- Transpo - list.sfgreens.org

PO Task Force meets - and now we need help!
by Jeanne 10 Dec '07

10 Dec '07

The SF Peak Oil Task Force met for the first time last week. The meeting lasted three hours, though much of the time was taken up with administrative matters such as adopting the bylaws, being instructed regarding the SF Sunshine Ordinance, adopting an attendance policy, etc. I was elected chair and Bernie Meyerson agreed to be vice-chair. Ross Mirkarimi attended; he not only spoke for a few minutes, but also stayed and listened for quite some time. He has introduced legislation which would require each city department to make a plan to reduce carbon emissions by 80% by {not sure of date}. He seems open to the possibility of adding peak oil to that legislation (since the mitigations will be largely the same). Regarding the plan the TF is supposed to draw up, we divided up our work into subject areas, and each TF member volunteered to informally head up one area. Here's what we came up with: Transportation - Jeanne Rosenmeier, greengal(a)netvista.net [helpers Carl, Jason] Food - Jason Mark, jasondovemork(a)gmail.com [also Jeanne] Energy - Carl Duisberg, carlduisberg(a)hotmail.com [also Patt] Architecture, including building codes - Patt Gerber, pattgerber(a)gmail.com [Patt needs helpers!] Economic relocalization & justice - Marya Stark, maryastark(a)yahoo.com [also Jeanne, Carl] Societal Function - Jan Lundberg, jan(a)culturechange.org [also Patt, Marya, Bernie] Infrastructure, including waste and water - Bernie Meyerson, ber8832(a)aol.com [Bernie needs helpers!] Before the next meeting, the above folks - and anyone else who is interested in these areas - are tasked with assessing what information we will need, resources available and unavailable, and a basic concept of how to proceed. Unfortunately, the city is not allowing us to hold any public hearings, so we will have to do all our information gathering informally. Now that you've seen the subjects we claim to be addressing, you will see that seven people cannot do enough. One thing we need is suggestions of information bearing on these areas. Another one would be suggestions as to people we should talk to in order to get a full picture and best plan. The next meeting will be Jan 2, 2:30, Room 421, City Hall. Please contact people heading up areas in which you have an interest. Jeanne -- Jeanne Rosenmeier 415 751-0901

1 0

It's not too late. . . i talked to NIRS.
by Ann Garrison 03 Dec '07

03 Dec '07

Di-Fi's letter was very confusing, making me think it was too late to stop the $50 billion in loan guarantees for new nuclear power plants. She herself does not seem concerned about them, but it seems the language making way for the nuke power loan guarantees has been removed from the bill in committee in the House, which doesn't mean it's over, but that's a victory, and there's still reason to listen to the music video made by Musicians Against Nuclear Power, which is back in action again, thirty years later, and to sign the petition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzPhRdwxb_Q Relevance to Transpo? What kind of electricity is going to power mass transit, or, if we must have them, electric cars? --Ann Garrison

1 0

I'm afraid it may be too late; I'm not sure, but please listen to the musicians here--they're a good listen---and sign anyway.
by Ann Garrison 03 Dec '07

03 Dec '07

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzPhRdwxb_Q The relevance of this to transpo? How do we generate electricity, powering mass transit, at best, or electric cars. The Departmnet of Energy's answer is nuclear power, http:// www.gnep.energy.gov/, http://www.gnep.energy.gov/gnepUSNuclearPower.html. I'm afraid it may be too late; I got a letter from Dianne Feinstein today suggesting as much, and that's what the information on the DOE's Global Nuclear Energy Project sites suggest, that the $50 billion loan guarantees and public assumption of private liability for nuclear accidents have already been approved. I thought they had been approved in the 2005 Energy Bill, but they seemed to be an issue again in the "Clean Energy Bill." Feinstein's letter is kind of vague and even the DOE information makes it hard to tell just what's happened in Congress. I'm trying to get hold of NIRS to find out for sure, but in the meantime, since they, (NIRS, the Nuclear Information Resource Center), still have this You Tube, produced by Musicians Against Nuclear Power, front and center on their web page, people might as well listen and sign it. It's a good listen anyway and I'm prayin' this, the promise of loan guarantees for nuclear power, so called clean energy, isn't over, though I'm afraid it may well be. There are only two presidential candidates in the field---John Edwards and Cynthia McKinney--who are not embracing nuclear power as a clean'n green "solution" to climate change, which is not a mathemtical problem to be solved, but a planetary process to be, at best, prepared for, whether hastened by carbon emissions or not, which I highly doubt. I'll keep trying to find out what's happened. In the meantime, please log on to the URL above and sign.

