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Reminder: Sustainability Working Group, THU Nov 29, 7:30pm GP Office
by Eric Brooks 13 Nov '07

13 Nov '07

Reminder all, The SFGP Sustainability Working Group will meet one week -later- than normal on Thursday, November 29, 7:30pm at the Green Party 1028-A Howard St office. Discussion Items - Oil Spill - Critical Update (Possible Actions) On Fight To Stop Combustion Turbine Plant - Peak Oil Taskforce Update - Community Choice Energy Project Update

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Re: [Transpo] TALC platform
by susan_e_vaughan＠juno.com 12 Nov '07

12 Nov '07

Is there any way that the TALC platform can be sent as regular email and not as an attachment? Sue Please note: message attached Hi, Please read over the TALC platform (forwarded separately) and decide if it's compatible with ours. We can take up the issue at our November meeting. JMC -- John-Marc Chandonia (jmc(a)sfgreens.org) http://sfgreens.org/

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TALC platform
by John-Marc Chandonia 12 Nov '07

12 Nov '07

I've attached the platform. JMC -- John-Marc Chandonia (jmc(a)sfgreens.org) http://sfgreens.org/

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Election Day MTA Staff Memos Board On "Transit TV" Pilot - With Ads
by Eric Brooks 11 Nov '07

11 Nov '07

For Nov 6 (so it wouldn't effect the election) MTA Director Announces "Transit TV" Pilot - With Ads This kind of crap is exactly why I opposed giving more money and authority to the MTA. It's too bad Prop A won. We're about to get five more years of meltdown and insults to common sense... To see the hearing item I'm referring to go to http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=55 then click on the 11/6/07 hearing an then skip forward to the 1 hr and 1 minute mark... cheers Eric -- "I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves." – Che Guevara

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TALC platform
by John-Marc Chandonia 11 Nov '07

11 Nov '07

Hi, Please read over the TALC platform (forwarded separately) and decide if it's compatible with ours. We can take up the issue at our November meeting. JMC -- John-Marc Chandonia (jmc(a)sfgreens.org) http://sfgreens.org/

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Re: [Transpo] green guerrilla action... greenwashing alart at GreenFest & Step It Up celebration
by Ann Garrison 10 Nov '07

10 Nov '07

Ditto re PG&E; they threatened to shut off my electricity for four months after I went way into debt to install solar panels on a flat that a few banks still agree to call "mine." It took PG&E that long to acknowledge my solar installation and send someone out to install a net meter. My hair was standing on end every week just trying to keep them from shutting off my power instead. I now at least have a negative $34 electricity bill, but those people, PG&E, nearly drove me out of my mind; all summer I was generating more electricity than I was using and getting F---- ing shut-off notices. The personal---as in personal energetic resources they rob us of this way can't be assigned a $ value. I don't think I'm going to make the Green Fest because I'm trying to write something about Niger, in Central Africa, about allthe foreign uranium mining leases being granted in forgotten, landlocked, Sub Saharan Niger, which was, for almost 40 years, France-AREVA's national uranium mine, but good luck there, at the Green Fest. Now Niger is subject to equal opportunity energy imperialism and it has the third largest uranium reserves in the world. I wanted to draw your attention to a video made by Dennis Brumm, who, with other members of the San Francisco Green Party, produced an educational event, "The Myth of Bio-Fuels," at several Bay Area venues. It was the best educational event I ever saw the SF Greens produce and Dennis then edited it into a "Myth of Bio-Fuels" video. His e-address is brumm(a)brumm.com, and I think he's asking something like $5 for his efforts on this. Bio-fuels have already cut "US food aid"---a misnomer to start with, much like "African debt"---but we know what we're talking about, and planting to create bio-fuels in the overexploited world have already cut "US food aid" in half. ---Ann Garrison anniegarrison(a)mac.com (415) 285-7259 (415) 786-6839 "El-Baradei has as much chance of stopping proliferation as George Bush has of stopping the drug trade." --Craig Reishus, Nuclear Free Future Awards website manager, writer and editor On Nov 10, 2007, at 11:29 AM, aliza wasserman wrote: > Hey Green Guerrilla Network, > > Our favorite gas and nuclear energy company, PG$E, is a "Partner > of Innovation" at the Green Festival. They will have a booth at > GreenFest due to their claims as a 'renewable energy innovator'. > This is laughably horrific, given the fact that less than 1% of > their energy comes from solar, and they have a decade long track > record of consistently lobbying against renewable energy policies, > and their budget through 2010 includes $0.00 for generating solar. > > Other than this big mistake, the Green Festival should be a great > place to meet great folks and learn about all-things-green. As > such, some of us will be going to this event tomorrow and in > between sessions - engaging in some Green Guerrilla action at > PG&E's booth. Check out schedule at www.greenfestivals.org and > come by the Concourse Exhibition Center at 8th and Brannan, ncar > Civic Center. Discounts for bikers. > > Would you like to join the Green Guerrilla action at Green Fest on > Saturday or Sunday? > Give a call to coordinate time and place. 510-717-6599. > > Also, we must celebrate the success of Step It Up San Francisco! > We had Cindy Sheehan, 5 mayoral reps, 2 Supervisors, 17 partnering > groups, 150 participants, a colorful bike ride, a plaza full of eco- > cars, solar-powered smoothies, and 5 media hits - including the SF > Chronicle, and fully integrated the anti-nuclear and pro-local > policy message in to the day. It was all coordinated by non-paid > volunteers like you --- so let's celebrate our successful > grassroots event! Dinner Tuesday November 13 at 7 pm at Ali > Baba's Cave (Valencia & 19). > > best, > aliza & the green guerrillas against greenwash > > ======================================================= > Aliza Wasserman > Green Guerrillas Against Greenwash > www.LetsGreenWashThisCity.org > 510-717-6599 > > "If you think mitigated climate change is expensive, try > unmitigated climate change." > - Dr. Richard Gammon, University of Washington, on the steps of the > US Congress, 6/28/99 > > > > "Campaign finance reform is climate protection." > - anonymous, 2007 > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Green Guerillas Info List" group. > To post to this group, send email to green-guerillas(a)googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to green-guerillas- > unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/ > group/green-guerillas?hl=en > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- >

