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 >> what if you could make a memorial that is more about information and you are never fixed and it can go wherever it wants to go? everyone who has donated to it could use it, host it, share it.

>> for quite a great deal of team she was hired in 2005, she struggled with finding the correct and appropriate visual expression. >> it was a bench at one point. it was a darkened room at another point. but the theme always was a theme of how do we call people's attention to the issue of speci species extinction. >> many exhibits do make long detailed explanations about species decline and biology of birds and that is very useful for lots of purposes. but i think it is also important to try to pull at the strings inside people. >> missing is not just about specific extinct or endangered species. it is about absence and a more fundamental level of not knowing what we are losing and we need

to link species loss to habitat loss and really focuses much on the habitat. >> of course the overall mission of the academy has to do with two really fundamental and important questions. one of which is the nature of life. how did we get here? the second is the challenge of sustainability. if we are here how are we going to find a way to stay? these questions resonated very strongly with maya. >> on average a species disappears every 20 minutes. this is the only media work that i have done. i might never do another one because i'm not a media artist per se but i have used the medium because it seemed to be the one that could allow me to convey the sounds and images here. memorials to me are different from artworks. they are artistic, but memorials

have a function. >> it is a beautiful scupltural objective made with bronze and lined with red wood from water tanks in clear lake. that is the scupltural form that gives expression to maya's project. if you think about a cone or a bull horn, they are used to get the attention of the crowd, often to communicate an important message. this project has a very important message and it is about our earth and what we are losing and what we are missing and what we don't even know is gone. >> so, what is missing is starting with an idea of loss, but in a funny way the shape of this cone is, whether you want to call it like the r.c.a. victor dog, it is listen to the earth and what if we could create a portal that could look

at the past, the present and the future? >> you can change what is then missing by changing the software, by changing what is projected and missing. so, missing isn't a static installation. it is an installation that is going to grow and change over time. and she has worked to bring all of this information together from laboratory after laboratory including, fortunately, our great fwroup of researche e-- g researchers at the california academy. >> this couldn't have been more site specific to this place and we think just visually in terms of its scupltural form it really holds its own against the architectural largest and grandeur of the building. it is an unusual compelling object. we think it will draw people out on the terrace, they will see the big cone and say what is that. then as they approach the cone tell hear these very unusual sounds that were obtained from

the cornell orinthology lab. >> we have the largest recording of birds, mammals, frogs and insects and a huge library of videos. so this is an absolutely perfect opportunity for us to team up with a world renown, very creative inspirational artist and put the sounds and sights of the animals that we study into a brand-new context, a context that really allows people to appreciate an esthetic way of the idea that we might live in the world without these sounds or sites. >> in the scientific realm it is shifting baselines. we get used to less and less, diminished expectations of what it was. >> when i came along lobsters six feet long and oysters 12 inches within they days all the oyster beds in new york,

manhattan, the harbor would clean the water. so, just getting people to wake up to what was just literally there 200 years ago, 150 years ago. you see the object and say what is that. you come out and hear these intriguing sounds, sounds like i have never heard in my life. and then you step closer and you almost have a very intimate experience. >> we could link to different institutions around the globe, maybe one per continent, maybe two or three in this country, then once they are all networked, they begin to communicate with one another and share information. in 2010 the website will launch, but it will be what you would call an informational website and then we are going to try to, by 2011, invite people to add a memory. so in a funny way the member rely grows and there is something organic about how this memorial begins to have legs so

to speak. so we don't know quite where it will go but i promise to keep on it 10 years. my goal is to raise awareness and then either protect forests from being cut down or reforest in ways that promote biodiversity. >> biodiverse city often argued to be important for the world's human populations because all of the medicinal plants and uses that we can put to it and fiber that it gives us and food that it gives us. while these are vital and important and worth literally hundreds of billions of dollars, the part that we also have to be able to communicate is the more spiritual sense of how important it is that we get to live side by side with all of these forms that have three billion years of history behind them and how tragic it would be not commercially and not in a utilitarian way but an emotio l

emotional, psychological, spiritual way if we watch them one by one disappear. >> this is sort of a merger between art and science and advocacy in a funny way getting people to wake unand realize what is going on -- wake up and realize what is going on. so it is a memborial trying to get us to interpret history and look to the past. they have always been about lacking at the past so we proceed forward and maybe don't commit the same mistakes. >> good afternoon, everybody. thank you, everyone for being here and i want to thank you for joining me and the board of supervisors for this special occasion to sign our next two

year budget 8.6 he million dollars this city is worth it. it is as i may say an historic time and budget navigate as i signed this budget i'm reminded and i think the supervisors know this as well it is really the first time in 6 years we've had a budget deficit under $100 million the supervisors feel it as we've gone to every district and 4ri7bd to the needs of the district and make sure the budget reflected not only citywide values but our neighborhood as well i want to thank you president chiu and supervisor farrell all the members of this year's budget committee who are standing here and the entire members of the board of supervisors.

i want to thank and department heads many who joined us in our neighborhood and thank the commissioners for your hard work with checking in with our department heads to make sure we're producing this budget this year's budget reflected a lot of good hard work between the city government and the people we serve we've should with our city family and left-handed to hundreds of community leaders and the people that get the work down you our labor force they were a great part of this year's budget we should to get the contracts with literally all our city employees thanks to our labor leaders this is a strong reflection of carried out

services i want to thank all the elected officials not only do we represent the department argue as elected officials they give us a lot of good advice well beyond their divisions. twoeth together with the board we've made smart investments and the budget is fiscal pursuant that is a keystone to our city we've increased the services to our recipe are the input they've been critical in transportation and education and our social net and infrastructure that is recorded in the cost of living increases we make sure we did for our nonprofits and their an incredible part of our delivery we've made fair