we have been asked to give an overview of the sustainable mobility strategy. i am going to run through a few topic areas and try to do a snapshot of this comprehensive program we are currently working on. it touches on every mode and every issue in this city. it is important to note that the mta has been an agency that has been under a series of mergers for the last decade. the have always referred to us as a muni, but we are more than you need. we have parking and traffic. we manage paratransit. recently, we have regulatory authority of the texas commission. we have a help with a traffic detail. we are a very broad agency that takes care of all the different transportation services in the city. every time you step outside your door in the city of san francisco, you are -- the mta has a strong role. we are building the transportation systems under the year. one thing we have been doing more and more is the last bullet, which is working closely with the planning department and the redevelopment agency and all the other agencies, reviewing land-use and developme

have completed an inventory of social heritage resources that may japantown what it is and how to sustain its cultural character. the inventory includes activities like festivals and exhibits, culturally relevant businesses, and historic sites. the recommendation is to expand the boundaries of the plan as it relates to this particular inventory. the inventory is a living document that will be continually enhance and added to. it is intended to be the tool for protecting and demoralizing the resources in japantown. the said committee reached a consensus to explore the planning code changes that would trigger a special review for certain projects that threaten cultural heritage resources in japantown. the proposed code changes could take the form of amendments to the existing special use districts or a new cultural heritage special use district. protected resources under the proposed code changes would include buildings uses and events listed on the inventory. the inventory list will eventually include current and past resources. the committee identified potential conflicts with other land

what are the right numbers that are sustainable for them? they are the ones that have to pay for it. >> that is the question we are working through right now. we agree. that is required to do the transition as you talked about. the transition of nato and the international security forces in afghanistan to transition the lead of security in afghanistan. you need it as we see the reduction of the u.s. and the coalition forces. once you go through that transition period and you go through the national elections, everything else in the 2014 time period, then you need to start looking at how much is the international contribution going to be, how much could the government of afghanistan provide. and then they have to make an informed decision as to do they maintain 152, do they have more police and army or vice versa. and again, they need to look at the conditions in the 2017 time period. >> specifically looking at what their top equipment is, what are the leads from the soldier systems to the vehicles to the intelligence surveillance? >> well, i

my question is on sustainability. what does congress have to do to make sure we don't invest in contingency areas that can't be sustained by those governments? >> it relates to your point on the mission. sustainability was important enough but we have an entirely separate special report in that we make a recommendation you should be canceling projects that are not going to be sustainable. that is something that will happen right now. we recommend you go when and evaluate projects we are putting money into and you cancel those you cannot guarantee sustainability for. that is a short-term immediate dollar value task the agencies can take on. >> this is essential to your concern. annual reports about the contingency contract in would give you a vehicle on sustainability. if for some reason a project got started and slipped past, you could catch them. you have an opportunity every year to catch them. >> what is stunning to us is the number of ways we determine $30 billion to $60 billion, we do think the non sustainability

in planning for japan town, it is important to keep the main focus on sustaining the social heritage legacy. this was a point of the ford foundation grant for sustaining one of the oldest urban ethnic neighborhoods. this is undergoing the stress of physical and social transformation. with the strategic plan for this challenge is a difficult and daunting task. over a hundred years of neighborhood history has many layers of real and symbolic meaning that has been transposed over four generations of participating community members. before i put down the word, committee members, for many years the people living in japan town were not allowed to be citizens. and it is a serious effort of preservation that requires this partnership that we have spoken about this morning. identifying with great sensitivity, the social significance and to memorialize and monitor the activities -- >> you have at least 30 seconds. >> to monitor the activity and it will be difficult and not an easy path to sort out these techniques, to sustain and investigate the future economic developments. >> diane is up. an

sustainable change. >> thank you. >> my work is focused on sustainability and innovation.e think about the different projects and initiatives involved, finding different solutions, thinking outside of box. the various different ways that might be relevant to them in their daily lives. speaking of, at the international nonprofit that we run, it is not that you can make a difference, it is that everything you do makes a difference. we are focused on how to think differently about the best ideas, which rainout be different from the green, sustainability space. everything from how we travel to the food that we eat. it is about thinking outside the box in educational markets, innovating and thinking differently. i am very delighted to be here to share this with you all. >> economic ec the manifestations of what this looks like. -- you can already see the manifestations. >> i and the executive director of an organization called the dc project based here in the district and we will soon be taking on the name at groundswell. the focus of our worked is really zeroing in on the prob

