much, but it is really that, that turning computation into a utility that can be consumed as opposed to requiring human to surround previous manifestations of the technology. >> i thank the panel for coming here today. we also thank our audience here for those listening and viewing. now, this meeting of the commonwealth club of california commemorating its 108th year of discussion is adjourned. [applause]

>> voting. we often feel it as a fundamental right. it is the most significant way to have our voice heard. is directly, the right to vote has not always gone to women. 100 years ago, the battle for women's suffrage was not an easy one. it took more than 70 years. it all began in 1840 during an anti-slavery convention in

europe. >> lucretia mott and elizabeth cady stanton got together. basically, it was a proclamation that was a declaration of independence for women. we rightly mark and women in nine states from this point. >> at the time, women are prohibited from voting. >> feminist leaders dedicated their lives to reform and campaign vigorously for women's rights. >> suffrage in the middle of the 19th century was not a governmental forced to organize an accomplished a goal. it was diametrically opposed to the ethic of the age.

we were supposed to have won a role in society and women were supposed to have another role. >> many argued it was not their place. >> women in the 19th century had to convince male voters that having the vote would not keen to anything peeping that women would still be devoted to home and the family. that having the vote would not corrupt them. >> in spite of opposition, reformers gradually performed at the state and local laws in california was amongst the trailblazers. >> they had private meetings. the call them parliament meetings. the afternoon tea. they spoke of these meetings as though they were social calls and not political activism. they did everything they could

to grounded their campaign in femininity and domesticity. >> despite their efforts, the link between suffrage and prohibition made it difficult to win over voters in big cities. >> the problem in san francisco, women's suffrage as an idea was associated with temperance. susan b. anthony made that connection as well in the 1880's when she abandoned the republican party and joined the prohibition party. prohibition was a deadly idea in san francisco. it was the foundation of the local economy. it was the center of masculine public life. anything that touched on the possibility of prohibition was deeply unpopular. >> the first campaign in california was a great effort,

but not a success. in a 1896, male voters rejected a ballot, but the war was not over. less than a decade later, the protests had new life. >> the women's equal suffrage late march on the republican convention in oakland. this time, they had a suffrage march with about 300 women who marched down the streets of brooklyn to the convention center, carrying a banner. it was a very public demonstration and a signal that women now considered the public's fear properly theirs. >> these elements in 1910 -- the opened a club in downtown san francisco on sadr street.

she offers lunch every day to the shop girls and the working women. and her idea is if the shop girls come in and have lunch, then she can interest them in the lunchroom. >> it had to be a transformation in the way people thought about women's rights. what happened some with women's clubs -- they began to go to that social transformation. it pushed the boundaries of what was possible, and they began to engage in civic and public work. >> what followed were parades and pageants, reaching every voter in the state from san diego to sacramento. >> male voters flocked to the

polls and approve the vote by a narrow margin. it was the sixth and largest state in the nation to approve women's suffrage. a decade later, women received a full voting rights after the passage of the 19th amendment and to help newly enfranchised women exercise the responsibility, a new women's club was founded. >> really, it was a movement that was created out of all the suffragettes moving forward with the right to vote. all the suffragette's were not interested in educating the new 20 million new voters. >> today the lead has chapters in all 50 states. it is non-partisan and does not endorse candidates. is very much political. >> 100 years ago, our voices were not heard. they were not going to give us the right to vote.

i really hope people vote. it is the one way to have our voice and heard. >> to celebrate, the events and exhibits are taking place throughout the state. >> uc berkeley is having an exhibit that highlights the suffrage movement. and highlights -- how long has the exhibit been going on? >> since the week of august 20. a lot of people do not realize that california actually allow women to vote before the rest of the nation did in the 1920's. all these materials were pulled from these collections. we have a huge amount of manuscript and raw material. >> 837 annual parade honoring the women suffragists will march

today in commemoration of 100 years of voting in california. 100 years ago this year, we won the right to vote. here we are, dressed as they would have dressed. [cheering] >> we won the right to vote. we won the right to vote. >> whether you are marching for cause or voting in the next election, make your voice heard.

thank you for watching. >> good morning. thank you for coming. my name is adam. i am the co-founder of method. method is a business where our success has been built on sustainable innovation. at the core of the sustainable innovation is green chemistry.

