San Francisco Environment Department

🚨 Upcoming Event Reminder 🚨 Do you have unwanted or expired medications that need to be safely disposed of? We have two free medicine collection events coming up next week in San Francisco! 1st event: 🗓️ Monday, October 28th | ⏰ 9am - 1pm 📍 Crane Cove Park, 18th & Illinois Street, San Francisco 2nd event: 🗓️ Wednesday, October 30th | ⏰ 1pm - 5pm 📍 Crocker Amazon Park Clubhouse parking lot, 799 Moscow Street, San Francisco This is your chance to safely dispose of: -Over-the-counter medications -Prescription drugs -Pet medications Why is this important? Proper medication disposal helps protect our environment and prevents harmful substances from entering our water systems or landfills. 🌍 Let’s work together to create a safer, healthier community! Mark your calendar for either event—or both—and help spread the word by sharing with your network! #MedicineDisposal #CommunityImpact #Sustainability #SafeDisposal #SFEvents #EcoFriendly

Join us as Tyrone Jue, Director of the SF Environment Department, chats with Rosanna Xia about her powerful book "California Against the Sea" (now in paperback). In this compelling book, the voices of Indigenous leaders, activists, mayors, engineers, and environmental scientists discuss what responses we need for rising ocean levels in California. Don't miss out! ⏰ When: Wednesday, 10/30/2024 (6:00 pm - 7:00 pm) ▶️ Where: Environmental Center Exhibit Space - 5th Floor, Main Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA 94102

Reminder: Safe Medicine Disposal Event happening next week! Have expired or unused medications? Drop them off at our upcoming free collection event: 📅 Monday, October 14th | 9 am - 1 pm 📍 Palega Park Recreation Center, 500 Felton Street, San Francisco, 94134 We’ll be accepting: - Over-the-counter medications - Prescription drugs - Pet medications Proper disposal of medicines keeps our homes and environment safer. Don’t miss this chance to clear out your medicine cabinet! ✅ More events coming later in the month, but this is your first opportunity! 💊 Let’s take action for a healthier community. #MedicineDisposal #CommunityEvents #Healthcare #Sustainability #SafeDisposal

Today we're kicking off Public Power Week! This is a weeklong celebration of the 2,000+ not-for-profit electric utilities across the country. But what is public power, you ask? Hear from our very own San Francisco Public Utilities Commission employees about what public power means to us. #PublicPowerWeek #PublicPower #SF

Looking for a safe and simple way to dispose of unused or expired medications? This October, in collaboration with Inmar Intelligence, San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department, and Stern Grove Festival Association, we’re hosting four free medicine collection events in San Francisco, starting with these two: 📍 Monday, October 14th | 9 am - 1 pm Palega Park Recreation Center, 500 Felton Street, San Francisco, 94134 📍 Wednesday, October 16th | 1 pm - 5 pm Mission Dolores Park basketball courts, Church Street and 18th Street, San Francisco, 94114 These events will accept most medications, including: - Over-the-counter medicines - Prescription drugs - Pet medications Take advantage of this opportunity to dispose of your medications responsibly and help keep our community and environment safe! 🏥🌍 Don’t forget to mark your calendars and spread the word. More events are coming later in October! #Healthcare #Sustainability #CommunityEvents #MedicineDisposal #SafetyFirst

🌱🍷 This weekend, October 6th, check out LAMON: The first Zero Waste Filipinx Food and Wine Summit happening at the Southeast Community Center in the Bayview! 🍽️🎉 This event is part festival, part symposium, and all about celebrating the Filipinx food system 🌿. LAMON will feature educational talks, panels (featuring SFE's very own Jessica Narvios who will be a part of the "Building Momentum in Reuse" panel!), workshops, culinary demos, and activities for all generations. Plus, you will experience a unique 500-person plant-forward Kamayan dinner, crafted by local SF Filipino-American chefs and paired with Filipino-owned farms, wineries, breweries, and distilleries. 🍷🍻 LAMON is committed to reuse and zero waste, so bring your own Baon (reusable container) and bags. Excess food will be shared with partner food banks, helping to create a community-focused, eco-friendly celebration. 🌍♻️ 🎟️Get your tickets to LAMON! Don’t miss out on this incredible, holistic experience. Lamonfest.com

