>> hi, friends. i'm priaat haight and ashbury in san francisco. here with an a. anna why don't you tell us about the standard. >> the stanered focused on san francisco. i manage policy politic and government coverage which mean weez are focused on apec and excited what is a really big week in the city. >> why did you want to bring us to the haight? >> this neighborhood is special to me because i grew up in this neighborhood but also famous for being the center of the counter cultural movement, the hippies were hanging out and grateful dead. also a great place to go shopping and ventage shopping recollect trendy stuff. there is something for everyone on haight street. some oof my faivs are held over

and waste land. a favorite bar is [indiscernible] has a gorgeous unique bar and a great juice box as well. >> we have enough work, we can get a drink. come check out the haight when you are in >> hi, friends. i'm pria here at the palace of fine arts in san francisco. here with skylar who is the new managing director of the san francisco examiner. skylar, would you start by telling us about the examiner? >> absolutely. the san francisco examiner is san francisco's oldest locally owned newspaper. it is the newspaper of william randolph hurst and mark twain, so incredible history in san francisco and we cover all it

the evenlts events in san francisco and particularly focused now on everything happening to bring san francisco back. >> which is a big part of the story right now where san francisco has been and where it is going. you brought us here to the palace of fine arts because it is one of your favorite places. why are we here? tell us why it matters >> the palace of fine arts was built in 1915. it was part of the exhibition meant to show case san francisco after recovering from the 1906 earthquake. since then it has become a symbol of ingenuity and rezil silience. on a personal level i used to come here as a little girl and the exploratorium amazing scientific museum was based here and as i have gone through life, i come back here and see there is lots of community members out, people like to

picnic here and i have a two month old i get to bring him down here and go for walks and a beautiful place to reflect, so really a special part of san francisco and i wanted to share it. >> if people come here to check out the palace of fine arts, what else is there to do in the neighborhood? tell them about this incredible area. >> there is so much to do. my perfect saturday would be taking a walk to the golden gate bridge and you can touch hoppers hands at the bridge. come back through here, circle through the palace of fine arts and gaze up and wonder. you can go into the presidio and walk around a beautiful national park and when you are done, if you are tired or hungry, you can walk to chestnut street. tons of restaurants and wonderful places to get a famous san francisco craft cocktail. >> that sounds perfect. a lot of our videos seem to end on cocktails. [laughter] >> welcome to san francisco.

>> thanks skylar. >> >> hi, friends. i'm pria here and in a fabulous restaurant in san francisco with vicky. vicky is a long time broadcast journalist in san francisco working for kron tv. tell us. >> i'm a veteran in the business but been with cron 4 with 23 years now. a new be. cron has been around more then 7 years. it is one of the premier broadcast stations thin country, not just san francisco. used to be part of the young family, the chronicle, which >> major. >> we do news morning noon and night, so we are on air and online and we served the

community. we also do international news, national news, whatever is happening, we are on it like a cheap suit. >> you also love to feature local restaurants so you brought us today. tell us where we are. >> could i resest? there are a myriad of great places to wine and dine. we are at the cross roads of the best rest aurants in the city. china town, north beach, embarcadero, the barbary coach. there might be ships underneath us. where we are now is a place i call my local cheers bar. it is lot more then that. it is cocary, [indiscernible] it is a greek rest aurant. >> and you are greek. >> i love this place because it has the greek term for welcoming of strangers, so it really cuts into what we are talking about. all the international

journalists coming from the far corners of the earth. what better place then to come to some place the ethos is about welcoming. >> absolutely. and we welcome all you to come to san francisco. check out our many restaurants including this one. >> of course, we have to say welcome everyone.is. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> hi friends i'm co-sponsor radio here and exploratorium in san francisco with my friends emily changing we have a brand new show that is fantastic to interview but a lot of them you covered here in san francisco. >> yes. called the circuit

and, you know. i hosted a daily show for 13 years and it was so fun, i learned a lot but the point of this show to i say we are having an buff like sam and inside and others the founder of airbnb and we have the behind the scenes at the barbie movie and like a fresh chapter i think of our job everyday education and feel i'm learning everyday. >> surely. >> right now the exploratorium one of the favorite places in san francisco. >> sorry it is one of my favorite places right down the street in my office another hot

spot like a public learning laboratory so beautify inside and so many artists and science experiments and nature and i got here it is great place for grownups if you get our hands wet arrest dirty. and it is so hard to peel myself away and go to the other room. >> the experiments inside and business and honestly i'm so impressed with the history so, yeah definitely a hot spot. >> you heard it here first. when you're next no time visit.

