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Forget the Fog and Smog, San Francisco Goes Green

This is the first city in America to ban plastic shopping bags. The 2.5-acre roof of the new California Academy of Sciences will be covered with 1.7 million plants — a "living roof," they call it. And the baseball stadium is getting solar panels to help power the scoreboard for Barry Bonds' home runs. These efforts have spawned a locally produced cartoon show, "The Unsustainables," that pokes a little fun at the difficulties of going green while encouraging people to do it. The fog town is...Full Story
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