Easter Weekend Volunteer Day at Sunset Circle

All the people who mattered came out en force on this Easter Sunday to help make San Francisco a greener city, one parking lot at a time. The all-stars included Lisa Mei, Alex, Ant, Stacey, Henry, Derrick, Lisa Kwan, Peter, Jeanette, Rosey Jencks (my boss) and Sarah Minick.

We had a blast planting about 150 San Francisco Bay Area-native plants before a wicked rain rumbled through. The volunteer planting day was in the name of Low Impact Design (LID). We restored the vegetation at Sunset Circle, an LID demonstration project. The parking lot, prior to its makeover, was a 4-acre asphalt carpet that on rainy days just bled all kinds of pollutants into Lake Merced. With the native vegetation in place, the soil and plants take up much of the pollutants, thus filtering the stormwater runoff before it reaches the beautiful lake.