look at the world to see how landscapes are being used although we may have the most productive landscapes in the world the surprise is they're not necessarily being used to feed people directly. >> host: why do you do? if this is the situation right now, the ratio of food inverses speed and fuel what you do to feed more people? >> what you doing in this country is one question then are you hoping to improve productivity across the world? someone who'd graduated from land grant university it is a very important educational tool to improve the productivity and the knowledge of farmers around the country and that seems useful know if we try to help food productivity. actually we are best off exporting knowledge and wisdom how to make better use than to put grain on both and send it off. >> host: talking about the may cover story the issue of food it is in eight months series the new food revolution a democratic caller, you are up first. >> caller: this part of florida we grow citrus but unfortunately right now we have citrus greening. a big problem is water. we're already being a biased to l

he was publishing images of, 40 landscapes in the -- of california landscapes in the middle of the goldrush. i thought that is really interesting. i wanted to know how do the culture, the technology and the ing that wasrint available in california, how did peoples'sture shaped attitudes towards the environment and how they treated it? and hutchings was a beautiful case study for that question. so that's what i wrote above for my dissertation. in my dissertation i eventually found out that he was famous for yosemite. but at that point in time, i was not interested in taking on the big guns out there, the al rentys and michael branches. yosemite is too famous. i am still a little graduate student. i could not possibly write about this. but i did want to have a book published. i shopped my manuscript around. they said, you are going to write about yosemite, aren't you? i backed into it. i think that is why am able to see some things other historians have not seen. other historians come to yosemite saying i love yosemite. i want to talk about how wonderful yosemite is. i want to write histo

-- publishing history and landscape history in the west.i started diving into the archives and mucking around. i came across this character, james mason hutchings, who was publishing all this cool stuff. he was publishing images of california landscapes in the middle of the california gold rush. i thought, that is really interesting. how the culture and technology of printing available in california, how did people'scture shape attitudes toward the environment and how they treated the environment? hutchings was a beautiful case study for that question, so that is what i wrote about for my dissertation. in the dissertation, i eventually found out he was also famous for yosemite. at that point, i was not interested in taking on the big who have done all this work. i was like, yosemite is to famous -- ottoo famous. i am a little graduate student, i could not possibly write about this. i did want to have a book published. when i shopped it around, the senate was great --they said it was great. i backed into it. i think that is why i am able to

i have always been interested in cultural history, designed of landscape. i got a chance early in life to train at the feet of a master who taught me how to do it. >> host: who was that? >> guest: nancy gaudily power. quite a powerful designer. so when ended up happening to me , i realize that i was quite ignorant about what i was doing designing gardens. i knew how to do it. i could put an english garden with an english costs, but it struck me that i did not know why we did these things. and it came to me. >> the woman i need your help. my husband has commissioned a frankie kiri house that is quite a killer with lots of sure things sticking out. please design me in english rose garden. i thought, how, going to do this? what does it tell me about your marriage? i set out to figure these things out. >> guest: the tensions between the two of them certainly were in dative of attention steeper, who they were and how they try to make things work. you see on reconcile attention everywhere. wheat bran bits of different things. we try to reconcile them. those stori

we thought it was great to change landscaping and perceptions of landscaping. we have 28 schedules for this september and we do this in the spring and fall and they focus around land use and alternatives to lawns and do workshops to teach people how to cheat mulch and they have done great programs in the spring last year. as steve mentioned, we've seen a continued reduction in water use. that has been phenomenal, every week when those reports come out we get very excited in our office. but it's important that that is sustained so we are taking this opportunity to create this message as much as possible to talk about this is a great opportunity for everybody to be weary about what they are doing about landscaping. i got calls about droughts and water and they say why do we want to save water today, isn't it going to agriculture? i said no, absolutely not. you are in a single source system in a system that these customers have paid for and used and san francisco owns and operates for you and every drop of water that you save today is available for you later. i th

