There were plenty of people, I’m sure, who hated the recent decision in San Francisco to ban Happy Meal toys (or, more specifically, toy incentives in fast food meals that don’t meet basic nutritional guidelines). But there were also plenty…
Over 30% of San Francisco Households Now Car-Free
New data out in the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency 2010 Transportation Fact Sheet shows that the number of car-free households in San Francisco has climbed a little bit recently, bringing the percentage of car-free households in this progressive city above…
Bicycling Boom in North America
Bicycling in Washington, D.C., Minneapolis, Chicago, San Francisco, and many other big North American cities has increased a few times over (or more) in the past couple of decades. And with more people cycling, more people get the urge to…
San Francisco Supervisors Override Mayor Newsom — Happy Meal Toys Officially Banned
I’ve covered the development of this San Francisco story for months, and it seems that it has finally come to an end, a happy one for those opposed to predatory child marketing and McDonald’s Happy Meals. For a little background,…
How to Save $9,515 a Year
The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) releases figures regarding how much people save by riding transit in the U.S. every month in its Transit Savings Report. It calculates how much the average American saves as well as how much an…
McDonald’s Happy Meal Ban Goes Through in San Francisco!
We’ve been covering the progress of the proposal to ban the inclusion of toys in unhealthy fast food meals (e.g. McDonald’s Happy Meals) in San Francisco for awhile now (see: McDonald’s Happy Meal Toys to be Banned in San Francisco? and Update on…
California High-Speed Rail Video
One of my friends from my city planning graduate studies just tipped me off to a new video for the California high-speed rail (HSR) project that her company, PBS&J (an Atkins Company), is a part of. It is a great,…
Happy Meals More Balanced than Home-Cooked Meals?
As you’ve probably heard, San Francisco is seriously considering banning toys from unhealthy fast food meals (most notably, McDonald’s Happy Meals). There is reportedly a lot of support for the Happy Meal ban in San Francisco, but as you can…
McDonald’s Insults Moms & Dads
If you are a regular reader of Ecolocalizer, you know that we’ve been following the effort to essentially ban toys from Happy Meals or other unhealthy fast food “meals” in San Francisco (see McDonald’s Happy Meal Toys to be Banned in…
11-Minute Film of San Francisco Days Before the 1906 Earthquake
CBS recently dug up and released an 11-minute reel of film from days before the big earthquake of 1906. The video has been named “A Trip Down Market Street” and is shot from a Market Street cable car. The video…