As of this new year, I’m using a new system for Thinkwalks tours. Reservations are no longer necessary. After experimenting with various ways of tracking reservations, it seemed silly. I don’t require—or encourage—advance payment, so I may as well not require you, the commitment-averse people of San Francisco, to commit. Just show up! My new  more »

Looks like it’s the season for awards, and we’re knee-deep in them over here at Thinkwalks. This week, the San Francisco Bay Guardian gave Thinkwalks its freshly minted “Best of the Bay: Best Cerebral Stroll” Editor’s Pick Award. Joel Pomerantz has a lot of nerve asking people to think and walk at the same time.  more »

In the mid 1990s, I helped create two pieces of printed matter that I had no idea would hit it off one day. With each other. Strange, but true: Stannous Flouride’s Star Map of the Haight and 409 House’s Directory of Local Services found one another, fourteen years later, and got hitched. The resulting Haight  more »

Check out what interesting stuff I’ve sleuthed up for the “trek” I’m leading with Nature in the City on November 14th. The tour will start in Golden Gate Park, because since the late 1800s, the Laguna Honda watershed has been a main source of water for irrigation of the Park. The creation of the irrigation  more »

As you’ll be glad to see, dear reader, Thinkwalks is undergoing a small renovation. I’m taking this opportunity to thank you for your patience and let you know what’s in store. An exciting meeting took place this week, as mentioned two posts ago. I hired Amy Conger to help systematize Thinkwalks projects. I’m so glad  more »

The Thinkwalks blog is going into full swing today. At least for a time, likely many months, most content here will be related to the Storm Book I’ve begun researching. My intent is to publish articles and a prospectus booklet, eventually extruding a book on the topic. I hope I can nudge The Great Storm  more »

Chris Carlsson, who leads the bike tours for Shaping SF, is one well-read guy. He understands so many of the specifics about work-related politics. His ideas were formed from reading books that were written back when labor organizer was a radical term. And it seems he’s read everything published since then. On a Shaping SF  more »

Kimberly tweeted it and Bonnie both blogged it and tweeted it after taking a Thinkwalks Walk the Wiggle tour. Some folks even heard the tweeting and signed up for the next Walk the Wiggle. Turns out Bonnie was writing for a blog owned by Discovery, called Treehugger. A few others have picked up on it  more »