look at the development strategy which is also not sustainable foreign contractors. excessive egregious war profiteering as illuminated recently by the wartime contracting commission senate foreign relations committee and the look at our diplomacy strategy in terms of the failed reconciliation peace talks recently you know the u.s. was extending a hand while having a hand behind its back that hand behind its back was killing taliban as was expecting taliban to come to the table so i think across the board terms of success and sustainability of the strategies it's. failed on all three accounts so let's wind this but let's look back to the beginning of this just a few days before nine eleven the taliban offered to give up some of bin laden did it continued to do so after that campaign started why do you think the u.s. didn't take them up on that offer. well it's interesting they have not taken the taleban up on several offers there are several recent case studies where in taliban leaders went to the negotiation table and were killed on the way i mean the real problem w

allbee: it's not just about the sustainability of the assets, it's about the sustainability of our water resources. parts of this country that thought of themselves as water rich 20, 30 years ago, now are discovering that they really are not water rich, they have source supply issues, they have serious questions about how they're going to accommodate additional growth in their communities. melosi: if we can find alternatives, we can preserve a water supply. conservation of water is a way of generating more water. allbee: we think that a household can actually reduce its water usage by about 30%. and that's hugely important in terms of the amount of infrastructure that community's going to require. narrator: las vegas is one of the fast-growing areas in the country. it's a relatively new city under constant construction. but because it's in the arid mojave desert, the challenge of las vegas is supply. woman: all the growth and everything that's occurred in southern nevada has been with colorado river water. without it, the west as you know it today couldn't exist. narrator: to sustain the

sustainability issues. i am sure all of you know the climate change threats we're facing in san francisco being a city surrounded by water on three sides. under a do nothing scenario, sea level rise could lead up to 90 miles of major bay area roadways as well as our airport as well as many businesses in the area. the impact would not only be environmental, but economic and social as well. cities could face up to $48 billion of infrastructure damage and significant public health impact could occur in san francisco. i do not need to tell all of you that we need to continue to act swiftly and take bold action to address climate change locally. i am so happy to be joining the mayor to a firm -- a firm that san francisco is taking decisive action. we have made great strides by achieving a reduction of 12% below 1990 levels just in 2010. the department of the environment city-wide assessment shows these reductions are the equivalent of taking 128,000 cars off of the road every year. it is a significant impact. th

you have met a high level the sustainability. you can go to leed silver or gold. it's leadership of environmental design. it's a process of the u.s. green building council. beverly is ahead of this curve. we see every new building as sustainable features. they are not all leed certified. that's what the market demands >> our work is in the public sector. community colleges and so on. 5 years ago, we were trying to get them to think about it. then think about california is on the forefront of nation. san francisco is on the forefront of state >> and beverly prior is way up there. we are up there at the top. it sounds like the challenge came to making this physical reality achiefable. what is the marginal cost? every always asks me. what is the marginal costs. may be i shouldn't ask. i have to say, there's a huge difference. between building a building from scratch, where you can design at will features from the ground up and the marginal cost then when you take an existing building. you were talking about major changes. i presume that has a major impact. >> we don'

at the core of the sustainable innovation is green chemistry. that is how we create green and products that outperform conventional ones. our approach to sustainable designed is not en -- does not end with what is in the bottle. it also includes the bottle. evidence of that is parked outside. it is also evident in our approach to sustainable package design. that is what i would like to address today. in 2006, method reached a milestone. we created the first custom pvc bottle manufactured completely from recycled plastic. in the five years since then, we have continued to innovate and focus on developing pcr technology to the point where almost everybody we manufacture is made from 100% pcr plastic. that is millions of bottles a year that may completely free of virgin plastic. having achieved in this second milestone and the huge benefits that go with it, we started asking ourselves a question. that was, what is the ultimate recycled material? that is where our attention is turned to the issue of ocean plastic. what if we could take some of the p

um wal-mart is uh has made i think their commitment to sustainability, environmental sustainability has been sincere uh and they've done some very positive things. they've now decided to look at their food chain >> yeah. >> uh supply chain and see if they can't drive a lot of fossil fuel use out of that and what they've come up with is basically a a redesign of their distribution network to be more regional and less national. um and they, like a lot of people, had a wake-up call in 2008 when we had that big spike in fuel prices. you know the price of getting a box of broccoli from the salinas valley to the hunts point market in new york went from $3 to $10. that was you know a big deal in the food >> sure. >> in the food industry. >> sure. >>in fact, some of the salinas growers started leasing land in new jersey to grow food there. um it didn't work out very well. >> right. >>um [laughter] >> but you understand why. the cost was just untenable. >>yeah, oh yeah. and and so and and wal-mart had this you know "come to jesus" moment then too and realized we have to figure out another way to

