The Friends of The Urban Forest have been planting and taking care of community trees and gardens in San Francisco since 1981. In fact, these are the green thumbs who grew nearly half of San Francisco’s tree canopy, some 60,000 trees over the last 40 years. This fall, a new

by Josh Klipp A walk down 17th Street between Potrero and Byrant sums up how San Francisco protects and grows its tree canopy. Seven new saplings, planted in December by volunteers with Friends of the Urban Forest (but without screens to protect them) dangle from arbor ties, hacked to pieces.

I’ve got some awesome news! We received a grant from the Civic Joy Fund to put out a literary magazine celebrating SF and acting to counter the stupid “Doom Loop” narrative. It’s a gift to the people of San Francisco. And after months of working on this project it’s now available

So, you may think I’m lame, but (for now) I refuse to get a super-duper cool smartphone. People are always left with huge cartoon question-mark-eyes when I tell them that. I really just want to remain some sane human interaction with people– you know, an actual human relationship, rather than

A few weeks ago my girlfriend sent me a text about this event and my lazy ass just got to posting it today.  The first thing I thought when I saw her text was, “My readers will love FREE ice cream.  I can already tell they’re twisted alcoholics by the