that is how we create green and products that outperform conventional ones. our approach to sustainable designed is not en -- does not end with what is in the bottle. it also includes the bottle. evidence of that is parked outside. it is also evident in our approach to sustainable package design. that is what i would like to address today. in 2006, method reached a milestone. we created the first custom pvc bottle manufactured completely from recycled plastic. in the five years since then, we have continued to innovate and focus on developing pcr technology to the point where

almost everybody we manufacture is made from 100% pcr plastic. that is millions of bottles a year that may completely free of virgin plastic. having achieved in this second milestone and the huge benefits that go with it, we started asking ourselves a question. that was, what is the ultimate recycled material? that is where our attention is turned to the issue of ocean plastic. what if we could take some of the plastic floating in the ocean and make bottles out of it? we would be taking a piece of trash and up it into something that could be recycled again and again. it could serve as a platform for

communicating the real solution. that is to use the billions of tons of plastic already on the past -- planet to manufacture products we interact with in our daily lives. i am proud to announce today that we have done it. this is the first bottle we know of made out of ocean plastic. we developed this in partnership with in vision -- envision plastics. they're one of the most innovative plastic recyclers in the country. the process to come up with this in many ways mirrors the traditional recycling process, but with a few twists. we take the plastic fluting in the ocean. we grind it up. it looks like these colorful flakes. we then manufacture that into resin pellets and ultimately

into a bottle like this one. there are a couple of special steps in the process that allows us to remove the contaminants and dirt on the plastic floating in the ocean for 10 years or more. this is as high quality as the virgin plastic bottle. the next step in the process is to gather enough plastic to allow us to manufacture the bottles we need. this is a process we have undertaken already. on saturday, we will be working with volunteer organizations to gather more plastic on international coastal cleanup day. afterwe will be taking the prodo market with a major u.s. retailer after that. imagine the proposition that there product that is packaged in the ocean plastic. for every one that you buy, you

take 10 grams of plastic directly out of the ocean. we think that is pretty neat. the point is not to clean up and up to the scientists will tell you that the area is simply too remote and to large and the plastic too small to clean it up. the real goal is to raise awareness about the issue of plastic pollution. as i have said, the solution is already in front of us. it is using the plastic that is already on the planet. getting after the solution requires us to invest in infrastructure and industry that -- excuse me, getting after that requires developing infrastructure and industry and around the recycling of material and capture and following the lead of cities like san francisco that are pioneers. these are inherently local activities.

that means that we can simultaneously create jobs and a green economy as well as give innovative businesses, like method, the materials we need to lead us toward a more sustainable world. thank you very much. this point, i am going to turn it over to epa administrator lisa jackson for a few comments. >> thank you. give him a hand. i think that is extraordinary. [applause] well, i just want to thank everyone in take a few moments. it is wonderful to be here, especially on a day like today. i want to thank adam, eric, and drew, and everybody from method that has come out to help prove that it does pay to protect our environment and to conserve our resources. method as recognized with more and more businesses are recognizing every single day, and that is that americans once

safe products. they want safe products that are good for their health, the health of their families, their children, and also good for the environment. but, method, you all go one step further. along with selling green products, you run green yourself. you run efficiently. you produce most of your energy on site through solar panels did you deliver your product bike tracks that run on biodiesel. a quick shot to the epa smart way program to help that biodiesel go further and further. you work with suppliers to make them greener as well. these practices help to save money on operations. i am happy to be standing with the epa in the strong call for green chemistry and water innovation in our country. along with spreading the word about the importance of green business and the green economy, we need chemicals reform.

we have called for it. the president has called for it. we need water protection, which we are fighting to maintain at epa right this moment. they are important for americans and important for businesses to understand the tie between a healthy environment and accessible product and making money. now we approach coastal cleanup day, so you're cutting edge work now producing bottles made out of plastic recovered from the ocean is one more example of how we can innovate our way to a prosperous future. this can be the story for the communities and companies across the united states who are looking for the next way to grow. good jobs are based on innovation, and innovation is based on an important resource. it is the ability to think a different way about things we use every day. that is what president obama has called for. that is why he wants to create incentives so that small businesses like this one can hire, so we can bring back green

power and innovation to work producing products. that is why he wants to see more money in family budgets so they can purchase products, and he wants to make sure that we create jobs, everything from teachers to first responders and construction workers right now, because we have to build our economy. we have to create jobs for americans right now. we need to and want to see more success stories like method. i congratulate you. but i have to say that right now, the most important thing we can do is to pass the american jobs act and that more americans to work but i am glad to be here to show how it can be done in a way that also led advances that would work for every day at epa, and that is protecting the air, water, and land that are so much part of our everyday lives. with that, i will have the joy of introducing one of my cabinet colleagues, administrator of the small business administration, karen gordon. [applause]

