staff, and working with all of our players to turn this field of dreams into reality and hopefully to hit a real home run with it. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you, president david chiu. they're not out on the field yet. you did not take this into the first inning. [laughter] ok, one of the great things about san francisco is we have a real focus on the neighborhoods and the districts, and we have representatives who are elected by districts and are focused on their constituents. i am proud to say that we have a wonderful district supervisor in the district where we play ball and where we look to be constructing soon, and that is supervisor jane kim. supervisor kim? [applause] >> i have the honor of representing this amazing

district, district 6, which the giants consider their home base. it is really great to have a business and a company and an organization here in the city that loves the city as much as we do and that contributes a lot. i want to thank the giants, who support a lot of our neighborhood organizations and communities. it was great to see you at st. anthony's a month ago as we celebrate the groundbreaking of what will soon be affordable housing for seniors and a great new meals kitchen for our community. it is important to have partners like this that care and are passionate about our city. i have the honor of representing one of the older neighborhoods in san francisco, but it also happens to be our emerging neighborhoods, the south of market and the mission bay. it is a lot of fun to be the supervisor of this district, because we have a lot to work with. we're kind of drawing the neighborhoods. one of the priorities of this district is developing a complete neighborhoods, neighborhoods that bring in infrastructure, whether it is

street skating that encourages pedestrians and bikers and our public transit, that build open space. that is important to this neighborhood right here. and of course contributing to a mixed income housing. the affordable housing fund. we're actually constructing affordable housing. that is the type of development we look for here in the city. i am excited to work with the giants. i know their dedicated and committed to the city. they want to bring what our neighborhoods and communities with like to see. this is a tremendous amount of space sitting behind us with a ton of potential to create jobs and make your neighborhood safer and more complete. i look forward to working with our mayor, to our board of supervisors, and of course our giants to hopefully bring this development home here. thank you so much for having me here. i also look forward to working with our incredible port and their commission. they have a ton of exciting developments happening here. i think that ties all of this in

together. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, supervisor kim. as she was speaking, i was reminded of a conversation i had recently with an executive at a silicon valley-based firm. i will not mention the name, but it is a company that is one of the transformational companies in our world today. this individual said coming no, i understand we are in the south bay and that is where our headquarters is, but i have to give you a statistic. 48% of our workers actually live in the city and county of san francisco, and the shuttle down. i have got to believe that a lot of them live in supervisor kim's district. and they love being part of the urban scape that is san francisco and enjoying the amenities. i think this project in many ways is dedicated to enhancing

the urban scape of san francisco for so many people, whether the work in san francisco are down in the peninsula. and the job creation that this project affords is a very, very powerful thing for all of us. we would not be able to function at this ballpark or with this project without the cooperation and the wonderful support and guidance of the port of san francisco, who is our landlord. and we have the president of the port commission here. i would like to introduce you to her now. the president of the san francisco port commission, doreen woo ho. [applause] >> thank you. i have been involved with the port commission almost a year. if i had any idea how exciting it was going to be with so many things going on on the waterfront, i have just come back with the executive director.

we were in an international waterfront symposium, and our city certainly stood well in terms of all of the amazing waterfront developments around the world. it reminded me that obviously we are more than just a working port here. this project epitomizes what is going on in terms of waterfront development. i think it is going to be a project that will be watched not only here in san francisco, for all the benefits you heard the mayor and larry and president david chiu in supervisor kim talk about what it will do for us every locally, but it will be a major international program, certainly one of the biggest the port has done. from the standpoint of how it ties in with the rest of the waterfront, we're blessed that we have 7.5 miles to develop. and with all the different opportunities in terms of open space and the maritime activities. this sounds to me like the most ambitious project that has been done, but it ties in with the objectives of the master plan at

the port. we're very excited to be engaged with such great partners as the giants, and we look forward not only in terms of this development but also in terms of how it can forge a new business model in terms of the partnership and the teamwork and the benefits of both of the port, the city, the community, as well as the giants will accrue from this project. we are excited to engage further in a dialogue. as everybody has said, there is a lot of work to be done. we are excited to see this launch, and we're ready to sit down and talk. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you so much, president ho. well, we have a pact that it is going to be sunny for every announcement and for every open here. we have to get it back. that is just a temporary cloud. it has been mentioned, we have been in active, dated a working

