June 2011 - Sustainability - list.sfgreens.org

[Sustain] Crucial Audio: New, Destructive, Global Investors' Agricultural Land Grabs
by Eric Brooks 25 Jun '11

25 Jun '11

Groundbreaking Audio: Global investors who tapped out collapsed real estate bubble, switching to pumping global agriculture bubble. Though it highlights Africa, the same destructive grab is happening all over the world. Not detailed; the vast increase in CO2 the boom is causing, especially via biofuels. If not stopped, it will be the final straw to break the back of Earth's climate, biosphere, and human civilization. To listen go to: http://www.againstthegrain.org/program/447/id/252056/wed-6-22-11-great-afri…

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[Sustain] Need Sig Gatherers To Stop Parkmerced Project! Each Saturday
by Eric Brooks 13 Jun '11

13 Jun '11

Need Sig Gatherers To Stop Parkmerced Project! Hey all, this one's important. If you can, do both Terry Baum and this petition at the same time. See below. Eric B -------- Original Message -------- Subject: We need volunteer power this month! Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:34:12 -0700 From: Rebecca Reiner/SF Tenants Union <volunteer(a)sftu.org> To: <volunteer(a)sftu.org> CC: <TED(a)SFTU.ORG> Dear Tenant Union Volunteers, We REALLY need your help this month!! The Committee to Stop the Mass Demolitions of Housing, a collective of housing rights organizations in SF, needs your help to collect 1,500 signatures for a petition to stop the demolition of homes. We need to stop the demolition of 1,500 rent controlled units at Parkmerced and to do that we are doing a referendum in which the voters will get the chance to repeal the Board of Supervisors' decision to demolish sound housing. In order to put this referendum before the voters, we need to collect 22,000 signatures before July 8^th . We are getting some help through paid signature gathering but we will need to collect at least 5,000 signatures through volunteers! We need your help in collecting these signatures. Please join us for one or all of the three Saturday mobilizations that we will be holding. The first one is this Saturday June 18^th . Come pick up your petitions, we will provide you with a brief training on the best way to get signatures and we will send you out in pairs to the best places to collect signatures. This is the only way we will be able to stop the demolition of theses 1,500 units. Please come out and bring a friend! No experience or prior knowledge needed. You will be trained! COME JOIN US!! PLEASE RSVP to this email. Saturday June 18- Time: 10am-noon: pick up petitions Place: Tenants Union 558 Capp @20th Saturday June 25 Time: 10am-noon: pick up petitions Place: Tenants Union 558 Capp @20th Saturday July 2 Time: 10am-noon: pick up petitions Place: Tenants Union 558 Capp @20th Thank you so much. Your continued volunteer work enables us to preserve affordable housing in San Francisco. Without your help, we could not do all the work we do! Thank you for joining us. Sincerely, Rebecca and Ted Rebecca Reiner Volunteer Coordinator, San Francisco Tenants Union 558 Capp St. San Francisco, CA 94110 415-282-6543 /www.sftu.org <http://www.sftu.org/>/ JOIN US ON FACEBOOK! <http://www.facebook.com/pages/San-Francisco-Tenants-Union/111423698903128> Description: Description: logo small

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[Sustain] VERY Time Sensitive - Need SFGP OK To Oppose SF Bay Desalination Project
by Eric Brooks 09 Jun '11

09 Jun '11

Hi all, The SF Public Utilities Commission, in a surprise move, recently fast tracked an action item for its meeting this coming Tuesday to approve a $200,000 appropriation for the SFPUC to take part in a San Francisco Bay desalination project with other Bay Area counties. Desalination is a really bad environmental process which uses huge amounts of energy to run salt water through reverse osmosis filters in order to produce drinking water. Besides using energy it also kills massive amounts of marine life, and produces a highly toxic high salt brine that then must be either disposed of (potentially contaminating ground water) or returned to open waters (badly contaminating estuaries, bays and oceans). (To learn more about the harms caused by desalination go to: http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/reports/desalination-an-ocean-of-problems/ ) I will be at the SFPUC hearing and need two approvals from the SFGP: 1) To oppose San Francisco's involvement in the desalination project. 2) To sign SFGP on to the attached letter that Baykeeper has drafted to present to the SFPUC before its meeting Tuesday. CC members please review and let me know by tomorrow if you can, if I can tell Baykeeper we are on board to sign the letter. peace Eric B

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[Sustain] Short Notice! Mayoral Forum - Marti, Welch, C.P.A.
by Eric Brooks 07 Jun '11

07 Jun '11

http://sfcommunitycongress.wordpress.com/2011/06/07/the-guardian-forum-issu… SF Community Congress's Blog <http://sfcommunitycongress.wordpress.com/> Just another WordPress.com site Skip to content <http://sfcommunitycongress.wordpress.com/2011/06/07/the-guardian-forum-issu…> * Home <http://sfcommunitycongress.wordpress.com/> * About <http://sfcommunitycongress.wordpress.com/about/> * Action Agenda <http://sfcommunitycongress.wordpress.com/action-agenda/> * Economic Development <http://sfcommunitycongress.wordpress.com/economic-development/> * Health and Human Services <http://sfcommunitycongress.wordpress.com/health-and-human-services/> * Housing and Tenants' Rights <http://sfcommunitycongress.wordpress.com/housing-and-tenants-rights/> * Public Transit <http://sfcommunitycongress.wordpress.com/public-transit/> ? The Guardian Forum: Issues for the next mayor <http://sfcommunitycongress.wordpress.com/2011/06/07/the-guardian-forum-issu…> The Guardian Forum: Issues for the next mayor Posted on June 7, 2011 <http://sfcommunitycongress.wordpress.com/2011/06/07/the-guardian-forum-issu…> by sfcommunitycongress <http://sfcommunitycongress.wordpress.com/author/sfcommunitycongress/> Announcing a series of panel discussions and participatory debates framing the progressive issues for the mayor's race and beyond *Issue One: Economy, Jobs and the Progressive Agenda* * Calvin Welch, Council of Community Housing Organizations * Fernando Marti, Community planner; Community Congress 2010 * Lenny Goldberg, economist and founder, California Tax Reform Association * Shaw San Liu, Chinese Progressive Association June 9th . 6 pm -- 8 pm University of San Francisco Lone Mountain Campus, Room LM 100 Turk & Balboa, Accessible on the 31 Balboa . Mobility Assistance Available

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