#community-cleanup

#community-cleanup

I think it's something that we can just easily do as a community. I would really love to start a monthly cleanup where I come out with other people, because it's much easier to do a quick sweep than obviously what I've been doing over the past few weeks, which is painstaking.

I can't do anything about some of these big problems that the world and the city are facing. But I can do one modicum of something nice. So she started cleaning up. Ellen Baum's trash-collecting crusade gained the attention of local media and concerned New Yorkers who have joined the effort to clean up a bridge she considers her back yard.

An orange cat named Cheeto, who's been an internet meme for quite some time, is a fixture of the physics department at the University of California, Davis campus, where students and staff leave out food, beds, and the occasional note about his whereabouts. Sightings get logged on Instagram, and he's even picked up a joking Rate My Professors profile, complete with five-star reviews. Most days, Cheeto is easy to find sleeping in the sun or stretched out in the landscaping, clearly unbothered by his reputation.

Sometimes a story begins where no one would expect it. That's exactly what happened to GOT BAG when an online purchase from Albania became the creative spark for an international brand campaign, bringing a herd of goats stumbling straight into the fashion world. What first appeared as an unusual order at the Mainz-based label turned out to be the starting point of a story you immediately want to share.

Tired? Sunday Funday. Wired? Sunday done-day. Make our neighborhood better, brunch with cool people (sorry not sorry, we're biased), get deals to some fave local spots, and wrap it up before the Sunday Scaries hit with an easy hour of picking up trash around our neighborhood with friends and the community! SF Public Works, TogetherSF, Shine On SF, and Manny's is hosting a weekly neighborhood trash pick up to help keep our area clean and neat.

Last year, a quarter of residents described their neighbourhood as dirty or very dirty, rising to two in five in the city centre. Hester van Buren, city finance chief and responsible for waste collection, said however illogical it sounds, trials in busy shopping streets and parks have suggested that taking away some of the city's 12,000 litter bins is the answer.

One recent August morning, the sun was just rising when I was up and out the door of my apartment, heading to the Oakland estuary. Not everyone would be excited to get up at "oh-god-thirty" to tromp out to the bay's shoreline and strap themselves to a wobbly paddleboard to hunt down piles of garbage. But as an environmental reporter and water nerd, I was pumped.

"When he sees someone using a pipe on Mission Street, 'I ask if they could please relocate and keep moving,' said Ronnie Calderon, a worker from Aysing Solutions..."

"They're so small, they're so lightweight, that the best practice is to sweep anything you lose up immediately. But I mean, think about dropping rice on your kitchen floor, it's just difficult, right?"