San Francisco Group

Hands-on habitat restoration in the city at Mount Davidson (and elsewhere)

First Saturday of each month, 9 am to noon; meet at the bus turnaround at the intersection of Myra, Dalewood, and Sherwood on the south side of the hill.

The San Francisco Group is excited to announce a new series of "urban wilderness" adventures: habitat-restoration work parties with the Natural Areas Program (NAP) of the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department. Come learn about botany and ecology, exercise your green thumbs, enjoy entertaining camaraderie, and examine public-lands management issues in some of the most spectacular parts of San Francisco you didn't know still existed! These events are led by NAP staff, who provide expertise, tools, and direction.

On the eastern flank of Mount Davidson, the highest hill in San Francisco, we'll be removing exotic weeds and protecting rare plants in a remarkable grassland and wildflower community. On the western portion of Mount Davidson, planted with trees by Adolph Sutro a century ago, we're removing the monocultures of blackberry and ivy and restoring a complex mix of grasses and forbs.

To participate, contact Stan Kaufman at sekfmn -at- pacbell.net or (415) 681-4954. Stan is chair of the Friends of Mount Davidson (and a Sierra Club life member); he needs a head-count so that NAP staff can plan.

Other days and places

Join Gay and Lesbian Sierrans at its monthly NAP work party at Corona Heights, on the last Saturday of every month from 10 am to noon. For more details and to sign up, contact Jim Houillion at (415) 552-3542.

NAP sponsors 30 additional projects all around the city. These are not Sierra Club-sponsored, but they occur at great sites and provide exciting work with grand views of the city - and they may be right in your neighborhood. For information and to participate, contact Suzanna Buehl in the NAP volunteer office - Suzanna.Buehl -at- sfgov.org or call (415) 753-7268.

"Communities at the Crossroads: New Opportunities in a Green Economy"

Thursday, March 16, 7 - 9 pm, First Unitarian Church and Center, 1187 Franklin Street (at Geary), San Francisco.

The Sierra Club's San Francisco Group invites you to a forum on opportunities in the emerging green economy to bring health and prosperity to all - including our most disadvantaged communities - through:

"green collar" job creation
clean technology;
green building;
smart growth.

Learn about efforts to:

unite industry, labor, schools, communities of faith, social services, investors, and the public sector in the next phase of the sustainability movement;
link global-warming prevention with job-training;
build truly healthy, livable communities and a clean-energy sector.

The panel moderator will be award-winning broadcast journalist Betsy Rosenberg, host of "EcoTalk" on KCBS and Air America.

Panelists include:

San Francisco Supervisor Sophie Maxwell, who represents some of San Francisco's most polluted and disadvantaged communities, including Hunters Point, Bayview, and Potrero Hill.
Ken Smokoska, co-chair of the Sierra Club California Energy Committee, who works to build creative new alliances for healthy communities and a new energy vision through Community Choice Energy.
Carla Din, of the Apollo Alliance, a major national coalition within the labor, environmental, business, urban, and faith communities for good jobs and energy independence. It is pursuing a $300 billion, public-private program to create three million new, clean-energy jobs to free America from foreign-oil dependence. The program will reinvest in the competitiveness of American industry, rebuild our cities, creates good jobs for working families, and ensure good stewardship of both the economy and our natural environment. Sierra Club is a member of this alliance. Learn more at www.apolloalliance.org

Requested admission is $5 - $10, but no one will be turned away. RSVP is requested but not required; contact Dave Massen at dave -at- democracyaction.org or call (415) 626-7086.

This event is also co-sponsored by EcoTalk, Air America Radio, DemocracyAction, the San Francisco Democratic Party, and San Francisco for Democracy.

An evening with Adam Werbach

Note: Corrected date for this event.

Tuesday, May 9th, 7 pm, Yosemite Room, third floor, Sierra Club Headquarters, 85 Second Street, San Francisco (near Mission Street, one block from Montgomery BART station).

The Sierra Club's San Francisco Group invites you to celebrate Earth Month at a special evening with noted environmental leader, former Club president, rabble-rouser, and current member of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, Adam Werbach.

Learn about the PUC's huge projects to retrofit our water-delivery system and to dramatically increase San Francisco's energy efficiency, conservation, and use of renewable energy sources such as wind and solar. Hear first-hand about the successes and obstacles in these critical projects and about the Sierra Club's advocacy for better water conservation, habitat and river protection, and Community Choice energy aggregation.

The event is free and open to all. Light refreshments will be served.

For more information, or to volunteer help with this event, Please contact or call (510) 848 0800 ext 316.