so we willing have the board come here and my recollection so evidentially is let's look at facebook and google and look at it some of the prostitution companies if you want to get the full picture of renovation you've got to paint this board picture of oakland frankly and how that's become a major export engine not just in agriculture but, you know, off those products being developed. the sister-in-law to this region is understand who you are; right? don't forget the cartoon and the brand perhaps misinterpreted by other parts of world. and leverage your special abstracts and advantages in a way that can lift up large

numbers of kids in this city and oakland and richmond and pittsburgh this is really critical that the united states go back it fundamentals and a understand how productive and innovative we are both in idea generation by in merchandising so we can move forward post recession with a much more sustainable model >> well san francisco is a very great place to live but not so clear on a desirable place to do bus. >> well, that certainly was on my mind when we were krofrd a few years ago from a company called tweeter they were looking at a large business in san francisco they were going to

grow if a 2 hundred employees to over 2 thousand but they couldn't pay that kind of tax for that growth and we are the only couldn't in the state of california that had the payroll tax to chu and i and kim got together with tweeter and thought we could forge something but not just give it to them therefore we looked at the whole of market street. we used to having some great places on market street and i understand some of the history that occurred there part of it was because we didn't do transportation well, that caused a lot of the businesses downfall so we survived with a challenge we we felt maybe this was the way to do is it is create an

area where we can provide that tax break but only if you locate this and deliver on the jobs you promised. that was a good 2-way street that started an important conversation 0 how we talk with new companies and visit them in do seduce their needs. we have today 4 thousand 8 hundred technical companies because. and i count every single one of the folks that work there >> the consumption on mid market goes from 10 the street to an. we got some pretty good skews because with tweeter and one king plain they all came about 5

to 7 of them. but the real skews the biggest success we felt was duo i didn't looshts came in at 8 and 10 and market without invite and said we don't need our taxation break we're going to locate our business right there and they're under construction as we speak. donates the real testament. i understand what government can do but i've been around the corn too. it's sustainable for government to run programs forever whether it's welfare. this is our role to get people on their feet. that's why i emphasis that example that we used we created the right invitation i believed

we identified the right infrastructure, we were working with them on bikes lanes to transportation routes, we commented to a safer market street so that's why you see the subway on market we helped them realize they could have a better market street and twitter is expanding the building the old building is completely filed and they're working on the building behind it but they've caused the incentive to occur that one of the most important thing is how do we built investigator confidence. eventually we're not going to have enough money but i've got to find ways to get a private company to come into san

francisco to build infrastructure. >> is manufacturing a missing piece can manufacturing come or will come back to treasure island i've heard mayor lee talk about this but what about people macro things. >> i believe it about provide an opportunity for people to make thing but what kinds of things will be made. there's kinds of kinds of advanced industries that require doiblg i technology and i think there are certain kind of components in the commercial area. there are plenty of areas in the bay maybe even perhaps hereafter manufacturing are. i'm struck when i stand back and look at the bay area.

but for the fact it requires you to go through a series of independent city entitlement processes which in and in and of itself are very, very painful. you think of the mayor island which is something that asset that lane arrest controls. mayor island could be a fabulous manufacturing because the bay is right there and the transportation is under. you look at the oakland army base and we talk about the strength that of oakland. the port of oakland is a very, very sixth asset for this region. so you think of the port of oakland and the fact that the oakland army base is an asset that could be developed to strength the port and therefore

the region. we have 8 thousand homes programmed to go into the treasury island and we have another 12 thousand homes to go 0 into the candle stick area with commercial space that could be spiritual manufacturing. my point is when you stand back and look at it you could have a situation and they're all linked by this wonderful reports we call the by the way. the birth problem is transportation. we have the bay. wouldn't it be great if we could have a reasonable thought about lincoln those wonderful resources for the benefit of the region so perhaps the manufacturing that is occurring 0 over there it could be on the alameda station.

the workers could be living on this island or hunters point and this could be through the bay. this is an incredible opportunity to lift the whole region in terms of capability in a manner that makes sense >> the merchandising is alive and well, in san francisco we have a movement called sf aid we've not only funded with our monies but we've instiltd in them we need to invite those folks the arts programs are very rich in san francisco. in fact, when you said stem i wanted to say steam. because who was there on market street it was the arts programs. great arts program burning man

and they were all there struggling with those run down buildings but creating an innovative spirit. we've identified for example, pier 70 which the dog patch area where those old building that steel used to be made and bus those vast warehouses we've been able to keep the historic buildings in a tack. we have companies bike chocolates and beer production all of that is still very good. i'll tell you people from china come over and ask me what is made in san francisco because if you've got something that says made in san francisco we will buy it because we know that will be a good high quality brand.