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Following up on sign-on to RTP platform
by Carli Paine 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Hi John Marc, I just wanted to follow up with you on a conversation from a few months ago regarding the potential for the SF Green Party to sign on in support of the Transportation and Land Use Coalition's Regional Transportation Plan platform. I'm attaching the final platform and the endorsement form again for you to review/take to your board, etc. Please let me know if and when the SF Green Party will be considering this. We'd love to have your support as we fight to shift funding towards purposes that will make our region healthier and increase mobility. All the best, Carli __________________________ Carli Paine, Transportation Program Director Transportation and Land Use Coalition (TALC) 510.740.3150 x315 <http://www.transcoalition.org/> www.transcoalition.org Fighting Climate Change... and Winning a Better Bay Area! Regional Transportation Plan Platform Endorsement Reply Form Deadline to sign-on your organization in support of the Platform: September, 21, 2007 Organization: Group Representative Name: ? YES! We agree with the recommendations in the Coalition's Regional Transportation Plan Platform. Signature_______________________________________________ Date _____________________________ Which recommendation/s in this platform is most important to your organization and why? ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________ Please indicate the ways your organization can help advocate for the Platform: ? Action alerts to your members. ? Representing your organization at critical press events, MTC hearings, etc. ? Turnout of your members at critical press events, MTC hearings, etc. ? Educating your members at an event or through your newsletter. ? Writing a letter to the editor of a local paper. ? Other: ____________________________________________________________. ? Sorry, my organization cannot endorse the Coalition's Platform at this time. Please share with us any reasons for not signing on. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________ We plan to release the Platform during the first week of October. We are excited to work with you on this critical campaign for our region's future! Please mail to Carli Paine, Transportation and Land Use Coalition, 405 14th St. Ste. 605, Oakland, CA 94612 or fax to 510.740.3131. Contact Carli at 510.740.3150x315 or carli(a)transcoalition.org with any questions. ----------------------- [pic]

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Further ALERT! SFPUC This Wed Oct 31 To ALSO Hear JPower CT Plant Contract (without Commissioner Sklar!)
by Eric Brooks 27 Oct '07

