Kyle Hepp

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   Kyle – you need some tips for the UK…. London may be fine, but when you come out of the big smoke in to the real UK we have – brown bin for garden waste (twigs, leaves and grass), black bin for normal waste, blue bag for paper waste and big blue bag for cardboard. Then it’s a bag for glass and a bag for tins and in some areas uneaten food and scraps have to go in a different box too. That’s 7 different rubbish bins and they are collected on different days in different weeks!!

   Oh and we have organic fruit and veg, but most of it is flown in from South America or Europe so it’s hardly environmentally friendly

   Comment by Jason Lloyd — March 21, 2011 @ 2:10 am

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   Ahh, those crazy greenies, I love it!

   You know things are really bad when they start telling you that carob is delicious…That’s when it’s time to run.

   Comment by Deidre — March 21, 2011 @ 3:28 am

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   HAHA, best blog post ever.

   Comment by Kai Heeringa — March 21, 2011 @ 4:48 am

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   HAHAHAHA I am still laughing. So very true. I think I, too, would be disqualified on account of “insufficient hipsterness.” This post was hilarious and insightful at the same time. I hope you and Seba are enjoying yourselves and I absolutely cannot wait to see all the beauty you unearth on the road.

   Comment by Roxanne — March 21, 2011 @ 5:09 am

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   Hahaha you r too funny! I love California and one of the reasons is that they do care about the earth. If u go to LA u will find way too many prius and more organic markets than u need. My sister (living in CA) is obsessed about organic food. I am too in a way Bc I grew up in a place where chickens are not huge and I don’t need more hormones. Im afraid of the long term effects on that but I don’t the too many options here. Only wholefoods.

   I love San francisco. They r always making a pacific protest and I love the cable cars and crazy buildings. I want to see more pics! Los homeless de alla son una locura. He tenido unas histories Muy buenas!

   Besos

   Comment by Cata — March 21, 2011 @ 5:11 am

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   se me olvido decir q me encanta SF mucho mas q LA xq en SF son rebeldes xq ellos creen que de verdad tienen q protestar pero en LA es solo xq “esta de moda”… creo q hace poco hubo un naked protest contra lo q pasa en Libya y el movimiento de los gays en los 70s me parece lo maximo.
   En Colombia tambien hay los 3 basureros para q recicles. En paises pobres se recicla TODO!! aunque la mayoria de la gente bota la basura x la ventana del carro jajaja…

   Comment by cata — March 21, 2011 @ 5:58 am

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   That’s shocking that you said you loved everything but the weather! I wish I could move there -for- the weather. 60-70 degrees year round and really windy would be oh-so-perfect for me. Also, Josh is the same way about food. =)

   Comment by Nessa K — March 21, 2011 @ 7:24 am

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   I am so the opposite with the trash – I love that it’s so easy to recycle everywhere vs. here in Chile where I have to hoard my recyclables until I have enough to make it worth driving over to Punto Limpio. It hurts my heart to have a bottle or can when I’m out of the house and not have anywhere to dispose of it other than a regular old trash can when I know it could so easily be recycled – although I’m not granola enough to tote my trash around with me all day until I get home. I think that everyone needs three different disposals!

   Comment by Emily — March 21, 2011 @ 8:24 am

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   Lol! This is exactly what I was talking about. In reality, I am all for organic options and recycling and driving smaller cars, but sometimes the people who are really hardcore about it make me want to eat pesticide and steroid filled GMO apples and then throw the core in the street.

   Comment by Robin — March 21, 2011 @ 8:26 am

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    Emily, really the compost part is the confusing stuff to me. I’m not sure what’s compostable. In Michigan you subscribe to a recycling service, you put everything in one bin out on the curb and then they come pick it up and sort through it. I’ve never had to sort and I don’t know what should go where.

    Robin, throwing the core in the street is a nice touch, I should’ve added that in!

    Nessa, the weather was NOT like that. It was in the 40′s, rainy and freezing! I like stormy weather, but not every day.

    Cata, por la ventana es como lo hacen en Chile tambien

    Deidre, what is carob? It sounds scary!

    Jason, haha, we’re probably producing your organic produce in Chile and then sending it all out to the UK for you guys to eat and leaving none for us!

    Comment by Kyle — March 21, 2011 @ 1:14 pm

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    I’ve lived in the Bay Area almost 2 years and it’s funny when you catch yourself at parties asking the hosts where their compost goes. I drive my friends who aren’t in the know crazy for refusing to buy or even use paper towels. I wasn’t always like this! I think of compost as stuff that you could throw in the woods and if you came back to it a month or two later, it would either be gone or in some other form. So cardboard and paper may be something you would typically recycle, but a pizza box is too greasy to recycle – it’s meant for the compost bin.

