Strictly Local Organizations
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| Bay Localize |
http://www.baylocalize.org/ |
| Ecology Center |
http://www.ecologycenter.org/ |
| Friends of the Urban Forest |
http://www.fuf.net/ |
| Garden for the Environment |
http://www.gardenfortheenvironment.org/ |
| Green Citizen Center |
http://www.globalcitizencenter.org/ |
| Literacy for Environmental Justice |
http://www.lejyouth.org/ |
| Nature in the City |
http://natureinthecity.org/ |
| San Francisco Food Systems |
http://www.sffoodsystems.org/ |
| SF Dept. of Environment |
http://sfenvironment.org/ |
| Urban Ecology |
http://www.urbanecology.org/ |
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Collectives and Cooperatives
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| AK Press |
http://www.akpress.org/ |
| Arizmendi Bakery |
http://www.arizmendibakery.org/ |
| Biofuels Oasis |
http://www.biofueloasis.com/ |
| Box Dog Bikes |
http://www.boxdogbikes.com/ |
| Ink Works Press |
http://www.inkworkspress.org/ |
| Liberation Ink |
http://www.liberationink.org/ |
| Modern Times Bookstore |
http://www.moderntimesbookstore.com/ |
| Other Avenues Health Food Store |
http://otheravenues.coop/ |
| Rainbow Grocery Cooperative |
http://www.rainbowgrocery.org/ |
| Red Vic Movie House |
http://www.redvicmoviehouse.com/ |
| Rock Paper Scissors Collective |
http://www.rpscollective.com/ |
| TechCollective |
http://www.techcollective.com/ |
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Businesses
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| Acme Bread |
http://www.ferrybuildingmarketplace.com/acme_bread_company.php |
| Urban Edibles |
http://www.urbanedibles.net/ |
| SF Landscapes |
http://www.sflandscapes.com/ |
| The Urban Farmer Store |
http://www.urbanfarmerstore.com/ |
| Flower Craft Garden Center |
http://www.flowercraftgc.com/ |
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Ecological Gardening
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| Tools |
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| Common Ground Garden Supply |
http://www.commongroundinpaloalto.org/ |
| Flower Craft Garden Center |
http://www.flowercraftgc.com/ |
| Harmony Farm Supply and Nursery |
http://www.harmonyfarm.com/ |
| Hida Tools and Hardware |
http://www.hidatool.com/ |
| Smith and Speed Mercantile |
http://www.smithandspeed.com/ |
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| Soil |
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| Anresco, Inc. |
http://www.anresco.com/ |
| Broadmoor Landscape Supply |
http://www.broadmoorlumber.com/ |
| Jepson Prairie Organics |
http://www.jepsonprairieorganics.com/buycompost.htm |
| Umass Soil Testing |
http://www.umass.edu/plsoils/soiltest/ |
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| Seed and Stock |
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| Kitizawa Seed |
http://www.kitazawaseed.com/ |
| Natural Gardening Company |
http://www.naturalgardening.com/ |
| Sustainable Seed |
http://www.sustainableseedco.com/pages/ |
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Composting
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| Berkeley 18 Day Method |
http://vric.ucdavis.edu/pdf/compost_rapidcompost.pdf |
| Cosmos's Red Worms |
http://www.alcasoft.com/cosmos/index.html |
| Indore Method |
http://www.journeytoforever.org/farm_library/howardAT/AT4.html |
| Rodale Institute |
http://newfarm.rodaleinstitute.org/depts/NFfield_trials/2006/0413/compost.shtml |
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Education
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| Hayes Valley Farm |
http://www.hayesvalleyfarm.com/ |
| Ecology Center |
http://www.ecologycenter.org/ |
| Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture |
http://www.cuesa.org/ |
| Ecology Action |
http://www.growbiointensive.org/ |
| Slide Ranch |
http://www.slideranch.org/ |
| Edible Schoolyard |
http://www.edibleschoolyard.org/ |
| Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems |
http://casfs.ucsc.edu/ |
| Community Food Security Coalition |
http://www.foodsecurity.org/index.html |
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Integrated Pest Management
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| Extension Toxicology Network |
http://extoxnet.orst.edu/ |
| UC Berkeley Urban Pest Management Center |
http://nature.berkeley.edu/upmc/ |
| Bio-Integral Resource Center |
http://www.birc.org/ |
| UC Davis IPM Online |
http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/ |
| Our Water - Our World |
http://www.ourwaterourworld.org/ |
| Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides |
http://www.pesticide.org/ |
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Ecology
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| Climate |
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| Climate of San Francisco |
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mtr/sfd_sjc_climate/sfd/SFD_CLIMATE3.php |
| Golden Gate Weather Services |
http://ggweather.com/ |
| National Climatic Data Center |
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html |
| National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
http://www.noaa.gov/ |
| SF Climate Challenge |
http://www.sfclimatechallenge.org/ |
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| Water |
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| Blue Planet Project |
http://blueplanetproject.net/ |
| Greywater Action |
http://www.greywateraction.org/ |
| Islais Creek History |
http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Islais_Creek_Remembered |
| NorCal Solar |
http://www.norcalsolar.org/ |
| San Francisco Public Utilities Commission |
http://www.sfwater.org/ |
| WATER Institute |
http://www.oaecwater.org/ |
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| Native Fauna |
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| SF Bay Wildlife |
http://www.sfbaywildlife.info/ |
| San Francisco's Endangered Species |