1 0

HP toner - free
by Jeanne 03 Dec '07

03 Dec '07

Does anyone have an HP 2100 or 2200 Laserjet printer? I had one; it died, leaving me with an unopened toner cartridge, HP brand. I hate to just throw it out; it cost about $100. Anyone who has a use for it can have it for free. Jeanne -- Jeanne Rosenmeier 415 751-0901

1 0

Fwd: Chanukah & Christmas: Their Spiritual Messages and Why NOT to Smoosh Them Together
by Katherine Roberts 03 Dec '07

03 Dec '07

This is a somewhat wordy, but still basically good, message from Michael Lerner about the significance of Hanukkah and Christmas. I'd appreciate it if you would circulate it to the larger list. --Kathy Begin forwarded message: > From: Rabbi Michael Lerner <RabbiLerner(a)Tikkun.org> > Date: December 2, 2007 4:06:48 PM PST > To: grrlfriday(a)mac.com > Subject: Chanukah & Christmas: Their Spiritual Messages and Why NOT > to Smoosh Them Together > Reply-To: RabbiLerner(a)Tikkun.org > > > Chanukah & Christmas: When Hope Triumphs Over Cynical Realism > By Rabbi Michael Lerner > > Christmas and Chanukah share a spiritual message: that it is > possible to bring light and hope into a world of darkness, > oppression and despair. But whereas Christmas focuses on the birth > of a single individual whose life and mission was itself supposed > to bring liberation, Chanukah is about a national liberation > struggle involving an entire people who sought to remake the world > through struggle with an oppressive political and social order: the > Greek conquerors (who ruled Judea from the time of Alexander in 325 > B.C.E.) and the Hellenistic culture that they sought to impose. > > Though the holiday celebrated by lighting candles for 8 nights > recalls the victory of the guerrilla struggle led by the Maccabees > against the Syrian branch of the Greek empire, and the subsequent > rededication (Chanukah in Hebrew) of the Temple in Jerusalem in 165 > B.C.E., there was a more difficult struggle which took place (and > in some senses still rages) within the Jewish people between those > who hoped for a triumph of a spiritual vision of the world embedded > (as it turned out, quite imperfectly) in the Maccabees and a > cynical realism that had become the common sense of the merchants > and priests who dominated the more cosmopolitan arena of Jerusalem. > > The cynical realists in Judea, among them many of the priests > charged with preserving the Temple, argued that Greek power was > overwhelming and that it made far greater sense to accommodate to > it than to resist. The Greek globalizers promised advances in > science and technology that could benefit international trade and > enrich the local merchants who sided with them, even though the > taxes that accompanied their rule impoverished the Jewish peasants > who worked the land and eked out a subsistence living. Along with > Greek science and military prowess came a whole culture that > celebrated beauty both in art and in the human body, presented the > world with the triumph of rational thought in the works of Plato > and Aristotle, and rejoiced in the complexities of life presented > in the theatre of Aeschylus, Euripides, and Aristophanes. > > To the Maccabees, the guerrilla band that they assembled to fight > the Greek Empire and its Seleucid dynasty in Syria, and many of the > Jewish supporters of that struggle, the issue of Greek militarism, > social injustice, and oppression were far more salient than the > accomplishments of Greek high culture. Whatever might be the value > of Athenian democracy, the reality that it exported to the world > through Alexander and his successors was oppressive and exploitative. > > The "oldtime religion" that the Maccabees fought to preserve had > revolutionary elements in it that went far beyond the Greeks in > articulating a liberatory vision: not only in the somewhat abstract > demand to "love your neighbor as yourself," "love the stranger," > and pursue justice and peace, but also concretely in Torah > prescriptions to abolish all debts every seven years, allow the > land to lie fallow every seven years, refrain from all work and > activities connected to control over the earth once a week on > Sabbath, and redistribute the land every fifty years (the Jubilee) > back to its original equal distribution. > > The identification with the oppressed, enshrined in Judaism in its > insistence that Jews were derived from slaves who had been > liberated, and in its focus on