their brand is we build green cities. they're saying to the latin medical examiner cities you can break out and we can help you plan and supply those products. we innovative in the economy while export those services and products good jobs and a very different model. you know, i think we need to get beyond labels. the most of come out of washington, d.c. they're mostly ideological about what the economy is. we're mapped it, it's productive and cities will get about the business of developing fuels >> i want to follow up on cars you note in 1983 half of the americans have driver's license and only 29 percent today perhaps more cities with fewer cars and more people. 24 cultural change and highway we get around >> well, there's some big demographic challenges and changes we see it with the rebirth of our cities not only as amenities but as a van guard you know april rent has written a lot about the collaborative consumption. we are seeing people treat some of those products in the past >> can now share like zip car and we se

it's a negative impact on san francisco's goal for a green city. will they're there be a cost savings. the number 3 is not the most under used lines. thirty to 35 have lower use and 20 of the lines have lower use in the night time hours. the eir plans to expand buses on the number 2 and 22 and 34. if 50 percent of our riders go over to their buses they would have to add considerable 76 percent of the eliminated buses would have to add and that's a case of robbing he peter to help paul. we'll be hurting those who cannot afford cars and the elderly and hurt those people who can't afford to hire taxis and sealed it will push those people who are doing the right thing for the environment by taking the bus thank you. >> thank you. good afternoon, commissioners i live on jackson street. isn't there a positive fix to this? rather than cutting service and forcing more use of private transportation can't we work to take muni in and out of our neighborhood. there are 7 schools in our neighborhood. this would possibly reduce the congestion during pickup and d

this is a green city. okay. okay? can i just have a warning or something? i didn't know, man.user. woman: backup on the way. man: last chance. okay. all right. okay, just stay right here. i'll be right back. okay? that doesn't work for me. you can't just take my phone away from me and then say you're gonna come back. you can get the phone. i'm not gonna take it off of you. requesting backup. i have a very hostile cellphone user. copy that. e.t.a. two minutes. look at this guy, man. he's using a cellphone right there. hey, what am i, an octopus? give me my [bleep] cellphone back, dude. hey, i can't be everywhere at once. you're full of [bleep] you're full of [bleep] give me my [bleep] phone back. give me my phone. okay. [bleep] could have gotten it from impound. ♪ don't mess around ♪ don't mess around with me the city ambassador. ♪ nowhere to run, nowhere to hide ♪ ♪ nowhere to climb to safety yeah, peggy, that guy that i was telling you about that i met online, he's due up here soon, and i hope he's as cute as he was online. because it'll belong afternoon if that's the case. i

let's talk about enlightenment change and building green cities and a low carbon future away from fossil fultsdz fuels. mayor lee what is san francisco doing your projection was a leader and you're not out there as much what is san francisco doing to modify tarnished a low carbon future like new york and other cities have seen >> first of all, mayor newsom when he made some announcements i was through and said okay. i'll do it and get it done. i was the led of his whole electric - we created the whole region for things that have to get regional so the electric vehicle nafblths my car is a chevy volt. i hardly ever get past the 40 miles so electric vehicles - >> they run on electricity. >> exactly. but we're building the infrastructure to welcome m that in we worked region alley to do so and that will be a my priority and the gofrnl came down to nouns another - he wanted to go from

services and he has also helped to implement the move to cleaner vehicles and the vehicles and green cityernment and i know, him to be a great advocate regional for transit infrastructure and for clean air, mayor lee? [ applause ] >> thank you, for that, introduction, and welcome everybody to this launch. i am so glad to be joining our supervisors and scott, and jane, our very strong advocates for our bike program. and supervisor avalos as well. and as well as the rest of the supervisors and i want to thank all of the agencies working so hard to get to this and i know that i get to ride with chief sir today and loftus as well. and you know, but i want to thank everyone because jared and i are sitting there and we are asking ourselves why did it take so long? this is about our air, our air quality and we need to do a better and we need to do it faster shs but we are glad that we are here at this time, to launch a bay area, effort, to reduce our emissions, and by signaling to our regial partner and whether they are san transor our own mta or mtc and or whether it is redwood city, or santa c

