Books • Ideas • Goods

Specializing in books on the environment, politics, sustainability, the slow food movement, organics, urban planning nature, and children's books.

Upcoming Events at The Green Arcade:

Wednesday, July 1, 7pm Free
  Novella Carpenter author of
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer



The fast-paced account of the day-to-day drama unfolding in one backyard in Oakland makes "Farm City" more than just a whimsical, next-generation hippie farm in the ghetto and transforms Carpenter's personal experience into a broader, more engaging inquiry into our culture's complex relationship with food.  --Peter Smith, SF Chronicle


Saturday, July 11th, 5pm (Note early start time.) Free
  Jeff Mapes
Pedaling Revolution



From traffic-dodging bike messengers to tattooed teenagers on battered bicycles, from riders in spandex to well-dressed executives, ordinary citizens are becoming transportation revolutionaries. In Pedaling Revolution, Jeff Mapes traces the growth of bicycle advocacy; examines the environmental, safety, and health aspects of cycling; and explores the growing bike culture that is changing the look and feel of cities, suburbs, and small towns across North America.


Monday, July 13, 7pm Free
  Dean Kuipers
Operation Bite Back:
Rod Coronado's War to Save American Wilderness



Dean Kuipers talks about his new book Operation Bite Back: Rod Coronado's War to Save American Wilderness. Passions run high when it comes to environmentalism, yet few condone the extreme tactics of such groups as the Animal Liberation Front. Los Angeles Times editor Kuipers, focuses on eco warrior, some would say eco terrorist, Ron Coronado as a key to the incendiary side of green activism.


Thursday, July 30, 7pm
  Lisa Jervis
Cook Food: Manualfesto for Easy, Healthy, Local Eating



"Overwhelmed by all the politics on your plate? Paralyzed by guilt every time you shop for food? In this swift and delectable guide, Lisa Jervis shows not just how easy it can be to eat with your conscience and with the planet, but also how delightful it is to feel at home in the kitchen." --Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved

“Thanks to Lisa Jervis for not only distilling such important information into digestible bites, but for putting the theory into practice with excellent and inspiring recipes. Potluck at my place, please!” --Michelle Tea, author of Rose of No Man’s Land and Rent Girl


Thursday, July 30, 7pm Free and Freewheeling
  Peter Maravelis
San Francisco Noir 2



Editor and raconteur Peter Maravelis will spin sultry discs and mix it up, including readings from certain contributors to his sequel to San Francisco Noir, aptly titled San Francisco Noir 2. Noir attire encouraged.



Wednesday, September 2, 7pm Free
  Rebecca Solnit
A Paradise Built in Hell:
The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster



Release party for Rebecca Solnit's new book A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster. Rebecca Solnit continues to bravely explore the themes of altruism and hope, this time through several histories of the shaken commons in the aftermath of calamity, where mutual aid and good spontaneously erupt, countering those who would abuse authority and retain power over the health of the body politic.





NOW at The Green Arcade:


Pinocchio
by Gent Sturgeon




Add Bonn
We are thrilled to have work spanning over 3 decades currently on display and available for purchase


Add Bonn • Marin Headlands-Telephone Pole • acrylic on canvas board  22 X 28, 1980
$1500.00

Add Bonn is a native San Franciscan who studied at California School of Fine Arts and displayed at the de Young, the Palace of Fine Arts, the Museum of Modern Art, The Legion of Honor and the Oakland Museum. Her grandparents moved to the Mission District in 1853.


Xavier Viramontes


Boycott Grapes silk screen printed and signed by the artist
Framed $250.00 • Unframed $150.00

This poster, which was originally produced in the 1970s, played an important part in the Grape Boycott taking place at the time.  It is now part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institute and the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  This is the first time it has been reproduced since that time.


Sandy Florian



Sandy Florian's new book The Tree of No, from Action Books, is now available.
Cover art by Gent Sturgeon, creator of The Green Arcade's logo.

The Green Arcade
1680 Market Street @Gough
San Francisco CA 94102
(415) 431-6800

Open Mon - Sat, 12-8
Sunday 11-7
Holiday Hours: Saturday July 4th  12-5:30

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