sustainable palm oil comes from farmers who are helping to protect the rainforests. non-sustainable palm oil comes from farmers who are hurting the ecosystem. >> they're destroying orangutan habitats and habitats of all the animals in the indonesian rainforest. >> jordan started researching non-sustainable palm oil as a sixth-grade current-events project. he realized he wanted to do something about it, so he recruited his classmates. >> i helped, like, spread the word. >> i did some online, like, posters and banners. >> i was getting petitions signed by people. >> i wrote the petition, along with a couple of friends who helped me edit it. >> i wrote letters to congressmen and representatives. >> in most cases, the studentss. get to a certain point and then the project kind of dies down. but this group definitely went above and beyond what was expected of them. >> all that hard work got noticed and got results. >> my group and i, we went to the assistant superintendent for business in the district, and we proposed to him our campaign and what we wanted to do, and we a

that grows moe more and faster chinese capital to sustain jobs. many americans reaction negatively to chinese investment, and for that matter, any foreign investment, even though foreign direct investment is, in my judgment, the up mat vote of confidence in our system. fdi creates good jobs in the united states. 5.6 million, including over 2 million in manufacturing, and the average salary of these jobs is 33% higher than the national average. but the u.s. government estimates affiliates of chinese firms in the u.s. implied little more than 4,000 americans in 2009. so, there's plenty of room to grow, not least because chinese companies have been reluctant to invest, judging they won't be welcomed here, because they don't understand the investment process. there's a lesson here. chinese leads the world in foreign holdings of u.s. treasury securities with $1.14 trillion. but it would strengthen our economic relation if china put more of those dollars to work in higher return investments that create jobs in the united states. of course, we'll need to

world reaches still another population benchmark the debate continues as to whether the planet can sustain such levels as well as the future of global consumption is the world overpopulated and if it is what should be done about it. live in the cylinder. cross-talk population levels i'm joined by bob to into a second here in berlin he's the executive director of united nations population fund in washington we crossed him arthur madison campbell sees a lecturer at the school of public health at the university of california berkeley and in gainesville we have matthew conley he's a professor of history at columbia university all right folks this is cross talk that means you can jump in anytime you want i very much encourage it but first musharraf where does the world stand right now seven billion people and still counting today's world population is double what it was in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven and seven times what it was only two centuries ago by my fancher a projected growth figure at nine point three billion people concerns are mounting that such sustained expansion of the h

. >> eric brooks with the san francisco green party, chair of the sustainability working group as well as the local grassroots organizations. first just to back up what looks like a whistle-blower just said, also remember that it was the firm that was in charge of the asbestos in the first bayview hunters point development and was culpable for not turning those monitors on and maintaining them property. there are triangulations here, and i want to mention that it needs to take a long second luck. that gives me to the next point i want to make, just the folks from the southeast that have come up and said -- i have done some work on environmental issues at the southeast part of this community that was ground zero. i know that as a white greeney from the western side of the city, i had listened to them and let them die the process. please take what they are saying as gold, because if that community doesn't run the process, it is not going to be a sustainable community. the people there need to be foundational to the process. the other thing i wanted to bring up is that i noticed in the ge

they want something that is sustainable. they also want to be attached to something that proves our environment. that is what i hear every day. high-school kids from public schools was something that will be proud of. associating themselves with a company like method will make them very proud. there will be good citizens as well, and they will be volunteers this saturday, i am sure. >> thank you. [applause] >> proposition a would authorize the san francisco unified school district to issue bonds to repair and upgrade more than 50 school facilities. property taxes could be increased if needed to pay the principal and interest on these bonds. the bond funds would be used to repair and replace major building systems including electrical, heating wat, water, security, and fire sprinklers. remove hazardous materials. improve accessibility for people with disabilities. make necessary seismic upgrades. replace permanent structures and perform other work necessary to apply closure -- codes and regulation . they can't pay for teacher

it is not just creating, but sustaining change. we are the change engine. it does not happen to us, it happens because of us. >> i am going to flip through the slides that show some of the pictures that the children made at malcolm x. i am the director of the executive policies for the school district. i have been working with small compacts and on the city's services committee. >> i just wanted to say thank you for the presentation. to show how it is integrated into the school site and the great energy that you are exhibiting. thank you. >> i will quickly flipped through some of those slides. some of the older students that participated in summer programs came and share their talents. that is their field trip. that is some of the work that the architects provided inspiration to the students. this is some other models that they built. you can see this. when they presented to the group, the presentations. as we walked around and they gave us individual presentations that they have done and gave some scale models. moving on from that, when we look forward, we

