Did you know this year marks the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day? My staff would normally be tabling at festivals around the Bay Area, organizing volunteers at shoreline trash cleanups and hosting happy hours at local restaurants to toast the Bay we love. Yet here we are instead, celebrating the Earth inside […]
As business owners nationwide struggle to find a way to stay afloat while shelter-in-place orders remain in place, those with strong ties to tourism are bracing for a very shaky start to the normally robust summer season. And in San Francisco, a city whose economy is inextricably linked to the 25 million people who visit […]
BY KRISTY HAMILTON Nothing captures our imaginations quite like the mystery of the sea—we have legends like Captain Cook, Jules Verne and Jacques-Yves Cousteau to thank for our fascination with Earth’s waters. Sailing into San Francisco from March 12 to 15, the International Ocean Film Festival returns for its 17th year with new tales of […]
BY BILL PICTURE San Mateo County’s Office of Sustainability has partnered with the Berkeley-based nonprofit Fixit Clinic to host an ongoing series of drop-in workshops where people can learn how to fix the broken items taking up space in garages, closets and cabinets. “The idea of fixing something versus just throwing it away is actually […]
Special Events Ferry on the Chopping Block Last October, WETA launched special ferry services to Pier 48½ for Golden State Warriors games at Chase Center. A recent WETA report has shown that while ridership for Warriors games has been strong, ridership for other events, like concerts, at Chase Center has been weak. Unless ridership increases, […]
Plans for the new Mission Bay Ferry Terminal are moving ahead, with the Water Emergency Transportation Authority (WETA) recently approving a supplemental memorandum with the Port of San Francisco about the project. Kevin Connolly, planning and development manager for the project, presented at this month’s WETA meeting on the project’s goal to use $25 million of […]
During the last few rainy seasons, Baykeeper’s scientists spent many weeks scrambling down hillsides and wading into mud to collect water samples from storm drain outfalls. Our field team was looking for the source of pollution to South Bay creeks and rivers that feed into San Francisco Bay. We got surprising results. The water samples […]
BY JOEL WILLIAMS It was shortly after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake shook the Bay Area that the first sea lions began hauling out onto the piers in the Pier 39 marina. It was a few here and there at first, but by January 1990 their numbers had reached 500—at one point they topped out […]
The Port of San Francisco sees in Piers 38 and 40 the opportunity to transform an underused stretch of the City’s waterfront into a vibrant extension of the bustling South Beach and South of Market neighborhoods that it borders. Last month, the port invited developers to suggest strategies to make the piers a destination for […]
Last month, high tides in San Francisco Bay washed up onto the shoreline of a large former pharmaceutical company in Richmond. A few hours later, the outgoing tide pulled contamination—including pesticides, toxic chemicals and radioactive waste—off the industrial land and into the Bay. Right now, this occurs a few times every year during the highest […]