- Sustainability - list.sfgreens.org

[Sustain] 2014 CA Legislative Session Over! - Anti Clean Energy Bill AB 2145 DIES WITHOUT A VOTE!
by Eric Brooks 30 Aug '14

30 Aug '14

Victory! The California legislative session just ended and the AB 2145 attack on Community Choice energy died without being brought to a vote! Eric Brooks

2 1

[Sustain] Help us stop the attack on Community Choice energy
by Eric Brooks 21 Aug '14

21 Aug '14

Please share widely in California! Dear Friends of Clean Energy: We've spent the entire summer fighting for the future of Community Choice energy in California. With the help of CREDO activists like you, we've managed to convince many of our legislators in Sacramento to stand up against the monopoly utilities' attack on local, not-for-profit Community Choice energy programs. We've nearly won. But we need you to make one more call before the Senate votes on AB 2145, a bill that places anti-competitive, onerous and needless restrictions on Community Choice programs. Please call your Senator today and tell them to Vote NO on AB 2145. <http://act.credoaction.com/call/save_community_choice_2_copy/> Together, we can save Community Choice energy and ring in our clean energy future. Thanks so much, Erica Etelson

1 0

[Sustain] PRESS RELEASE: SF Calls For Ban Of Clearcut Logging In CA
by Eric Brooks 25 Jun '14

25 Jun '14

Hi all, Our local SF Green Party helped write and shepherd this legislation to victory. Particularly important is that we stuck to our guns and insisted that a ban on genetically engineered tree cultivation be included in the resolution. Because we stayed firm, both Davis and San Francisco have now passed calls for bans on both clearcutting and GE tree cultivation. Eric B FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 25, 2014 CONTACT: Juliette Beck, 530-902-8407 <tel:530-902-8407> stopsierraclearcutting(a)gmail.com <mailto:stopsierraclearcutting@gmail.com> (Photos, video available upon request) *San Francisco Calls for State Ban of Clearcut Logging and Other Factory Tree Farming Methods* San Francisco, CA—On Tuesday June 24, 2014, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a resolution to call on the state legislature and governor to enhance protections for California's forest watersheds by banning factory tree farming methods based on clearcut logging and toxic herbicide application. “In keeping with San Francisco’s leadership in the environmental justice movement, I felt compelled to collaborate with the Sierra Club and environmental leaders to introduce this resolution urging the state to stop these destructive clear cutting practices," said resolution sponsor Supervisor David Campos. "It is incumbent upon us public officials to take a stand and fight to protect our natural resources. San Francisco’s pristine Sierra water supply and greenhouse gas-free hydro power, the integrity of the planet’s climate, and the security of wildlife and human health are intimately dependent on the health of our forests. I am proud that we received unanimous support from the Board of Supervisors for this measure." California’s forest watersheds store, filter, and gradually release 75% of the state’s clean water supply.* Mature forests absorb up to 40% of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. Currently, California law allows all trees to be cut on large tracts of forest (clearcutting) followed by the planting of new trees as factory-farmed industrial plantations of only one or two tree species. Toxic herbicides are applied to prevent the growth of ‘undesirable’ tree and plant species. Over a million acres in key watersheds in the Sierra Nevada, Cascade, and Redwood forests are in the process of being converted to highly uniform, fire-prone tree plantations. Clearcutting and tree farming create a sterile landscape much like factory-scale corn, soy, or alfalfa fields, allowing minimal natural plant and animal biodiversity and creating soil disturbance and runoff that pollutes waterways and releases large amounts of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. Maintaining natural, mature forests is increasingly recognized as vital in reversing climate change.** The resolution also calls for a California prohibition of the outdoor cultivation of genetically engineered tree plantations, an even more aggressive and chemically-intensive form of factory tree farming for which biotech corporations are currently seeking approval at the USDA.*** Opponents warn that such genetically engineered tree plantations, if approved, could make destructive clearcutting even more profitable and desirable to the timber and tree pulp industry, and could present serious biological contamination dangers to the integrity and health of California wildlife. Opponents of clearcutting call for trees to instead be logged using a less destructive method known as selective harvest, which involves the planned removal of carefully identified trees, while leaving overall forests intact. Sierra Club spokesperson Juliette Beck hailed the passage of the measure, saying “This resolution against clearcutting marks the beginning of a turning point in California, away from destructive and toxic factory tree farms and toward more ecologically sustainable methods of selective logging which will preserve healthy forests, the Earth’s climate, and more stable jobs in forest products and tourism, far into the future.” *Sierra Club, http://www.sierraclub.org/clearcutting/downloads/Clearcutting-factsheet.pdf **Nature Journal, http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nature12914.html, January 29, 2014 ***Center for Food Safety http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/files/ge_pages_final_nov-1_80728.pdf, November 2013, p. 3 ###

