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• San Francisco Launches Sustainable Financing For Green Building Renovations

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 727
  from the Mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom… This week in Copenhagen, representatives from nations around the world are debating the best measures to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change . The success of the Copenhagen talks is important as a measure of our collective commitment to ...
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• Are the Copenhagen climate talks failing?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  In the last few days it has seemed like the only thing everyone can agree on in Copenhagen is that time is running out. The heads of state start arriving today and descend in full force on Thursday. Negotiators say they don’t want their leaders arguing over the placement of a comma or a set of brackets, and so ...
  22 hours ago

• The Trial of Terry Childs Begins

  
  IT Professionals Database (ITPD) - The European IT Professionals Database Networking Platform — Authority: 141
  snydeq writes "Opening arguments were heard today in the trial against IT admin Terry Childs, who was arrested 18 months ago for refusing to hand over passwords to the San Francisco city network. InfoWorlds Paul Venezia, who has been following the case from the start, speculates that the 18-month wait is due to the ...
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• Energy for activism

  
  NOBODY PASSES, darling — Authority: 130
  So there we were, hating the Mission scene and creating it: our meetings always took place in the Mission; most of the people who showed up at our demos lived or socialized in the Mission. But here’s the thing -- people would come to our meetings, and it would change them, I mean it would change their relationship ...
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• Pedestrians Mostly Ignore Powell Street’s Temporarily-Widened Sidewalks in Union Square

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 482
  I don’t know, are the sidewalks of Powell Street so crowded with holiday shoppers that they appreciated the option of walking in the street for part of two blocks this past weekend? Not that I could tell. The trouble with the execution of this idea is that peds needed to enter and exit the pedestrian ”passing ...
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• Coke says green strategy will win business

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Having an integrated clean technology strategy will be a big part of winning business in the 21st century, a Coca-Cola executive told Reuters.com on Monday, and its investments in refrigeration will likely have the biggest impact on that strategy long-term. The worlds biggest soft drinks maker has hooked up with ...
  2 days ago

• Will the “PayDayPlus SF” Program be a Better Place to get a Loan Against Your Paycheck? Yes!

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 482
  From  Mission Mission , the website so nice they named it twice, comes word of the new PayDayPlus SF program. The upshot: If you ever need money before your paycheck comes, you can get an emergency loan from a San Francisco credit union  instead of a regular payday loan place: “Sold to consumers as ...
  2 days ago

• San Francisco’s Transamerica Building Gets LEED Gold

  
  The Far Edge — Authority: 155
  Just yesterday, one of our favorite mayors, Gavin Newsom in one of our favorite cities, San Francisco , announced that SF’s landmark Transamerica Pyramid Building , will now be classified as one of the greenest in the nation ! That’s right, the famous San Francisco landmark was awarded LEED Gold ...
  3 days ago

• Trustifarian Who? SF First Lady Goes BARE

  
  The Daily Clog — Authority: 475
  The winter installment of UC Berkeley’s leading fashion quarterly, BARE Magazine , found its covergirl in none other than Mrs. Mayor Gavin Newsom herself: Jennifer Siebel. Student photgrapher Ericka Veliz captured several shots of San Francisco’s First Lady near Ghiradelli Square—what more delectable a ...
  3 days ago

• San Francisco’s Transamerica Building Gets LEED Gold

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 727
  Just yesterday, one of our favorite mayors, Gavin Newsom in one of our favorite cities, San Francisco , announced that SF’s landmark Transamerica Pyramid Building , will now be classified as one of the greenest in the nation ! That’s right, the famous San Francisco landmark was awarded LEED Gold ...
  3 days ago

• Solar power mounts in Canada

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Solar power is heating up in the northern reaches of Canada, a country not exactly known for its sunny rays and warm weather. The industry has seen a heap of news from the region this week. US. solar heavyweight First Solar and Canadian pipeline company Enbridge announced that they are quadrupling the size of a ...
  4 days ago

• News: Bob Emrich, Iran, Manscaping, China, Chace Crawford

  
  -Towleroad News- [#gay] — Authority: 761
  Evidence of queer groups organanizing on Iranian college campuses surfaces, along with news of pending executions for 12 men under charges of sodomy . Bird of a feather . Pastor Bob Emrich: pure evil . Media Matters exposes hate group MassResistances connection to the anti-gay attacks on ...
  4 days ago

• The answer could be blowing in the wind

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Well into the first week of the U.N. Conference on Climate Change, the haves and have nots of the world are still divided over who should pay for the cleanup of the planet. Poor countries want rich countries to cough up more ambitious goals for emissions cuts and developing technologies. From emerging wind and ...
  5 days ago

• JohnsonDiversey exec sees CO2 reductions good for businesses

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Some businesses in the United States will have to reinvent themselves as the Obama administration moves to lower greenhouse gas emissions, but theyll be better off in the long run, Pedro Chidichimo, president of JohnsonDiversey EMA, told Reuters.com on Thursday. Despite the inevitable short-term pain, Chidichimo said ...
  5 days ago

• The SF Bay Bridge: Made in China and Costing a Fortune

  
  Mojo Feed | Mother Jones — Authority: 143
  We know youre cash-strapped, California, but that new east span of the Bay Bridge is going to cost you, big time. Thats according to exhaustive research by SF Public Press and published in McSweeneys Panorama this week, detailing the history of San Franciscos lesser known bridge and tagging its cost to taxpayers ...
  6 days ago

• Ridiculous, Mostly Unused San Francisco PedMount News Racks Repurposed as Bike Racks

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 482
  Remember what newpaper racks used to look like? Sure you do, because they’re all over the less-populated parts of town. But the Great PedMount Invasion of the Aughts this past decade is firmly entrenched on Market Street near Union Square, and the Castro, and other places. San Francisco’s ridiculous News ...
  6 days ago

• Mayor Newsom: "There will be a lot of parking spaces removed..."

  
  District 5 Diary — Authority: 125
  The Bay Guardians Steve Jones and other journalists cornered Mayor Newsom last week as the city implemented one of the Bicycle Plan projects allowed by Judge Busch. The mayor talked (below in italics) about implementing the rest of the projects in the Plan: "Newsom said he was supportive of the projects in the Bike ...
  6 days ago

• Nissan Leaf Coming to San Francisco

  
  GoodCleanTech — Authority: 500
  Good news for Bay Area greenies (which is probably everyone): Nissan is bringing the Leaf , its first all-electric zero-emission vehicle, to the area late next year. Mayor Gavin Newsom made the announcement yesterday on behalf of the Bay Area Electric Vehicle Corridor program. "This collaboration stems from Nissans ...
  1 week ago

• Africans protest COP15, say “process manipulated”

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  In the most heated protest of these early days at COP15 in Copenhagen, African representatives accused the political leaders of the developed world of hijacking the conference to the detriment of developing nations. The marchers said the process of the talks had been manipulated by the developed worlds political ...
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• Who’s Doing More “Aggressive Work” on Electric Cars – Nissan or San Francisco?

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 482
  Remember that Tesla Motors  corporation? They were the cock of the walk in the electric car world a few years back. Remember ? They finally got a bunch of money from the feds, but they’re going to need to hurry . Why? ‘Cause a real car company is going to start to sell a vehicle that people might ...
  1 week ago

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