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2008 Trip Guide to Green San Francisco

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San Francisco is green, clean, and organic—the architecture is high-tech and eco-friendly, and the food is excruciatingly fresh and local. Is this the world’s first true 21st-century city?In the future, San Francisco will likely have a plethora of green landmarks.

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7 Hotels 13 Restaurants 6 Activities

Destinations: San Francisco · Berkeley · Marshall · Union Square · Chinatown · Theater District/Tenderloin/Civic Center · SoMa · Mission District · Pacific Heights · Richmond and Sunset Districts · Marina · Hayes Valley · Potrero · Embarcadero · Hunters Point

Themes: Arts + Culture · Eco-Travel · Food + Drink

Inspired by: San Francisco’s Eco-Evolution — by Karrie Jacobs, Published Mar. 2008

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    Orchard Garden Hotel

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    Union Square | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California | San Francisco

    Set in San Francisco’s tiny, unofficial French Quarter, the Orchard Garden feels exactly like a spiffy little Left Bank hotel—one that’s LEED certi

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    St. Regis, San Francisco

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    SoMa | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California | San Francisco

    Unlike its predecessor in NYC, this St. Regis is modern—Jean-Michel Frank modern, that is—in both style and amenities: master panels that control a

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    Hotel Triton

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    Union Square | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California | San Francisco

    Part eco-friendly, part rock-and-roll, the Triton is most famous for its seven “celebrity suites,” individually designed by music stars like Carlos

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    Inn at Union Square

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    Union Square | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California | San Francisco

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    Hotel des Arts

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    Union Square | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California | San Francisco

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    Hotel Vitale

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    Embarcadero | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California | San Francisco

    Location, location, location…the 199-room Vitale has it in spades. Not only is the hotel right on the Embarcadero—three minutes’ walk from the Ferr

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    Clift Hotel

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    Union Square | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California | San Francisco

    In 2001, Ian Schrager took over this 1915 Theater District landmark (it’s also close to the not-so-scenic Tenderloin), and the entire city agonized

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    Yield Wine Bar

    Potrero | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California | San Francisco

    This wine bar - in the rapidly evolving neighborhood of Dogpatch, on the back side of Potrero Hill - was established to promote organic and biodyna

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    Millennium Restaurant

    Union Square | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California | San Francisco

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    Medicine

    Union Square | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California | San Francisco

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    Greens

    Marina | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California | San Francisco

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    Cafe Gratitude

    Mission District | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California | San Francisco

    A small chain of restaurants specializing in raw vegan cuisine.

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    Range

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    Mission District | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California | San Francisco

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    Solstice

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    Pacific Heights | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California | San Francisco

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    Farmerbrown

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    Theater District/Tenderloin/Civic Center | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California | San Francisco

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    Hog Island Oyster Co

    Marshall | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California | Outside San Francisco

    The most famous of the Marshall oyster purveyors sells unshucked oysters—but unfortunately they charge $5 per person merely to sit at a picnic table.

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    Chez Panisse Café

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    Berkeley | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California | Outside San Francisco

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    Ferry Plaza Farmers' Market

    Embarcadero | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California | San Francisco

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    Berkeley Farmers' Market

    Berkeley | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California | Outside San Francisco

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    SF Recycling & Disposal Inc.

    San Francisco | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California

    Not only do they recycle everything from beer cans to house paint (which its workers pick up in alternatively fueled trucks, remix, and give away t... More
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    Flora Grubb Gardens

    Hunters Point | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California | San Francisco

    The newly relocated plant store is run by Flora Grubb, well-known for her selection of palm trees. She also stocks a fascinating collection of plan

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    California Academy of Sciences

    Richmond and Sunset Districts | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California | San Francisco

    The Museum, in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, extends green, sustainable architecture in unprecedented ways. Pritzker laureate Renzo Piano's air

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    M.H. de Young Museum

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    Richmond and Sunset Districts | U.S. and Canada | U.S. | California | San Francisco

    Although its collection is a tad out of balance (strong on New Guinea art, historical American paintings, and Anatolian kilims; light on anything c

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    Mini Trip: San Francisco's Music Events

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  • seti2008 — Posted Aug. 25, 2009

    San Francisco: the Lowdown

    I lived in San Francisco for over 20 years. San Francisco has many liberal concepts down, but application is another story. While Many San Franciscans think green, San Francisco is an extremely dirty city. The streets are nasty. Chicago is clean compared to it. I often wondered if the water shortages were what was keeping the city from being cleaned. I think Gavin Newsom could pull a page out of Richard M. Daley's book on this one.

    Also, while the food is definitely fresh, and I certai... Read More

    • snappypuppy — Posted Sep. 29, 2009

      Something kept you in San Francisco for 20 years and it wasn't a dirty city. I have lived in SF Bay Area now for three years and would agree that the homeless/street people do add a bad odor to the city. If you can get past that the city and people offer a alternative consciousness that you do not find in other parts of California or the world for that fact.

      I grew up in Southern California and always loved to go to San Francisco. Now that I live here I do marvel at the beauty the ci... More

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