In a world threatened by Peak Oil, Transit Oriented Development is a development concept
aimed at encouraging the development of housing and commercial centers around mass-transit systems.
By Marc Salomon
March 4, 2010
Over the past ten years, the San Francisco Department of City Planning has rezoned much of the east side of San Francisco [0] for greater […]
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Former State Senator Carole Migden (AB117), CleanPowerSF founder Paul Fenn, San Francisco Supervisors Ross Mirkarimi and David Campos, Sierra Club’s John Rizzo, and others, will speak and answer questions about this groundbreaking new project; and about recent attacks launched by Pacific Gas and Electric corporation to undermine both CleanPowerSF and other community based clean energy efforts throughout California.
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The physical altercation ensued following opening remarks by Mayor Bates when Mark Toney, Executive Director of The Utility Reform Network (TURN), interrupted the meeting to make a statement of protest against Proposition 16, a PG&E-sponsored measure on the June, California ballot, intended to protect PG&E’s monopoly against energy competition from municipalities and community choice aggregators.
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Markese Bryant raps about the legacy of Dr. King, President Obama, and how a growing movementis creating opportunities for communities of color through the green economy.
By Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins
January 18, 2010
America is struggling.
Families strive to make ends meet while facing an uncertain economic future. The deterioration of our environment - rather than slowing - continues to […]
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“Obama wants to do George Bush one better by continuing the worst of his policies,
enact more of his own, and destroy the middle class to turn America
into Guatamala with ruling elites governing a nation of serfs.”
Photo by Luke Thomas
By Stephen Lendman
Author’s Note: Part II concludes an account of Obama’s betrayal, not promised change.
December 23, 2009
Obamacare […]
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“In Obama’s America, only the privileged have rights,
not people of color, the poor, and growing numbers going hungry,
without jobs, and other life’s essentials his budget allocations won’t fund.”
Photo by Luke Thomas
By Stephen Lendman
December 21, 2009
Promising change after eight George Bush and Republican dominated years, Barack Obama won the most sweeping non-incumbent victory in over 50 […]
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Cartoon courtesy Mr. Fish.
By David Bryson, MD (Yale ‘63)
December 13, 2009
Three years ago I posted three columns at Fog City Journal under the rubric of Cosmopolitics, presenting an exponential escalation of human history - Human History in a Hurry - and a theory about the evolutionary function of mammalian sleep – the Circadian Theory […]
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By Ralph E. Stone
December 8, 2009
President Obama recently announced that he is sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan bringing the total number of U.S. troops to about 100,000. Although he stated that the U.S. would begin drawing down troops in July 2011, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were […]
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In spite of the many evils committed under the two Bush regimes, Chomsky warned that it was the Clinton Doctrine, claiming the US has the right to use extreme force to preserve its global interests, was the most sinister.
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