The planned development would feature artificial turf with toxic shredded rubber tires for in-fill, ten 60-foot tall towers beaming AT&T Park-like lights into the night--right across from Ocean Beach. These lights would blaze from dusk until 10:00 p.m. every night of the year. Oh, and you know how fog magnifies and glows around car lights in the dark? Envision 150,000 watts of those babies glowing in the night sky on a foggy San Francisco night.
So know you see how the Greenest City in the US got into the position of paving over paradise for fun and profit. Now I've given you an action to take (contact info for Mayor and Supervisors); but I also wanted you to know about solutions. There is a proposal put forth by the group SF Ocean Edge called the Win-Win Solution. This alternative calls for renovating the Golden Gate Park natural grass soccer field and no lighting and restoring West Sunset Playground – only 8 blocks to the south -- with artificial turf that is made of a safe materials and with appropriate night lighting.
There is a proposal put forth by the group SF Ocean Edge called the Win-Win Solution. This alternative calls for renovating the Golden Gate Park natural grass soccer field and no lighting and restoring West Sunset Playground – only 8 blocks to the south -- with artificial turf that is made of a safe materials and with appropriate night lighting.
Mitt Romney, in fact, has taken multiple and internally conflicting positions on abortion rights within the past four years – both in this campaign cycle and the 2008 one.
The combination of melting sea ice and global atmospheric warming are contributing to the high rate of warming in the Arctic, where temperatures are increasing up to four times faster than the global average, a new University of Melbourne study has shown.
The Governor is far from an innocent bystander. As the state’s attorney general in 2009, Corbett headed a state investigation into accusations against the revered former coach. Although his office denies it, there are multiple confirmations that Corbett assigned no one from his office to follow up on the charges: just one state trooper, a state trooper “not authorized to bring charges against Sandusky.” In addition, when Corbett was sworn in as governor in 2011, he still had not informed Thae Second Mile Foundation that their founder was under investigation. Instead, as a candidate for governor, he took $650,000 in donations from members of the Second Mile’s unknowing board, even allowing their chairman to hold a fundraiser for his campaign. Upon being elected, Corbett then moved deftly from doing nothing to immediately try to deflect the entire weight of the scandal onto Joe Paterno and Penn State itself, using his recently appointed position as a member of the school’s Board of Trustees (an automatic appointment for all Pennsylvania Governors) to do so.
Government social policies are in danger of generating a class war between the "squeezed middle" and people on the lowest incomes, the social mobility adviser Alan Milburn has warned. Milburn also said there was "not a snowball's chance in hell" of meeting statutory targets for eliminating child poverty by the end of this decade, and called for the prime minister to show stronger leadership on the issue. Giving evidence to MPs on the education select committee, Milburn said there was a risk of "pitting the interests of the kids at the bottom against the kids in the middle" by regularly debating the merits of giving people benefits or helping them find work – rather than doing both together.
Milburn also said there was "not a snowball's chance in hell" of meeting statutory targets for eliminating child poverty by the end of this decade, and called for the prime minister to show stronger leadership on the issue.
Giving evidence to MPs on the education select committee, Milburn said there was a risk of "pitting the interests of the kids at the bottom against the kids in the middle" by regularly debating the merits of giving people benefits or helping them find work – rather than doing both together.
Climate change: Global warming is a fact
The city that bans toys from fat-laden Happy Meals, bars plastic bags from supermarkets and mandates composting now has a new subject of concern, this one thrust into its lap: Apple computers. With rare exceptions, San Francisco's 50 city departments will no longer be able to buy Apple laptops, desktop computers or monitors after the Cupertino tech giant pulled out of an international green electronics certification program last month with little explanation, city officials said. Apple's decision has also raised complications for other institutional purchasers, including the University of California system.
With rare exceptions, San Francisco's 50 city departments will no longer be able to buy Apple laptops, desktop computers or monitors after the Cupertino tech giant pulled out of an international green electronics certification program last month with little explanation, city officials said. Apple's decision has also raised complications for other institutional purchasers, including the University of California system.
Days after San Francisco officials said the city could no longer buy its products, Apple announced Friday that it would rejoin an environmental certification program that makes them eligible for purchase by government agencies that rely on the ratings.
A Church of England report into last year's riots wanted to "sound a clear warning note" about the "social consequences" of austerity measures, a senior cleric said on Sunday , as he presented research highlighting the effect of government cuts on people in areas where violence broke out.
Cuts to the Public Workforce Disproportionately Hit African-Americans
Has the state grown tax giveaways while cutting school resources?
One interesting aspect of the paper was the scientists' use of the baseball player-steroids analogy to help explain how climate change can increase the odds of extreme weather: "One analogy of the effects of climate change on extreme weather is with a baseball player (or to choose another sport, a cricketer) who starts taking steroids and afterwards hits on average 20% more home runs (or sixes) in a season than he did before (Meehl 2012). For any one of his home runs (sixes) during the years the player was taking steroids, you would not know for sure whether it was caused by steroids or not. But you might be able to attribute his increased number to the steroids. And given that steroids have resulted in a 20% increased chance that any particular swing of the player’s bat results in a home run (or a six), you would be able to make an attribution statement that, all other things being equal, steroid use had increased the probability of that particular occurrence by 20%. The job of the attribution assessment is to distinguish the effects of anthropogenic climate change or some other external factor (steroids in the sporting analogy) from natural variability (e.g., in the baseball analogy, the player’s natural ability to hit home runs or the configuration of a particular stadium)."