and that's what the eco center allows us to do. finally, i want to tell you how the current eco center allows us to do the oral management. when i and my students invested this fall we look forward the history with the visitor i observed how students have experiencing with organisms and i observed the students and interims working together. this is only part of a valuable job skill in a job training the statistics are projecting a 25 percent in jobs >> your time is up. >> thank you and i urge you to consider the eco centers proposals. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon, president and vice president and port commissioners and members of the community. my name is according and i grew up locally. i'm a student ignored in the city college. and i'm one of the students responsible for environmental monitoring of the eco centers wastewater wetland and educational environment related to native history. i saw the proposal for the eco proposal the shoourdship would allow the students across the city from university to other levels to elap

and so i hope you will choose the bay city college and the eco center. i know they'll go a phenomenal job and bring the commitment and passion to follow through with the endeavor. thank you >> (calling names) >> good afternoon and thank you for generally sharing time to people like myself and members of the community can speak l about this important topic. i graduated from conditional with two associate degrees and at that time, it's my understanding that he had founded the center and someone spoke to that. in fact, i remember 2002 the first time on a bird survey we saw a green her iron and address it at that time that was seen there. place spaced scientific education is a critical missing link not only in our community or the united states but cross the world. san francisco and in the bay area are at the forefront and we have another opportunity to continue the world precedence. i came on i was just speaking oh, the conditional and the bay institute i don't know about the institute of san francisco but i have to say it's those groups working together th

i would say yes it is it's an eco terrorism you don't say terror you say eco terrorism the reason it's that whether they're blowing up in animal rights or torching s.u.v.s in a parking lot. or you know it goes even further when i was in the united states senate environment public works committee i was one of the researchers we actually held a hearing for i got there with one of the animal rights former animal liberation front leaders dr gerry of last week who actually openly said for every scientist experimenting on animals that they can kill they can save untold amounts of animals so they're perfectly willing the leaders this is one of the former leaders of elf and other environmental groups of radical eco terror groups openly calling for killing scientists experimenting on animals because it will save animals lives in the scientists lives are expendable because you're only talking a few scientists and many countless of animals that would be saved so this is threatening people when when the logging protester puts the spikes in a tree and someone comes by the chainsaw the chainsaw brea

eco-me is part my identity.t is part of who i am, and we work these days to obviously make money to put in our pocket and feed our families, but to do something that means more, it's pretty awesome to be a part of that. >> you guys have a lot of your own money in the business? >> yeah. >> how much debt in total exists? if you were just rough-balling it? >> well, close to $500,000. >> wow. >> last year was the year i was supposed to get paid, and it didn't happen, and it's incredibly hard for me, feeling the responsibility, to pull any money from the company when i know that i haven't paid people that are working and following my lead. >> when is the last time you got paid? >> it varies, but even if i-- >> we're back to november still with you, though. >> yeah. yeah. >> what's your biggest fear? >> that this company won't survive. >> if you don't raise money, is that a possibility? >> yeah. >> of course, yeah. >> it's always a possibility. >> look, robin and jen have a great starting point with this company, and

host: is there a sense then, because the eco-health alliance gave money to wuhan, was eco-health kept in the dark about wuhan's work? guest: that is where we do not have a lot of information on the exact work that was done in that grant. that is why there is some suspicion. what exactly were they doing? eco-health alliance was supposed to have an annual report. when the pandemic broke out in 2020, na at -- nih realized they did not have a report from the previous year. they had outsourced it to china to this institute of virology. the chinese were the ones sequencing these viruses. they were trying to figure out if they had something new. they would put them in this database. the database was taken off-line in september our october. some said it was because it was being hacked. tons of research is going on there. the state department under the trump administration said there was military research going on there. we do not really know. the nih has said to the eco-health alliance " we would like to know more about what you are studying over there," and the eco-health alliance has said "

we've accelerated this with the eco project. people looking for frontiers have been flocking to this city and the increased density we've been growing. the streets and cafes and the nights spots and a new architecture style as an architect i call integrated will reach it's pinnacle we've created a modern era. the central district is a clotted loop for wait water and energy lou gehrig's disease for integration together our community has built a cultural diverse neighborhood where people want to be. that's our vision were what i read can become a reality we must reserve this for the end game. the first steps have been taken and now we have to consider how to expand for the eco district. all eyes are literally on this area and san francisco has an opportunity to showcase this in the heart of our great city. commissioners i've worked on green buildings including any buildings that are net zero incur awhile transformational those are green buildings and eco building are a big step towards making enlightenment think development normal

baron, eating like a eco baron and driving like a eco baron. do you predict your readers will there is the genesis for that comes, one of the characters in the book whose the malabo pool cleaner saving the world i think as a facetious or not so facetious chapter title. he was a pool cleaner in malibu, pool cleaner to the stars and became a series of interesting events of arnold schwarzenegger's climate change event in california, which is really california's efforts in that area have really been out a hit everyone really leading the world and these -- >> host: the global warming solutions act. >> guest: correct. terry was his campaign environmental consultant and ultimately helped design designing the strokes of the climate change legislation and export florida and other as he calls the johnny appleseed of climate change and he's been very effective advocate for that type of government response to the challenge of global warming. he wrote a book and published the new america foundation a list of things anybody could do to lower their carbon foo

ledge, raised all of the funds to build the eco center and developed a plan, and constructed the eco center, and has owned and operated the eco center since it opened in 2010. ledge, leases the footprint of land, that the eco center sits on from the port and has an affiliated license for the surrounding outdoor area. in the past several years, ledge has suffered some financial and organizational set backs. and now, finds itself, unable to continue operating, maintaining and programming the eco center. and has approached the port seeking to terminate its lease. and i intend to come back to you at your next meeting, and with proposed terms for a mutual termination agreement for the lease. >> the eco center, however, offers a great opportunity to serve the community as an education alpha celebrity and demonstration of green building technologies. and it provides a home base for the ports environmental education programs *, and it compliments the instructions that those programs provide through the port's partnership with the department of recreation and parks, youth stewardship program

can a millionaire be a eco baron? >> guest: there is philanthropy that goes back in a century in this country. look at rockefeller who among other things there's a lot of opposition to that. but we can talk about the backlash to the philanthropy leader. there is an american tradition for this kind altruistic behavior, for people who can afford it. doug tompkins is the fellow you first meet "eco barons." he was an outdoorsman, mountain climber but founded several businesses. where he really made his money because he sold fairly on was spree, a dominant fashion companies of the 70's and 80's. he was on fulfilled by the lifestyle that gave him, which was exactly as you described, he could afford anything he wanted. he was a multimillionaire. but what he wanted to do was move to patagonia, to chile and to began protecting -- blogging and ultimately giving away the form of parks and wildlife preserves. very important areas ecologically speaking important areas of the temperate rainforest in patagonia. and he has given away