Earlier today the Mayor signed into law the nations most ’stringent’ green building codes, for both residential and commercial construction. This being a continuing effort by the mayor to put San Francisco in the spotlight when it comes to progressive politics. All politics is local as they say, and energy policy is probably the most pressing issue the world is facing today.
From the Chron earlier today:
The new codes are to be phased in by 2012. Projects will be evaluated on a point system with credit given for materials used in the building, the location of the building site and water and energy efficiencies…..
Despite those predictions, the city’s Office of Economic Analysis estimated that the new codes would cost the city between $30 million and $700 million a year in economic output, as it could lead to higher rents and businesses choosing to locate elsewhere.
Newsom called that report inaccurate and predicted the new regulations would actual...
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Looks like the Penny Arcade Expo isn’t the only convention intent on expanding. The Game Developers Conference is heading overseas. GDC organizer Think Services announced that GDC Europe will be debuting August 17 - 19 in Cologne, Germany. It’ll be run in conjunction with the the new consumer games event GamesCom, which recently changed its days to August 19-23. The event joins other Think Services such as the San Francisco GDC, Austin GDC as well as the newly announced G... more
49ers Injury Update From: beatthesportsbook.com Post Date: 2008-12-01 16:35:24
San Francisco 49ers HC Mike Singletary said there’s a chance WR Arnaz Battle will return for week 14. Battle has an injury in the middle of his foot, which prevents him from cutting. Singletary wasn’t as optimistic about the status of WR Josh Morgan or S Dashon Goldson for week 14.
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Mark Pritchard : With respect to the now widely-reported story about yesterday’s Board of Supervisors’ refusal to outlaw relationships between city managers and their employees , I have only this to say: When was the last time you had a boss you wanted to date? Either this notion is -- like many of the ideas considered by our city’s governing body -- strictly theoretical, or the managers of city departments are some kind of special breed of desirable bosses. I mean, I&rsquo... more
Mark Pritchard : The decorations have been going up since Halloween. The commercials started two weeks ago. And the annual buying frenzy has already started.
Aren’t you already sick of Christmas?
Then participate in the annual Buy Nothing Day , in which you pledge not to choke the freeways, waste resources, go into debt and deal with a lot of screaming Christmas shoppers just so you can load your friends and family down with a lot of shiny, useless crap. Again.
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Mark Pritchard : A cat saved its owner from a burning house this morning in San Mateo.
The cat woke the guy up once, and he sleepily let the cat out and went back to bed, not even noticing his house was on fire. The cat continued yowling from outside and when the man got up again to yell at the cat, he finally noticed the house was on fire and called 911.
The cat was not harmed. (Photo is not from this incident.)
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Mark Pritchard : Some thieves in need of holiday cash stole an ATM machine from a location in San Mateo and dropped it off in a Pacifica parking lot, leading a San Mateo cop to say: "For all the work they did, they got very little money out of it," despite going through "heck in a handbasket to get this thing."
In Windsor, about 50 miles north, a teenager who pitted his car’s GPS device against a cop’s radar gun was still convicted of speeding .
And in Vallejo, the m... more
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