By Kelsey Miller Published: April, 2015 The cost of living in San Francisco can be extremely high, even for residents with a steady income. Many elderly San Franciscans own their home outright, but they bought it when housing was much cheaper and they do not have the current resources to upkeep their properties. By providing […]
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S.F. Sets Aside Funds for New Zero-Waste Ideas
By Bill Picture Published: April, 2015 Last month, the City of San Francisco announced it had set aside $860,000 from refuse fees to fund zero-waste efforts, and that the money was available for new projects that can help the City reach its goal of 100 percent waste diversion by 2020. The amount of waste […]
IT’S OPENING DAY ON THE BAY 2015
By Captain Ray Published: April, 2015 Sunday, April 26 is Opening Day on the Bay. It’s a grand nautical celebration, part of which can be enjoyed from the shoreline as well. Two events will happen that day; the roots of one go back several hundred years and the other nearly a hundred years. The […]
Protecting San Francisco Bay from Sea Level Rise
By Sejal Choksi-Chugh Published: April, 2015 A small remote-controlled boat, mounted with an innovative camera, has recently been cruising with Baykeeper’s pollution patrol boat along the San Francisco Bay shore. We’re creating a new tool to help protect the Bay from sea level rise—the San Francisco Bay Shore View Project. As global climate […]
Volunteer Rescue Unit Receives Wetsuits
By BC Staff Published: April, 2015 Last month, the San Francisco Fire Department Aquatic Rescue Unit received 40 custom wetsuits from a local San Francisco nonprofit organization, the Peter Patrick Madigan Antonini (PPMA) Foundation. The Aquatic Rescue Unit’s members are San Francisco firefighters, and the unit is San Francisco’s only in-surf rescue crew. […]
Bay Area’s Bike to Work Day Turns 21
Published: April, 2015 How did you celebrate turning 21? Visions of parties, toasts and more coming to mind? In the Bay Area, Bike to Work Day will celebrate its 21st birthday on May 14 with a nine-county-wide party on wheels. Now that’s what we call a celebration! On Bike to Work Day, tens of thousands […]
Countdown to Extinction
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 […]
Oakland Ferry Ridership Soars
BC Staff Report Published: March, 2015 Annual ridership on the San Francisco Bay Ferry service from Jack London Square has increased over 50 percent in the past two years. The service recently reported that the ferries connecting Oakland to San Francisco, Alameda and South San Francisco saw combined boardings of 910,772 last year, […]
Precipitous Cargo Decrease at Port of Oakland
By Patrick Burnson Published: March, 2015 Port of Oakland cargo volume posted dramatic declines in January, the result of an ongoing West Coast waterfront labor dispute. The port reported today that containerized imports were down 39 percent from January 2014. Exports declined 26 percent, and total volume was off 32 percent. The port attributed the […]
ON OUR COVER March 2015
San Francisco was host to the 1915 World’s Fair, also known as the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. For the duration of the exposition, the Ferry Building’s tower was festooned with lights boldly proclaiming “1915” to visitors on both sides of the Bay. In early March, that iconic lighting will return thanks to the efforts of some […]