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The threat of submarine warfare decreased after the end of the Cold War, “but that trend has absolutely reversed and there’s been a proliferation of these very quiet, inexpensive diesel-electric submarines that a lot of countries have now,” including North Korea, explained Stone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Navy’s analysis, the sonar-training program could affect the behavior of whales, dolphins and marine mammals millions of times over five years. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2013/03/devilslideopen22.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2013/03/devilslideopen22.jpg\" alt=\"devilslideopen22\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2013/03/devilslideopen22.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2013/03/devilslideopen22-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Devil's Slide Tunnels south of Pacifica and north of Half Moon Bay are finally opening after decades of environmental battles and years of construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tunnels are meant to solve the safety and erosion problems that have plagued that notorious stretch of Highway 1 since it was built. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2013/03/devilslideopen13.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2013/03/devilslideopen13.jpg\" alt=\"devilslideopen13\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51541\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2013/03/devilslideopen13.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2013/03/devilslideopen13-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new tunnel consists of two bores each about 4,200 feet long and each with one lane and wide shoulder. 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But he says, it’s not about “cleaning the place up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cstrong>See more\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://wp.me/p1NykW-dkX\"> photos and images of the new building\u003c/a>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"To me, one of the key jobs has been not to lose the funkiness,\" he says. \"Not to lose the sense of it being like an inventor’s garage, where people are constantly making things and discovering things. And you know, inventors don’t worry so much about whether the cabinetry all looks perfect.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day a few weeks before the facility closed in January for the big move, project manager Owen Lawrence was dressed in white coveralls, vacuuming a piece of the listening cloud exhibit before it got packed up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t think anybody realized how much dirt was here,\" he says. \"Normally I’m doing budgets and timelines. So it’s kind of an all-hands on deck thing right now. So I've got my Tyvek suit on. I've got my gas mask.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Upgrade on the Embarcadero\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new Exploratorium is a stunning, $300 million facility on the San Francisco waterfront at Pier 15, triple the size of the old museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_51332\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 626px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2013/03/Exploratorium1-Zum.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-51332\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2013/03/Exploratorium1-Zum-626x360.jpg\" alt=\"The new site includes a restored pier and new construction (Courtesy of Zum)\" width=\"626\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new site includes a restored pier and new construction (Courtesy of Zum)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One reason for the move was to be more accessible: the new location is easier to get to on public transportation, and close to downtown. Planners are hoping that will improve attendance. The Exploratorium has about 600,000 visitors a year now, half the annual total of the Ontario Science Centre in Canada, which is a similar museum. And there’s the California Academy of Sciences' new building in Golden Gate Park, which has overshadowed just about everything else in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, there are other things that could just work better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you needed air conditioning in the old building, we would buy an air conditioning unit for, like a house, and bolt it to the wall with plywood,\" says Chuck Mignacco, building operations manager. We're standing in front of the new building. There are still active piers nearby, but this one is now a state-of-the-art green building. And he is excited about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Think of the building like a living thing,\" Mignacco explains. \"This one, unlike the old one, has a brain and a computer in it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal is for this new building, which will have 600 exhibits, to be net-zero energy -- to produce as much electricity as it consumes. There are 85,000 square feet of solar panels on the roof, and on the inside there's the Bay Water Room, part of the mechanical system for the building. The colorful pipes in the room suck water in from San Francisco Bay, which -- since we’re out on a pier -- is directly below our feet. The cold water helps regulate the temperature of the building – it cools off the warm spots and then distributes the heat to cooler places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the building is kind of a science experiment in itself. 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(Mark Pechenick/Exploratorium)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"You have to tinker with them and Exploratorium staff are born tinkerers,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The museum in this new building still has a warehouse-y feel: concrete floors, big open spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We see the architecture as the straight man,\" says L'Italien. \"They steal the show with the punchline, with the exhibits.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L’Italien and his team spruced up the exterior and restored signs from previous businesses on the old pier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think Pier 15 in its day wouldn’t have been a building that people would have taken much notice of,\" he says. \"And now the fact that you have a world-renowned institution like the Exploratorium here, it’s going to get a lot of people visiting, and we’re celebrating the history of this site, of San Francisco with this building.