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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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Rules Committee Hearing on Creating a Peak Oil Task Force, Item #5|
by Dennis Brumm 02 May '07

02 May '07

Jeanne Rosenmeier posted this on the sfbayoil list. It's not much notice, but the date had changed a lot. Boris Delepine just sent out a flyer, which I imagine most everybody on this list got. The date on this changed a number of times, I wasn't completely sure it would even happen tomorrow, but now I guess there's not much notice: I talked to Boris about the hearing, which is at 10:00 AM tomorrow. He would like a few of us to go to urge the adoption of the legislation establishing the commission. We are fifth on the agenda, but he thinks the other 4 will go quickly and our item will come up around 10:45. He wants us to emphasize that other cities are moving ahead on this and we need to catch up. I will get up and wave the Portland report around. Anybody else want to talk about another city? Jeanne

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Re: [Transpo] Fwd: Commercial Biodiesel Station Opens As City Takes Lead in Biodiesel Conversion
by Eric Brooks 01 May '07

01 May '07

The project is definitely troubling. If you read closely, you see the words 'provide some of that fuel by recycling grease from restaurants'. Clearly -some- means not -most- and that means San Francisco will soon become a huge incentive to the highly land, local economy/farm and atmosphere destroying industrial biofuels boom. So, on the whole, bad news... cheers Eric anniegarrison(a)mac.com wrote: > Can you give me a clue as to how we're supposed to feel about this? > I'm assuming you think it's a biodiesel myth mistake, but can't tell. > Sometimes you should go ahead and editorialize, however briefly. Mary > Ratcliff also sends out releases and the like that I sometimes don't > know what to make of. ---Ann > > On Apr 25, 2007, at 12:02 PM, Eric Brooks wrote: > >> http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/Commercial_Biodiesel_Station_Opens_As_C… >> >> Commercial Biodiesel Station Opens As City Takes Lead in Biodiesel >> Conversion >> >> by E. "Doc" Smith, 2007-04-25 >> At the opening of the City's first fleets-only biodiesel fueling station >> yesterday, Mayor Gavin Newsom called on “every municipality in the >> country to do what we have done” as he highlighted the City’s remarkable >> progress in converting its own fleet of diesel vehicles to a biodiesel >> fuel blend and in moving toward a Fall launch of the PUC’s program to >> provide some of that fuel by recycling grease from restaurants. Newsom >> also announced that all of the recycling trucks that operate in the City >> are now running on a biodiesel blend. >> >> Local fleets are now able to pump B20 grade biodiesel via a card lock >> system at the Olympian station at 23rd and Third Streets in San >> Francisco. Although private vehicles are not able to use this station, >> biodiesel is available locally from the San Francisco BioFuels >> Cooperative (SFBC), People’s Fuel, and Berkeley's Biofuel Oasis. >> >> San Francisco, which has taken a leadership role in implementing local >> solutions to the problems of global warming and sustainability, is ahead >> of schedule in converting its diesel vehicles to a biodiesel blend, a >> goal that Mayor Newsom announced a year ago. Currently 39% of the fleet >> has been converted to B20 (20% biodiesel, 80% petrodiesel). Even at 20%, >> biodiesel contributes significantly to reductions in pollution, >> especially greenhouse gasses. The City plans to convert it's entire >> fleet by year’s end and to move to higher blends of biodiesel as soon as >> possible. >> >> >> Mayor Newsom and Ben Jordan of People's Fuel, a worker-owned cooperative >> >> Jared Blumenfeld, Director of the San Francisco Department of the >> Environment, urged fleets and school buses to take advantage of this >> opportunity to reduce the city's pollution, particularly in the Third >> Street corridor where 1 in 6 children suffer from asthma caused by >> diesel pollution. >> >> >> E. "Doc" Smith is a musician and recording engineer who has worked with >> the likes of Brian Eno, Madonna, Warren Zevon, Mickey Hart and Jimmy >> Cliff. He is also the inventor of the musical instrument, the >> Drummstick, a member of the SFBC, and drives a 2002 VW Beetle, which >> runs exclusively on B99 biodiesel. He can be reached at >> drummstick(a)earthlink.net <mailto:drummstick@earthlink.net>. >> _______________________________________________ >> Transpo mailing list >> Transpo(a)sfgreens.org <mailto:Transpo@sfgreens.org> >> https://list.sfgreens.org/mailman/listinfo/transpo > > R'nR, for one'n all--A.G. > anniegarrison(a)mac.com <mailto:anniegarrison@mac.com> > (415) 285-7259, (415) 786-6839 > > "El-Baradei has as much chance of stopping nuclear weapons > proliferation as George Bush has of stopping the drug trade." > > -----Craig Reishus, Website Manager and Editor, Nuclear Free Future > Awards News, > http://www.nuclear-free.com/english/frames7.htm > > > > > > =

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Re: [Transpo] Reminders: Transpo (Tonight 7pm) Sustainability (Tomorro w 7:30pm) SFGP Office
by susan_e_vaughan＠juno.com 01 May '07

01 May '07

Hey Everyone, As Jim Dorenkott has called a Pelosi Watch meeting for tonight, and as I am interviewing Krissy and the Camp Pelosi woman on my show next week, I think I'll have to skip the TWG meeting. Sue -- Eric Brooks <brookse32(a)aim.com> wrote: Details below. Please send a quick reply if you are planning to attend either or both... **Transpo** The new -Transportation- Working Group meeting is next Wed, Apr 25, 7pm at the Green Party office. Likely topics of discussion are Free Muni, Daly and Peskins' new Muni Reform Charter Amendment (see http://www.sfbg.com/printable_entry.php?entry_id=3404 ) and how the Global Climate Crisis gives us a key organizing window to push hard for a massive increase in transit. Be there with bells on, and help change the future of the world! **Sustainability** The -Sustainability- Working Group meeting is next Thursday Apr 26, 7:30pm at the Green Party office. The main agenda item will be to strategise a plan for a Green counter-attack to the concerted promotion of nukes, 'clean coal', biofuels, carbon credit shell games, hybrid vehicles, and PG&E greenwashing media blitz, that are all currently taking the world and San Francisco by storm; dangerously masquerading as solutions to the global climate crisis. (We will also discuss the request from some CC members that we prepare a presentation for the state meeting in May.) There will also be an exciting update on the now imminent Community Choice Energy legislation/project, for a 50% renewable electricity powered San Francisco by 2020. Other topics of discussion will be: 1) The looming Williams natural gas turbine and Transbay Cable installations, both of which would promote a huge increase in cheap fossil fuel availability - and threaten the Southeast side with yet more toxic pollution. 2) A quick update on the happy death of pro-nuke and pro liquid natural gas moves in California. and 3) How the Global Climate Crisis gives us a key organizing window to push hard for a massive increase in transit. _______________________________________________ Transpo mailing list Transpo(a)sfgreens.org https://list.sfgreens.org/mailman/listinfo/transpo

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