but the environment, restoring this huge vast landscape, you know, degraded landscape is critical for africa, particularly for ethiopia. you know, half of ethiopia is mountains, and this mountain system is degraded, and this degradation of this huge landscape, huge mountain chain of ethiopia is critical not only for ethiopia, but also for the entire region. consider egypt, look at the sudan, where six percent of the nile flows to these countries. how can you support life in egypt without restoring ethiopia's mountains? so this is regional, national, and international. >> environmental degradation is not only a problem for the dry regions of ethiopia. it can be just as devastating for countries like rwanda, where rainfall is plentiful. this tiny country is grappling with the problem of a growing population trying to eke out a living on a finite amount of land. as in china and ethiopia, over-farming on the hillsides caused serious erosion and a decline in fertility, forcing poor farmers to move into protected areas, such as the rugezi wetlands, a wildlife site of international importanc

and then our partner in terms of associated architect is landscape architects so they're the landscape architects on the projects as well. i think one thing that wasn't mentioned was we are achieving the sp eagles in terms of our team we selected so that's a good thing. we got a good mix in terms of women owned business and minority owned businesses on the team as well. i want to just flip to the next slide. >> this shows a summer garden that people will enter into, visitors, it has an extear yore garden so people can walk up and down between those two spaces. we have places for seating as well as a lot of landscaping for the management of brain water and the selection of rain water. we have some bench features there and a plaza areas and we have the stairs and that's the input we received from the community members. it tells the history of the area so visitors and resident know real lae what happened in the past in this neighborhood. we did that successfully over at armstrong senior in terms of incorporating some ethnic elements in that project so those are the images you see below. a

. >> in order to deemphasize the faxing impact there's landscape between the two might hoping help to deal with not making things look so stark so i suggest to both parties to talk to each other and find a way to daily with the landscape on both property to negotiate those greens and side it a positive impact. i don't find the addition wrong or unskillful to not take dr approval >> second and a commissioner. i want to reinforce that the project sponsor could work with staff and to device some kind of landscaping. i know that would be deserve not making it a condition at this point but - >> we can look at that commissioner. >> commissioner. >> yeah. i had a question for project sponsor. i know you mentioned the idea of a set bank is that still on the table >> i want to jump on board the 6 foot set back we had 5 and i can't remember from the hr dr decision so we're set back at least 6 feet. >> so the set back has occurred. >> absolutely. absolutely that's a beautiful idea at all skinny became but 6 feet is a lot to work with. we have my clients here right now we can ask them >> thank yo

abstract expressionists, centered in new york, escaped to an interior world, where the subject of landscapend the struggle with brushwork and pigment became the goal of painting. for the first time, europe looked to new york. abstract expressionism-- abstract art-- is part of western tradition. it evolves out of it. it's part of it. it remains part of it. it's not oriental. it's not a new tradition. clement greenberg, critic and promoter of the new york school, became their spokesman and a friend of the leading abstract expressionist, jackson pollock. i first met jackson pollock in 1942. came down the sidewalk, and there was lee krasner, whom i'd known of old, and she was with a very respectable-looking gentleman. and, uh...i saw this rather nice-looking guy, and lee said to me, "this fellow's going to be a great painter." i went, "well, ok." what finally hit me in pollock's art was the portable mural he did for the apartment house in which peggy guggenheim lived. that hit me. it was the first time i saw him go all over, repeat this way. i thought that was a great painting, and i began to f

that they call their clouds the dutch mountains because the landscape is so low that really you get these massive clouds in the sky and that is the kind of important topography to talk about. this is another example by the same artist and it is a winter scene, and as i move through these images of different paintings from various national schools. i don't want to talk too much over them but to let you feel how the atmosphere and the mood is changed by the different kinds of clouds that the artists have chosen to depict. and i wanted to also var clearly indicate it was interesting when putting together this powerpoint, i don't typically like to put any words on the images on the slides because i like the images in that way to speak for themselves, i feel like your eye competes between the words and images but i felt that it was important to differentiate between what is in our current exhibition and our permanent collection. so this is in the temporary exhibition as well. and then i wanted to let the paintings and the temporary exhibition and our permanent collection speak to each other an

you could think of it maybe as an escape element from a landscape banding in the physical form. and in this case, this also, emphasizes more of the defined and fleeting context at work. so, well, yeah, but what do you see as a tleltening and a defined situation just by taking the cloud out of the context and presenting it in the space itself. besides the opportunity to take a lot of ideas on it. and all of the space i used is quite important and kind of most of the time we are presented this ideal space. and this was something totally different and this exhibition, i showed the work together with other works which were quite solid. and this exhibition, only the cloud exists in the form of the catalog. and in the exhibition it is gone. but, i make the clouds with the combination of smoke and (inaudible) and as we space it works different. it is more industrial space. and also, here it is like a better situation than like an art typical cloud, almost. but, boy, to do and on my research on how to make that, i run into this material called aro gel. and it is calls frozen smoke and i