>> well, we didn't cut the landscaping landscaping entirely, we only cut the portion that is covering the orn mental grass, we have a very large trees around our space, and other trees, that we are continuing to water. and we have gotten the water rise assessment from the puc. and we are in the process of changing and doing other things, but in the meantime, again, we heard the urgency, and again, the repeated, you know, comments from you as an agency as well as the governor and the press saying that this is an emergency and everybody needs to do everything that they can do and so yes, as a board we decided, there is five members on our board, to let the grass go brown because we heard you and we believe you. but there is 60 members of our share co-op and not all of them are happy about that. i am not happy about it, i mean that it is not beautiful. but it is the right thing to do and i would be so much easier to do that if i said i have the city and everybody else behind me. in making this decision. >> commissioner vietor has words of wisdom. >> one thing that we have been talking ab

a landscape that is just powerfulfully iconic. and it's also a climate which is really, really seductive. it's drawn people here and when you draw people here to live in this splen for of nature, you -- splen discover nature, you ruin it and you can only run so far because you keep mucking up paradise, and eventually you'll muck up paradise so california is a kind of -- it's our national trauma and dilemma. it's also the case that environmental politics, environmental formation, environmental rhetoric, really matured in california, from john muir to david bro brower and the sierra club in northern california. modern environmentalism took its shape probably here, and then second part of your question -- or the first -- was about gardens. i think the modern garden did emanate from california. came out of post war suburbia and kind of a wonderful form of garden that mixes simplicity and quite a bit of jefferson's sort of paradise on the hill where there are no other people around and a veneration of nature, and a lot of whispy, a lot

you see the landscape and the clouds always communicating messages.nd so when people come from other places, that is what they see, they see the landscape and they see the people and the integration of the culture and everything into how people portray this area. starting with the architecture and the native people all the way to contemporary times. of the peopleook and events of native american history is part of c-span's city store where we travel across the country highlighting the history of each city we visited. you can see more from the city store on our website. c-span visited fort mims to hear from an author about the 1813 fort mims massacre. went on tocks massacre settlers in the area. park.are at fort mims it is a little park in alabama and this is the location of a major battle between americans and indians in 1813. the fort was full of all kinds of folks taking shelter from an impending attack here at including indians that were allied with the americans, local settlers,

so i don't know if there could landscaped. the problem that i had with this is one justification of having this is that it's reversible. but it looks like it's reversible. so if there is something that can be done for the base that wouldn't make it look for temporary, i think it would improve the project. overall i'm really pleased. i think you have done a lot of work. thanks. >> commissioners, any other comments on this? commissioner jaung? >> yeah, i'm interested in reviewing the original review committee recommendations and seeing the end result and i think over all it looks generally beautiful. however, i am intrigued by this issue of the rails and the plexiglass. if you are interested in adding andrew some conditions to implement those recommendations, i would be interested in that. i don't know how that affects? >> i would be comfortable leaving the conditions the way they are and that would be worked out with the staff. personally i'm fine with the glass. i agree with, i think commissioner highland had a good suggestion

the landscaping features are generally low lying naturalistic. there is no above the ground fixtures and they have been designed in such a way that they are reversible. in agreement with planning staff, the approved west courtyard ramp design proposed on the minor permit to alter was changed on the over all design for the courtyard. the proposed ramp improvement for the non-compliant ramp for the exan

>> yeah, because it is, it goes and applies to oern mental landscape and turf, if you are irrigating fruit or tomatoes bushes or things that are used for food, that you would be exempt from that. and so, even though is waiting until, you know, we started to tell you that you are using above, just notifying you that you have that possibility someone notifies us right away. >> how does one apply for an irrigation account? >> it is one of our possible mechanisms in the puc, and it usually is to deal with people who don't, and have a high water usage which goes to irrigation that does not end up in the suer system and so it saves them a lot on the sewer bill. >> this is not like nurseris that we have in the city limits? >> yeah, those might be irrigation accounts, yeah. >> okay. >> and if they agree with your determination, they can appeal with that decision. >> half of them are city departments, rec and park, medians and dpw irrigate and those are all irrigation accounts. >> that is a big bureaucratic nightmare, isn't it? >> well, we are staffing up to make sure that we can deal with it

