to "comunidad del valle." hello, and welcome i'm damian trujillo, and today the latinx movement is in full force, plus lean in latinas on your "comunidel ♪ le announcer: nbc bay area presents "comunidad del valle," with damian trujillo. damian: we begin today with our new partner here on "comunidad del valle." we introduced him a couple of months ago and now he's back with his first project. carlos ponce is a former consul general of mexico here in san jose. he's now doing some independent work. welcome back to the show. carlos ponce: thank you very much, thank you for inviting me. i'm really happy to be in this new forum of carlos ponce. damian: well, now he's taking over, it's kind of a journalistic platform. mr. ponce now is producing some videos for us, some vignettes to--well, tell us in 30 seconds if you can about what you're doing and who we're going to see right now. carlos: cuéntame tu historia it's to know the latino community, the good of the woman, of the work, and we are happy to be here. damian: a

damian trujillo: hello and welcome to, "comunidad del valle." i'm damian trujillo, and today, youth mariachi competition. plus the san francisco international arts festival on your "comunidad del valle." male announcer: nbc bay area presents "comunidad del valle" with damian trujillo. damian: we begin today with the preservation of our waterways. aida fairman is with the city of los altos here to speak on behalf of watershed watch and the importance of keeping our waterways clean. welcome to the show. aida fairman: thank you so much, damian, for this opportunity. damian: thank you. now we--i want to show a video because we have a video of a car wash. and tell us why this is significant, the video that we're watching here of the car wash. aida: yeah, it's very important that the residents take their cars to be washed at a carwashes to-- car washes because the water from that-- from the carwashes gets treated in the sanitized sewer system. but if they wash their cars on paved areas like parking lots, driveways that are impermeable, the water would

." male announcer: nbc bay area presents "comunidad del valle" with damian trujillo. damian: we begin again with the san jose clean energy program. zach struyk is the deputy director there of the program. he joins us on "comunidad del valle." welcome to the show. zach struyk: thanks so much for having me. damian: so we--your organization, your agency was on a couple of months ago kicking off the program. tell us briefly again about the program and what it's done so far. zach: so, this is a community choice energy program. and in that structure in california, communities can so, they basically are deciding where the power comes from. so, san jose has decided to get into that business to source a cleaner mix of energy, solar, wind, water for its customers. pg&e continues to do the maintenance of lines and the billing and all of the customer service in that way. damian: so, people at home don't have to do anything, keep doing what you're doing. zach: exactly, the do nothing scenario is that you're enrolled and that you're getting a cheaper-- a little bit cheaper power. an

d"comunidad del valle." and welcome to i'm damian trujillo, and today the young eagles are soaring. plus, the future of funding for education on your "comunidad del valle." male announcer: nbc bay area presents "comunidad del valle" with damian trujillo. damian: we begin today with the monthly visit of the consulate of mexico in san francisco. mario garcia is the consul [speaking in foreign language] consul general there of documentation, the forms and whatnot at the consul. welcome back to the show. mario garcia: thank you very much, damian. it is a great pleasure to be here on your show again. damian: thank you very much. so, your job is to make sure that the people who are looking for visas, matriculas, birth certificates maybe because they left them back home in michoacan or wherever, they can-- mario: visa is just for the foreigners that wants to go to mexico, but mainly for issuing passports consular ids, birth certificates, voter ids, mainly that kind of documents is that i'm in charge of. damian: you were telling me that it's been very, very busy. and you're doing a lot of wo