http://sfpsociety.org/SFendangered.html |
| Center for Biological Diversity |
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/ |
| San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory |
http://www.sfbbo.org/ |
| Treefrog Treks |
http://www.treefrogtreks.com/ |
| SF Rescued Orphan Mammal Program |
http://www.sfromp.org/ |
| Marine Mammal Center |
http://www.marinemammalcenter.org/ |
| Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation |
http://www.xerces.org/ |
| Bay Nature Institute |
http://baynature.org/ |
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| Native Flora |
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| California Native Plant Society |
http://www.cnps.org/ |
| California Institute for Biodiversity |
http://www.calalive.org/index.php |
| The Jepson Online Interchange |
http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/interchange.html |
| Cal Flora Database |
http://www.calflora.org/ |
| Yerba Buena Nursery |
http://www.yerbabuenanursery.com/ |
| CalFlora Nursery |
http://www.calfloranursery.com/ |
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Energy
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| General |
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| California Energy Commission |
http://www.energy.ca.gov/ |
| Cooperative Community Energy |
http://www.cooperativecommunityenergy.com/ |
| Energy Star Rebates |
http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=rebate.rebate_locator |
| Pacific Energy Center |
http://www.pge.com/pec/ |
| SF Energy Watch |
http://www.sfenergywatch.org/ |
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| Solar |
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| Build a Solar Cooker |
http://solarcooking.org/plans/ |
| Go Solar California |
http://www.gosolarcalifornia.org/ |
| SF Solar Incentive Program |
http://www.sfsolarsubsidy.com/ |
| SF Solar Map |
http://sf.solarmap.org/ |
| Solar Living Institute |
http://www.solarliving.org/ |
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| Water |
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| Hydropower Fact Sheet |
http://www.wind.appstate.edu/reports/microhydro_factsheet.pdf |
| Low Impact Hydropower Institute |
http://lowimpacthydro.org/ |
| Wave and Tidal Energy News |
http://www.wave-tidal-energy.com/ |
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| Biofuels |
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| Aprovecho |
http://www.aprovecho.net/ |
| Biomass Energy Resource Center |
http://www.biomasscenter.org/ |
| Dogpatch Biofuels - |
http://www.dogpatchbiofuels.com/ |
| Frybid: Veggie Oil Fuel Systems |
http://www.frybrid.com/ |
| Make Your Own Biodiesel |
http://www.journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_make.html |
| People’s Fuel Cooperative - |
http://www.peoplesfuel.org/ |
| Rocket Stoves |
http://www.bioenergylists.org/stovesdoc/Still/VC%20Stove/vcstove.html |
| Wood Heat Organization |
http://www.woodheat.org/ |
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| Wind |
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| Community Wind Collaborative |
http://www.masstech.org/rebate/Community_Wind/index.htm |
| Whirligig Inc |
http://www.whirligig-inc.com/ |
| Wind Works |
http://www.wind-works.org/ |
| Windustry |
http://www.windustry.org/ |
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Natural Building
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| Methods |
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| Adobe |
http://www.adobebuilder.com/ |
| Bamboo |
http://www.thenaturalbuilders.com/natural_building.html#bamboo |
| Cob |
http://www.cobcottage.com/ |
| Earthships |
http://earthship.org/ |
| Rammed Earth |
http://www.rammedearthworks.com/ |
| Slip Straw |
http://www.nbne.org/natbuild/owalls.php |
| Strawbale |
http://www.skillful-means.com/pages/page.php?pageid=1 |
| Wattle and Daub |
http://www.wattleanddaub.com/ |
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| Materials |
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| Sand and Gravel |
http://www.sfgravel.com/ |
| SF Clay Source |
http://www.eco-sf.org/ |
| Stone |
http://www.broadmoorlumber.com/ |
| Strawbales |
http://www.eco-sf.org/ |
| Urbanite |
http://www.sfgov.org/site/sfdpw_index.asp |
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| Education |
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| California Straw Building Association |
http://www.strawbuilding.org/ |
| Emerald Earth Sanctuary |
http://www.emeraldearth.org/ |
| Regenerative Design Institute |
http://www.regenerativedesign.org/ |
| Solar Living Institute |
http://www.solarliving.org/ |
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Homesteading
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| Animals |
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| Institute of Urban Homesteading |
http://www.iuhoakland.com/ |
| SF Bee Association |
http://www.sfbee.org/Meetings_and_Events.html |
| SF Health Code Sec 37 |
http://library.municode.com/HTML/14136/level1/A1.html#A1_s37 |
| Urban Chickens |
http://urbanchickens.org/ |
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| Canning, Drying, and Preserving |
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| Homegrown Evolution |
http://www.homegrownevolution.com/ |
| Homemade Food Dehydrator |
http://www.ravishinglyraw.com/tag/homemade-food-dehydrator/ |
| How to Homestead |
http://www.howtohomestead.org/ |
| National Center for Home Food Preservation |
http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/ |
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| Fermentation |
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| Cheese Making |
http://schmidling.com/making.htm |
| Dairy Connection, Inc |
http://www.dairyconnection.com/ |
| The Fresh Loaf |
http://www.thefreshloaf.com/ |
| Vegetarian Rennet |
http://www.rainbowgrocery.org/ |
| Wild Fermentation |
http://www.wildfermentation.com/ |
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