that is the mechanics of sustainable growth.he quality where customers are providing resources to get more customers. >> it's great. a lot of people spend a lot of time getting new customers when they are growing because of current customers. they are wasting money on new people. >> i wish we could talk for a half hour or more. unfortunately, it's the end. everybody should read your book, the lean start up. it's very helpful, thank you. >> thanks for having me on. >>> still to come, small business owners tell us what they think about the president's job to answer questions. >>> the owner of a spa for dogs, plus, today's elevator pictures have a solution about what to do with all of your bags when you have more shopping to do. shazi: seven years ago, i had this idea. to make baby food the way moms would. happybaby strives to make the best organic baby food. in a business like ours, personal connections are so important. we use our american express open gold card to further those connections. last year we took dozens of trips usin

however, more will be needed to achieve fiscal sustainability.objective is to avoid fiscal actions that could impede the ongoing economic recovery. these two objectives are not incompatible with putting in a plan that does not preclude implications of fiscal choices in the near term. third, fiscal pl i -- policy should aim to promote long-term growth and economic opportunity. as a nation, we need to -- fourth there is evident need to improve the process for making long-term budget decisions, to prodict greater clarity while avoiding disruptions. in some the nation faces fundamental difficult choices can -- which cannot be safely or responsibly postponed. let me turn now to the prospects for inflation. prices of many commodities, notably oil, increased sharply earlier this year and as i noted, led to higher retail gasoline and -- higher retail, gasoline, and food prices. other goods and services were able to pass through some of these input costs to their customers. separately, the global supply disruptions associated with the disaster in japan pu

such cities -- sustainable citizens in san francisco.e all know it takes a master's degree to realize the true level of economic stability, but i would also like to say it is important that the young people have a chance to take courses at city college, not necessarily for free, but perhaps some of these developers, some of the folks that will really benefit are able to underwrite some of these young people for their tuition. also, i'd like to just say that in terms of a question you asked supervisor mar about the connectivity with the america's cup, i have had conversations with mr. martin and mr. ellison, but i do not get the sense there will be this strength and my capability of having their attention versus the attention of folks down in other parts of the committee. thank you. supervisor avalos: thank you. >> good afternoon. i want to bring to your attention when i hear presentations made, i only hear workforce and city bill. i hear a little bit about wyc, but ycb, but i do not hear about the other cbo's. we of the renaissance. thes

and is the problem vision of the agony over the palestinian sustainable endeavor i think not and i think it is fine but the yuan calls upon the united states of america and the countries that are voted in our favor to reconsider their position let me just ask you so that already there were political motives behind the membership of unesco rather than cultural ones do you really mean and believe that this success with that voting does indeed strengthen the bid for palestine's statehood. india has been. exercised but it has been a scenario that's been long considered all the way through as a proper three measure for a bigger battle to come and that battle is going to take place and take place of the security council indeed this is a rehearsal and you could monitor there with action and look to really what needs to be done now is not the way to further the diplomatic quarter but rather to convince those who have opposed the palestinian motion of the security council to reconsider and to look for the future of the stability of the reason will have to be based on the on justice being served t

injuries sustained by concussions. made one poignant by the fact that they come so early in life and can have such terrible consequences you decided not to do what you have spent your whole life preparing to do. not necessarily typical. a wise decision. i want to throw this at all of you. you could develop the 50-pound helmet, and all it would do is more securely, i think, unless i'm wrong, is more security make sure your head is not to split open. it would not do one thing for the movement of the brain or stop the movement of the brain, which is you say that emphatically enough, it raises the question of what you can do medically. analyze. we do that with alzheimer's. people leave their brains to be studied and you learn from that. you can tell. that doesn't do them any good, and so i want to raise two questions. one is the medical side of this. td think i am wrong? do you think this is a relatively early discovery? to be quite honest, i did not know at all that somebody who played soccer could get this until i watche

it is not just creating, but sustaining change.

of your society. >> and being sustainable is what chef laura is all about. she shows people how to cook on a budget and says the tastiest foods are the ones grown closest to you. >> the best food you can get the most nutritious and the most delicious are foods that are local and in season. >> so if there's anything to gain from this, it is sticking to word local. >> every local. >> buyers. >> buy your food local, buy your produce local and support the local economy as well as preventing food -- >> it was part of national campus sustainability day and held at universities across the country. >> now we will go to arts and entertainment. what do you have this week. >> netflix. a few months ago it was all the rage but as one small change has caused big problems for them nationwide. >> getting dvds in the mail to many americans is just as common as that dreaded bill. but when netflix said they're raising fees, 800,000 angry customers said this was too much. >> nor was like really, really extreme to the point where it is just like wow, i am paying way too much jus