this meeting is adjourned in memory of marie harrison, the time is 6:46 p.m. thank you. >> usf donates 100-120 pounds of food a night. for the four semesters we have been running here, usf has donated about 18,000 pounds of food to the food recovery network. ♪ ♪ >> i'm maggie. >> i'm nick. >> we're coe-chairs of the national led organization. what food recovery does is recover and redistribute food that would go wasted and redistributing to people in the community. >> the moment that i became really engaged in the cause of fighting food waste was when i had just taken the food from the usf cafeteria and i saw four pans full size full of food perfectly fine to be eaten and made the day before and that would have gone into the trash that night if we didn't recover it the next day. i want to fight food waste because it hurts the economy, it's one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world. if it was a nation, it would be the third largest nation behind china and the united states. america wastes about 40% of the food we create every year, $160 billi

this meeting is adjourned in memory of marie harrison, the time is 6:46 p.m. thank you. sustainability mission, even though the bikes are very minimal energy use. it still matters where the energy comes from and also part of the mission in sustainability is how we run everything, run our business. so having the lights come on with clean energy is important to us as well. we heard about cleanpowersf and learned they had commercial rates and signed up for that. it was super easy to sign up. our bookkeeper signed up online, it was like 15 minutes. nothing has changed, except now we have cleaner energy. it's an easy way to align your environmental proclivities and goals around climate change and it's so easy that it's hard to not want to do it, and it doesn't really add anything to the bill. >> look at that beautiful jellyfish. the way to speak to students and motivate them to take action, to save the planet, they do, they care and my job is to speak to them in a way that they can understand that touches their heart and makes them feel powerful with simple actions to take ev

this meeting is adjourned in memory of marie harrison, the time is 6:46 p.m. thank you. in this san francisco office, there are about 1400 employees. and they're working in roughly 400,000 square feet. we were especially pleased that cleanpowersf offers the super green 100% clean energy, not only for commercial entities like ours, but also for residents of the city of san francisco. we were pleased with the package of services they offered and we're now encouraging our employees who have residence in san francisco to sign on as well. we didn't have any interruption of service or any problems with the switch over to cleanpowersf. this clean power opportunity reflects that. i would encourage any large business in san francisco to seriously consider converting and upgrading to the cleanpowersf service. it's good for the environment, it's good for business and it's good for the community. . >> the san francisco carbon fund was started in 2009. it's basically legislation that was passed by the board of supervisors and the mayor's office for the city of san francisco. they pas

i wasn't here when we talked about marie harrison. i want to appreciate that was raised. thank you very much. next item >> next item is item 14 adjournment. this meeting is adjourned in memory of marie harrison, the time is 6:46 p.m. thank you. better. san francisco department of environment is a place where climate hits the street. we know that we don't have all the answers. we need to support our local champions, our local community to find creative solutions and innovations that help us get to zero waste. >> zero waste is sending nothing to landfill or incineration, using reuse and recovery and prevention as ways to achieve zero waste. the grant program is a grant program specifically for nonprofits in san francisco to divert material from landfill. it's important to find the san francisco produce market because there's a lot of edible food that can be diverted and they need positions to capture that food and focus on food recovery. >> san francisco produce market is a resource that connects farmers and their produce with businesses in the bay area. i think it's a basi

. >> commissioner ahn: i like to begin the meeting in tribute to marie harrison. longtime environmental activist. she passed away may 5th at the age of 71. she was tough. she was effective and she was a tireless advocate for environmental justice and equity and justice issues the bay view. she's known for her work in the bayview. she her story is one of african-americans in san francisco. the one different neighborhoods she got to experience and as a result, understand the tragedies involved in displacement as well as the environmental and injustices that apolitical afflt communities of color. she can tell about the rise and fall of community. which are very rare. in 2001, marie was hired by the organization and environmental justice. one of the first ever environmental justices granted issued by the department of environment. the purpose of the grant was to conduct outreach on energy efficiency issues as well as renewables for the community. she also empowered residents to advocate for the shutdown of the power plant which was a long time in our justice struggle