it's no longer a designed historic landscape. at the same time the early pictures show the garden sitting there. there was irrigation for it and felt it was an important feature so i feel even in the state today which goes to your question it's integral and crucial to preserve the overall integrity of the property. >> any other comments, questions? i had one regarding the interior so in the narrative summary it just mentions that there is the interior doesn't have integrity except for the third floor family room and i guess that is where the sky light is too which has the paneling and the original case work, and i am wondering if that might not be mentioned in the significance. seems like the third floor is a pretty significant space being so intact. yeah, scoot light and the paneling of that room. >> is that a [inaudible] light in the room on the second floor? >> [inaudible] >> hard to get light down there otherwise. >> any other comments before we take public comment? move to public comment. is there any public comment on this

you know, she has several neighbors with similar landscaping which i think raises the question here buting to be beautiful once it fills in. >> i knew this would start happening with hoas. >> reporter: there's nothing that says you can't do this. you have to get their approval and she can't get it. >> all right. julie, thank you. >>> brian hackney is here. the way things are going, more and more people are going to rethink getting rid of lawns. >> pray for rain. >> not anytime soon. there's that artificial variety that comes out of the lawn sprinkler and that's how it will be for the next -- we don't get much rain this time of the year. we get it november, december, january. there's none on the horizon. as we look at a fairly foggy golden gate bridge right now, it's sunny inland and warm. san bruno has 71. livermore at 86. san francisco 66 degrees. in san jose, we are in the upper 70s. santa rosa is in the mid-70s. if you are headed out to candlestick tonight, it's going to be fairly breezy and 57 degrees. why go out any different way with candlestick being cool and breezy? 56 degrees a

the 45 level the shipley wing becomes assessable to acknowledge residents with a combination of landscape areas that includes raised patches where resident can grow vegetation. we took a lot of our intermission from the contacts in the neighborhood and by and large one house star windows and some earth masonry elements and with the occasional a, b, c sent of color we took inspiration to have a high quality of materials. so i see on the bottom right we have earth town with the because of the building and planter we have things and layers cut elements that are fabricated and a modern interpretation of some old industrial processes. we have glasses that match that. as a facade on fulsome street is organized by some larger elements that help to break the facade and the scale of the building it contains a juliette balcony they provide the residents with the access to in door to audit and more appropriate than popping balconies out on fulsome street those elements are picked out in on the accent colors that highlight those colors. at the eastern color you see the architecture quality at the top

it is a different landscape for young entrepreneurs. i hink there is a lot of value in vuvulnerability and humanizing your company. i think you n still succeed despite failure as long as yo frame it right and tell people we are humans, we are working on this and trying our best. >> when you started realizing the power of twitter, you became surprised celebrities and politicians s were using twitter as a way to cut out the middleman and talk directly to people. >> it is funny. i thought celebrities would nevever use twitter, that politicians would never use twitter because their lives were special. you only had access to them in movies and stuff like this. i thought that was the whole point of being a celebrity. was totally wrong. they wanted to connect with their fans. wi politicians, it makes perfect sense. they are a representive of the people. of course, they should be connecting with h people. >> you have to read the book to get the whole twitter expense. now you're off on a new adventure. tell people what it is. realizedounder and

one of the things that we also have to do is understand that the landscape and the federal landscape in particular is not the same from one department or organization to another. path that find a enables us to manage both one of --andre successful ones him to think it would encourage that as a method. when i look at what we've done over the years, we have had to build enough omentum between different departments and agencies in order to get to that point. it feels like we are right on .he crux of that right now >> you're talking about cloud cyber security. you are talking about applying the same sort of model. instead of each department doing their own certifications for applications. we have enabled a joint model that allows the apartments to express their unique department requirement into the situation. >> adding onto that, there is a technical component, as well. the certification process for , right now, it is the same for the big gaps, development projects. him it requires a cluster of high-end service to run. the process i use to certify that today is the same process i used t

hispanic voters will have a big say in the political landscape as their community continues to grow.dan cuellar has the story. the growth in philadelphia's latino population has been explosive.up 46% in a decade.according to the latest u-s census. latinos aren't strong enough to make or break a candidate. but state representative angel cruz.one of only two latino lawmakers in harrisburg. says the hispanic community has yet to translate their growing numbers into increased political power. how engaged do you think latinos are in the voting process? not as much as they can.uh we need to educate the ones that do participate often. these are the people that are you are putting into office to fight for you and represent you. if they knew the candidates, then i think they would be motivated to participate if it was one of their own. in 2007, maria quinones-sanchez became the first latina to serve on philadelphia city council. she says the secret to success is focusing on the problems of the barrio and the greater community beyond i represent a district that is diverse .. the majority of the v