🎉🎉 San Francisco and Berkeley Awarded $20 Million Federal Grant for Building Electrification! 🎉🎉 San Francisco Environment Department, in partnership with City of Berkeley, has been awarded a $19.9 million federal grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to advance building electrification projects! This funding, part of the historic Biden-Harris Inflation Reduction Act, will help us with the creation of building performance standards that will modernize large buildings, cut carbon emissions, and move towards a resilient, all-electric future. Under Mayor London Breed’s leadership, San Francisco has already made significant strides in reducing emissions and promoting equitable access to clean energy. Check out my earlier posts about our 48% reduction in emissions from 1990 levels (https://shorturl.at/2t0f5), or the launch of our Climate Equity Hub (https://shorturl.at/UjvOW). This grant will further our goal of eliminating emissions from all buildings by 2040 and create a playbook to help other smaller cities develop their own plans and policies. A big thank you to President Biden and Vice President Harris for their continued investment in a more sustainable equitable, and climate resilient future. And a huge thank you to the SF-Berkeley climate teams that collaborated on this successful grant application: Barry Hooper Cyndy Comerford Ammon Reagan Melissa Fondakowski Charles Sheehan among many, many others. Together, we are setting the stage for a net zero emissions building future in our respective cities, for the Bay Area, and the rest of the nation! 🌍💡 #ClimateAction #Sustainability #CleanEnergy #BuildingElectrification #SanFrancisco #Berkeley #NetZero #buildingdecarbonization #bayarea #zeroemission #alleelectric

Hey SF renters and homeowners! Get ready for Life’s Better Electric Weekend! ⚡ Join us for two exciting events: Resource Fair | Saturday, 9/28 | RSVP here: https://bit.ly/3MKbBRK Home Tours | Sunday, 9/29 | RSVP here: https://bit.ly/3MKdT39 Discover how going electric can make your life better. 🌱 #LifesBetterElectric #GoElectric #SustainableLiving

🌟🚀 Saying YES to Climate Innovation in San Francisco! 🚀🌟 I was beyond excited to join San Francisco Mayor London Breed and over 100 innovators and supporters as we celebrated the grand opening of the Yes SF headquarters in Downtown SF. This space was over a year in the making and is dedicated to hosting and supporting climate innovators and founders. I’m incredibly proud of how the private, non-profit, and government sectors have come together through YesSF to support eco-innovators. The first cohort of innovators are already catalyzing the technology solutions needed to tackle our global climate challenges and deploying them right here in San Francisco. And we are just getting started with the process to select our second cohort! Yes SF is making a significant impact by: 🌆 Revitalizing Downtown SF: Contributing to economic growth and urban development. 💡 Fostering Innovation: Supporting cutting-edge climate solutions. 🌱 Creating Opportunities: Empowering climate founders and entrepreneurs. 🤝 Building Community: Uniting innovators and supporters, and connecting them to our San Francisco equity and community values. 🌍 Leading in Sustainability: Positioning San Francisco as a global leader in sustainability in policy and innovation. 🏙️ Advancing SF's Climate Action Plan and United Nation's SDG 11: Contributing to sustainable cities and communities. A huge thank you to the leadership of Deloitte, Salesforce, Citi, San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, World Economic Forum UpLink - World Economic Forum San Francisco Environment Department SF Office of Economic & Workforce Development, represented by some of their leaders and friends Jeff Merritt, Rodney Fong, Hydra Mendoza, Paul Clemmons, and your amazing teams of Emily Abraham Kristy Henrich Klein, Sharon Lai (黎慧心), Jenny Hoang, Jenny Feinberg, Mario Zapata Encinas and so so many more that made this event and Yes SF possible! All of you and our innovators are part of demonstrating how San Francisco is leading the way through our inclusive partnerships and strategies to achieve a sustainable, just, and prosperous future for the entire planet. 🌍✨ #ClimateAction #Sustainability #Innovation #SanFrancisco #bayarea #YesSF #EcoInnovators #SDG11 #climatetech 📸 : Mario Zapata Encinas

Director Tyrone Jue 🌎, Deputy Director Leo Chyi, and Commissioners Sarah Wan and Angelique Tompkins, PMP recently visited our grantee, The SF Market to see the dual impacts of reducing #FoodWaste and addressing #FoodInsecurity in action. With a goal of recovering 2,000,000 pounds of food by July 2025, the SF Market has already met 60% of this target within the first year, by recovering food from 17 merchants (106% of the goal) and distributing it to 23 nonprofits (164% of the goal). Part of the grant also funds a full-time staff person at the Market, creating green jobs that further our commitment to sustainability. 🌱👩🌾 #SFProduceMarket #FoodRecovery #Sustainability #GreenJobs #CommunityEmpowerment #ZeroWaste #FoodWasteSolutions