this afternoon, witnesses say one driver, in a green city pickup, like this one, suddenly turned off the paved path and on to the lawn, where a 35-year-old woman was laying down with her baby and dog in the sunshine. the driver went down the hill and drove right over the woman, as people screamed at him to stop. the mother died from her injuries. >> this is a tragedy. that is them not paying attention. being out of control, doing what they want to do. >> reporter: her baby and dog were not hurt. the driver kept going. police caught up with him minutes later and arrested him for leaving the scene of the accident. he will be tested for drugs and alcohol. parkgoers have worried about someone being hurt. >> sometimes they just ride through. >> they're always driving up there lately. i don't know why. it's been a pet peeve of mine because they ruin the grass. i've seen them drive randomly off the path. >> reporter: rec and park is not identifying the driver but says he has worked for the kept the since 2006. tonight, he is under arrest. and a san francisco father is caring for his baby wh

the point that not only the tower, not only this man-built edifice here is a symbol of the city but also the greenits and the hill to which is rests. to understand them, you have to understand the topography of san francisco. early days of the city, the city grows up in what is the financial district on the edge of chinatown. everything they rely on for existence is the golden gate. it's of massive importance to the people what comes in and out of san francisco bay. they can't see it where they are. they get the idea to build a

city wants to do a check, [speaker not understood], take it out. and again, i mentioned before then there is the project for greening the city. they are asking for bid and one of it is promoting the planting of trees in the city. friends of urban forest is planting the trees of the city. rpd is cutting the trees because they don't like the kind, not because they are hazardous. i don't know about the 59 trees. 21 of those are going to be removed. 21 is two-fifths. is it possible to remove the trees and give the trees to forestry and [speaker not understood]. thank you. >> i might point out as a matter of information the packets are posted online and there is a description that the trees were evaluated and were deemed hazardous under the standards for the department, just as a matter of information. next speaker, please. >> kelly. >>> sfgov, there's a video again. i put this up so you don't have to look at my ugly mug. this project, the [speaker not understood], is for the construction of the infrastructure or an sbrn artificial field. it is specifically designed for an sbrn artificial field. it should be noted coincidentally p

that's what we need to do to save our city hundreds of millions of dollars in energy consumption a year and set an example to everybody of how to save energy, to be greenble, to be responsible. the city is leading the way. >> it will be immediately recognizable and iconic from various parts of the city or even if you see a picture. that's the sfpuc building. it's a wonderful building. ♪ ♪

sectors such as the office retail sectors and restaurants and hotels and more, being green makes a big impact here in the city, economically and environmentally. and so, over the course of one year, our greens and businesses have reduced over 36 million pounds of co2 and diverted 1.6 pounds of waste by composting and waters through the greening measures that we asked them for undertake because that makes sense by using less water and less energy you will save those as an environmental impact because if you use this you will have less utility costs and that helps a business's bottom line. >> so with the program, we are there, each step of the way to help the businesses, and some of the direct out reach that we do, to businesses, are through, indepth phone consults and on site visits from january, 2013, to june of 2013, so far we have conducted 32 sfoen consults and help to educate, and answer questions and set up audits and offer the rebates to a variety of small businesses and also on a larger scale, the program puts out a quarterly newsletter that goes out to the recipients and we also have a facebook page a

that's what we need to do to save our city hundreds of millions of dollars in energy consumption a year and set an example to everybody of how to save energy, to be greenble, to be responsible. the city is leading the way. >> it will be immediately recognizable and iconic from various parts of the city or even if you see a picture. that's the sfpuc building. it's a wonderful building. ♪ ♪ . >> this class is managing a disaster. what happens and how do we fit in? emergency operation plan, everything is going to go through the mayor. you have the office of emergency services, everything is supposed to come together over on turk street. that's where the ham radio base station is going to be. that's where they will have a set up. they will be communicating with all the different emergency response districts. that's where we fit in. we're going to fit into this emergency response staging thing into nert staging districts. each response district has its own little (inaudible) then the nert groups are broken up into the corresponding emergency response districts and they are located at our fire department, battalion chief stations, basically there's a battali