so you start seeing stimulus buck two in san francisco they're all made in san francisco. >> the wisdom is the labor cost are that, too hyphen and we can't compete with china but to add largest numbers of jobs what about that. >> i think that adding the job is a - you know, for a long time all what we he focused on was labor costs. i could take you to a small country called german. they decided we - we would have those close claksdz between research and companies themselves and we would have a feeder system of apprenticeships

and contrary academies so 20 percent of the german economy was about made up of eleven percent of the american country they didn't give up on merchandising. so it's not just about wages it's about quality, its about reliability of our energy supply; right? it's around supply nektsdz and supply chains that need to be closer to each other. what i see in the united states is farm activities they understand post recession. we still have the assets; right? whether it's the incural culture or better immigration whether it's capital willing to invest and still enough of a

production, you know, platform that if we're smart in this post recession environment we'll won't go back to the economy we'll move forward. i'm bullish about this and this region is rich in small batch and boutique on up to advanced >> technology will have a role in all of that as well. if you see this company 3-d technology for example, willing regulation in his the way we looked engineering systems because you could see it. auto desk is growing rapidly in san francisco they just opened up another portion of their work on pier 9. we're all talking about advanced manufacturing >> no longer have the machines

but the machines are operating with an ipad and your reading out precision cutting everybody from chocolates to clothing to manufactured products so extension is going to play a big thing in manufacturing. >> if you're joining us think on the radio we're talking about economic growth and we have ed lee mayor of san francisco and the bruce cats from the washington area. let's talk about enlightenment change and building green cities and a low carbon future away from fossil fultsdz fuels. mayor lee what is san francisco doing your projection was a leader and you're not out there

as much what is san francisco doing to modify tarnished a low carbon future like new york and other cities have seen >> first of all, mayor newsom when he made some announcements i was through and said okay. i'll do it and get it done. i was the led of his whole electric - we created the whole region for things that have to get regional so the electric vehicle nafblths my car is a chevy volt. i hardly ever get past the 40 miles so electric vehicles - >> they run on electricity.

>> exactly. but we're building the infrastructure to welcome m that in we worked region alley to do so and that will be a my priority and the gofrnl came down to nouns another - he wanted to go from moon beam to sunbeam (laughter) >> and at the same time creating businesses small businesses that support that that whole infrastructure i want to explore my wind and certainly solar power is a huge conversation in san francisco. we are working hard to establish larger prints where we can compliment our green energy prostitution in the city and then we still are commented to

reducing the energy use in the city. no now a building particularly no new office building is anything less than a gold lead. we're proud of everyone one of the 19 downtown office be buildings that you see those cranes up and around the transit center they're all going to be at at least lee gold they're going to be very efficient >> (clapping) >> there's some interesting plans out at hunters point like raising the sea rise and there is some kind of waste collecting and tell us about a future that's very uncertain about climate. >> we're blessed because it's

right on the waterfront that's a wonderful asset and selling homes and property there. but you're absolutely right we have to pay extreme attention to climate change. and exempting developments and the treasure island need end goals and they're probably two of the largest projects in the country so we're troud proud to obtain those designations but we've got to raise the sites as you said. above the elevation before we begin to build the buildings. their set back sufficiently so we have the opportunity to do what we call adaptive flood matthew management colonel. we have the ability to build and

break up the water. we have landscape equipment to help manage the rising levels of the soil. and candidly we expect to spend a great deal of money so we pay pay attention to that. by the believe climate change it real so in addition to that as i mentioned the auto matted waste production is prosecute pretty cool. you find it in more compass like situations but it reduce the amount of space that the garbage trucks run through the city's and a picking up garbage, you know, and everything has to move their cars on one side or the other and the noise. so we've created a system where