retelling the story of being > oppressed that was central to the Torah, seemed atavistic and naïve > to the more educated and enlightened Jewish urban dwellers, who > pointed to the reactionary tribalistic elements of Torah and sided > with the Greeks when they declared circumcision and study of Torah > illegal and banned the observance of the Sabbath. > > The miracle of Chanukah is that so many people were able to resist > the overwhelming "reality" imposed by the imperialists and to stay > loyal to a vision of a world based on generosity, love of stranger, > and loyalty to an invisible God who promised that life could be > based on justice and peace. It was these "little guys," the > powerless, who managed to sustain a vision of hope that inspired > them to fight, against overwhelming odds, against the power of > technology and science organized in the service of domination, > despite the fact that they were dismissed as terrorists and > fundamentalist crazies. When this kind of energy, what religious > people call "the Spirit of God," becomes an ingredient in the > consciousness of ordinary people, miracles ensue. > > It is this same radical hope, whether rooted in religion or > secularist belief systems, that remains the foundation for all who > continue to struggle for a world of peace and social justice at a > time when the champions of war and injustice dominate the political > and economic institutions of our own society, often with the > assistance of their contemporary cheerleading religious leaders. It > is that radical hope that is celebrated this Chanukah by those Jews > who have not yet joined the contemporary Hellenists. > > Radical hope is also the message of Christmas. Like Chanukah, it is > rooted in the ancient tradition of a winter solstice celebration to > affirm humanity's belief that the days, now grown shortest around > December 23rd, will grow long again as the sun returns to heat the > earth and nourish the plants. Just as Jews light holiday lights at > this time of year, so do Christians transform the dark into a > holiday of lights, with beautiful Christmas trees adorned with > candles or electric lights, and lights on the outside and inside of > their homes. > > Christianity took the hope of the ancients and transformed it into > a hope for the transformation of a world of oppression. The birth > of a newborn, always a signal of hope for the family in which it > was born, was transformed into the birth of the messiah who would > come to challenge existing systems of economic and political > oppression, and bring a new era of peace on earth, social justice > and love. Symbolizing that in the baby Jesus was a beautiful way to > celebrate and reaffirm hope in the midst of the social darkness > that had been imposed on the world by the Roman Empire (and > continues to be imposed by all its successors right up through the > contemporary dominance of a globalized rule of corporate and media > forces that have permeated every corner of the planet with their > ethos of selfishness and materialism). > > Seeing Jesus as the Son of God, and as an intrinsic part of God, > was also a way of giving radical substance to the notion that every > human being is created in the image of God. For God to come on > earth, bring a holy message of love and salvation, and then die at > the hands of the imperialists and be resurrected to come back at > some future date was and is a beautiful message of hope for a world > not yet redeemed, and became an inspiration to hundreds of millions > who saw in it the comforting message that the rule of the powerful > was not the ultimate reality of existence. And yet, using the > specificity of one human being and identifying him as God -- a move > made by St. Paul but not by Jesus himself -- did not fit into the > framework of Judaism, which could not accept Jesus as a messiah > because of its view that the messiah would bring an end to wars and > all forms of oppression, an end that had not yet taken place at the > time of Jesus' death. > > Jews and Christians have much in common to celebrate at this time > of year. We certainly want to use this holiday season to once again > affirm our commitment to end the war in Iraq, to end global poverty > and hunger by embracing the NSP (Network of Spiritual Progressives) > version of the Global Marshall Plan, and to save the world from > ecological destruction. We live in dark times--but these holidays > help