May 2007 - Transpo - list.sfgreens.org

State Green Party Plenary in SF: Call for volunteers!
by susan_e_vaughan＠juno.com 23 May '07

23 May '07

Hello Everyone, Susan King is the primary organizer of the state Green Party plenary that is happening in San Francisco on Saturday and Sunday at the State Building on Golden Gate between Polk and Larkin. We need volunteers. Susan's request for volunteers is below. If you can help out, please contact her at: funking(a)mindspring.com. You can also contact me at (415) 601-9297 if you can help with tabling any time during those two days. Also, if you are interested in attending the plenary, the cost is $55 for both days, and $30 for one day. You can save $2 if you bring your own silverware and $5 if you bring your own plate, bowl, cup, and silverware. You can pay by check at the door. Breakfast and lunch are included. There is also a way to pay online, but I don't have the link. Sue ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- This weekend, May 26-27, the San Francisco Green Party welcomes the state Greens to our fair city. The weekend will include meetings, workshops, lunch, a keynote speech from SF Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi on Saturday and the opportunity to meet Greens from around the state. We need folks to help out in a variety of ways: Registration opens at 8:00 Saturday and Sunday. The plenary starts at 9:00 and goes till 6:00 on Saturday and ends at 5:00 Sunday. We will head out to a local watering hole- To be Determined- on Saturday night after the meetings. Please forward to the volunteer list, and reply to me if you are available to help. We especially need folks in the am on Saturday. peace, susan

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Reminder: Transportation & Sustainability Meetings Wed & Thu - Eric In Handcuffs at Muni - Activists Battling PG&E and More...
by Eric Brooks 23 May '07

23 May '07

Hey all, Remember that: The Transportation Working Group meeting is tomorrow, Wed, May 23, at 7pm at the SF Greens office (1028-A Howard, south of market between 6th and 7th) -Likely topics. Biofuels, Free Muni, SF Transit plan, the Latest Rider Fare Crackdown (I was actually handcuffed and ticketed for refusing to be searched...) The Sustainability Working Group meeting is the next night, Thu, May 24, at 7:30pm at the SF Greens office -Likely topics. New Peak Oil Taskforce, Biofuels (plenary presentation), Joining with Green Guerrillas of Greenwash to battle PG&E, Nukes cheers Eric Brooks

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Re: [Transpo] Biofuels from algea
by John-Marc Chandonia 19 May '07

19 May '07

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 04:04:27PM -0700, Don Eichelberger wrote: > I want to remain optimistic on this technology. If the numbers below > hold true, it could be a good thing...or a bad thing. > > A bad thing, because it gives a (false?) hope that the US of A can > continue with its fuel consumptive habits, ad infinitum. One common > lesson I have seen seems to be that, with the globalization of any > technology aimed at extending the American Dream lifestyle, no matter > how benign when used locally, there are usually drawbacks and > unintended consequences. This would be a good discussion for our Transportation Working Group next Tuesday--this is one of the issues where sustainability is inseparable from transportation. JMC -- John-Marc Chandonia (jmc(a)sfgreens.org) http://sfgreens.org/

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Fwd: Peak Oil Prepareness Task Force
by Dennis Brumm 18 May '07

18 May '07

FYI: >Dennis, > >People interested in serving on the Peak Oil Prepareness Task Force should >fill out the application linked below. Applications should be sent to Gail >Johnson, Clerk of the Rules Committee via fax at 554-7714. Please feel free >to contact me with any questions. > >http://www.sfgov.org/site/uploadedfiles/bdsupvrs/Vacancy_Notices/vacancy_ap… > >Thank you, >Boris >-- >Boris Delepine >Office of Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi >1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, Room 282 >San Francisco, CA 94102 >(415) 554-6758 (phone) >(415) 554-7634 (fax) >boris.delepine(a)sfgov.org

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Parking is becoming the heart of development . . . .
by Ann Garrison 13 May '07

13 May '07

So says the cover of a twelve-page advertising supplement to the South Florida Business Journal, which I subscribe to because South Florida is just so . . . (I mean ya' got Lennar headquarters . . . .Wackenhut headquarters. . . GEO Group headquarters all cozied up down there in South Florida. . .I even learned last night that the GEO Group began as a division of Wackenhut and that it's still Wackenhut Corrections Corporation; they just changed the name.) Anyway, the inside of this 12-page advertising supplement to the South Florida Biz Journal also has a section on "The Future of Parking" with a great big headline declaring "Parking as a Catalyst for Revitalization." Consensus? (I promise to stop screwin' around on this list as soon as I know there's some of this consensus stuff I don't understand re Parking as a Catalyst for Revitalization.)

