Red Fish, Green Fish

To eat or not to eat? It’s not easy making your way through the tangled nets of sustainable seafood choices — but a host of celebrity chefs want to help. A FEW YEARS AGO, New York chef Peter Hoffman came across a chart listing the best, worst, and so-so...

Behind the Label

How Well Is the Forest Stewardship Council Protecting Trees? Outside San Francisco’s high-tech Sony Metreon complex, environmental activists are rallied around a 200-year-old redwood stump they’ve rolled onto the sidewalk. Inside, the National Resources...

A New Lease

Car parts ended up all over the house. A windshield from a 924 Porsche juts over the plate-glass storefront door, bouncing light onto the walkway. Volvo hatchbacks brace a stair railing. Red, yellow and green road signs tile a bathroom wall. The gas-guzzling...

The Memory of Plants

Some of Linda Reynolds’ earliest memories are stored not in the pages of a photo album, but in the fuzzy leaves of an African violet.  “When I was growing up, we often went to Grandma Michael’s house for Sunday dinner. Afterwards she would take me...

The Aisle Less Travelled

Published in the San Francisco Bride magazine YOUR WEDDING setting is like a stage to play out one of life’s biggest dramas. What tone do you want to set for the next chapter of your journey together? Silly or serene, romantic or rowdy, innocent or imaginative?  The...