so we are hoping the new developments are smarter and put in more water wise type of landscaping and capturing the water that maybe they can reuse. >> thank you. >> any other questions for mr. ritchie. i have a comment card, yolanda louis. no. 16. >> as another opportunity if what we see is writing on the wall, not only for the businesses but eventually if we don't get a grip on the droughts where it's going to hit is the consumers, the homeowners. let's have a reciprocal, let's recharge our water ground water 10 percent, what i see from the federal level they see things but they are not taking the action. they are going to say let's get it from the people and do a rate increase. the people will hurt. i'm going to ask for the businesses, let's set some goals that we can do from the other side. conservation, the only way we can get around this, we can't make it rain so that means we have to conserve what we have which means i never hear recycling come up in any conversations whether it's at the city or state level and we need to look at that more seriously the technology i'm speaking

so we are part of the landscape and the music listening landscape. we provide a valuable platform for artist and song writers to have their music heard. >> host: were you sued by the big record companies for not paying licensing fees? >> guest: there is a suit pending in new york state court over records recorded prior to not 1972. the copyright act until 1972 didn't recognize sound recording for copyright. they did haven't a performance right until 1995. and even then congress made the decision not to include for performance royalties those recordings made before 1972. so the copyright office in late 2011 and early 2012 determined they are entitled to a performance royalty under federal law. >> host: elvis, and others can be played for free? >> guest: we will still play the song writer as the song is subject to copyright. but yes, the copyright act makes all sorts of choices. there is a famous song writer from the 1920's wc handy who recorded many poplar songs. a song he wrote in 1920 is in the public domain. his estate wouldn't receive any royaltie

the landscaping features are generally low lying naturalistic. there is no above the ground fixtures and they have been designed in such a way that they are reversible. in agreement with planning staff, the approved west courtyard ramp design proposed on the minor permit to alter was changed on the over all design for the courtyard. the proposed ramp improvement for the non-compliant ramp for the exits and to the exterior room. the new ramp design is simple and allows the historic building to read beyond. the new ramp and stair composed of the railing, clear glass and concrete. the configuration allows for egress and access from both north and east wings and we have consolidated the original design. we actually in response to arc comments, we have regrade td pathway from the west gate to the east entry achieving 120 slope and reduce the over all length of the ramp foot print by 11 feet. working with blank staff, the switch back was moved to the north and we added a stair to align with the east entry as you can see that it is unobstructed view. th

it was the first italian landscape ever created, for before this time, landscapes had been merely background his new conception was eventually to alter the whole nature of italian painting. it was just such a scene as this that leonardo was leaving behind him when he was taken to the big city of florence. this is florence as it is today. 500 years ago it was a lively mercantile center. the city had already emerged from the gloom of feudalism, and it was now alive with confidence and enthusiasm. it was not only a center for the arts but a center for worldwide trade. modern banking originated here, and the greatest banking house was owned by the medici family, who ruled the city. the great dome of the cathedral in florence, the duomo. is crowned with a golden sphere, and leonardo was among those who helped to create it. the famous bell tower, the campanile, was in existence 150 years before leonardo's birth. and the bronze doors of the adjoining baptistery were finished by lorenzo ghiberti in 1452, the year of leonardo's birth. michelangelo called these doors depicting scenes from the bible "t

team would want to insure that that area does not become a paved over area and so adding that as landscaping or adding planters there, would be the ideal situation. >> yeah, commissioner pearlman. >> that is exactly what the architect this suggested was that the driveway is delineated no different than it is now, in terms of width and there is a planting area, for however, far the stair is shifted to the east, i agree with commissioner highland that the double jogging is kind of awkward. and that is why i asked the question as if the stairs do shift, clearly the garage was not there when the house was built and it is not, you know, obviously it is now part of the house and considered part of it. but if the shifting stair is okay from a historic perspective of the neighborhood, and the district, then we are giving everything that the home owner is requesting and we are not changing the quality relative to the secretary of interior standards and i know with the residential design team as long as you are not paving that area, even if you took that entire driveway area in the front and you did p

