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Green
June 14, 2006
A biweekly column appearing on SFGate, the website of the San Francisco Chronicle, and the leading news and information site in the Bay Area.
Green explores regional environmental issues, people, politics, and contexts in the most environmentally aware part of the United States. (more…)
Our Cars, Ourselves
Wednesday, December 8, 2004
Just before Thanksgiving, I went down to the San Francisco Auto Show, giving up a gorgeous and sunny Sunday afternoon to wander around the cavernous bowels of the Moscone Center. The air was close with that new-car smell, and the hundreds of shiny, shiny cars gleamed as though in some kind of virtual-reality spaceport — like the future was there somewhere, struggling to emerge.