    The weather is pretty bad…even in LA and Miami, the weather isn’t perfect all of the time. Hawaii is where it’s at, weather wise!

    Comment by Caitlin — March 21, 2011 @ 3:40 pm

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    Compost is biodegradable stuff, so basically stuff like that apple core you want to throw in the street When I was growing up in the Bay Area our recycling bins were divided into one for plastic/glass/cans, one for paper and one for “yard waste” which I guess we could have used for food waste too since I’m pretty sure apple cores and grass clippings would go to the same place.
    PS. Carob is used to make a chocolate substitute. I used to ask for my fro-yo with carob chips as the topping. I didn’t know they were pretending to be chocolate, I just liked them. Clearly I am a hippie Californian!

    Comment by Emily — March 21, 2011 @ 5:07 pm

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    I still think the recycling plants have to sort the trash. I have to give the credit to the homeless to make me laugh today at work! only in SF… I love yogenfruz, it closed in Cali i loved their mango w condensed milk! or maracuya with condensed milk. I take probiotic pills! they r good for u

    Comment by Catalina — March 21, 2011 @ 6:17 pm

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    Haha, I lived for a summer in San Francisco and absolutely loved it (except for the weather- it’s left me in limbo as to whether I would move back). However, when I go back to visit friends I find it’s evolving. The compost thing threw me off for starters. But as much as things seem foreign there, I’m sure you’d adapt and at least they’re environmentally conscious However, I do feel bad for Seba about the Coke thing…. that’s a bit severe!

    Comment by Laura — March 21, 2011 @ 7:13 pm

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    I think we composted stuff in a science experiment once when I was little. And we consistently had a pile of rotting dead leaves in our backyard every fall. Does that count?

    Comment by Kyle — March 21, 2011 @ 7:32 pm

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    A JA JA JA! I miss SF for all the reasons you just mentioned. Come to New Orleans! Recycling doesn’t exist here. Cokes abound. Fried chicken! Organic schmorganic.

    Comment by Annie — March 22, 2011 @ 7:52 am

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    At least you are allowed to visit. My wife and I had planned just one trip last year and that was to San Francisco. We had been looking forward to it with such enthusiasm because it was our first vacation together since the first time we had met. Even when we got married we can’t really say we went anywhere because that was to Park City just 25 minutes down the road. Sadly though we didn’t quite manage to get there. Our car decided a month before hand that it needed some serious repairs 2 days before my wife’s birthday which pretty much swallowed up our San Francisco funds in one go, she cried a lot, and I could have reenacted the Basil Fawlty scene from Fawlty Towers where he smacks his car around with a tree branch.

    Comment by Scotsman — March 22, 2011 @ 8:03 am

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    I’ve always wanted to go to San Francisco. They describe Sydney, Aus as the ‘Los Angeles’ of Australia and Melbourne as the ‘San Francisco’, so full of culture.

    Unfortunately I’ve not been to any of those places but, ah well, my time will come.

    I do love that the guy gave you “Go back to Michigan you Evil Earth Destroyer. YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT HEALTH” eyes. That made me giggle. Hehe. But, no, seriously, I have no clue what probiotic yoghurt really is. I mean, it’s good for you, right? :S

    Comment by Ceri — March 24, 2011 @ 1:50 pm

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    People like to poke fun of SF’s ways because it seems extreme to some, but when everyone realizes the way things are done here in SF actually does make a lot of sense, we’ll be the ones laughing True, there are people here who take some of the food stuff to the max, but there are many more who’ve found a balance and are rolling there eyes at the extremists.

    I used to laugh at the idea of composting, then I was confused about it. Then I visited the SF Dump and saw firsthand what the accumulation of trash looks like. Now I’m a wholehearted believer in sorting my trash into three bins: compost, recycling and trash. And you know what? It feels GOOD.

    Glad you liked SF… maybe your next visit could be an opportunity to look beyond the surface to why things are done the way they are!

    Comment by Ekua — March 30, 2011 @ 3:42 pm

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    Ekua, it’s not poking fun. It’s not that I disagree with WHAT they’re doing. It’s how they’re doing it. You can recycle and not be an asshole about it. That was pretty much the point of my post

    Comment by kyle — March 30, 2011 @ 10:12 pm

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