1 0

[Sustain] URGENT: Use & Share This Credo Tool To Call Sen. Padilla & Save Clean Energy In CA
by Eric Brooks 19 Jun '14

19 Jun '14

All, The vote on AB 2145, the fossil fuel monopoly power grab, in the Senate energy committee this Monday, will make or break the clean energy movement in California. So take this action and then cut and paste the text just below to share and tweet it with -every- Californian you can contact! URGENT Use This Tool To Call Sen. Padilla To Save Clean Energy From Fossil Fuel Bill AB 2145 & SHARE/TWEET THIS MESSAGE! http://http://act.credoaction.com/call/save_community_choice_padilla -- Eric Brooks SF Group 415-756-8844

1 0

[Sustain] Next Tuesday, June 3, Radiation On Treasure Island Forum, Commonwealth Club: Must Get Tickets By 5pm Today
by Eric Brooks 28 May '14

28 May '14

Hi all, The State and Navy coverup of radiation in Lennar Corporation's real estate development areas on Treasure Island, the Bayview Hunters Point Shipyard, and our eastern bay waterfront and wilderness areas, is finally getting the attention of the media. The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco is holding a forum on the Treasure Island revelations this coming Tuesday, June 3rd at 6pm. Igniting this issue in the media gives us a chance to halt a major Wall Street real estate marauder that is running roughshod over our city, its residents, the waterfront, and the Bayview and Treasure Island communities. HOWEVER, the forum will not be held unless it gets at least 40 reservations by 5pm today. Tickets for non Commonwealth Club members are $20. To reserve a seat, and for more information, go to: http://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2014-06-03/secrets-treasure-island-u… Eric B

1 0

[Sustain] CleanPowerSF: Reports On Avalos Blocking Mayor From Grabbing CleanPowerSF Reserve Fund
by Eric Brooks 22 May '14

22 May '14

Hi all, Today San Francisco Supervisor John Avalos led a successful vote at the SF Budget and Finance Committee (I believe for the first time in the history, to reject the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC)'s entire budget, in order to leverage the Mayor to engage in negotiations about the $19.5 million CleanPowerSF reserve fund, which the Mayor attempted to raid for other programs. Here are three early reports on the vote from the SF Chronicle, Examiner and Guardian: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Sparks-fly-over-mayor-s-effort-to-rai… http://www.sfexaminer.com/PoliticsBlog/archives/2014/05/21/supervisors-reje… http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2014/05/21/supes-wont-let-mayor-raid-cleanpowe… Eric B

1 0

[Sustain] REMINDER: Attend Hearing To Support CleanPowerSF, TOMORROW, Mon, Mar 31, 1:30pm, SF City Hall, Rm 263 (Van Ness at Grove - Near Civic Center BART)
by Eric Brooks 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