>> i don't think you need to be an expert to look around and see the increasing frequency of fires throughout california. they are continuing at an ever-increasing rate every summer, and as we all know, the drought continues and huge shortages of water right now. i don't think you have to be an expert to see the impact. when people create greenhouse gases, we are doing so by different activities like burning fossil fuels and letting off carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and we also do this with food waste. when we waste solid food and leave it in the landfill, it puts methane gas into the atmosphere and that accelerates the rate at which we are warming our planet and makes all the effects of climate change worse. the good news is there are a lot of things that you can be doing, particularly composting and the added benefit is when the compost is actually applied to

the soil, it has the ability to reverse climate change by pulling carbon out of the atmosphere and into the soil and the t radios. and there is huge amount of science that is breaking right now around that. >> in the early 90s, san francisco hired some engineers to analyze the material san francisco was sending to landfill. they did a waste characterization study, and that showed that most of the material san francisco was sending to landfill could be composted. it was things like food scraps, coffee grounds and egg shells and sticks and leaves from gardening. together re-ecology in san francisco started this curbside composting program and we were the first city in the country to collect food scraps separately from other trash and turn them into compost. it turns out it was one of the best things we ever did.

it kept 2.5 million tons of material out of the landfill, produced a beautiful nutrient rich compost that has gone on to hundreds of farms, orchards and vineyards. so in that way you can manage your food scraps and produce far less methane. that is part of the solution. that gives people hope that we're doing something to slow down climate change. >> i have been into organic farming my whole life. when we started planting trees, it was natural to have compost from re-ecology. compost is how i work and the soil biology or the microbes feed the plant and our job as regenerative farmers is to feed the microbes with compost and they will feed the plant. it is very much like in business where you say take care of your employees and your employees will take carolinas of your

customers. the same thing. take care of the soil microbes and soil life and that will feed and take care of the plants. >> they love compost because it is a nutrient rich soil amendment. it is food for the soil. that is photosynthesis. pulling carbon from the atmosphere. pushing it back into the soil where it belongs. and the roots exude carbon into the soil. you are helping turn a farm into a carbon sink. it is an international model. delegations from 135 countries have come to study this program. and it actually helped inspire a new law in california, senate bill 1383. which requires cities in california to reduce the amount of compostable materials they send to landfills by 75% by 2025. and san francisco helped inspire this and this is a nation-leading policy. >> because we have such an immature relationship with nature and the natural cycles

and the carbon cycles, government does have to step in and protect the commons, which is soil, ocean, foryes, sir, and so forth. -- forest, and so fors. we know that our largest corporations are a significant percentage of carbon emission, and that the corporate community has significant role to play in reducing carbon emissions. unfortunately, we have no idea and no requirement that they disclose anything about the carbon footprint, the core operation and sp360 stands for the basic notion that large corporations should be transparent about the carbon footprint. it makes all the sense in the world and very common sense but is controversial. any time you are proposing a policy that is going to make real change and that will change behavior because we know that when corporations have to disclose and be transparent and have that kind of

accountability, there is going to be opposition. >> we have to provide technical assistance to comply with the state legislation sb1383 which requires them to have a food donation program. we keep the edible food local. and we are not composting it because we don't want to compost edible food. we want that food to get eaten within san francisco and feed folks in need. it is very unique in san francisco we have such a broad and expansive education program for the city. but also that we have partners in government and nonprofit that are dedicated to this work. at san francisco unified school district, we have a sustainability office and educators throughout the science department that are building it into the curriculum. making it easy for teachers to teach about this. we work together to build a pipeline for students so that when they are really young in pre-k, they are just learning

about the awe and wonder and beauty of nature and they are connecting to animals and things they would naturally find love and affinity towards. as they get older, concepts that keep them engaged like society and people and economics. >> california is experiencing many years of drought. dry periods. that is really hard on farms and is really challenging. compost helps farms get through these difficult times. how is that? compost is a natural sponge that attracts and retains water. and so when we put compost around the roots of plants, it holds any moisture there from rainfall or irrigation. it helps farms make that corner and that helps them grow for food. you can grow 30% more food in times of drought in you farm naturally with compost. farms and cities in california are very hip now to this fact that creating compost, providing

compost to farms helps communities survive and get through those dry periods. >> here is the thing. soil health, climate health, human health, one conversation. if we grow our food differently, we can capture all that excess carbon in the atmosphere and store it in unlimited quantities in the soil, that will create nutrient dense foods that will take care of most of our civilized diseases. so it's one conversation. people have to understand that they are nature. they can't separate. we started prowling the high plains in the 1870s and by the 1930s, 60 year, we turned it into a dust bowl. that is what ignorance looks like when you don't pay attention to nature. nature bats last. so people have to wake up. wake up. compost. >> it is really easy to get frustrated because we have this belief that you have to be

completely sustainable 24/7 in all aspects of your life. it is not about being perfect. it is about making a change here, a change there in your life. maybe saying, you know what? i don't have to drive to that particular place today. today i am going to take the bus or i'm going to walk. it is about having us is stainable in mind. that is -- it is about having sustainability in mind. that is how we move the dial. you don't have to be perfect all the time. >> san francisco has been and will continue to be one of the greener cities because there are communities who care about protecting a special ecosystem and habitat. thinking about the history of the ohlone and the native and indigenous people who are stewards of this land from that history to now with the ambitious climate action plan we just passed and the goals we have, i think we have a dedicated group of people who see the importance of this place. and who put effort into building an infrastructure that actually

makes it possible. >> we have a long history starting with the gold rush and the anti-war activism and that is also part of the environmental movement in the 60s and 70s. and of course, earth day in 1970 which is huge. and i feel very privileged to work for the city because we are on such a forefront of environmental issues, and we get calls from all over the world really to get information. how do cities create waste programs like they do in san francisco. we are looking into the few which you are and we want innovation. we want solutions.