us reaffirm our hope for a fundamentally different reality > that we can help bring about in the coming years. > And yet, there are reasons to not mush together these separate > holidays. The tremendous pressure of the capitalist marketplace has > been to take these holidays, eliminate their actual revolutionary > messages, and instead turn them into a secular focus whose only > command is "Be Happy and Buy." The huge pressure to be happy and > the media's ability to portray others as beaming with joy makes > large numbers of people despondent because they don't actually feel > that kind of joy and imagine that they are the only ones who don't, > and hence they feel terrible about themselves, something they seek > to repair by buying, drugging, or drinking themselves into > happiness. And when that too doesn't work for very long, they > become all the more unhappy with themselves or with others. The > pressure to buy as a way of showing that you really care about > others puts many people into the position of spending more than > they have, putting themselves into further debt, and then feeling > depressed about that. Still others have no way to buy "enough" on > credit, and then their children, saturated by advertising specially > attuned to children starting from when they're very young, make > them feel inadequate because they have not bought what the media > portrays as the standard for a "normal family" to buy for the > holidays. Jews, seeking to fit into American society, grabbed onto > this path of the holdays "not really being religious but only a > time to celebrate," and thus many embraced Christmas in the one way > they could—buying presents for their non-Jewish friends and > neighbors and celebrating Christmas as a "non-sectarian, American > holiday". But this well-intentioned move to fit into American > society only helped the capitalist secularists, and unintentionally > further undermined the ability of Christians to hold on to the > religious and spiritual intent of their holiday. This is why > spiritual progressives of the Christian faith have urged Tikkun and > the Network of Spiritual Progrssives to NOT celebrate the holiday > as one undifferentiated "holiday season" but to celebrate the > holidays as religious and spiritual holidays and to affirm the > specific religious message of each one depending on which fits your > particular faith. > > In Northern California we will be doing that by holding an NSP > holiday party on the fifth night of Chanukah, Saturday December 7th > at the St. Gregory's Episcopal Church on Potrero Hill in S.F. with > speakers from the Jewish (Rabbi Lerner), Christian (Matthew Fox, > author of Original Blessing and the originator of the "Creation > Spirituality" movement in the Catholic Church), and Muslim and > Kwanza traditions. Each of these traditions will speak from their > specificity, and will celebrate their particularity, not the ways > they are the same as everyone else's religion. Our NSP does not > seek an interfaith approach of "lowest common denominator" but > rather one that affirms and respects differences instead of > papering over them. And we'd be happy to learn how other interfaith > groups are dealing with this holiday season without taking the > secularist path of least resistance: proclaiming that the holidays > really are not religious or spiritual at all. > > Yet we also want to affirm the goodness in what secularists have > tried to do with these holidays. There has been far too much anger > and killing in the name of religions in the history of humanity. We > at NSP do not believe that most of that killing was actually > motivated by religious differences so much as by power struggles > that were given religious justifications and appearances. And we > are also well aware that in the 20th century over 150 million > people were slaughtered in the name of secular belief systems and > secular powers (1st WW, 2nd WW, Korean War, Vietnam War, Stalinist > gulag, Maoist gulag, colonial and anti-colonial wars, etc.), so we > are not going to buy any notion that says that religion's being > eliminated will increase world peace. Still, we can understand that > those who have sought to secularize the holiday season do so from > the fear that without that kind of secularization, it will be > harder for people to express caring and mutual support if they have > to do so through the frameworks of religions of which they are not > a