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Environment
San Francisco Will Pioneer Electric Bike Sharing
With federal backing, the city is partnering with a local car share service to offer members access to electric bikes.
Design
Event: Join Us for GOOD Design San Francisco on September 29
As part of the Architecture and the City Festival, four design teams will present ideas for solving urban problems.
Design
Skate for Japan: The Latest Creative Relief Effort
An event in July will support relief efforts in Japan by auctioning off skate decks designed by San Francisco Bay Area artists and creative agencies.
Cities
That Fresh City Air: NYC Plans Giant Urban Campground
The Big Apple is set to build an enormous campground in the middle of the concrete jungle. What does this mean for urban camping across the country?
Technology
Keeping Cops Honest with Body-Mounted Cameras
San Francisco is just the latest city to try giving cops personal, ear-mounted cameras to keep everyone on their best behavior.
Cities
San Francisco Set to Ban Unsolicited Phone Books
According to a new law that's likely to pass this week, the Yellow Pages would have to confirm you want a book before giving you one.
Design
Event: Join Us for GOOD Design SF with the Academy of Art
Our program that pairs designers with urban problems is headed back to San Francisco, with student presentations from the Academy of Art University.
Cities
Video: Ride Through an Amazing Toothpick Replica of San Francisco
A life's work in toothpicks. A local artist has made a whimsical, and personal, sculpture of his city with more than 100,000 toothpicks.
Cities
San Francisco's Real-Time Smart Parking System Is Up and Running
Using the SFPark website or iPhone app, citizens can see where there are free spaces, and how much they'll cost, right now.
Cities
The SF Mirrors Project: Random Acts of Moral Support
The artist Akin Bilgic is fundraising on Kickstarter to put up mirrors with inspirational messages on them all over San Francisco.
Cities
Activists Undermine San Francisco's No Sitting Law with DIY Benches
San Francisco made sitting or lying on the sidewalk illegal, so a group of activists has started installing benches in public under cover of night.
Environment
Time Lapse Video Catches Amazing Views of the Northern Lights
Artist and entrepreneur Nate Bolt captures the aurora borealis on a flight to Paris.
Culture
A Scientist Calls Bullshit on Newsweek's "Fearmongering" Earthquake Story
A geophysicist attacks the theory that Japan's latest quake spells doom for California.
Environment
Transparency: Where Will the Next Earthquake Hit?
If major quakes occur approximately 15 times a year around the world, where will the next one hit?
Culture
"How to Homestead" Tours Bring Small Town Skills to the Big City
The How to Homestead series offers a year's worth of skill sharing, potlucking, dancing, and live music, all designed to bring communities together.
News
Most Bike Accidents Apparently Bikers' Fault in San Francisco
The Bay Citizen has sifted through every single police report for bicycle accidents over the last two years and assembled a fascinating array of data.
News
Video: Dozens of Cars Crash on an Icy Hill
Drive safe out there.
Education
What's the Most Literate City in America?
Seattle's lost the Most Literate City in America crown. Is the rest of America losing the literacy battle?
