November 22, 2005
By Alison Fromme

Trashed Cash: Coveted Currency Meets an Unceremonious End

You likely get crisp new $20 bills when you withdraw money from an ATM. As you spend your dough, wrinkled smaller denominations take their place... (more...)

May 15, 2005
By Marjorie Beggs

Greening of City Hall: Government offices struggle to keep up with recycling goals

Juan-Tomas Rehbock, a senior IT business analyst for the S.F. Public Utilities Commission, is a recycling advocate’s dream... (more...)

May 13, 2005
By Lorraine Sanders

City Hopes to Stop People from Throwing Drugs Down the Drain

The words “hazardous waste” prompt images of toxic green sludge oozing from shadowy industrial complexes, used syringes washing up on beaches and other such horrors... (more...)

April 29, 2005
By Jeremy Bates

City to Host World Environment Day as it Surges Towards 75% Waste Diversion

There’s a reason that on June, 1, San Francisco will become the first U.S. city to host the United Nations’ World Environment Day... (more...)

March 7, 2005
By Liz Enochs

Downtown Businesses Aim to Keep Old Computers Out of Landfills

Two workers wheel a cart piled high with computer monitors into an underground garage, where a truck driver helps them stack their outdated equipment... (more...)