relationship with the port of san francisco, and we're very fortunate to have leading seaport staff the port director monique moyer -- a leading the board staff, the port director monique moyer. monday " like to say a few words. [applause] >> good morning. it is my great honor to be here, standing on the shoulders of not just the mayor and former administration, the president of the board and its former administrations, and obviously the long history of the port commission. we're almost on our 150th birthday. in 2013, we will mark 150 years of the port, which is a record, trust me. and here we are doing what we do best in san francisco, which is once again re-establishing ourselves, redirecting ourselves, every identifying ourselves, and figuring out how to do what other cities in the

world are still trying to figure out what to do, which is to marry a working waterfront with in neighborhood. i wanted to echo what everyone has said. most importantly what larry said of this is a gateway site. it is not a front door, not a back door, not a side door. it is a circle wayside, because it will continue to be that entry from the waterfront as we bring to people through on ferries and other modes of transportation, hopefully water taxis, as well as by land and fled. it will enhance not only the central waterfront, pull people from the ferry building, but it will continue our goal of moving to the southern waterfront, and it will continue to build on the private investments that have been made so generously by the giants and others so far and are soon to be made at pier 70. this site has everything to offer you. you heard what president david chiu's thoughts were. you heard from supervisor kim. on behalf of the port, we cannot

be so proud to be working with such an amazing team and the giants as well as our governmental team and our neighbors. we look forward to welcoming you back here very quickly and to see for yourself how once again we can make it to be refurbished waterfront in san francisco. i thank you for that, larry, and all of the giants for your dedication and investment on our behalf. [applause] >> thank you so much, monique. i think the best way to do this is there will probably be some questions. and the giants team, certainly the mayor, and supervisor david chiu, supervisor kim, president ho, and port director moyer will be available for questions. we will probably take as offline. we might be of the show you, especially with this graphic, some of the initial ideas of

where some of the residential might go and where some of the office might go and the ideas for the piers. if we have any questions along those lines, we will take them offline. we invite any of you, possession is nine tenths of the law. you're in the ballpark now. if you want to stay for the ball game, we invite you to stay and we will have accommodations for the 12:45 p.m. san francisco the giants a-oakland a's game. we look forward to communicating with you in the future about this project. thank you. ♪

>> san francisco recreation and parks department for hosting us here today. i am the president and ceo of recology. we're here to celebrate another environmental success for the city of san francisco. in 1996, we began taking food waste and trying to figure out what to do with it and realized we could composted. we begin a collection program on a pilot basis in 1997, but by about 2006 or so that program was then offered to every resident, every business in the city. we are now taking about 600 tons a day of organic matter and turning it into compost. it is a program that everyone in the city has participated in.

if you have never put anything in a green bin. every restaurant, business, resident, and school all have participated. we met at their restaurant at fisherman's wharf last november to acknowledge that we had collected 1 million tons of organic matter that could be composted, and now today we have returned the product of that 1 million tons here to how many farms that can be used to provide nutrients to the soil here, to russia -- to promote organic farming, promote sustainable agriculture, and to teach people in this community how we can produce high-quality foods from material that we all throw away. we are proud to have that success today. we're going to have a thank you event for the citizens of san francisco on saturday at this and three other locations.

it is a bring your own bucket event. everybody who comes with their own bucket is going to be a big of, for free, 5 gallons of compost that has come from material that we generate, organic material we generate here in san francisco. we're looking forward to that event. i do want to acknowledge some of our supporters and partners on this program better here today. the director of public works. a member from supervisor campo'' office. the executive chef and purchaser for the restaurant. scott with a good laugh groceries. -- good life groceries. one of our customers for this compost from a vineyard. the zero waste manager for the state of san francisco. and jason," manager here of the farm.

