeatable photo op. What can I say? Redwoods are the media darlings of the plant kingdom.
Volunteer for the oil spill clean up November 14, 2007
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According to this story on SFGate, it looks efforts the massive response of civilians who want to help in the cleanup efforts finally prompted some action. If you’d like to help, check out the Baykeeper site – they’re running a hazmat training session in Golden Gate Park tomorrow night.
The oil spill clean up efforts November 10, 2007
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Many people want to help the clean up efforts have been sent home – some under threat of arrest – because the oil is extremely toxic and hazardous material training is not available to would be volunteers. Click here for the story.
You can donate or volunteer at International Bird Rescue Center in the East Bay. Donations of cash, old towels, sheets, Pedialyte, and infant formula are needed.
Report oiled wildlife: 877-823-6926.
Report oil sightings: 985-781-0804.
Inquire about volunteering: 800-228-4544
Trail Maintenance on Mt. Sutro August 7, 2007
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