part. Certainly, when it comes to interfaith marriages and > families, this kind of smooth path to affirming both traditions is > really much needed. And yet, as a Jew, I want to recognize the > particular importance to Christians of having Christmas be about > Christ, not about gifts and drinking and merry-making but about the > meaning of the Christ for Christian belief. In this respect, there > is a fundamental asymmetry here. Christmas and Easter are the main > Christian holidays, while Chanukah is only a minor holiday that has > become major only because Jews in the West felt the need when they > were trying to be more assimilated into the dominant cultures of > the West in the past 150 years to provide their children with > something that could compensate them for not having Christmas. But > our major holidays are Rosh Hashanah/Yom Kippur and Passover (and > of course, weekly Shabbat), and so when Chanukah gets secularized > we don't lose as much as Christians do when Christmas is > secularized, so in respect to the requests from our spiritual > progressive Christian sisters and brothers, I want to affirm their > call to make Christmas a religious holiday and not celebrate it > unless you are religiously Christian. > > Finally, in a message I sent out after Thanksgiving, I urged > spiritual progressives to dramatically reduce holiday buying and > replace the temptation to give gifts of material things with the > practice of giving gifts of time. You can read that appeal at > www.spiritualprogressives.org, and you'll find there some specific > suggestions of what a gift of time could look like and why in most > cases it will be more of a real gift than any "thing" you could buy. > > As we enter this holiday season, let us stay conscious on all these > levels, resist the allure and the seductive charm of the capitalist > marketplace and its capacity to reduce all reality and all loving > to the consumption of "things," and instead return to the deep > spiritual messages of our own traditions, while lovingly supporting > each other to stay true to our own deepest truths. > > Chag urim sameyach—happy holiday of lights. > Chag Chanukah sameyach—happy Chanukah. > Merry Christmas. > Happy Kwanza. > Meaningful Edi. > > Rabbi Michael Lerner > Editor, Tikkun and Chair, (with Sister Joan Chittister and Cornel > West) The Network of Spiritual Progressives > > P.S. It's not too late to give a gift of time to Tikkun and the NSP— > invite friends over for an evening to watch our videos, either > those on line at YOU TUBE or our website > www.spiritualprogressives.org, or by calling our office and having > them send you a dvd; or promise to give us ten hours in Jan-March > to leaflet our new Voter's Guide for how to vote your values > (you'll get it as part of the January issue of Tikkun, a one year > subscription to which you get for free when you join The Network of > Spiritual Progressives at www.spiritualprogressives.org) If you > know someone who would get a lot out of volunteering at Tikkun, > tell them we have internships for the spring, the summer, and for > September 2008 to June 2009 (info from Rachel(a)tikkun.org) > > And another holiday gift you could give TIKKUN: your tax-deductible > contributions between December 1st and December 31st of $1,000 or > more will be matched by an anonymous donor, so that in fact your > $1,000 will be worth $2,000 for us. Of course, any donation of any > size will be much appreciated. Mail check or credit card info to > Tikkun or to the NSP at 2342 Shattuck Ave, Suite 1200, Berkeley, > Ca. 94704. > > {As with all our messages unless otherwise stipulated, feel free to > copy this, post it on your website, send it to any list serve of > which you are part, or to your friends. And feel free to take any > of the ideas and even my articulation of them and put them out > under your own name—I do not believe in private property in ideas, > since I know that 99.9% of my own ideas are derivative from the > wisdom of the Jewish people in particular and of all humanity in > general.} > unsubscribe: Click here > if you are having trouble unsubscribing Click here > Copyright 2005 Tikkun Magazine. Tikkun is a registered trademark. > 2342 Shattuck Avenue, #1200 > Berkeley, CA 94704 > 510-644-1200 > Fax 510-644-1255 > "Let's have a moment of silence for all those Americans who are stuck in traffic on their way to the gym to ride the stationary bicycle." - Earl Blumenauer