last but most of parliament, -- most important, mayor lee, mayor of the greenest city. cuyahoga [applause] >> thank you. i cannot imagine a better way to celebrate the 1 million ton of compost in the city that has been collected by our official waste management company recology and celebrate that with a giveaway of this very rich soil that can be used and some many community gardens, people's private patches, farms like this that jason has been stored in with us -- this is a beautiful farm, by the way. congratulations. mohamed and i have been out here for years when running public works. you know, sometimes we referred to it is in the less than a real farme. for some years that had been neglected, kind of a dumping area. weeds were growing up.

thanks to jason and so many volunteers and to the collaboration he has had with residents of our public housing just next door, they have really gotten a great culture going. certainly with the collaboration with our recreation at the park department which actually owns the land here. they have been a great supporter of this revitalization of a very precious farm in this area of the city. i know supervisor campos and sheila are very appreciative of this because it has not only been taken care of well, it has been used appropriately to educate people and to give them a vision of what a beautiful gardens are, but growing fresh crops and vegetables could be like, and how that can be replicated with the hundreds of community gardens we have in this city. this keeps piling up with rec and a park, the department of environment, of people that want to continue this great effort of the city to build more parks,

more planting areas, more urban farms. as we have encouraged -- i know supervisor david chiu and eric mar join me last year in the urban agriculture ordinance to allow less bureaucracy in the creation of community gardens and farms throughout the whole city and utilizing empty space that would go with it and then at neutralizing, offering them a very rich soil to really create good farmland. and then dpw came and started their collaboration with the department of environment, really allowing private property owners who had orchards in their backyards, fruit trees, vegetable gardens to actually, if they were not using and, to be able to donate it to food shelters and other areas where people could have access to fresh fruits and vegetables.

we're doing all the right things. and there is a reason why we have someone named robert haley as the zero based manager. we made a commitment a while back, one i personally embraced, and that is why i want to keep robert close to me all the time. we're 78% there, but that is not good enough. right? not good enough for the department of environment, not good enough for recology, not good enough for jason and his crew, not good enough for the supervisors, and not good enough for the mayor. we want a city that all the diversity in the country, if not the world, to go to 100% recycled, 100% no waste. and we're not going to waste time in getting to that goal. because it is a goal that i think generations, my kids, generations after us will always ask me -- when you were mayor, what did you really do to help our environment? how did you reduce those emissions? when we know that we're taking

compost and we're taking it out of the landfill, significantly reducing the is very harmful emissions that end up being called nothing, that is your harmful to our at missile. when we can reduce that from our landfills, when we can really recycle as much as we can, going to 100%. reducing even further our use for landfills at all in this city, we will have done generations for our kids to come a great, great service, a great vision of what san francisco will have done while we were at the storage shed here. so i will be dependent upon everybody behind me to work even harder these next few years, to really get those programs out there and collaborate with all of our communities, with public housing residents, with every neighborhood, with our stores, our restaurants, and our local

residents here to all join in on this great effort. because the result of it is the greater city and a more caring city, a city that is going to be not just greener, but it will be one that will be healthier for everybody. and that is the attraction of san francisco. people all over the world come to san francisco not only for its innovations but for its reflection of care it has with the environment. that is what distinguishes our city from some many others. so happy to have a lively department of the environment that works with everybody to make sure we are reaching out to all of the different cultures that come here and establish themselves here. there is no cultural barrier when it comes to caring for our environment and caring for the world. we have to have the same language, the same attitude that we care about all of our communities, and we have to get everybody involved. no matter what economic scale their act, no one should be left out of this great goal that we

have for the city, to be a city for everybody. and fresh fruits and vegetables are health in terms of our own bodies and our communities and in terms of the health in this of our city. it needs to be reflected in everything we do. so the greatest restaurants that we have here and the greatest food servers that we have here are going to be a part of this as well, because they know that with the richness of the compost that we have, that they are giving back with their food scraps, that contributes to the richness of the soil. to have more people use that, as they will. as my wife well. she has been asking me, mike -- when are those three days of picking up compost going to happen again? i of the come post by giving it away for free at four locations this saturday, one right here in the heart of here, but we spread it out to the rest of

