coffee spouted 6 years ago out of the need for community space and coffee. excelsior coffee to me is a cornerstone of the neighborhood. next to this iconic mural on excelsior along with the legacy businesses. we decided that this corner of san francisco on the southeast side of the mission is the place we like to be. i know you see a lot of eththetics of motorcycles behind us. a lot of people ask, what's up with the motorcycles behind you? motorcycle and classic cars are a big yite of our upbringing so the idea was to connect to this neighborhood from classic cars to low riders to motorcycles and my husband is is a high school teacher that teaches automotives and history. we love the history of

motorcycle engineer and design. for us it was more like a talking point and connection. honoring that and that is also the driving force between who we are and the make-up. i think what separates from other coffee shops is that, we are serving a community that has been here for a decade before us, and i think it is really special that there is a vortex of non english speaking communities here. between my husband and i, we represent many cultures. i'm [indiscernible] he is black, his mexican and through our cultures is how we connect with people in the excelsior. to speak their languages, and i think honoring our culture background through coffee and pastry. excelsior coffee, we are at

4495 mission street on mission and excelsior in the excelsior district. call excelsior coffee in your face excelsior. we are open 7:30 to 4 p.m. for now. [laughter] >> you're watching san francisco live with chris manner. >> today's s f f is - >> hi, i'm chris you're watching or imagining the city we have ivar satero director of

sfo welcome to the show. >> go to the with you. >> thank you nice to see let's talk about how the airport as and the number of depreciations you're serving. >> yeah. it is really exciting we consult strong out the crisis and full swings with in carriers and poetry's and great dedications have a lot more to the mix and we have others we had talked about wonderful depreciations and people are loving that we're at with an hundred and 10 percent the precovid international position without the full recovery so we'll anticipating china but the recovery is excited to see how busy the temperance are those

days. >> had renovation or expansion plans are currently underway? >> great. a lot of exciting programs we suspected some that have the work because of crescent trail he now we're back in full spring or swing and finished the harvey milk terminal one and talk about setting a standard in passengers traveling and it exceeded any exceptions to finishing harvey milk terminal one and now knowledge on another terminal that's one of the last terminals to receive the 70 patch focuses on the passengers expense and west torrential has will kicked off and now taking the next four and a half years to 34re89 34re9 and have a lot of the investment structure and part of on $11 billion investment over the 5 years to seven years and

$8 billion and $3 billion in the extra and excite to implement a new wastewater treatment plants and we'll be able to reuse the water at ivar satero director of sfo and next the question is san francisco san francisco international airport is well common for the opportunity. >> could you debilitate on those a little bit. >> we set aggregate goals we set the zero goal this is the zero net energy greenhouse gas emissions and zero water and we have had that as one of the permit values for over a decade and exciting to see our entering use is down by 4, 3, 2 , 1 percent if 2012 our water use is detain 20 percent and is greenhouse gas emissions is down thirty percent and that is about the investment we made and the

quality of facilities we build and reduces the entering consumption and heating and cooling those things when we make those investments what is that commissioner vietor that benefits the environment when we design and plan the buildings is really exciting and wonderful to see little success we're having. >> i think about the future and skuntd fuel and we building that since 2018 to show the leadership in the advancement of constitutional aviation and 70 will be the airport for the fuel of any airport in the world this year and next year and so that's a huge workforce at 70 but undoubtedly has an impact over the regional xhivengz and just facts as you, you know, we are the latter jock center in san mateo county we have 40 thousand

people at 70 and we contribute about 40 board of appeals to the regional economy about one hundred and fifty thousand job is rely on the successful operations of our airport it is really a tremendous interest rate to our economy and about the operations and construction programs and you'll talk about the investment we've been investing in the facilities for so many years i've been here 3 decades and under construction that whole time almost and the job addition for the contradiction program is meaningful for well paying trades work and intifrmz has on a priority and this year with our interns yesterday over one hundred interims supporting the team we're a perspective of the support we get the the labor that is available to 70. >> that's great. >> so finally what

advancements will be for the passenger experience and operations, you, know, many people for those of you who don't know the history of this is a long alter 70 and in father 1959 we had jets and the disruption that has happened are particularly with uber and lyft wiper the first airport to permit their precautions $50 billion and with the taernlz with the technologies like automatic. >> what an experienced for people going to the check lines and our dependant cure system the bag system the lath technology and the first in the u.s. so have an independent carrier system and 0 now you hinge with the notification it is really tremendous particle as we develop a new facility but, you know, for us too about our

operation and unfor the future there is exciting new development happening we have recently implemented a ground based agree mansion system that is technology improves the arrive rate of airport and allows for which the development of arrivals that benefit community by higher elevations and offsetting over the water we invested in that that noise and quality of life but also, you know, for the delays details delays are a community by the people when cooler weather and traffic comes in after midnight we're investing in our familiarity and investing in the operations we have our airport integrated operation system underway with technologies to give us much better especially

