francisco -- [laughter] may i declare this to be method day in san francisco. [applause] >> come on over here. let's take a picture. >> i was not expecting that. thank you very much. >> congratulations. >> thank you very much abou. [applause] >> the real reason we are here is that there is great food in chinatown. no, we love san francisco. it is a great honor for us to be recognized for what we like to do every day. she mentioned transparency --

jarend mentioned transparency. that is something we believe deeply in. there have been some very nice things said about method today. we appreciate all of them. we certainly are not a perfect business. we focus every day on trying to get better. one thing, very coincidentally, that we have done is actually eric and i have written a book about our business model called "method money." it comes out today. it is the type of book that you right after you're not in the business anymore. but we believe very deeply that if other people can explore and see how we do things, both right and wrong, then maybe they can improve upon that, and maybe we can make it a little bit of a better place. so watch out for that. >> this is the best book launch recover ever asked for. [laughter]

thank you. and we started the company, and a goal of ours was to have an impact bigger than just making ourselves. i am absolutely blown away by the guests that we have here, method day, and all of you. so thank you so much. it is just amazing that 10 years later in san francisco, we have been able to have this impact, and we feel like we're just verdict scratch the surface of what is possible. >> we're going to go on a tour of the office and show people how we do things around here. i would like to close by thanking administrator jackson, mayor lee, and the others. >> [inaudible] >> thank you for reminding me. please, questions.

>> on the issue of transparency -- [inaudible] >> that is the plan. when you take this type of plastic and recycle it, it does that. >> [inaudible] which company partners? >> we cannot say which retailer we're partnering with at this time. our goal is to try to bring this to market sometime early next year. of course it depends on making sure we get the right supply of plastic and enough of it so we can make the bottles to watch it nationally. >> during the height of the recession, i and understand that your company contracted and you had to lay off some of your workers. that was because the demand for green at products what's the down for consumers. how are things now? are you hiring? or is that market? >> we have several open positions on our website. we're hiring and have open

positions we're looking to fill. the business is growing. i think we're growing as fast as anyone in this industry if not a lot faster. >> the demand for green consumer products is down, people cannot afford it or they are not prioritizing it. >> i think the demand for ordinary green products is down. i think what we do is we create an extraordinary products. that type of product design creates a lot of loyalty in our brand that has carried us through the recession. generally when people try method, they keep using it. that gives us a base of which we can grow. >> whatever betty to have at least one question before follow up. >> quickly, i was not quite sure how you're going to get the continuous supply chain of the plastic. can you explain that? >> frankly, neither are we.

creating the supply chain for ocean plastic floating in the ocean 3,000 miles from here is not something that has been done before. there is a number of beach clean-up organizations that work in california and hawaii that irregularly cleaning up this plastic. the model is just to intercept that plastic, which is normally taking it down to the landfill and take the portions we can use in denver that down to california for manufacturing. the only remaining step we have to do is to get enough of the supply. we're not finding it that hard to get enough of the plastic. it is a matter of scaling how broadly we roll this out at retail and the ability to get the supply. i am certainly will be able to do it. >> obviously, this is one company of many that the administration is hoping to support with the american jobs act. i am interested in utility scale

alternative energy companies, which is a huge market, right? i am wondering how the american jobs act will help create a whole group of jobs in alternative energy? >> well, let me remind everyone that the stimulus act, the american reinvestment and recovery act, had $80 billion in grants and loan guarantees for the clean energy space. the loan guarantees were very important to businesses that were starting up, and a lot of work on user efficiency and some on innovations, because we need to keep innovating. as the president said in his speech, it is important to remember what he is looking at, and that is his first big push, because he knows those are jobs that are on the table right now. we did not talk about the teachers, firefighters, and construction worker jobs that he is talking about, hundreds of thousands of them that we can restore right now in our