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>New Site, New Science\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New exhibits take advantage of the site, too. The Bay Observatory is part of a newly-constructed wing of the museum, a transparent-feeling room with floor-to-ceiling windows giving big views of the Bay on one side, and downtown San Francisco on the other. Sebastian Martin, an exhibit developer working on the Bay Observatory, fiddles with an iPhone mounted on a spotting scope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We call this the landscape scope,\" he says. \"Right now I’m looking at a spot over at Treasure Island. I’m actually looking at the water.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's been using the scope to watch water currents change. Other exhibits here examine the sun, weather, wind direction and tides, and there's a computer that identifies ships as they go by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think when we first visited the piers we all realized what an opportunity this was for us to explore the world around us, rather than the kind of world in a kind of test tube,\" says Susan Schwartzenberg, who works with Martin on the Bay Observatory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_51349\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 167px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2013/03/oppenheimer.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-51349 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2013/03/oppenheimer-239x360.jpg\" alt=\"Physicist and teacher Frank Oppenheimer founded the Exploratorium in 1969. 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I've got my gas mask.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Upgrade on the Embarcadero\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new Exploratorium is a stunning, $300 million facility on the San Francisco waterfront at Pier 15, triple the size of the old museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_51332\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 626px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2013/03/Exploratorium1-Zum.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-51332\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2013/03/Exploratorium1-Zum-626x360.jpg\" alt=\"The new site includes a restored pier and new construction (Courtesy of Zum)\" width=\"626\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new site includes a restored pier and new construction (Courtesy of Zum)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One reason for the move was to be more accessible: the new location is easier to get to on public transportation, and close to downtown. Planners are hoping that will improve attendance. The Exploratorium has about 600,000 visitors a year now, half the annual total of the Ontario Science Centre in Canada, which is a similar museum. And there’s the California Academy of Sciences' new building in Golden Gate Park, which has overshadowed just about everything else in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, there are other things that could just work better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you needed air conditioning in the old building, we would buy an air conditioning unit for, like a house, and bolt it to the wall with plywood,\" says Chuck Mignacco, building operations manager. We're standing in front of the new building. There are still active piers nearby, but this one is now a state-of-the-art green building. And he is excited about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Think of the building like a living thing,\" Mignacco explains. \"This one, unlike the old one, has a brain and a computer in it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal is for this new building, which will have 600 exhibits, to be net-zero energy -- to produce as much electricity as it consumes. There are 85,000 square feet of solar panels on the roof, and on the inside there's the Bay Water Room, part of the mechanical system for the building. The colorful pipes in the room suck water in from San Francisco Bay, which -- since we’re out on a pier -- is directly below our feet. The cold water helps regulate the temperature of the building – it cools off the warm spots and then distributes the heat to cooler places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the building is kind of a science experiment in itself. Marc L’Italien, from the San Francisco-based architecture firm \u003ca href=\"http://www.ehdd.com/\">EHDD\u003c/a> is the lead designer on the Exploratorium, and he says, that's part of how net-zero energy buildings work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_51339\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 407px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2013/03/centralgallery.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-51339 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2013/03/centralgallery-617x360.jpg\" alt=\"An artist's rendering of the Central Gallery in the new building, where exhibits will focus on sight and sound. (Mark Pechenick/Exploratorium)\" width=\"407\" height=\"238\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An artist's rendering of the Central Gallery in the new building, where exhibits will focus on sight and sound. 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"disqusTitle": "San Jose's Green Vision Helps Spur Silicon Valley Economic Growth",
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"content": "\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/quest/2013/03/20130318science.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_50438\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2013/03/Mayor-Reed-solar-panel-cells.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-50438\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2013/03/Mayor-Reed-solar-panel-cells.jpg\" alt=\"Chuck Reed, named ‘Green Mayor” by former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, shows off solar cells designed by local companies.\" width=\"640\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2013/03/Mayor-Reed-solar-panel-cells.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2013/03/Mayor-Reed-solar-panel-cells-400x218.