2 2

My Piece On Agro-fuels In Beyond Chron
by Eric Brooks 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

Hi all, I got a good guest editorial spot for a piece I wrote strongly criticising biodiesel and the agro-fuels industry. See below or: http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/Guest_Editorial_The_Terrible_Illusion_o… Guest Editorial: The Terrible Illusion of Biodiesel /by Eric Brooks, 2007-11-26/ I read with shocked and tired eyes E. "Doc" Smith's recent glowing article <http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=5132> about San Francisco's biodiesel program. As an environmental activist with over two decades experience, every time I see an article like this, I lose another little bit of precious life and hope. Smith and others like him, trumpeting the valor of biodiesel and other biofuels, need to knock it off immediately. Biodiesel does -not- produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions than petroleum diesel, in fact it produces more. And the reality gets even worse than that. Biodiesel and other biofuels have suddenly become a huge booming industry which, because of the the nature of how those fuels are produced, is now destroying the planet and human civilization much faster than global warming. This needs to be repeated... The new biofuels boom is -worse- than global warming. And unwitting starry eyed supporters of it like Willie Nelson and E. "Doc" Smith are the keystone that is helping massive multi-national corporations get the planet's increasingly environmentally conscious public to become blindly hooked on a devastating, diseased, biofuels illusion. Those of us on the cutting edge of fighting the climate crisis have been struggling mightily to get people to wake up from this illusion for the last decade and we are beginning to get attention; but not nearly fast enough to stop corporations like ADM, Cargill, British Petroleum (BP), Monsanto, and many others from ramping up a massive explosion in biofuels, bioplastics, and biochemicals production which is already visibly and measurably increasing our already serious global environmental collapse at an almost exponential rate. The key problem of perception is french fry oil. When told of how some people are now running their cars on used vegetable oils that would have been thrown away, environmentally conscious people immediately get very excited by the idea. I myself long ago, got very excited about it. But then I started thinking about all of the work that the environmental movement has done to fight corporate monoculture agriculture's devastating impact on the the planet. I started to crunch numbers in my head, and I immediately realized that biofuels could not possibly be a good thing, and that soon they would present the worst environmental disaster we have ever faced. That grim realization is now becoming a reality. The problem is one of sheer scale. The amount of fuel that can be produced from recycling used cooking oil is only a tiny fraction of the total fuel used every day by diesel automobiles. What this means is that projects like San Francisco's waste oils biodiesel program will quickly run out of those waste oils long before even a small part of San Francisco's fleet of diesel cars, trucks and construction equipment is converted to biodiesel. At that point there is only one place to get the supposedly magical biodiesel; from massive corporate plantations of monocrops grown specifically to produce biodiesel. In fact, because of European requirements for biofuel use, this is already happening. As you read this article, huge amounts of both rainforest, and food crop land, are being cleared in order to produce automobile fuel crops, most prominently, biodiesel from palm oil. The impact is already staggering and is getting worse very rapidly. And as rainforest and cropland are being destroyed, some grain food prices are skyrocketing both because food crops have been replaced by fuel crops and because many former food crops themselves are being used to produce fuel -instead- of food. This process is devastating the global ecosystem and economies in the global South; the latter which are already staggering under the terrible weight of a global agriculture industry that is eating up lands which once produced local food, in order to grow and sell to the world market, higher priced export crops. Take one look at the world's insane love of the automobile, and at the booming production of new automobiles for countries like China, and it is easy to see that biofuels are the -ultimate- export crop; which will form the foundation of a planet and civilization killing industry, if we allow their production to proceed any further. And as this cropland and rainforest clearing rages forward, the process, because it is accompanied by realities like top soil disturbance (which releases CO2) and the burning of undesirable trees and plant wastes, is creating massively higher CO2 releases than even petroleum products produce. For example, biodiesel made from palm oil produces -ten- times more global warming gasses than petroleum diesel. To complete the grim cycle, every time someone like Smith, however noble and well intentioned, writes a smarmy smiling article about how great and progressive biofuel is, the big ag companies go to Congresses and Parliaments all over the world with an even further gleefully deceived public as back-up, to get increased subsidies for this new devastating biofuels industry. And biofuel is just the beginning. These companies are now branching out into bioplastics, biochemicals, and biopharmaceuticals. Companies like BP (with its new 500 million dollar labs at UC Berkeley) are literally making plans to manufacture everything we produce now from petroleum and natural gas, from plant crops instead. The result of such nonsense is easily predictable - a much more rapid planetary collapse which will be completed in our own lifetimes. This insanity must be stopped immediately, and the first step is to stop painting glowing images of biofuels and start painting the accurate, Bosch like nightmare panorama, of biofuels as a disaster, which is now eating our planet alive, faster than global warming. To start getting a sense of the nature and scale of this problem, I recommend reading a couple of articles by science writer and environmental activist George Monbiot at, http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2005/12/06/worse-than-fossil-fuel/ and http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2007/03/27/a-lethal-solution/ / Eric Brooks is Co-Chair of the San Francisco Green Party Sustainability Working Group./ -- "I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves." -- Che Guevara

