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Fr0m SPUR: In our built-out city, retrofitting existing buildings to conserve water, energy and materials is a key sustainability challenge. In 2010, SPUR convened a task force to identify opportunities to “green” multifamily apartment buildings — which contain more than two-thirds of the city’s housing units. Join us for an exploration of these issues and […]

From SPUR: San Francisco’s public Sharp Park Golf Course, located in Pacifica, is facing serious financial, environmental and recreational challenges. Potential solutions are constrained by the presence of two endangered species and a coastal location threatened by sea level rise. Yet Sharp Park provides unique opportunities to adapt the coast to climate change while preserving […]

From SPUR: SPUR presents Local Code : Real Estates, an exhibit by UC Berkeley Professor Nicholas de Monchaux. Local Code : Real Estates uses geospatial analysis to identify thousands of publicly owned abandoned sites in major US cities, imagining this distributed, vacant landscape as the basis for a new, green infrastructure. The exhibit includes more […]

From SPUR: “Climate change is well underway,” writes Nation environmental correspondent Mark Hertsgaard in his forthcoming book, HOT:  Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth, “and we must begin to adapt to it even as we work to stop it.”  Humanity has entered a new era of global warming and must think about the […]

From SPUR: This spring the Public Policy Institute of California will complete a series of reports on Senate Bill 375, the land-use portion of the state’s climate change law. Using original research on transit-oriented development from 1992-2006, these reports include an analysis of changes in employment and job density around new transit stations in California. […]

From SPUR: Join SPUR’s Young Urbanists for this evening forum. For one week each year, Black Rock City becomes one of the world’s great cities, influencing the worlds of music and art and feeding the cultures of other cities around the world. Bay Guardian city editor Steven T. Jones will lead a lively discussion with […]

From SPUR: In celebration of International Women’s Day, join Inge Horton as she talks about the unsung contemporaries of Julia Morgan. Many talented women practiced architecture in the late 19th and early 20th century in the Bay Area, but for the most part, these pioneering women were unrecognized until the release of Horton’s new book, […]

From SPUR, and co-sponsored by Bay Citizen: Gov. Jerry Brown shocked local governments with his proposal to eliminate all of the state’s 425 redevelopment agencies. Most city leaders vehemently oppose the plan, which the governor says would free up money for schools and other services. Join SPUR and The Bay Citizen for a debate on […]

From SPUR: Proposition A in 2007 tasked the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency  with developing a Climate Action Plan to reduce greenhouse gases from the transportation sector, which accounts for half of all emissions in San Francisco. Join Peter Brown of the SFMTA, Timothy Papandreou from the SFMTA’s Sustainable Streets program and Liz Brisson, of […]

From SPUR: Published by Island Press last fall, Urban Green explores new and innovative ways for “built out” cities to add much-needed parkland. Author Peter Harnik explains why urban parks are needed, then addresses a variety of examples and practical solutions, giving helpful guidance to those vested in making cities more beautiful, sociable, ecologically sound, and successful. Peter Harnik is director […]

From SPUR: Learn about a new model of radical collaboration through social entrepreneurship from the Hub Bay Area. With locations at the David Brower Center in Berkeley and the San Francisco Chronicle Building in SoMa, the Hub provides space and resources to drive creative ideas for high impact around the world. Join the SPUR Young […]