By Bill PicturePublished: November, 2009 At last count, the Academy of Art University held the keys to 31 properties scattered throughout San Francisco. In terms of resources, that’s a considerable number of classrooms that need energy for lighting, heating and electronics, to say nothing of the countless trips the school’s 13,000 students take every semester […]
By Mary Swift Swan Published: July, 2005 Living aboard a boat brings to mind an array of images: endless summer, simpler living, or salty dogs and grand adventure. In everyday life, most live-aboards never venture near high seas. Some never leave the dock. Though some do get up and sail away, most simply want to […]
By Mallory Johnson Published: April, 2015 The San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary supports a diverse array of native aquatic plant and animal species, including Chinook salmon, sturgeon, smelt, steelhead and other native fishes that depend on freshwater flow from our rivers into the estuary. However, 150 years of altering the estuary by reducing natural flows […]