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Double Parking on Duncan Street
by ErikaSF＠aol.com 12 May '07

12 May '07

>From our email account. This email was also send to several Supervisors. Maybe someone in Transpo can thank Sylvia for her message? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> reply to: "Kundig, Sylvia" _SKUNDIG(a)ftc.gov_ (mailto:SKUNDIG@ftc.gov) Greetings, At 8:15 a.m., there were no less than three vehicles double parked on Duncan Street at Church next the the three (3) green zones the City established without notice to the residents of Duncan Street. On of the three, one was a huge SUV. As noted, putting three (3) green zones for a coffee shop really shows that the City wants to encourage people to commute to work in SUV's. Maybe people should walk for their lattes and parking should be reserved for families who live on the street. As it stands, people who might want to park close to home in the event their child needs urgent care in the middle of the night, can't. The City seems to think it is more important to have three (3) parking spaces reserved for the commute by car crowd. Also, I am still waiting for the underlying documentaion regarding the City's placement of the three (3) green zones for the Martha Brothers coffee shop on Church and Duncan. As you must know, Church Street is a transit corridor and the nearest muni stop is a mere block away. I would like to know how the discussion of these facts, and the fact that the residents of Duncan Street have been requesting traffic calming for years, were dealt with. We already know that the City cannot establish appropriate notice. I requested this information last summer, I have requested it again. At no time has the Mayor's Office or Bevan Dufty's Office indicated that there was a more appropriate way to make a request. Certainly you are not trying to hide something. sk ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

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The Carbon Emissions Trading Illusion
by Eric Brooks 05 May '07

05 May '07

Hi all, I recently listened to KPFA's radio program Terra Verde, a really badly put together 'environmental' program which repeatedly, since is inception, has been duped into promoting a corporate manipulated perspective on environmental issues. Last Friday's edition was about 'carbon offsets' (or 'carbon emissions trading') and I would highly recommend all of you take a half hour to listen to it so that you can get a sense of the ridiculous sham of 'carbon trading'. See http://www.kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=20061 If you listen carefully, you will notice that the U.S. carbon trading system is corporate led and -voluntary- meaning that there would be no reason whatsoever for any corporation which knows it will exceed its CO2 limits to take part in the project. Furthermore you will note the the U.S. system is -unregulated- and that the corporations and organizations involved in the scheme simply arbitrarily set the standards for what constitutes carbon savings themselves! Also, you will hear one of the guests admit that his organization has a business relationship with one of the private carbon trading corporations that it has just listed as one of the top 8 of the corporations reliably trading carbon emissions. Finally, you will hear neither of the show's guests ever stating where the money comes from to create the carbon credits in the first place... the most important piece of information that they could have talked about. Totally dumbfounded by what I was hearing, I decided to do some digging on the organization that the central guest Bill Burtis was representing, called Clean Air - Cool Planet, see http://www.cleanair-coolplanet.org/ Once I got to its web site all became clear. I discovered that the organization promotes corporate friendly 'climate solutions' and its Board of Directors includes: - 2 current employees of NRDC (the most vile and corporate of all 'environmental' groups which recently came out supporting liquid natural gas) - 2 former high-ups at World Wildlife Fund - 1 from Environmental Defense Fund - 1 vice-president of a public relations firm - 1 president of a plastics manufacturing company - 2 consultants on government energy regulations for the fossil fuel and energy industries - the 'National Energy Manager' for Whole Foods Market - 1 former executive with Chase Manhattan Bank (in charge of 'derivatives trading' - which is more properly described as financial gambling schemes) - The co-founder of Americans for Equitable Climate Solutions, a corporate apologist climate change group also known as The Sky Trust Institute, which has its mail delivered care of Common Assets Defense Fund (founded by former Sierra Club president Adam Werbach, who is currently working with Wal-Mart to help them greenwash their corporate image). The other founder of Sky Trust is Peter Barnes who also co-founded the infamous corporate greenwashing coalition, Businesses for Social Responsibility. and finally - the former president of John D. Rockefeller III's Agricultural Development Council cheers, Eric Brooks

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Article On Peak Soil & Biofuels
by Eric Brooks 04 May '07

04 May '07

Article On Peak Soil & Biofuels http://www.energybulletin.net/28610.html _______________________________________________ Transpo mailing list Transpo(a)sfgreens.org https://list.sfgreens.org/mailman/listinfo/transpo

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Re: [Transpo] [dsnyder@spur.org: Geary BRT]
by susan_e_vaughan＠juno.com 04 May '07

04 May '07

I'll be working so I can't go, but I have posted this on the SFGP web site. It would get mention in the newsletter, but that seems to be defunct. What's up with Rosalind? Sue Please note: message attached Anybody want to go to this? JMC ----- Forwarded message from Dave Snyder <dsnyder(a)spur.org> ----- Is the Green Party sending someone to the May 8 Plans & Programs Committee meeting of the Transportation Authority to support Geary BRT. Dave ----- End forwarded message ----- -- John-Marc Chandonia (jmc(a)sfgreens.org) http://sfgreens.org/ Anybody want to go to this? JMC ----- Forwarded message from Dave Snyder <dsnyder(a)spur.org> ----- Is the Green Party sending someone to the May 8 Plans & Programs Committee meeting of the Transportation Authority to support Geary BRT. Dave ----- End forwarded message ----- -- John-Marc Chandonia (jmc(a)sfgreens.org) http://sfgreens.org/

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[dsnyder@spur.org: Geary BRT]
by John-Marc Chandonia 03 May '07

03 May '07

Anybody want to go to this? JMC ----- Forwarded message from Dave Snyder <dsnyder(a)spur.org> ----- Is the Green Party sending someone to the May 8 Plans & Programs Committee meeting of the Transportation Authority to support Geary BRT. Dave ----- End forwarded message ----- -- John-Marc Chandonia (jmc(a)sfgreens.org) http://sfgreens.org/

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