27 Oct '07

Hi all, I just found out that the SFPUC is ALSO having a surprise hearing this Wednesday to hear and possibly approve the JPower contract to build the CT plant. Commissioner Richard Sklar, who has been our most active supporter in fighting the plant, will be out of town. Those of you who have not yet spoken at the SFPUC and those of us in leadership of the various campaigns fighting the plant should also attend that hearing to restate our opposition and to demand that the Commissioners make -no- decisions until Sklar returns. Here are the details for that meeting: *AGENDA SPECIAL MEETING * Wednesday, October 31, 2007 *2:30 P.M. NOTE DIFFERENT DAY/START TIME* City Hall, Room 400 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place *ORDER OF BUSINESS* 1. Call to Order 2. Roll Call *CLOSED SESSION* 3. Public comments on matters to be discussed in Closed Session. 4. Motion on whether to assert the attorney-client privilege regarding the matters listed below as Conference with Legal Counsel. THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION WILL GO INTO CLOSED SESSION TO DISCUSS THE FOLLOWING ITEMS: 5. Conference with Real Property Negotiator -- Pursuant to Sunshine Ordinance Section 67.8 (a)(2), Govt. Code section 54956.8: Property: located at 25th Street and Maryland in San Francisco, California. (Hale) Negotiator for the SFPUC: Barbara Hale Negotiator: JPower. 6. Conference with Legal Counsel -- Pursuant to California Government Code Section 54956.9 (b) and (c) and San Francisco Administrative Code Section 67.10 (d) (2) Anticipated Litigation: As defendant. (Ambrose) FOLLOWING THE CLOSED SESSION, THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION WILL RECONVENE IN OPEN SESSION. 7. Announcement following Closed Session. 8. Motion regarding whether to disclose the discussions during Closed Session. 9. Staff presentation, discussion and action related to matters addressed in the SFPUC Resolution No 07-0137, including the proposed San Francisco Electric Reliability Project (the Combustion Turbines (CTs) and related facilities), the JPower agreements and leases, and any related agreements, authorizations and permits required from other City Departments or federal, state or local agencies pertaining to this Project, and adopting findings pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act. (Leal, Irons, Hale). ADJOURNMENT of the Special Meeting

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Peskin's Attempt To Gut SF Dept. of Env. After It Opposed Polluting Power Plant
by Eric Brooks 27 Oct '07