Hi all, Reminder: Tell Mayor Lee To Stop Blocking Clean Power In San Francisco At Monday March 31 Hearing San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has cynically blocked CleanPowerSF and released a revised Climate Action Strategy with CleanPowerSF unacceptably deleted from it! On September 18, 2012, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, by a supermajority vote, directed the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) to launch the CleanPowerSF program. CleanPowerSF is planned to immediately give San Franciscans the choice of 100% clean electricity, and hire hundreds of workers to build community projects to deliver 50% of that clean electricity from local installations. But outrageously, Mayor Lee (who has received campaign support from the fossil fuel utility Pacific Gas & Electric) has been using his leverage as mayor to prevent CleanPowerSF from launching. In his latest attempt to interfere with CleanPowerSF, Mayor Lee has just released a revised version of the city's Climate Action Strategy with all references to CleanPowerSF removed! *WHAT YOU CAN DO* Attend an important City Hall hearing tomorrow to support CleanPowerSF in person at public comment time. San Francisco Supervisor John Avalos has called a Monday, March 31, 1:30pm hearing to demand answers on why the mayor is both blocking the launch of CleanPowerSF and releasing a Climate Action Strategy with CleanPowerSF deleted from its text. Here are the hearing details: Land Use & Economic Development Committee Room 263, SF City Hall, 1 Dr. Carleton B. Goodlett Place (at Grove & Van Ness) Monday, March 31, 2014 - 1:30pm * **TALKING POINTS & E**MAIL ACTION:* Go to the following link to get talking points for the hearing, and to send an email to Mayor Lee and other decision makers to demand that they restore CleanPowerSF to its rightful place as the centerpiece of the Climate Action Strategy, and launch CleanPowerSF immediately! http://tinyurl.com/LaunchCleanPowerSF Thanks for your action and support! Eric Brooks Campaign Coordinator, Our City http://ourcitysf.org

1 0

[Sustain] Tell Mayor Lee To Stop Blocking Clean Power In San Francisco
by Eric Brooks 29 Mar '14

29 Mar '14

Hi all, *Please Forward This Email Widely* San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has cynically blocked CleanPowerSF and released a revised Climate Action Strategy with CleanPowerSF unacceptably deleted from it! On September 18, 2012, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, by a supermajority vote, directed the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) to launch the CleanPowerSF program. CleanPowerSF is planned to immediately give San Franciscans the choice of 100% clean electricity, and hire hundreds of workers to build community projects to deliver 50% of that clean electricity from local installations. But outrageously, Mayor Lee (who has received campaign support from the fossil fuel utility Pacific Gas & Electric and its high paid political consultant Willie Brown) has been using his leverage as mayor to prevent CleanPowerSF from launching. In his latest attempt to interfere with CleanPowerSF, Mayor Lee has just released a revised version of the city's Climate Action Strategy with all references to CleanPowerSF removed! WHAT YOU CAN DO Go to the following link to send an email to Mayor Lee and other decision makers to demand that he restore CleanPowerSF to its rightful place as the centerpiece of the Climate Action Strategy, and that he launch CleanPowerSF immediately! http://tinyurl.com/LaunchCleanPowerSF <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001DF9IB2srpfKY72ouebDWdvxKMfLYBwAUhzkVl__hCBZe…> WHAT YOU CAN DO - STEP 2 Attend an important City Hall hearing on CleanPowerSF next week to deliver your message in person at public comment time. San Francisco Supervisor John Avalos has called a Monday, March 31 hearing to demand answers on why the mayor is both blocking the launch of CleanPowerSF and releasing a Climate Action Strategy with CleanPowerSF deleted from its text. Here are the hearing details: Land Use & Economic Development Committee Room 263, SF City Hall, 1 Dr. Carleton B. Goodlett Place (at Grove & Van Ness) Monday, March 31, 2014, 1:30pm Thanks for your action and support! Eric Brooks Campaign Coordinator Our City -- This alert sent by: Our City 1104 Polk St. #225 San Francisco, CA 94109 415-756-8844 For more information about Our City campaigns go to: Web: http://ourcitysf.org <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001DF9IB2srpfLP4NK3lTolImQ1Xzrh5VjULQoweLajznCD…> FaceBook: http://www.facebook.com/OurCitySF <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001DF9IB2srpfIRyKuKk0nwuQRma5gdGr491lFI0tayVE7r…> Twitter: http://twitter.com/OurCitySF <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001DF9IB2srpfJfn3cdOobbWMptmaA29o1f4hoy4fVWXLof…> ###

1 0

[Sustain] Important: Attend Tue 25th Env. Commission To Demand CleanPowerSF In Climate Action Strategy, 4pm, SF City Hall Rm 416
by Eric Brooks 20 Mar '14

