Create a Street Park.

Create a Street Park in San Francisco, with help from the San Francisco Parks Trust. Check out their "Create a Garden" page, and their Street Parks Guidelines.

Civic Cycle, SF

Participate in imagining a bike share program for San Francisco. Amy Franceschini and Sabrina Merlo with the SFMTA and SFBC hold a design charrette called Civic Cycle at Southern Exposure Gallery, Saturday May 3rd, 2008.

Rising Food Prices

The NY Times has a great "Food Supply and Prices" reference page for current info about the rising cost of food and the associated troubles. Hunger in Haiti, Silent Tsunami, and Raj Patel on Democracy Now, author of Stuffed and Starved, speaks about global food prices and a new level of danger to the crisis of world hunger.

CalFlora

Oooh! A new way to love California Native Plants! http://www.calflora.org/ . And the San Francisco County Map for natives. Thank you to GFE volunteer Ian for this link.

Cheap food to get more expensive?

A new article in the NY Times 'Some Good News on Food Prices' suggests that rising costs of cheap food will level the playing food for organic food. Interesting.

Scrap house

A few years ago, 2005, but a brilliant use of recycled materials!
http://www.publicarchitecture.org/design_campaigns/ScrapHouse.htm

Food in Cities

Dig it! An upcoming symposium on the role of food and agriculture in the design of cities.
http://architecturefood.googlepages.com/