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Greening the Urban Landscape

by Sustainable CE | Jul 20, 2021 | Sustainable

A couple of decades ago, a colleague told me he envisioned turning Montgomery Street into a city garden. His vision was to someday walk up Montgomery Street after work and pick fresh tomatoes, lettuce, and other veggies for a dinner salad. At the time, I thought he...

Sustainability begins at home!

by Sustainable CE | Jul 8, 2021 | Sustainable

Personally, the pandemic reinforced the meaning of the adage “necessity is the mother of invention.” However, I would add innovation to this old refrain. In addition to inventing new ways to get around the pandemic, such as the popularity of using “zoom,” we also had...

The “greening’ of San Francisco

by Sustainable CE | Jul 5, 2021 | Sustainable

Although sometimes it feels like “positive” changes occur at a glacial pace, change is still happening all around us for the sake of a ‘greener” environment, such as workshops on reclaiming water at home for garden landscaping, planting trees in the Mission...

Sustainable Buildings in San Francisco

by Sustainable CE | Jun 27, 2021 | Sustainable

We usually only hear about sustainable buildings, otherwise known as “green” buildings at times, because we see them on the news, or we see a plaque from the United States Green Building Council (USGBC), or someone informs us to make a living or working there more...

Sustainable San Francisco

by Sustainable CE | Jun 26, 2021 | Sustainable

Even with all its big-city ills, San Francisco is considered one of the most sustainable cities worldwide. This is due, in part, to the City legislation mandating sustainable development and setting goals, and drafting legislation for utilizing renewable energy,...

What is Sustainable Civil Engineering?

by Sustainable CE | Jun 25, 2021 | Civil Engineering, Sustainable

For the longest time, civil engineers seemed like the antithesis of sustainability. We were seen as “land reapers,’ or wanting to “pave” the world, and so on. And, for the most part, it was partly true in earlier decades. We, as civil engineers, were expected to...