realtime awareness and auto operations and embarcadero to adjust our operations to address congestion, you know, roadside congestion and checkpoint congestions gives us much better awareness and other things we can talk about that are existing wall but taxis an noopgs 234506gs we or working with the industry on this that might look in the 70 and preparing for the future of air taxis and one of our big initiative to engage the broader region in the developments we have to have policies that address the air taxis innovation we are conducting with berkley transportation center and engaging the industry and engaging decision makers and the region in helping to develop policies will give us a framework for addressing the air

taxis that's a step for the next several years. thank you. ivar satero director of sfo for sharing the information for san francisco international airport we appreciate the time you've given us and thank you. >> we'll be back with another one i'm chris thank you for [music] so, can you tell us what it was like for you during your first encounter with the san francisco fire department? >> yep. it was super cool! i got to learn about the dry standing pipe correction. it is actually called, dry sand piper just stand pipe. tomato. you know. yea. >> so, what is coming up next for what is that for?

>> oh , firefighter backsterinvited mow to a fire station to see the cool stuff firefighters use to put out fires. you have seen the had doors open like a space ship wow! whoa. watch out, man. what is that for? >> what is this? these are fire engines they might look alike they are both red. white top and red lights on top. this is a new 2021 fire engine and this is an older 2014 fire engine. if you can't tell, this one is

shorter and narrower than our older fire engines. they have cool things like recessed lights. roll up doors. 360 degree cam ares and more that is important as the city is moving toward slower and safer streets adding parklets and bulb outs and bike lanes we need to decrease our footprint to keep us and the community safer on emergency scenes. >> what's back there? >> when is not guilty fire engine. great question. i want to see, sure. >> let's go back and look at the equipment and the fire pump on the fire engine. >> this is a fire pump. it is cool all the colors and all that. this fire pump and this engine holds 500 gallons of water that is a lot. >> a lot of water. >> it is push out 1500 gallons a

minute of water. we can lose our 500 gammons quickly. why we use hoses like this to connect to a fire hydrant and that gives us unlimited amount temperature is important we have enough fire engine in san francisco to put fires out. so we can reduce the injuries and minimize loss of life and minimize property damage. [music] >> mr. will. mr. will. will! >> oh. daydreaming. thanks, everybody for watching! bye! [music]

>> 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.

>> who doesn't love cable cars? charging emissions and we're free which we're proud of you know, it's not much free left in the world anymore so we managed to do that through donations and through our gift shops. you got a real look and real appreciation of what early transit systems are like. this was the transit of the day from about 1875 to about 1893 or later, you know. cable car museum is free, come on in. take a day. come down. rediscover the city. you can spend as time you want and you don't have to make reservations and it's important to be free because we want them to develop a love for cable cars so they do continue to support whether they live here or other places and people come in and say, yes, i have passed by and heard of this and never come in and they always enjoy themselves. people

love cable cars and there's none left in the world so if you want to ride a cable car, you've got to come to san francisco. that what makes the city. without the cable cars, you lose part of that, you know, because people who come here and they love it and they love the history ask they can ride a cable car that has been running since 1888 or 1889. wow! that's something. can't do that with other historical museums. rarely, have i run into anybody from outside who didn't come in and didn't feel better from knowing something about the city. it's a true experience you'll remember. i hope they walk away with a greater appreciation for the history, with the mechanics with people are fascinated by the winding machine and i hope the appreciation, which is a part of our mission and these young kids will appreciate cable cars and the ones who live here and other places, they can make sure there will always be cable cars in san

francisco because once they are gone, they are gone. it's the heartbeat of san francisco that founded the cable and the slot and without the cable cars, yeah, we would lose something in san francisco. we would lose part of its heart and soul. it wouldn't be san francisco without cable cars. [bell ringing] book. thank you. >> (music). >> my name is orlando i'm the owner and operator of sf pizza. >> pizza is my expansion growing up i loved pizza and loved to cook and been in corporate banking jobs my that whole life wanted to own a pizza or and moved to san francisco 45

years ago and couldn't find pizza i like so one day of saving and trying to figure out what i would like to do to fulfill my dream and to literally must be that i went out on my own toes an interesting things skills i again have to working on the slight changes to find the right product and came up with something i enjoy and continue it. so the positive important thing in years and years and years of trying to get it where i like it is for the sauce i use a unique sauce to bring out the flavors have to mats and capital improvement plan any and using use a high quality of cheese the products work together more

important to me have a high quality of pizza and made with love and what i try to keep it to be a comfortable foods or food and that's what i try to over and offers so having a really bus illegal day in the community and rile appeal to me and that's what i was trying to accomplish i have thought when i got into pizza the main thing if i can, make a great cheese pizza he can do anything like growing up that's what i brought to to and now called san francisco ar

>> it my honor to introduce a true patron of the arts our mayor london breed. >> (clapping). >> wow. it is packed house here tonight, i'm so very much excited to be here because this has been a long time coming the process that the committee members have had to go through to make a selection who are an important a poet laureate is one time consuming because of number of applications received and the robust body of