which we couldn't have been making in english landscapes. if you think that about you is a canvas it will blow away but to do them in the landscape and he develops an idea of having multiple can have you seen and a working on sections of them and taking it back to the studio and come back and a so forth and eventually getting things to look like this. there's an area of 2 miles which after the royal academy show as hockney national park people coming out to the park who believe it's out of the way. one of the things that's would you have been new england it's wonderful there are particular places for example, this place in the wood is three of those paths coming together and the road the highway is this highway here gold gate and by the way, when we see the images that will be in a car coming this way but here's a place in the effort he don't the same thing in the same place some of upstairs. and you can really see how - how he has by this point if you compare this and this for example. this exactly is the advice of one point prospective. th

world war ii changed the economic landscape of the bay area. over the years george watson has touched on that in various reports. >> reporter: world war ii provided a tremendous imptous. oakland was up to the challenge. oakland became the leading shipping resource on the west coast. in 1917 to 1920, oakland shipbuilders built and launched an astounding are 5-1/2 million dollars of ships. so when the boys came home from the war, thousands of oaklanders welcomed them home. after all there was a lot to be happy about. it was over over there, business was booming. when america entered world war ii it was supplying 90% of the oil to fight the war. the government was shipping 90,000-barrels of oil to europe every day. the use of oil revolutionized the way war was waged. oils fueled the planes, tanks, ships and -- that fueled the war. by the end of the war america was consuming more oil than it could produce. there was a real fear that the nation was running out of oil. in 1919 american companies were spending $400 million in marketing and oil refinin

the assessment of food security in san francisco and the second report is a changing landscape, food security and services in san francisco tender loin, i would like to thank the report for their leadership in putting together, this thorough and authority taive overview of hunger and how to combat it in san francisco and for both reports but, sisy boniny is a member of the public, and karen, paula jones, the head of the food systems in san francisco, in our department of public health, and terry. oly from san francisco and marin food banks and coleen of saint anthonies and meals on wheels san francisco and leave on a number of the public and thank you so much for the hard work and many others. i would like to now ask if my colleagues have any opening programs as well. >> supervisor yee? >> i want to thank you for taking the leadership and i grew up in the china town and so i recognized the lack of nutrition of food for many people, as i was growing up, and even when i, as a kid, my family had a little grocery store, and we know what they are, and even the grocery store plays in terms

they would say, you can draw the landscape, but not that building., was artistic gold, which meant that i could do a fully fleshed out landscape, which i love to do, and leave it blank lace. there will be something so intrinsically absurd about that, and then also playing with , because the paper really makes the watercolor sings. my big disappointment in guantÁnamo was that i was not actually allowed to draw the detainees. i thought it had been arranged ahead of time, and the public affairs people thought so, too, but when i arrived at the prison where a large portion of the detainees were being held, the head of the prison there looked at me in shock and said, you want to draw what? it turns out i drew everything except the detainees. one early morning i drew the .allway that was the closest i got to seeing the presence of the people. >> on his work at guantÁnamo bay. that brings today's broadcasting to a close. on can get all of the latest the philippines and other news as well on our 24-hour network. nook and also go to our website. -- and you ca

look at. >> so on the revised motion to not take dr with the suggestion to incorporate landscaping on that motion (calling names) so moved, commissioners, that that motion passes 6 to zero and places you on public comment. i have no speaker cards >> any member of the public wish to speak on this item. seeing none, public comment is closed. meeting adjourned. and i'm pleased to mention to the commissioners we have a break on when a resident of san francisco is looking for health care, you look in your neighborhood first. what is closest to you? if you come to a neighborhood health center or a clinic, you then have access it a system of care in the community health network. we are a system of care that was probably based on the family practice model, but it was really clear that there are special populations with special needs. the cole street clinic is a youth clinic in the heart of the haight ashbury and they target youth. tom woodell takes care of many of the central city residents and they have great expertise in providing services for many of the homeless. potrero hill and southeas

are still lush and use about 30% of what the subtropical landscape with turf would use. las vegas has adopted a drought tolerant ordinance. we're using less water today than we used five years ago, despite over 300,000 new residents. i think it's a pretty amazing example as to how a town can really turn on a dime if there's the political will and if the public gets behind it. narrator: even the casinos and resorts have adapted to efficient water use. mulroy: the las vegas strip uses only 3% of all the water that we deliver. and when you think about it, it's the largest economic driver in the state, the largest employer, bar none. they knew they had to go the extra mile. and they've embraced conservation. and it's almost beyond belief that they're right now in the process of building another 15,000 rooms. southern nevada recycles 100% of its wastewater. so for every gallon we put back in the colorado, we can take an additional gallon out, or we send it to reuse facilities. and we deliver it to golf courses and parks and other outside applications. man: water's about a thi

