thank you, thank you, thank you. no, this is - as i indicated when i spoke earlier this is a fight those biggest don't just happen i introduce them and because it's wonderful and they step arrested it through i'm going to need people to call on the governor and the state legislator to pass this legislation this is the kind of work we're going to do beyond the nights and bolts of building solar we have to build the political will to make this happen related to know we're reforming the energy vision we need to update the grid on utilities in the state of new

york and thank you to the governor for putting the group together to learn the lessons but also to change what we've been doing. as i click i'll remind you of a couple of important things new york citizens and the vitality infrastructure the grids are two valuable to the citizens and too vulnerable to the effects of climate change but to redouble our efforts to lower our green house gases footprint and the resiliency as we deepen our commitment to solar it's the essential of many, many challenges. we want more solar thermal installations in no objection we want you to come to n.y., new

york is open for business. to paraphrase (clapping) you can clap the influential saying from heros race combrilly who lives 0 more than one hundred years ago if you want to find opportunity go east i don't know, man go east. by the way, you slight more mature folks will build new factories we want you to come to new york too. thank you all for this opportunity i can't tell you how awesome that was for me to share the stage with my political idle governor jerry brown and

finally, i want to thank governor brown and mayor ed lee and the folks from solar for you work and speaking of stellar thank you ron for your guidance and hope it's important (clapping) thank you for everything. may we leave here also facing the sun >> yes. >> very happy that you share with us your hope and your slides. (clapping.) >> thank you very much dr. weber and interslar we maybe fighters on the playing feed but

i'm here the executive director of cal sea we represent hundreds of california companies up and down the state and throughout the industry advocating for the advancement of solar power and every nuke and koran i didn't decision form beyond this state we've grown our membership by 50 percent that means less than 15 percent of the businesses doing work in california are anybody's of the association as the governor mentioned we have a long way to go i encourage you to join us tomorrow invite at solar festive it's a benefit but join asia as members so we realize the living of living no california i put together a

couple of slides there's many reasons to be incredibly optimistic in the united states and are here in california. but a couple of factors to leave you with as you begin our conference activities this is from a great organization they did a report on this and i encourage you to checkout it out 20 percent that represents the land malice aforethought hosts 7 percent of the capacity and e and there's a sunday repel company st. louis has for energy than silicon valley. phoenix has more than san francisco and we're seeing a race to the top we in california welcome the competition in brooklyn across the country.

another good fact that california we've installed more solar in the past 18 months than the past 18 years combined we're seeing tremendous growth (clapping) and that finally reaching double digits to the california electricity supply in past mark we broke rods on a given day this is important this is only counting of the four gigawatts federal and state it's not counting the 2 gigawatts on rooftops and hey, the sky doesn't fall and one last prideful momentum we're working to promote and educate decision makers california solar industry employes for folks than the 3

utilities annoyed we're contributing to the california carbon friendly supplies but helping to grow our economy and put our people to work in the state. but no one is possible await the support of our governor we've been blessed with so far the last 11 years it's not made alone we have numerous people we need to promote the pro solar policies if you think that it 50 commissioners that play a vital role in this in california alone hundred legislators and 50 members of congress and thousands of staff that hat has to get the details right no

matter how visionary the program if the details are not right it didn't work i'll nuflgs we're pushing the vision >> down in the weeds getting the details right there's been 3 significant decisions one it the meetings you've probably aware (clapping) last year the legislator miss guidely put in question the hundreds of thousands of net meters in california we radical a tremendous amount of folks to make a difference decision that every customer in the state of california has signed up they get their net meter contract for the next 20 years with their system (clapping)

and another initiative we're committed to say growing the solar water heating market we've passed a bill in 2007 it has been met with numerous sort setbacks but working to get it off the ground and working with the program administrators in the state so fix the glifshz for our industry and as i'll talk about this in a minute we'll go way beyond that. we've awe are averted a disaster with a code we face this keeping the state being a solar pour leader unnope california put in place a building code that made every solar panel illegal starting in january we've worked with the state fire marshall to correct that and get another

year to get through the coast to coast to meet the fire code that was a real disaster held off and because support we have in california we're at a crossroads with the decision-makers and the president of the public utilities commission's michael pedestrian safety i didn't his term is to expire and we're hoping he'll continue to lead the industry we're pleased to join with interslar and presenting the champion challenge award added 3 o'clock i want you to come and calculated clawed him in helping him to be a strong voice tomorrow and intervention