the part of the city, have great locations and we have here i'm sure a document here and a website as to where the other locations are. happy million tons, mike, but also a great thanks to everybody for doing a wonderful job and working with us, great stewardship here, again jason and congratulations to everybody in joining this collaborative effort, thank you very much. [applause] >> good morning, everybody. my name is sheila chun hagen. i'm here representing supervisor david campos who represents district nine. supervisor campos loves come post. it's great to be here at allegheny farm which is in district nine. it reminds me of a garage sale where you quickly find out that one person's trash is another

person's treasure. here we are finding that all of our collective come post here in san francisco becomes a treasure for the entire community. we can be at a place that grows nutritious food and teaches the importance of growing food, of camposing and being good stewards of the environment. i want to thank all of the san francisco residents for the awareness and willingness to take action to make this change take place here in san francisco and for us to be able to sell britain so much success in the environmental realm. but it's important for us to also remember that we need to continue to do this education and re-education as we have new people coming into san francisco as our residents, as we have friends and neighbors from other cities coming to our dinner tables and trying to figure out where do they put away their food scraps, that we can serve as a model for the rest of the country in setting

the standard for being good stewards of the environment. so thank you very much and congratulations to everybody. [applause] >> good morning. i'm really proud to be here and i think we can all be proud of what san francisco has accomplished with respect to zero waste. 11 tons is really an enormous milestone. it's only because. hard work and support of a lot of people like mayor ed lee over all of the years likes mike and all the employee owners at recology. like the department of environment staff and the like the people behind me and really all of the residents and people who work in san francisco who are recycling and com posting every day, that's how it really happens. i do want to go a little further to say we can do more. san francisco has a goal of zero waste by 2020. we're a good part of the way there. but we're still landfilling

over 400,000 tons a year, so a lot of material is still going to the land phil. when you put material in your black trash bin, it goes straight to the land phil. so it's really important to put all of your recyclables, your paper, bottles, cans, hard places into the blue recycling bins. it's really important to put all of your compostable places, your trimmings, food scraps, and different kinds of paper that is hard to recycle, wet paper, soiled paper, paper that is coated with something, tissue paper, put that in why your green carts. if we do that together, we can comply with the mandatory ordinance and get closer to zero waste in the future. thanks, everybody, we really appreciate all of your efforts. i would like to introduce jason, one of the co-managers of the farm here. [applause]

>> howdy, everybody, and welcome, first of all, i'm glad to see a number of familiar faces like mayor lee out here and all of the team from recology. if you haven't been out here, welcome and we hope you come back soon. when visitors come to the farm, one of the things i tell them, we're not growing plants, we're going soil. that's the number one thing we're doing here, building soil. if we have healthy soil, we'll have healthy plants and then healthy people. it's as simple as that. our main task as an organic garden is to be guarding soil health and to be stewards of this little epidrmis of the earth that sustainsous. we can do this because we take such good care of our soil. we build our own soil onsite from manure we get from a nearby horse stable in daly city and the green waste from the garden. we top it off, icing on the cake with the great stuff we

get from recolog which is fantastic and a nice compost that helps you grow a lot of food. it's insane to have a major city like a chicago or a new york, not to point fingers, every day would have thousands of tons of food that they're just going to toss out and they're going to take something that is a real resource and just treat is like rubbish. it's just going to get lost in the land phil or even worse, it's going to become methane which is a potent greenhouse gas. here in san francisco, we do think smarter. we are taking that and turning it back around. re-colog makes high-grade compost and it's sold to the wineries in california. when i go home at the end of the day and make dinner, mostly from stuff i grew myself, i like to have a glass of wine or two with dinner. i try to make sure that does come from a sustainable organic

winery here in northern california because i know that then what we put in the green bins is somehow coming back to my table and that the scraps from our table eventually are getting recycled back and made into food or at least back into wine. so i'm really excited that the city has reached this goal that we have done. thanks to the work to recolog and department of environment, with that, do you want to look around, mr. mayor? do we have a time for a short tour? all right.

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