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Speakeasy Ales & Lagers: The Eyes Have It

By Joel Williams Speakeasy was started in 1997 by Steve Bruce and Forest Gray. Since my brewing background encompasses more microbreweries than brewpubs, I was looking forward to checking out their operation. Survival is difficult when starting a microbrewery because the profit margins are low when selling the beer wholesale, as apposed to "over the […]

Bay Area Agency Recipient of U.S. EPA Clean Air Excellence Award

Published: October, 2012 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently honored the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) of the San Francisco Bay Area with a 12th annual Clean Air Excellence Award for work conducted by its Climate Initiatives Program to reduce transportation emissions and vehicle miles. Through the commission’s inaugural program, conducted in partnership with the Bay […]

Biking Ironic

By Dan Sankey   Published: July, 2007  In the Headlands (part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area) almost all of the legal biking trails are fire roads (car-wide unpaved roads). What these trails may lack in challenging terrain and technical challenge they make up for with outstanding views of the Bay, the Bridge and the […]