20 Mar '14

All, Please do your best to attend this SF Environment Commission meeting so that we are there in force (next Tuesday at 4pm) to demand that CleanPowerSF be written -back- into San Francisco's Climate Action Strategy. (The Mayor had it completely deleted from the Strategy in February.) These Environment Commission meetings only happen once every two months and they are now televised. So this is a key opportunity to start building the press and public attention around launching CleanPowerSF, and attacking the mayor for blocking the program on behalf of the fossil fuel energy industry. If you plan to attend, please email me one-on-one at brookse32(a)earthlink.net so that I can coordinate with you and go over talking points before the hearing. It's time to start -demanding- clean power in San Francisco! Eric B -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Info: Notice of Meeting and Agenda for the Commission on the Environment on Tuesday, March 25, 2014 Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 16:59:02 +0000 From: Fish, Monica (ENV) <monica.fish(a)sfgov.org> To: Undisclosed recipients:; CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO COMMISSION ON THE ENVIRONMENT NOTICE OF RESCHEDULED MEETING AND AGENDA *TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 2014, _4:00 P.M._ CITY HALL, ROOM 416 SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102 ** *The Tuesday, March 25, 2014 Commission on the Environment meeting has been rescheduled from 5:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.* ** *COMMISSION MEMBERS:*Commissioners Joshua Arce (President); Angelo King (Vice-President), Ruth Gravanis, Nicholas Josefowitz, Heather Stephenson, Johanna Wald, Sarah Wan ORDER OF BUSINESS Public comment will be taken before the Commission takes action on any item. *1.**Call to Order and Roll Call.* ** *2.**Approval of Minutes of the January 28, 2014 Commission on the Environment Regular Meeting. *(Explanatory Document: January 28, 2014 Draft Minutes) (Discussion and Action) ** *3.**Public Comments:* Members of the public may address the Commission on matters that are within the Commission’s jurisdiction and are not on today’s agenda*.* *4.**Retroactive Approval of the Department and Commission on the Environment’s 2013 Annual Report. *(Explanatory Document: 2013 Annual Report) (Discussion and Action) (5 minutes) *5.**Review and Approval of the Department of the Environment’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2014-15 Budget. *(Explanatory Document: FY 2014-15 Budget) Sponsor: Commissioners Joshua Arce and Angelo King; Speaker: David Assmann, Acting Director (Discussion and Action ) (10 minutes)** ** *6.**Commission Secretary’s Written Report.*(Explanatory Document: Commission Secretary’s Report and Correspondence Log) (Information) Monica Fish, Commission Secretary*//* ·Communications and Correspondence ·Update on City Legislation *7.**Director’s Written Report/./*Updates on Department of the Environment administrative and programmatic operations relating to Budget Planning, Strategic Planning, Clean Air/Transportation, Climate, Energy, Public Outreach and Education, Environmental Justice, Habitat Restoration, Green Building, Zero Waste, Toxics Reduction, and Urban Forestry. (Explanatory Document: Director’s Report) (Information). *8.**Public comment on all matters pertaining to the subsequent closed session on Department of the Environment Executive Director Interviews.* ** *9.**Vote on whether to hold closed session to hold Department of the Environment Executive Director Interviews.* (Cal. Govt. Code § 54957; SF Admin. Code § 67.10(b).) [ACTION]** ** *10.**CLOSED SESSION – DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR INTERVIEWS.* *Possible closed session to hold Executive Director Interviews.* (Explanatory Documents: Applicant Résumés and Interview Questions) (Cal. Govt. Code § 54957; SF Admin. Code § 67.10(b).) [DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION] *11.**OPEN SESSION* *Reconvene in open session*: *1.**Vote to elect whether to disclose any or all discussions held in closed session.* (Cal. Govt. Code § 54957.1(a); SF Admin. Code § 67.12(b).) [ACTION] *2.**Possible report on action taken in closed session and the vote thereon.* (Cal. Govt. Code § 54957.1(a); SF Admin. Code § 67.12(b).) *12.**Adjournment.* The next Regular Meeting of the Commission on the Environment is scheduled for Tuesday, May 27, 2014, 5:00 p.m. at City Hall, Room 416. *//*/** Copies of explanatory documents are available at (1) the Commission’s office, 1455 Market Street, Suite 1200, San Francisco, California, 94103 between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Photo identification is required for entry to the building. (2) on the Commission’s website //http://www.sfenvironment.org/commission/agendas//; (3) upon request to the Commission Secretary, at telephone number 415-355-3709, or via e-mail at //Monica.Fish(a)sfgov.org/ <mailto:Monica.Fish@sfgov.org>/within three business days of a meeting./If any materials related to an item on this agenda have been distributed to the Commission after distribution of the agenda packet, those materials are available for public inspection at the Department of the Environment, 1455 Market Street, Suite 1200, San Francisco, CA 94103 during normal office hours or will be made available on the Commission’s website http://www.sfenvironment.org/commission/agendasas attachments to the agenda or meeting minutes. ** *Important Information* The ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that the Chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any person(s) responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar sound-producing electronic devices. NOTE: Persons unable to attend the meeting may submit to the Commission on the Environment, by the time the proceedings begin, written comments regarding the agenda items above. These comments will be made a part of the official public record and shall be brought to the attention of the Commission on the Environment members. Any written comments should be sent to: Commission Secretary of the Environment, 1455 Market Street, Suite 1200, San Francisco, CA 94103 by 5:00 p.m. on the day prior to the hearing. Comments that cannot be delivered to the Commission Secretary by that time may be taken directly to the hearing at the location above. When bringing handouts to meetings, please photocopy on both sides of the paper and try to use post-consumer recycled or tree-free paper. Also, please bring sufficient copies of handouts for the Commission, the Commission Secretary and the public. ** *Public Comment* At this time, members of the public may address the Commission on items of interest that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Commission but are not on today’s agenda. Public comment will be taken following each agendized item. Each member of the public may address the Commission for up to three minutes, unless otherwise announced by the President. If it is demonstrated that the comments by the public will exceed 15 minutes, the President may continue Public Comment to another time during the meeting. The Brown Act forbids the Commission from taking action or discussing any item or issue not appearing on the posted agenda. This rule applies to issues raised in public comment as well. In response to public comment, not on an agendized item, the Commission is limited to: 1. Briefly responding to statements made or questions posed by members of the public, or 2. Request staff to report back on a matter at a subsequent meeting, or 3. Directing staff to place the item or issue on a future agenda (Government Code Section 54954.2(a).) *** Please note: *This email contains only the agenda for the meeting and links to more information on agenda items. For complete information on these meetings, including disability access, Sunshine Ordinance information, lobbyist information and other meeting information, please access the agenda online at this website /http://www.sfenvironment.org/commission/agendas/*.*** ** *Monica Fish, Commission Secretary*** San Francisco Department of the Environment 1455 Market Street, Suite 1200, San Francisco, CA 94103 Monica.Fish(a)sfgov.org <mailto:your.name@sfgov.org> T: (415) 355-3709 ** SFEnvironment.org <http://sfenvironment.org/> Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/SFEnvironment> ** Newsletter <http://www.sfenvironment.org/news/newsletters>__ Twitter <http://twitter.com/sfenvironment> Please consider the environment before printing this email.