>> welcome back thank you very much to administrator jackson and to all of you from method for having us here. it is a great pleasure to be here. i know this product, and it is even more impressive to see the hole and you have developed. met this is a great example of something that we all talk about, which is a green company that is turning innovation into jobs. as you know, we're focused right now on creating jobs here in america, and that involves benefit of small businesses. half of the people who work in america own or work for a small business. two out of every three new jobs are created by small business. what you have right in front of you is the tale of our greatest assets. you have two young men who got

together as a roommates when they were 25. they are, as they tell me, from detroit. they're from entrepreneur real families to their families were in the automobile industry as entrepreneurs, and they are taking the best they told me that they are carrying this entrepreneur spirit on in a new industry and in a new place. that is really america's story. that is what the small business administration and all of us to cross the administration are here driving. in addition to what you see here yet met the, there's a whole supply chain behind us. they buy and work with suppliers who are american manufacturers. all of this is produced here in america. in minnesota, illinois, indiana, and those are jobs. so when they prosper, we get a job creation all across america.

so thank you, because this is really what we're out here trying to do. because as you grow and prosper, so does america grow and prosper. this brings me to what the president talked about this week. you know, president obama traveled all around the country and visits companies like this. i know he will love to see something like this. >> he is welcome any time. [laughter] >> he understands small business, and it is really in his heart. one of the things you see in the america's jobs act as a focus on small business. for example, the first thing that you see is there's going to be payroll tax relief for small businesses. payroll taxes cut in half. we were talking about, what are you going to do with that money? this is a company that has more growth opportunities, more demand, more pathways in front of it than it has the ability to

pursue in the resources to pursue. right away, they said that money can go to more marketing, advertising, more suppliers, more inventory, and we know that that will create more jobs. that is our job creation is going to happen from the american jobs act. so we need congress to pass that now so we can get the money into hands of small businesses, like method. in addition, there are benefits for bringing to zero the payroll tax credit for people who increased their payroll. so that next incremental person you hire, the payroll tax will be zero on the new employee. for california, this could help 700,000 firms. 700,000 firms it will also have tax credits with 100% expensive for new e equipment, and a number of all equipment is all designed to put money and resources into the hands of small business owners.

because the president knowns in all of us know, government does not create the jobs. it is our job to give small businesses the tools they need so that they can grow, they can prosper, and they can create jobs, as is happening in this company method. thank you for having me here. to introduce the epa regional administrator. jared -- [applause] >> thank you all for coming. it was really great to have my boss here and administrator mills. i chose to come to talk about the amazing work that this part of the world around green jobs -- to the happening everywhere. it is really happening here. in terms of the enormity of the announcement today, the gyre of

plastic floating in the ocean is now twice the size of texas. there are parts of the ocean where the ratio of plastic to plankton is now 10 parts of plastic to one part of plankton. so this is a very large-scale issue. i think people feel very depressed when they think about it and do not know what they can do. epa is doing a number of things, and so is method. one is to reduce packaging. how do we reduce the amount of packaging? one way to do that is to insure all the packaging is as efficient as possible, but also made of recycled material. another thing they're doing in the bay area and l.a. is to set 0 limits on the amount of trash that could go to water bodies. so the l.a. river has a zero trash total maximum load. the same with san francisco bay. that requires action on the parts of cities, but mainly companies are leading the way. it is a fantastic to hear about this. this is the coastal cleanup week.

this saturday. last year, california reached 1 million participants in coastal cleanup. so this gives and next -- you know, when my kids go out this saturday to ocean beach, people want to know that they are making a difference towards something. it is not just cleaning it up and checking something off a list. now they know that the plastic will go into a bottle, and a bottle will continuously be recycled. it gives meaning to something that already has a value, but it sends a message back on what you're doing individually and how that can make a difference. talking of making a difference, the person i am going to introduce started at dpw in san francisco. and he said, jared, how can we come up with it was to protect our janitors, to protect people that go into city buildings, and save money? so that the things that the city buys are good for the environment. so we sat down and came up with a list. now the city only buys things

that do not have harmful toxic chemicals in them. one of the things that administrator jackson has pushed for is transparency and information about what is in a product. we would call companies to ask what is in the cleaning products, and they would not tell us. we would say, if you do not tell us what is in the product, we will not be able to buy it. method tells you every single thing in their product. nobody should have anything to hide about what is in their bottle. that transparency is a big part of what epa is doing. and lisa's leadership to make sure we all know. but would not have happened without the leadership of the mayor of the city, ed lee. i would like you to come up to the podium and say a few words. [applause] >> thank you. welcome to the border of chinatown, san francisco. this is amazing to be here to join administered jackson. thank you and welcome.

administer mills, thank you. i also want to thank dan for being here. nancy pelosi's office has been a great supporter of us. and our business office at the region has been wonderful supporters as well. i am here to celebrate. this wonderful tribute to our city of innovation. you know, as you write of the elevator right here, they already have a model on the elevator that you can not have to think dirty. you can actually think clean. of course, that has tripled meanings in our city. [laughter] but as we approached coastal cleanup this week, there are already press releases. when you look at the way our beaches are looking now and the amount of debris that