we thought it was great to change landscaping and perceptions of landscaping. we have 28 schedules for this september and we do this in the spring and fall and they

we are part of the landscape. the musical landscape. we provide a really valuable platform for artists and songwriters. >> weren't you recently sued by some of the big record companies for not paying licensing fees? a suit pending right now in new york city court over were recorded prior to 1972. the copyright act, we are in the complexity again. the copyright act did not recognize sound recordings. federal copyright at all. they were not recognized. they did not enjoy a performance right. not until 1995. congress made the decision after that time not to include for performance royalties those before 1972. the copyright office and a late 2011, early 2012 concluded that are entitled to a performance royalty under federal law. >> elvis, the supremes, they can all be played for free. you can take their product and play it for free? >> we would still play the song -- we will still pay the songwriter. it is subject to copyright. the copyright act. there is a famous songwriter from the 1920's, handy, cool recorded very popular songs. was inhe

that is the kind of political landscape you need to have. everyone is a liberal. i don't believe that. in the united states would probably would not give it if we try to put the bill of rights to of referendum. what you need is a political landscape in which no side in any political struggle to defeat the other. this insight actually comes from a famous line from walter woodman back in 1939. you wrote that the survival of democracy depends upon a sufficiently even balance of power to make an impractical for the administration to be arbitrary and for the opposition to be revolutionary and irreconcilable. besides have to have this belief if they can potentially when in a future democratic contest for them to continue to abide by the rules of the democratic game. and this equilibrium clearly did not exist in mohamed morsi egypt. one of the san ironies of political life is that it went from being one kind of one-party state to being another kind. is obama's who dwarf their opponent were able to run roughshod over them at the ballot box. and so it is not at all surpris

so we're part of the music-listening landscape, and, you know, we provide a really valuable platform for artists and song writers to have their music herald. >> host: but weren't you recently sued by some of the big record companies for not paying licensing fees? did i get that correct? >> guest: so there's a suit pending right now in new york state court over records that were recorded prior to 1972. the copyright act, we're into the complexity again. the copyright act until 1972 didn't recognize sound recordings for federal copyright at all. they weren't -- they didn't enjoy a performance right which is what would happen when you play their music on pandora until 1995, and even then congress made the decision at that time not to include for performance royalties those recordings made before 1972. so even the copyright office in late 2011 or early 2012 concluded that these pre-1972 recordings aren't entitled to a performance royalty under federal law. >> host: so elvis, the supremes, rosemary clooney, they can all be played for free? you can take that product and play it for free on

. >> what does the legislative landscape look like? >> i've done some reporting. it is about the budget. they are going to try to strike a legit deal. the thing that gives them credibility. it'll be a republican budget. it would have to have some significant spending reductions. that, what role does americans for prosperity play? americans for prosperity once a budget. they will be pushing on their members. >> they were closer to november. >> it was a ground game. think it will be interesting. they turn out in the midterms. the younger women, minorities whenwe saw, it will help president obama's second turn is home. have so manyen you of these democratic incumbents in the senate running away from president obama. they're very dependent on those. >> politics is unprotect bull. then iowa pops up. the democrats but they would be ok. the landscape is still shifting a bit. we will be watching them. thank you very much. >> thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] coming up in a few moment

and so as you know, i am always someone who likes to take the bigger landscape rather than trying to figure out the trees in the forest. we have to deal with the trees in the forest and the leaves on the branches that is part of what the commission does, and i think that is an opportunity for the landscape in the future and given the speakers in the public comment to give the people the sense of we will address this appropriately, and i agree, that perhaps the process, for talking about this, you know, given that the commission just got this document today, and i have not had a chance to read it and i think that we need to take a little more time, both for the commission as well as the public to digest this appropriately and come back with something, and i would rather talk it through now and spend the time doing it than trying to fight every battle along the way. i think that we all know that we are trying to do the right thing for the citizens of san francisco and that remains our, and remains sort of the driver