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.

A Big Change to This Year’s Voter Guide We’ve been doing voter guides for a really long time. I’m pretty sure we put our first one out in like 2010 or something. And I know that thousands of you rely on our voter guides to help you make decision. But

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