The 2013 Rim Fire damaged portions of the forest that provide a large percentage of San Francisco's water and power. Hetch Hetchy Reservoir and the streams that feed it escaped the more destructive high intensity burn, but San Francisco did not come out of…
Green Building Initiative President Keynotes ASHRAE High-Performance Buildings Conference
Green Building Initiative (GBI) President Jerry Yudelson presented a keynote talk on April 8th at the ASHRAE High-Performance Buildings conference in…
San Francisco’s Emergency Water System Puts out Five-alarm Fire
The five-alarm fire that destroyed a San Francisco apartment building this week put the city's municipal water supply to the test: When water pressure…
San Francisco Makes an Urban Forestry Plan to Grow the City’s Canopy
San Francisco has about 700,000 trees growing on its soil — a canopy that shades a meager 13 percent of The City. The San Francisco Urban Forest Plan envisions growing The City’s canopy over the next two decades so it eventually covers a quarter of The…