1 0

Groundbreaking Natural Oil Clean-Up Movement Launched In SF
by Eric Brooks 17 Nov '07

17 Nov '07

H all, By far, the most inspiring environmental news I have heard in over a decade was in an interview yesterday on KPFA Radio's Terra Verde environmental program. In that half hour show they describe a groundbreaking movement arising, right now, to use natural hair mats and oyster mushrooms to holistically clean-up and then compost into harmless organic material, the San Francisco Bay bunker fuel spill. What the program describes is a critical moment in time and human consciousness in which thousands of people have taken their deep frustration with our fossil-fuel/capitalist/war powered planet, and channeled it into a direct counter assault on our global crisis, clearly lighting a new beacon for a non-petroleum based world. listen at: http://www.kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=23320 -- "I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves." – Che Guevara

1 0

Fwd: Just thought you'd enjoy this, knowing, I believe, your position on carbon emissions and global warming, which I share with you . . .
by Ann Garrison 17 Nov '07

17 Nov '07

> > James Lovelock, author of the Gaia hypothesis, believes that > reducing greenhouse gases will actually hasten global warming: > > http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/?p=396 > > > ---Ann Garrison > > anniegarrison(a)mac.com > (415) 285-7259 > (415) 786-6839 > > "El-Baradei has as much chance of stopping proliferation as George > Bush has of stopping the drug trade." > --Craig Reishus, Nuclear Free Future Awards website manager, > writer and editor > > >

2 1

Transportation/Sustainability -Joint- Meeting Thu, Nov 29, 6:30pm - 1028-A Howard St
by Eric Brooks 16 Nov '07

16 Nov '07

Hi again all, Because of the holiday, and to explore the possibility of holding ongoing joint organizing meetings for both the Transportation and Sustainability Working Groups, partly so that we can get more attendance and involvement in both groups, we are holding a joint meeting Thursday, November 29 beginning at 6:30pm. The groups remain autonomous, with their own platforms and guidelines, and the agenda will begin with Transportation items so that Sustainability members who have later night schedules will still be able to get their full agenda addressed. The Joint SFGP Transportation/Sustainability Working Group meeting will be: Thursday, November 29, 6:30pm at the Green Party 1028-A Howard St office. Discussion Items Transportation - TALC (Transportation And Land Use Coalition) Regional Transportation Platform Sustainability - Oil Spill - Critical Update (Possible Actions) On Fight To Stop Combustion Turbine Plant - Peak Oil Taskforce Update - Community Choice Energy Project Update cheers Eric

1 0

combine Transpo, Sustainability meetings this month?
by John-Marc Chandonia 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

Hi, I'd like to combine this month's Transpo and Sustainability WG meetings, if there's enough time to get through all items. The only pressing Transpo item is consideration of the TALC platform. The GM was pushed back a week due to Thanksgiving, replacing the regular Transpo meeting date. Sustainability meets the next day, the 29th, at 7:30 (also pushed back a week due to Thanksgiving). If this works out well, we could consider combining the meetings on a regular basis. JMC -- John-Marc Chandonia (jmc(a)sfgreens.org) http://sfgreens.org/

2 1