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francisco rising with chris manner today's special guests i'm chris you're watching san francisco rising the rebuilding and reimaging and our guests the executive director of the homeland security and today to talk about the city and solutions and welcome to the show. >> thank you an honor to be

here. >> let's a start by talking about people traeld don't consider that much the business programs what does the city need to have that. >> most people think of homeless they think of people they see on the street in the tenderloin and many people experiencing homeless have not visible to the average person and a lot of those people are children or older adults and families that is what we see at the department of homeless on top of homeless among the black community we don't realize there. 40 percent of our homeless populationist with the african-americans and only 5 percent of the population today the with the african-american and the same thing about the communities that over represent

and we we try to make sure there is equity in the system and reaching the goals not seeing by the public as much we know that housing is essentially what everyone needs to thrive in the community. >> quite correct some of the solutions often vulnerable or smaller scale how do we expand those solutions as we go about. >> a attended in the homeless he roman numerals seeing none, three interventions need presentation for the people experiencing homes in the first place and pouting are ways for people to get to permanent housing on their own and need shelter so really need all three of the intefrjz for people to

assess one the things we often don't understand meet people where they are and sometimes did have the documents or other things to move into housing. they maybe waiting on disability income or themes so we have to be prepared to have things ready to use the sheltered are reality important. we know that ultimately preservation ask one of the most important toltz we can put into our systems if people don't have that mri better off for many reasons but way cheaper to have someone out of homeless in the first place and the permanent housing is a wonderful tool for many people can't get housing on their own and needed case management or other services to be able to assess the other part of their life employment and things.

>> so the home by the bay plan can you explain the basics and how to address the needs? >> sure the home by the bay the strategic plan the 5-year plan to prevent homelessness i want to do what at mayors said homeless is not just owned by the department of 40e789s but the responded didn't has to include a number of stakeholders what that requires is really a collaborative approach we're really continuing to work very close with the 0 department of public health and law enforcement or the department of - aye. >> by linking to the voices of people exercising homelessness need to create programs without listening to the people experiencing and finding what is like for them to go through the

system we're not going to make that better and ultimately will not be successful. your first goal really to produce inexacerbated in our system remarkably equity and also want to reduce the number of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness in 5 years and over all address homelessness by 15 percent your offer arching goals for us and some people said that didn't seem like enough or didn't seem bold enough to given where we are not just a a city but country wiring proud of that goal and look forward to implementing the work that it takes to get there and hoping will be can he have in 5 years. >> we are here the property

interrupt trip to the lovely agreement can you talk about that and then maybe talk about how public housing will be a solution? >> one of the very exciting things about that building it accommodates names families in a neighborhood with grocery stores and transportation a little bit out of the tenderloin when we think of families with children finding places in the area that are enacted by homeless. so very again community space and actually have a partnership with the housing authority the housing authority has different kinds of vouches they have available and in case with the vouches we use those vouchers with the unit and help to cut the cost we have homekey dollars

that provide money to the counties our acquisitions and able to leverage that. >> can you you, you talk about the voucher programs how they help public housing and help landowners into the whole thing. >> sure we have a few voucher emergency vouchers from the federal government during covid and dispersing those with the housing authority and the programs one they can help prevent people from 0 becoming homeless and people are in danger of becoming homeless with a necessity they can stay in the place they have and people are experienced homeless and in a shelter and kwobtd with the system the best way for them to find it themselves with the help

of a case manager or a housing locate our that makes sense in san francisco we will have a number of buildings in certain neighborhoods in san francisco and a number of places in san francisco we find people experiencing homeless across the decide but don't have an easy option with a number of neighborhoods so emergency housing voucher program we partnered in bay view and been successful in making sure that people from that neighborhood and that neighborhood kind of a proximity for people who have experienced homelessness with born and raised in bay view and, you know. instead of putting them in a place across town a unit available able to work with them to find their units in the

neighborhood eventually and we hope when lvrndz will see the value got a number of landowners buildings with a lot of vacancies we think that it is really um, helpful for them and hopeful for us we can work together and see the number of units in partnerships we can get people housed with a steady income from the rent. >> thank you i appreciate you coming into here today. you know. this is great. >> thank you chris appreciate that. >> that's it for in episode and for sfgovtv i'm chris thanks fo)

>> welcome to the san francisco city and county board of appeals meeting this evening at 5:00 pm., wednesday, november 1, 2023. president swig public school the proceeding offers and the joined by vice president lopez and commissioner lemberg and commissioner trasvina and commissioner eppler and jan to provide legal advice i'm julie and joined by representatives from the city departments presenting from the board this evening in front the zoning administrator and matthew green for the department of building insp