that's what we need to do to save our city hundreds of millions of dollars in energy consumption a year and set an example to everybody of how to save energy, to be greenble, to be responsible. the city is leading the way. >> it will be immediately recognizable and iconic from various parts of the city or even if you see a picture. that's the sfpuc building. it's a wonderful building. ♪ ♪out to bring that someone special. welcome to corona height located in the height of the cast strow district the eye kong bay bridge and on towards the east bay. cone oi shakes park is one the city's best kept secrets on lake twin peaks it's hardly crowded on a day any day you will run into a new lolls and hop on a bus to get there without any parking worries and lolls bring their four-legged fronds run freely with other dogs and a small touch of grass for the small dogs and wild flowers carpet the grasslands keep on the look out nor hawks and ot . >> we're going

that's what we need to do to save our city hundreds of millions of dollars in energy consumption a year and set an example to everybody of how to save energy, to be greenble, to be responsible. the city is leading the way. >> it will be immediately recognizable and iconic from various parts of the city or even if you see a picture. that's the sfpuc building. it's a wonderful building. ♪ ♪ today we are going to talk about fire safety. we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. it's a wonderful display. a little house in the urban center exhibition center that shows what it's like in a home in san francisco after an earthquake. one of the major issues that we are going to face after earthquakes are fire hazard. we are happy to have the fire marshall join us today. >> thank you. my pleasure. >> we talk about the san francisco earthquake that was a fire that mostly devastated the city. how do we avoid that kind of problem. how can we reduce fire hazard? >> the construction was a lot different. we don't expect what we had then. we want to make sure with the gas heaters that the gas is shut off. >> if you shut it off you are going to

>> sure. >> strategies for advancing the city's green purchasing goals. there brooks, like this, working with the puc on the department's role in forwarding the sf green power program. and identifying actions for reaching 100 percent zero waste deversion goals. updating or creating a new sustainability plan. bottled water and the department's bio diversity program and establishing performance metrics for specific programs to better evaluate their effectiveness. and updating the climate action strategy. and insuring that large development and construction projects in the city meet the department's and the city's sustainability goals. requirements of and enforcement of the healthy air and clean transportation ordinance. hacto, the effect that it would have on the city's fleet. and creating centralized shared, city fleet and tracking the city vehicle usage. and we prioritize the mayor's task force report. and establishing other city department allieas a way to create more buy in and leveraging. and the large events and the sustainability and taking the lesso

this means truly green electrons produced by truly green power sources that make their way to san francisco to power our city. this is what a green power program should look like. through a combination of truly green power, mostly produced right here in california, san francisco's cca would have made great progress towards our city's shared environmental goals. but that's not the deal with the shell oil that the puc commission just rejected. the program that they said no to included only 25% true renewable energy. this is a serious degradation of the environmental benefits. the san francisco public utilities commission took a look at the deal that the staff had negotiated with shell and the commissioners decided that using 75% renewable energy credits or recs did not provide the green benefits this board of supervisors had repeatedly insisted upon. recs, as you know, supervisor, are like certificates. they can be traded from one wall street speculator to another. they derive their value from commodity trading just like stocks. by the time those recs reach our community choice aggregation program, their envir

, and it is from seirra club, and the local clean energy alliance, and the san francisco green party and our city and i just want to read it real quick. to the san francisco commission on the environment, dear commissioners in the department of the environment staff, community advocates for clean power sf would like to thank you for your past leadership in making clear to city decision makers that san francisco greenhouse direction goals are not achievable without accomplishing a robust, clean power sf program with a strong local build out of clean energy and we further thank you for insisting that programs like clean power sf are built with union labor to the greatest extent possible and that all san francisco communities must economy and environmentally benefit from such programs, all communities. and it is the commission and the department of the environment that are more than any other agency. and at the cutting edge of clean energy installation, environmentally sustain able connection and green jobs policy in san francisco, consistent with this history of leadership, we now call upon you to