1 0

[Sustain] VERY Time Sensitive: SF Citywide Clean Energy Planning RFP - Pre-Bid Conf. Mar 12, Questions Due By Mar 17, Bids Due By Mar 27
by Eric Brooks 10 Mar '14

10 Mar '14

Hi all, Please circulate this email ASAP to every clean energy planning expert for whom you have contact information. This Request For Proposals will begin the first completed citywide local clean energy transition plan for any major city in the U.S. **SF Citywide Clean Energy Planning RFP Released** Pre-Bid Conference Mar 12, Questions Due By Mar 17, Bids Due By Mar 27 Full details at: http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=15937 * **Request for Proposals for the Proposed Build-out of Local Energy Resources for the San Francisco Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) Program* * * San Francisco's CCA Program is an ambitious and innovative effort to provide the citizens and businesses of San Francisco with a number of significant improvements in their electric power service; not least of which is the development of significantly higher renewable energy sources. The renewable power generation proposed to be installed through the San Francisco CCA Program will result in the implementation of one of the highest percentage renewable power mixes for any retail seller of electricity nationwide. The proposed CCA Program will also result in the construction of the world's largest municipal green power public works project--- to provide much of the renewable power in the CCA portfolio. For these reasons, the implementation of San Francisco's CCA Program will become a significant and historic development in the implementation of renewable energy technologies. Mar 12 Pre-Proposal Conference Info: http://www.sfbos.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=48155 RFP Info: http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=15937 If you have questions call: Eric Brooks San Francisco Clean Energy Advocates 415-756-884

1 0