economy. but he is also continuing the programs he has put in place, and those are very much things we are defending right now so we do not lose the progress we have made, to continue to push those things for it. whether it is advanced batteries are other types of innovations, whether it is the clean car and truck release requiring cars to move much quicker toward zero are very low emissions to the those are very important, and we're not backing away. as the president noted, we're going to be doing even more. and utilities, epa has very important roles. we have adopted across state air pollution rules. the mercury rule is due in december. as we speak, people are trying to stop them from being finalized. extraordinarily important that we make sure that solution -- pollution is not given an advantage over clean energy,

which is why we want it. >> you are here talking about exchanging ideas about green jobs, and on the state, the "washington post" has a story headlined "the green jobs hite." they're talking about how president obama has that made this a showcase of his economic recovery and that the result has been underwhelming. how do you respond to skeptics that say the green jobs technology, the industry, is a hype? >> you will continue to see a strong push back. everyone in the administration knows that. we see those jobs in supply chains across the country. everything from, yesterday, i spent time at recology. they're well over 1000 people working in this area, simply because the city has said we want to divert all of our waste out of landfills. those are green jobs. you have heard about the jobs

that are recreated because somebody said we want to recycle plastic. then i want to project open hand and that the people who put solar panels that solar hot water panels on their roof. that work is continuing. of course, public policies here in the city that are forward- looking are helping that to happen. yes, i know that there is so focused that because of one issue, people are not seeing those jobs as fast as we might like. but they're there. i think you should expect to see a solution to answer those charges. >> there is the poster child for failure, which is cylindra. >> the investigations of what happened there will continue. but what i would hate to see is for us to walk away from the other companies to have benefited from good government policy, whether it is cleaner vehicles are clamping down on air and water pollution from

dirty your energy sources or whether it is all that money that went to an array of businesses across the country that are designed to transition us. it is a transition to move to clean energy. it does not happen overnight, but it requires us to continue to move forward. there are certainly a lot of folks that are looking for a rollback. >> are there more? >> yes, yes wondering, the local point. president obama's jobs act -- [inaudible] do something else? >> well, we are certainly going to work in concert with our federal government to support any local business relief, if you will, because i know businesses will find ways in

which they can create more jobs. as was announced earlier, there already hiring jobs. they have got a good model to start. in the bottom line for everybody, because i think it begins with a vision, as asked earlier, a durable -- jobs are the very end. people need cities like san francisco to create those jobs. the best jobs being created right now are in the clean technology and bio technology life sciences. those are so well paid for, and they have sustainability. especially when you keep the innovation spirit that we started here in san francisco. in addition to the technology jobs in tourism jobs in the city, i think the companies that want to move here want to make sure that they can sustain themselves with all of the incentives that local government and federal government can provide. i think the federal government is doing what the local governments are attempting to do, provide those incentives that were to create and sustain

jobs, especially in these new industries or i think a lot of students and young kids are looking for the jobs. they want something that is sustainable. they also want to be attached to something that proves our environment. that is what i hear every day. high-school kids from public schools was something that will be proud of. associating themselves with a company like method will make them very proud. there will be good citizens as well, and they will be volunteers this saturday, i am sure. >> thank you. [applause] ♪ >> hello, and welcome to the department of elections right

choice voting instructional video. it is part of the department of elections right choice voting outreach campaign and is designed to educate san francisco rig franciscoht choice voting. today we will learn what it is and who is elected using this voting method. we will also talk about with the ranked joyce l. looks like and how to market correctly. finally, we will see how the ranked joyce voting process works and to you an example of an election using ranked choice of voting. so, what is ranked joyce voting? in march 2002 san francisco voters adopted a charter to implement ranked choice of voting, also known as instant runoff voting. san francisco voters will use it to elect most local officials by selecting a first choice candidate in the first column on the ballot and deborah second

and third choice candidates in the second and third columns resect to do -- respectively. this makes it possible to elect local officials with the majority of votes. more than 50% without the need for a second runoff election. in san francisco, ranked choice of voting is for the election of members of the board of supervisors, the mayor, sharon, just -- district attorney, city attorney, treasurer, this is a recorder, and public defender. ranked joyce voting does not apply to elections for local school and community college board members. number the election of state or federal officials. ranked choice of voting does not affect the adoption ballot measures. when voters received their ballot, either at a polling place or an absentee ballot in the mail, it will consist of multiple cards. voters will receive cards with