application stage. because of term limits in the next 2 years almost half of all california legislator will be brand new they'll be termed anti we'll have brand new people hopefully, they'll all be senator parkers (clapping) but this is a challenge and an incredible opportunity to educate those folks think about it they were not around in the energy crisis and don't know what the programs are they don't understand the metering and never heard about the solar we have to educate them and develop them and make sure that california stays a steady pro solar state we know we can be. what lies ahead how do we weather the storm of uncertainty

that will hit us and continue not only to weather the storm but continue to break records we've got a if i irons in the fire i see this as a continued path firmly is the net mooerts the same legislation passed last year to commit california to a number one metered program we're going to hash that out it's critical that the industry is tun if i had so get the details right and see the robust growth e growth in the rooftop market we need to lower your capital costs working to promote sb 2028 from southern california this bill will establish standard listed extremely for solar

throughout the state in over 5 hundred jurisdictions and will do that over the next year we've been flying through for residential the state legislator and hoping to put a bill worthy of the governors signature in august but we need our help (clapping) we have a lot of opposition from folks that don't like to be told what to do. there's a lot of fixing break to tell us the pass program that the governor mentioned is one hundred and 50 other cities that are launching this ability to give our customers opportunities for solar and also thermal and last but not least not to mention president obama to the carbon strategies that is

incredible we need to not be speculators in this sport we need to be bun u down on the field making sure that solar is a 2rish9 to the carbon solutions throughout the united states this is an opportunity for not only large-scale solar and solar hot water all of us can within we're meaningful players we need to make sure we're part of the policies hashed out over the next 2 years. in closing, i want to thank our friends at interslar and all the speakers. i had the opportunity to join a p - anniversary celebration event and they have by the way, a great that display you should check out artifacts from the history and at this event i

457b9 to talk to morton prince and i asked him, you know, what's our objection of our success and how far we've come he said, of course, he's proud of where the industry is at but never thought it would take us this long. i was floored he said it took 60 years we've not looked at the opposition of the folks standing in the way i think this is a call to action not to rest over and over on our laurels and assume that new york and california is going to let this helping happen we need to look at the industry working together

not just zero to 60 in 60 years but quadruple that effect thank you so much for joining us (clapping) >> thank you so much i must say we're jealous in german when we hear the demand for that less metering await caps if we did that in german you can subject your 2rb9 in the yearly bill people would be very, very happy by in german the difference of solar electricity and other it would be too large of incentive but we have a large group that works well, that the legislator

and the government and a slight advantage that the democratic's say almost two-thirds the legislation we can only dream of so thanks so >> hi. welcome to san francisco. stay safe and exploring how you can stay in your home safely after an earthquake. let's look at common earthquake myths. >> we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. we have 3 guest today. we have david

constructional engineer and bill harvey. i want to talk about urban myths. what do you think about earthquakes, can you tell if they are coming in advance? >> he's sleeping during those earthquakes? >> have you noticed him take any special? >> no. he sleeps right through them. there is no truth that i'm aware of with harvey that dogs are aware of an impending earthquake. >> you hear the myth all the time. suppose the dog helps you get up, is it going to help you do something >> i hear they are aware of small vibrations. but yes, i read extensively that dogs cannot realize earthquakes. >> today is a spectacular day in san francisco and sometimes

people would say this is earthquake weather. is this earthquake weather? >> no. not that i have heard of. no such thing. >> there is no such thing. >> we are talking about the weather in a daily or weekly cycle. there is no relationship. i have heard it's hot or cold weather or rain. i'm not sure which is the myth. >> how about time of day? >> yes. it happens when it's least convenient. when it happens people say we were lucky and when they don't. it's terrible timing. it's never a good time for an earthquake. >> but we are going to have one. >> how about the ground swallowing people into the

ground? >> like the earth that collapsed? it's not like the tv shows. >> the earth does move and it bumps up and you get a ground fracture but it's not something that opens up and sucks you up into haddes. >> it's not going anywhere. we are going to have a lot of damage, but this myth that california is going to the ocean is not real. >> southern california is moving north. it's coming up from the south to the north. >> you would have to invest the

million year cycle, not weeks or years. maybe millions of years from now, part of los angeles will be in the bay area. >> for better or worse. >> yes. >> this is a tough question. >> those other ones weren't tough. >> this is a really easy challenge. are the smaller ones less stress? >> yes. the amount released in small earthquakes is that they are so small in you need many of those. >> i think would you probably have to have maybe hundreds of magnitude earthquakes of 4.7. >> so small earthquakes are not making our lives better in the future? >> not anyway that you can count on.