and i would like to mention the fact that thomas church is the landscape architect. that is or was responsible for the landscape design of the park merced and he is also responsible for the landscape design in the goalen gate park and stanford university and cal berkeley just to name a few places and well reknown architect. i mentioned the fact that there were 2,000 trees at one time. as a matter of fact it is one of the reasons or one of the main reasons we are trying to protect these trees and that they are habitats to while life in our community. we have 50 different species of birds that fly through the community and park merced is considered a major union site by the arbon saturday for bird watching and so that is something that needs to be considered, and when, you will listen to this appeal tonight. and it is also habitat to a number of other species of animals and wild life. and we have raccoons that make these trees the habitat. and we are seeing squirrels, skunks, and occasional cat that might use a tree as a habitat. and so, that is something that we don't

bees are under threat because landscapes keep changing.e get better at everything that we do and take more cuttings of hay, you know, we leave less time for clover to just sit there in the field. life is speeding up for them just like it is for us and really neither us is coping very well with the results of that. so, i mean, what we can do to help bees is exactly what we can do to help ourselves, try to slow down the pace of change in the world around us. human societies aren't going to be able to cope with rapid climate change and neither can most animal societies, bees included. human societies can't cope, turning everything into a monoculture, neither can bees. they are a remarkable reminder for the need for a certain kind of stability, in terms of things like climate and the need for a certain kind of variety, in terms of landscape and what's around us. we need to be making at this point in our society some wise decisions about the years ahead and so we need to be using some of that same focused and determined decision making that bee

and if we have sufficient information to perform the landscape appraisal then we can do the value of the tree and the large trees, because there is time invested in their growth, can be appraised at, you know, several thousand dollars or more. when we don't know the value of the tree, there are code, suggests that we should issue the finding or the value of what it costs the city to plant the tree and water it for three years. >> and so, it could get a nutrient establish and that is set at $1753. and so that will be the minimum find and if we have sufficient information to do an appraisal that could go up from there. >> a tree like the ones that are at issue in this appeal, say the 65 or i don't know, that was, and estimated age of a tree. and some things substantial of, you know, that nature, if it were by the department that was removed without a permit and it was improper, i mean that you would, cutting one and removing one without a permit itself per se is a violation. >> yes. >> and to the extent there could be mitigation because that was otherwise determined to be yeah, we woul

i wanted it to reflect the landscape. i didn't want a tuscany. you see a lot of advertising saying was can any. you have in and out burgers with tuscany. >> yes. all the flowers you see are taken from indigenous wildflowers from sonoma county and we wove that into the design. >> reporter: i know you come under a lot of fire for the casino. it has been a little controversial, but i know you are really excited about it and the opportunities it will allow your tribal members. >> what i feel today is gratitude. many people go through hard times and struggle as our people have for a long time and don't end up winning, with rewards at the end. i am thankful at the end of all this we are able to open this facility. at the same time, with the gratitude, now comes in the future a huge responsibility. >> reporter: all right.

the rainwater receives minor treatment and is used to irrigate the building's trees and landscaping.esues using water we have on-site, we're not purchasing new water and we're also not putting sewage down into the sewer system which is costs money. this is a demonstration project of 5,000 gallons a day. it is the beginning of understanding and feeling comfortable with this technology that can be scaled up into eco districts and community scale systems, campus-type systems where in those situations when the water is reused and the numbers are much higher, 50,000, 100,000, 200,000 gallons a day, imagine the savings on that that you're getting. you're not purchasing freshwater and you're not using the sewer and being charged appropriately. this wastewater processing and reuse technology is cutting edge. and although it's been successfully implemented in other cities, it will be one of the first such installations in an urban office building. >> here is a city agency that treats wastewater, but they send no wastewater to the treatment facility. that says a lot. >> it's got a 12 gallon pe

and a second feature of this landscape poses an even greater risk. underground caves can collapse, creating sinkholes that are a direct connection between nutrient runoff and drinking water. dr. clark: one of the critical aspects about these direct connections that sinkholes provide between the surface and the aquifer is that if there's any kind of pollunts or contaminants that are associated wi that water, that water's now going directly into the aquifer, directly into the ground water. so, it's really these sinkholes are a direct connection between potential contaminants that we might apply to the surface and our drinking water supply. and in the case of nitrates in the ground water, it really has to do with something we're doing up on top of the soil where it may be an inappropriate amount of fertilizer being applied or maybe in a difficult area to try to control that. narrator: the problem of identifying specific sources of pollutants in the basin is complicated. by using data gathered from field research to build computer models, dr. graham and

landscape scale planning so that we can deal on a larger scale and not on individual small projects, but late out a work that makes sense and is consistent with forest plan and is consistent with dnieper and has the except ends of the people that are paying attention to environmental clearance. re-think both so those will help us get through and get more land treated. >> a few years ago we had the inuation where we great fail minneapolis-st. paul. the bridge was rebuilt in a matter of a year. there was just unbelievable. ability, whene you run into situations where you know that there is a possibility of great impact, not to do away with the processes that you have to deal with, not just this, but other things? do you have the ability to coordinate and expedite so that you don't get yourself in a situation where you have a large fire and then tremendous flooding and things like that? >> to some extent. categorical exclusions do help in some situations, but mostly it is those relationships that are built to the objection process. it does not inhibit our fire suppression efforts and ou