27 Oct '07

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/25/BA80SVJKJ.DTL&h… SAN FRANCISCO Peskin thwarted in attempt to gut Environment Dept. City Charter only allows voters to decide fate of the agency Wyatt Buchanan, Chronicle Staff Writer San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Aaron *Peskin* quietly introduced a piece of legislation at City Hall this week to eviscerate an entire city department, just days after the head of that department broke with *Peskin* and other city leaders on a major energy policy. The legislation would eliminate the jobs of all 64 employees of the San Francisco Department of the Environment - except for its director, Jared Blumenfeld - but was deemed illegal by the city attorney's office on Wednesday. "This is not the first skirmish the board has had with the Department of the Environment and it probably won't be the last," *Peskin* said after receiving word from the city attorney that gutting an entire arm of government whose existence is written into the City Charter just wouldn't fly. The charter can only be changed at the ballot box by voters. Blumenfeld said he was "horrified" when he first learned of the proposal Wednesday morning, the day after *Peskin* submitted the one line of legislation without fanfare to the clerk of the Board of Supervisors. "The Department of the Environment is recognized time and time again as the premier local environmental organization in the country," said Blumenfeld, noting his agency's efforts when the city hosted the U.N. World Environment Day in 2005. "I was really disturbed that someone, without even phoning me, would decide to cut all these great staff people we have in the department," he added. The department, formed after city residents voted to add it to the charter in 1996, has a budget that has grown steadily over time to just over $15 million this year. It gets almost no money from the general fund and instead is financed through grants and projects. The legislation to effectively dissolve the department followed a meeting in the mayor's office Friday at which Blumenfeld broke with the plans of the city Public Utilities Commission - which are supported by Mayor Gavin Newsom, *Peskin* and other supervisors - to build a new natural gas-burning power plant near Potrero Hill. The plant would replace an older, more polluting plant in the area. It would consist of three "peakers," which means officials would only turn them on when demand for power was high. But according to people who attended the meeting, Blumenfeld said he thought the city should oppose a fossil-fuel power plant and come up with other alternatives, which put a significant voice in opposition to the perception of a unified city front on the issue. Blumenfeld said *Peskin*'s proposal, which was co-sponsored by Supervisors Gerardo Sandoval and Sophie Maxwell, "is clearly a shot across the bow to say, 'You know what? Discourse in San Francisco shouldn't have too much environmental content to it when it doesn't support the status quo.' " *Peskin* would not address the power plant issue other than to saying Blumenfeld's stance on the peaker is "rather nuanced." He said his legislation is a nonissue because the city attorney must approve any legislation for it to be considered by the board. "It's much ado about nothing. I have no intention of moving the legislation and let's let bygones be bygones," *Peskin* said. But several supervisors have deep concerns about the department, *Peskin* added, referring in part to questions about whether the growth of the Department of the Environment over the years has been warranted and whether its work is duplicative of efforts that could be carried elsewhere in city government. Sandoval said he would like to find a way to move the proposal forward and make big changes in the department. He contended that Blumenfeld ignores the board's suggestions for the department, such as one Sandoval said he made that some administrators in the department should be able to speak Spanish or Chinese. "The Department of the Environment does a pretty good job for the mayor but is largely unresponsive to priorities that come from the Board of Supervisors and our constituents," Sandoval said. Supervisor Sean Elsbernd said he was intrigued by *Peskin*'s legislation and said he thinks the department has too much overlap with other city departments in the services it provides. Maxwell noted that while the department does not draw money from the city's general fund for basic government services, it does receive grants that could be spent elsewhere. "Yes, they do some good work, but it's time to take a closer look," Maxwell said. That's not a universally held sentiment at City Hall or in the community, however. Janet Nudelman, an administrator with the Breast Cancer Fund, said the department has been instrumental in working with the organization to examine the role of the environment and toxins in disease. "The department is not only effective in what it is able to accomplish, but it is truly the most visionary city agency," Nudelman said. Newsom's spokesman, Nathan Ballard, said the mayor didn't support *Peskin*'s move. Ballard said he did not understand "why anyone would declare war on the Department of Environment." Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier, a Newsom ally on the board, lauded the department for assisting her legislation to ban phthalates, which soften plastic and have been shown to be toxic, from children's products and called the legislation to cut the department "outrageous." Alioto-Pier accused *Peskin* of using his legislative power to punish others who don't go along with him, saying she had her own run-in with the board president this week and wound up paying a political price when *Peskin* switched his vote to kill a charter amendment Alioto-Pier was pushing for the February ballot. Alioto-Pier said she asked *Peskin* about the move in a meeting in his office. She said he replied by telling her, "Payback is a bitch." She said *Peskin* said he was punishing Alioto-Pier for giving a television interview opposing Proposition A, the Muni reform measure he sponsored on November's ballot. Asked about the conversation, *Peskin* said he wouldn't discuss it, saying he doesn't divulge details of private conversations he has with other supervisors. But he added that Alioto-Pier's comments on the conversation "sound to me to be unfortunate and vindictive." /E-mail Wyatt Buchanan at wbuchanan(a)sfchronicle.com <mailto:wbuchanan@sfchronicle.com>./ This article appeared on page *B - 3* of the San Francisco Chronicle -- "I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves." -- Che Guevara

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URGENT-EMERGENCY!: This MONDAY Polluting Fossil Fuel Plant Approval In Land Use Committee!!
by Eric Brooks 27 Oct '07

27 Oct '07

MORE THAN URGENT! Sophie Maxwell and Aaron Peskin, at the last possible minute on -Friday- scheduled a hearing in the Land Use Committee this MONDAY on Sophie's resolution to support a polluting natural gas Combustion Turbine (CT) plant to be built in San Francisco in the Bayview Hunters Point. Having your voice at this hearing is vital! The recently approved Community Choice renewable energy project and Transbay Cable project together will bring San Francisco enough electricity capacity to meet its peak load energy requirements. This makes building yet another fossil fuel plant in San Francisco (especially in our most polluted neighborhood) completely insane! The resolution has very strong, bad, wording that will make the fight to stop this plant -much- harder. **We -must- generate the biggest turnout possible on Monday. The hearing is at 1pm and the item is first on the agenda so it shouldn't take that long to get to public comment.** Here are the meeting time/place details: WHEN: Monday October 29, 1pm WHERE: City Hall, Room 263 (The same room where they held the special SFPUC hearing we spoke at.) Turn out the troops and email everyone you know! We recently kicked their butts in a similar hearing at the SFPUC, now let's do so at the Board of Supervisors! To read the resolution go to http://www.sfgov.org/site/uploadedfiles/bdsupvrs/committees/materials/07105… If you have questions call me at my phone number below. peace Eric Brooks Campaign Coordinator Our City 415-756-8844 http://our-city.org

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