contests for federal and state offices, as well as for state propositions and local ballot measures. for ranked choice voting contest, voters will receive a separate ranked choice ballot card. it will have instructions to rank three choices, which is new. the ranked choice ballot is designed in the side by side column format that lists the names of all candidates in each of the three columns. when marking the ranked choice ballot, voters elect their first choice in the first column by completing the aero pointing to their choice. for their second choice, voters selected different wind by completing the arab pointing to their choice in the second column. for their third choice, voters elect a different candidate by completing the arrow pointing to their choice. voters wishing to vote for qualified write-in candidate can

write it in on the line provided. and they must complete the arrow pointing to their choice. keep in mind, it voters should select a different candidate for each of the three columns of the ranked choice ballot card. if the voters elect the same candidate in more than one column, his or her vote for that candidate will count only once. also, a voter's second choice will be counted only if his or her first choice candidate has been eliminated. and a voter's third choice will be counted only if both his or her first and second choice candidates have been eliminated. we have talked about how to mark the ranked choice ballot. now let's look at how ranked choice of voting works. initially, every first choice vote is a candidate. any candidate that receives a majority, more than 50% of the first choice to vote, is determined to be the winner.

if no candidate receives more than 50% of the first choice votes, a process of eliminating candidates and transferring votes begins. first, the candidate who received the fewest numbers of first choice votes is eliminated from the race. second, voters who selected the eliminated candidate as their first choice will have their vote to transfer to their second choice. there, all the votes are recounted. fourth, if any candidate receives more than 50% of the votes, he/she is declared the winner. if no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote, the process of eliminating candidates and transferring votes is repeated until one candidate has a winning majority. now let's look at an example of an election using ranked choice of voting. in this example, we have three candidates. candidate a, b, and c.

after all the first choice votes are counted, none of the three candidates has received more than 50%, or a majority of the first choice vote cast. candidate a g-205% ofb the votes% received 40%. and c received 35% of the boats. because no candidate received a majority, the candidate who received the fewest number of first choice votes, a candidate a, is eliminated from the race. voters to pick a candidate a as their first choice candidate will have their but transferred to their second choice. and the voters to pick and a, 15% chose candidate b as their second choice, and 10% chose c as their second choice. these votes are then applied to b and c, and the votes are recounted. candidate b now has 55% of the

votes. candidate c as 45%. candidate b has more than 50% of the votes and is determined as the winner. >> thank you for watching. we hope you have ranked choice learned ranked choice of voting and was elected. you have seen the ballot, learned how to market, and learned how the voting process works. if you have any further questions about ranked choice voting, please contact us at department of elections, city hall, room 48, 1 dr. carlton be good lit place, sentences go, california, 94102. or 415-554-4375. visit our website, www.sfelections.org.

>> the next time you take a muni bus or train, there could be new technology that could make it easier to get to your destination. many are taking a position of next bus technology now in use around the city. updated at regular intervals from the comfort of their home or workplace. next bus uses satellite technology and advanced computer modeling to track buses and trains, estimating are bought stocks with a high degree of accuracy. the bus and train our arrival information can be accessed from your computer and even on your cellular phone or personal digital assistant. knowing their arrival time of the bus allows riders the choice of waiting for it or perhaps doing some shopping locally or getting a cup of coffee. it also gives a greater sense that they can count on you to get to their destination on time. the next bus our arrival

information is also transmitted to bus shelters around the city equipped with the next bus sign. riders are updated strictly about arrival times. to make this information available, muni has tested push to talk buttons at trial shelters. rider when pushes the button, the text is displayed -- when a rider pushes the button. >> the success of these tests led to the expansion of the program to all stations on the light rail and is part of the new shelter contract, push to talk will be installed. check out the new technology making your right easier every day