>> i have heard that buildings in san francisco are on rollers and isolated? >> it's not true. it's a conventional foundation like almost all the circumstances buildings in san francisco. >> the trans-america was built way before. it's a pretty conventional foundation design. >> i have heard about this thing called the triangle of life and up you are supposed to go to the edge of your bed to save yourself. is there anything of value to that ? >> yes, if you are in your room. you should drop, cover and hold onto something. if you are in school, same thing, kitchen same thing. if you happen to be in your bed, and you rollover your bed, it's not

a bad place to be. >> the reality is when we have a major earthquake the ground shaking so pronounced that you are not going to be able to get up and go anywhere. you are pretty much staying where you are when that earthquake hits. you are not going to be able to stand up and run with gravity. >> you want to get under the door frame but you are not moving to great distances. >> where can i buy a richter scale? >> mr. richter is selling it. we are going to put a plug in for cold hardware. they are not available. it's a rather complex. >> in fact we don't even use the richter scale anymore. we use a moment magnitude. the richter scale was early technology. >> probably a myth that i hear most often is my building is

just fine in the loma prieta earthquake so everything is fine. is that true ? >> loma prieta was different. the ground acceleration here was quite moderate and the duration was moderate. so anyone that believes they survived a big earthquake and their building has been tested is sadly mistaken. >> we are planning for the bigger earthquake closer to san francisco and a fault totally independent. >> much stronger than the loma prieta earthquake. >> so people who were here in '89 they should say 3 times as strong and twice as long and that will give them more of an

occasion of the earthquake we would have. 10 percent isn't really the threshold of damage. when you triple it you cross that line. it's much more damage in earthquake. >> i want to thank you, harvey, thanks pat for >> i'm your host of "culturewire," and today, here at electric works in san francisco. nice to see you today. thanks for inviting us in and showing us your amazing facility today. >> my pleasure. >> how long has electric works

been around? >> electric works has been in san francisco since the beginning of 2007. we moved here from brisbane from our old innovation. we do printmaking, gallery shows, and we have a fabulous retail store where there are lots of fun things to find. >> we will look at all of that as we walk around. it is incredible to me how many different things you do. how is it you identify that san francisco was in need of all these different services? >> it came from stepping out of graduate school in 1972. i wrote a little thing about how this is an idea, how our world should work. it should have printmaking, archiving, a gallery. it should have a retail store. in 1972, i wanted to have art sales, point-of-sale at the grocery store. >> so you go through the

manifesto. with the bay area should have. you are making art incredibly accessible in so many different ways, so that is a good segue. let's take a walk around the facilities. here we are in your gallery space. can you tell me about the current show? >> the current show is jeff chadsey. he is working on mylar velum, a smooth, beautiful drawing surface. i do not know anyone that draws as well as he does. it is perfect, following the contours and making the shape of the body. >> your gallery represents artists from all over, not just the bay area, an artist that work in a lot of different media. how to use some of what you look for in artists you represent? >> it is dependent on people are confident with their materials. that is a really important thing.

there is enough stuff in the world already. >> you also have in his current show an artist who makes sculpture out of some really interesting types of materials. let's go over and take a look at that. here we are in a smaller space. project gallery. >> artists used the parameters of this space to find relationships between the work that is not out in the big gallery. >> i noticed a lot of artists doing really site-specific work. >> this is a pile of balloons, something that is so familiar, like a child's balloon. in this proportion, suddenly, it becomes something out of a dream. >> or a nightmare. >> may be a nightmare. >> this one over here is even harder to figure out what the initial material is. >> this is made out of puffy paint. often, kids use it to decorate

their clothes. she has made all these lines of paint. >> for the pieces we are looking at, is there a core of foam or something in the middle of these pieces that she built on top of? >> i'm not telling. >> ah, a secret. >> this silver is aluminum foil, crumbled of aluminum foil. her aesthetic is very much that quiet, japanese spatial thing that i really admire. their attention to the materiality of the things of the world. >> this is a nice juxtaposition you have going on right now. you have a more established artists alongside and emerging artists. is that something important to you as well? >> very important in this space, to have artists who really have not shown much. now let's look at other aspects of electric works operation. let's go to the bookstore.

>> ok. >> in all seriousness, here we are in your store. this is the first space you encounter when you come in off the street. it has evolved since you open here into the most amazingly curious selection of things. >> this was the project for the berkeley art museum. it was -- this is from william wiley's retrospective, when he got up onstage to sing a song, 270 people put on the cat. >> it is not just a bookstore. it is a store. can you talk us through some of your favorites? >> these are made in china, but they are made out of cattails. >> these pieces of here, you have a whale head and various animals and their health over there, and they are jewelry. >>