people will deposit their garbage several feet away from the building into those shoots i think it's even 10 minutes it will shoot through a waste system so the garbage trucks go to that location only public utilities there are only about two or three in a development to minimize the number of trucks running through. and we're going doing this witness's waste companies. so we think we're pretty innovative. we're working with some of the technology companies in town to create a smallest community as we call it so the fiber comes not only to the down the road it's tied in by copper bylaw but goes to the home so people if they which i say to work and live in their home they'll have

the speed in their home to do the kind of work we expect people in san francisco to do. >> bruce i want to get your response and your - you write something about cars and driver's license and i want to get to that. >> but i want to build on what the mayor said. climate is important it's also an economic comparatively active. we've mapped the jobs it's 2.7 million jobs it's varied >> today or the future. >> yes. today. thank you more innovation fuel and export during which than the economy as a whole. this is the van ignore of the industrial reluctance we want to be at the head of it.

we talk about portland. portland actually doubled exports in - >> in san francisco we don't think of that (laughter). >> i'm sure how san francisco would respond to that we're weirder but portland is betting on a because they were so smart at the metropolitan scale a tear down the freeway in the 70s they've attracted a lot of firms t 3 sell services. their brand is we build green cities. they're saying to the latin medical examiner cities you can break out and we can help you plan and supply those products. we innovative in the economy while export those services and

products good jobs and a very different model. you know, i think we need to get beyond labels. the most of come out of washington, d.c. they're mostly ideological about what the economy is. we're mapped it, it's productive and cities will get about the business of developing fuels >> i want to follow up on cars you note in 1983 half of the americans have driver's license and only 29 percent today perhaps more cities with fewer cars and more people. 24 cultural change and highway we get around >> well, there's some big demographic challenges and changes we see it with the

rebirth of our cities not only as amenities but as a van guard you know april rent has written a lot about the collaborative consumption. we are seeing people treat some of those products in the past >> can now share like zip car and we see it with any different sectors so something has been unleashed and frankly in the last 5 or 10 years in the united states by technical innovation but by the ma minimums are sending signals to the market. we don't want to work thirty

miles away depending upon on a car depending upon on all that brings with is in terms of the costs. we want optioned and choices how we live our lives and where we work. this is profound and it's only been underway for a relatively short period of time and cities like san francisco that can get ahead of this can you ever are going to pen about >> we're not going to have too many choices unless we create a mode of transportations. you want to sit in a car four hours getting down to santa calory for the new stadium to open (laughter) or mayor lee will probably get on the bay area bike sharing program hope that cal train and

get down to san calory that brings you to the door of levy stadium. don't talk about we lost the sting this is what we do to support our 9ers but that's why i was a big supporter of muni. ed is in the audience. it's going to challenge us but i want the generation of kids to understand and enjoy riding the muni. my kids said dad you don't need to drive me i'm going to take muni. we need more and more reinvesting and investing in our transportation san now this cultivation is for the whole bay area as we talk about electric first degree the area.

i need it i don't have any more room to expand for airports and we're losing out on international flights and the only way i can get for room at the airport is if i get the commute removed for 1/3rd of our flights so we can have china and open up to the rest of african >> if you're joining us we're talking about climate and we have guests ed lee and others. bruce cats you write it cities are the economic engines they can fix our broken politics i

haven't heard how they can fix our broken politics >> the federal government is government, states are governments and cities are renetwork of elected offense like the mayors and the county but union and university all of those different sectors of our city are different portion and they can do amazing things but cities are co- governed i'd like to call a caucus. they put collaboration over conflict and it's the opposite of how washington operates. i think what can unhappy happen in the united states so all they do is quash the energy the positive patriarch energy in the country if we can see

metropolitan and metropolitan area and finally their game changers and becoming for conceive and sustainable over time that patriarch will infect states and the national government. because at the end of the day we still have a representative of democracy they represent united states and we want you to act in the service of those transform active innovation. it's not going to happen tomorrow, in fact, tomorrow they may shut down the government (laughter) but it will happen over time. america is the most resistant society and the most innovative economy so folks we will get our act together but this time around it will come from the

communities that are the engines of our economy and now the van guard of policy innovation >> some people might question things like 97 percent of the anybody's of the nra want a background check let's go to our audience. first of all, if i want to join us the line will start with jane if you on this side go to those doors and we'll include as many as we possibly can. we'll invite you to with one question and i'll keep you on point. we include as many as we think. >> hi i'm peter i like the word collaboration but