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We had biked 10 centuries in about as many miles, from a medieval stone tower in a maze of narrow village streets to an isolated ridge with a barbed wire remnant of the Iron Curtain. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Green business strategist Joel Makower has seen corporate interest in environmental issues rise, fall and rise again over the past two decades. Makower, an Oakland resident, is chairman and executive editor of Greener World Media, which produces the Greenbiz.com Web site and an annual "State of Green Business" report. He is also co-author of a new book, "Strategies for the Green Economy: Opportunities and Challenges in the New World of Business." [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Smashing Katie is a startup born from a breakup. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The young female backpacker reached the top of Mount Abraham just as we were getting ready to head down. Mount Abraham is hardly a mountain by Sierra standards - it's just 4,006 feet high - but it has a jaw-dropping, 360-degree view that stretches across the Green Mountains of Vermont, Lake Champlain and the Adirondacks. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

There may not be peanuts and pretzels anymore on airplanes, but someday there may be algae oil. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It's part of nearly every back-to-school shopping list: the colorful, durable three-ring vinyl binder. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco's Mission District was rocked by yet another shooting early Saturday morning, when a 19-year-old man was wounded in what may have been part of a wave of gang-related shootings. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Evan Smith wrapped a forester's measuring tape around the trunk of Tree 10525, a towering Douglas fir, to figure out its diameter. Then he used a screwlike device to remove a thin wood sample from the trunk so he could measure its rings. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It's 2008: The housing market is a mess, new home construction is half the level of four years ago and remodeling sales are down. It's a pretty crummy time to be in the building supply industry. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Mixt Greens of San Francisco and Vineyards Inn of Sonoma County were named the greenest restaurants in the Bay Area on Thursday in a contest sponsored by Thimmakka, a Berkeley nonprofit that helps restaurants improve their environmental practices. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Gap. Inc. said Thursday that it had appointed longtime retail executive Tom Wyatt as president of its Old Navy division, a position he had held on an interim basis since February. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Workers' compensation has been a bright spot for cost-conscious California businesses in recent years, with rates dropping 65 percent since 2003. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Longs Drug Stores Corp. said Tuesday it has reached an agreement to be acquired by CVS Caremark Corp. - a move that is likely to leave most Northern California Longs stores open but with a new CVS name hanging over their doors. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Tim O'Shea wants to do for fish what Niman Ranch did for meat. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Forget TV: This summer, Olympic enthusiasts have a variety of choices when it comes to following their favorite athletes. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Looking to get rid of an old computer? Drop it off this week at the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Consultants in the Bay Area are doing well despite the current economic downturn, according to a survey released Monday by Women in Consulting, a professional association. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This is how the other half flies. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Ellen Raynor doesn't have a problem getting 100,000 pounds of used carpet in the door of her warehouse each week. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Lots of folks bike to work. But bike for work? And get reimbursed for it? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Is green swag an oxymoron? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Picture Jaguars basking in the sun. But not felines in the tropics - cars in a San Francisco dealership. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The solar panels get shot with marble-size pellets of ice traveling at 75 feet per second. They get sprayed with water. They get locked in a bank vault-size chamber and cycled through temperatures of 90 to minus-40 degrees Centigrade for 45 days. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ... about $12 billion worth of ice cream. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When Vietnamese immigrant Andrew Ly and his brothers bought a San Francisco neighborhood doughnut shop in 1979, they were looking for a small business that could support their families. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. is launching a green insurance option for homeowners that will allow people with conventional homes to rebuild to the latest environmental standards after a loss. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Starbucks Corp. said Tuesday that it will close 600 of the 7,257 coffee shops it operates in the United States over the next year, affecting as many as 12,000 employees. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Mention environmentally friendly restaurants, and most Bay Area diners are likely to think of places like Chez Panisse - upscale fine-dining destinations that can charge a premium for using locally grown and organic ingredients. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Leah Oblinger had managed the San Francisco office of Barkley Court Reporters for two years when, in 2006, she decided to turn it green. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Stanford University has notified tens of thousands of past and current Stanford University employees that their personal information - including their dates of birth, Social Security numbers and home addresses - was on the hard drive of a stolen university laptop. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

About 40 prisoners were involved in a riot on Friday at Pelican Bay State Prison, the maximum-security prison in Crescent City (Del Norte County), state officials said Saturday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Two mild earthquakes hit Contra Costa County on Saturday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The victim of a Thursday night motorcycle accident has been identified by the San Francisco medical examiner as San Francisco resident Robert Gimelli. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It's hard to imagine itty-bitty wine corks making much of a contribution to the world's mass of trash. But Larkspur publicist Roger Archey is heading a new effort to recycle wine corks - and he's already collected over 300,000 of them. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Stuart G. Moldaw of Atherton, a retail pioneer who founded Ross Stores and was a founding investor in the Gymboree Corp., died on Saturday after a brief illness. He was 81. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Old wine barrels from the Kendall-Jackson winery in Sonoma County will be taking on an environmentally friendly second life - as rainwater containers and backyard composters. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Insurance policies geared to green buildings. Methane from beer brewing that is turned into energy. Company shuttle buses that cut pollution by getting employees out of their private cars. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The city of San Francisco upped its commitment to solar power this week, choosing a local firm to build what will be the country's third-largest solar photovoltaic system. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A long-simmering dispute over the definition of organic personal care products boiled over into court Monday, when Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps filed a lawsuit charging many of its competitors with deceptively marketing their soaps and lotions. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Arm & Hammer is selling fabric softener sheets that it says are "more sensible for the environment." Gillette makes cans of shaving gel that carry a little icon of a globe and promise "no CFCs." Even giant Wal-Mart has an "Earth friendly" section of its Web site, offering organic cotton clothing, solar garden lights and energy-efficient appliances. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

For hundreds of thousands of American Airlines passengers left in the lurch by canceled flights this week, the transportation chaos might seem like an arbitrary act of the air travel gods. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Heather McLeod Grant had a 1 p.m. conference call and a 4-year-old daughter who was home from preschool for the day but would not nap. As the call began, she could hear Somerset stirring in her room. Then she heard jumping. Finally a little head peeked in the door and grinned. "Mommy, I not sleeping," Somerset said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The U.S. airline industry was rocked Thursday by the abrupt closure of a second large airline in a week as low-priced carrier ATA Airlines followed Aloha Airlines in declaring bankruptcy and shutting its doors. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Citing threats of violence by animal rights activists, the San Francisco Art Institute said Saturday that it is canceling a controversial exhibition that included video clips of animals being bludgeoned to death, as well as a public forum it had scheduled to address the controversy. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Three men were killed early Saturday in two separate shooting incidents in San Francisco. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When two employees at the Small Frys children's store recently asked to work four days each week instead of five, owner Carol Yenne considered hiring someone to fill those shifts. But with talk of a possible recession in the news every day, she ultimately decided to bridge the gap herself. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Sergio Solarez smoothly ran his utility knife around the side of a queen-size mattress, like slicing a cake into two layers. He pulled off the flowered fabric and two layers of foam, flipped the mattress over with an explosion of dust, and sliced and stripped the other side until he was left with a bare set of springs. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Two San Francisco police officers received minor injuries early Saturday when their patrol car crashed into a storefront in the Crocker Amazon neighborhood. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The pool cue can be mightier than the gun. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]