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chuck Reed, named ‘Green Mayor” by former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, shows off solar cells designed by local companies. (Photo: Alison van Diggelen/Fresh Dialogues)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley is well known for being the cradle of tech innovation, but its largest city, San Jose, wants to claim the title as the world center of \u003cem>cleantech\u003c/em> innovation too. In 2007, the city launched its \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=2737\">green vision\u003c/a>,\u003c/strong> a 15 year road map to make San Jose one of the nation’s greenest. City leaders have just released a report card on their ten ambitious goals at the one third marker. Let’s take a look at their green progress; and its impact on the local economy and the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Green mayor, green building\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Chuck Reed sits in a sunny corner office on the 18\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> floor of San Jose’s City Hall, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/825\">\u003cstrong>first city hall in the nation\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> to achieve a platinum certification, the highest green building award. He’s looking through a new report on how the city is doing. Five years after announcing his ambitious green vision plan, the city is on track to reach \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=2743\">\u003cstrong>its goal of creating 25,000 new cleantech jobs\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_50410\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 169px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-50410\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2013/03/San-Jose-City-Hall-Tower-169x253.jpg\" alt=\"San Jose's City Hall received its LEED Platinum Certification from the US Green Building Council in 2009. It incorporates abundant natural light to reduce the need for electric lights. (Photo credit: City of San Jose) \" width=\"169\" height=\"253\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose's City Hall received its LEED Platinum Certification from the US Green Building Council in 2009. It incorporates abundant natural light to reduce the need for electric lights. (Photo credit: City of San Jose)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We started down this road trying to tie the environment and the economy together. So having 10,000 cleantech jobs is a big plus,” Reed says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nation’s 10\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> largest city has nine other goals, including \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=2950\">\u003cstrong>one to divert 100% of its trash\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> from landfills. San Jose is currently diverting 73% of its trash. This compares to \u003ca href=\"http://sfmayor.org/index.aspx?recordid=113&page=846\">\u003cstrong>San Francisco’s reported figure\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> of 80%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already a plastic bag ban in San Jose has reduced bag litter by 89% in the storm drain system and the city council is \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2013/02/25/116850/san_jose_city_council_may_ban_polystyrene?category=science\">moving toward banning Styrofoam\u003c/a> containers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ambitious Goals\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of San Jose’s most ambitious goals is \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=2948\">\u003cstrong>to get \u003cem>all\u003c/em> of its electricity from renewable energy\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. With 10 years to go before the deadline, it’s reached just over 20% and needs to accelerate progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s going to mean radical changes, but this is a valley that does things in radical ways,” says Carl Guardino,\u003cem> \u003c/em>president of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group (SVLG), which represents hundreds of local businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Silicon Valley and San Jose Mayor Reed sets audacious goals,” adds Guardino. “If we fall a little short, just think of how far we would have come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose has helped change national standards for\u003cstrong> \u003ca href=\"http://ca-sanjose.civicplus.com/index.aspx?NID=1898\">LED street lights\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> and is now saving thousands of dollars using efficient, dimmable street lights. Yet it’s only replaced 4% of its 62,000 lights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Using other people’s money\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite making progress, it’s been a tough road through the recession. Like most U.S. cities, San Jose has faced severe budget constraints and was forced to be innovative in funding its green vision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has managed to leverage more than $100 Million in federal tax credits and private and public funds to move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said \u003ca href=\"http://www.freshdialogues.com/2008/11/11/chuck-reed-californias-green-mayor-welcomes-obamas-green-tech-focus/\">from the beginning\u003c/a> that the key to being able to succeed with our green vision was to work with other people’s money,” says Mayor Reed, who is known for his pragmatism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, it helps to be located in the center of one of the country’s most innovative regions, according to Kim Walesh, director of economic development for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_50384\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 252px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-50384\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2013/03/IMG_4145-252x253.jpg\" alt=\"Kim Walesh, Director of economic development at the City of San Jose explains how the city's location within the Silicon Valley ecosystem offers strategic advantages for economic growth and innovation. (Photo: Alison van Diggelen/Fresh Dialogues\" width=\"252\" height=\"253\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kim Walesh, Director of economic development at the City of San Jose explains how the city's location within the Silicon Valley ecosystem offers strategic advantages for economic growth and innovation. (Photo: Alison van Diggelen/Fresh Dialogues)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Being the large anchor city in Silicon Valley, we are remarkably open to new ideas, to thinking differently and we’re scrappy, so we know how to pull resources together toward a common goal and leverage, leverage, leverage,” says Walesh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has certainly leveraged its sunny climate. \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiasolarstatistics.ca.gov/reports/locale_stats/\">\u003cstrong>According to state regulators\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, San Jose has installed more solar panels on its private and public buildings than any other California city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Southern California sun doesn’t hold a candle to our aggressive goals for solar installations in sunny San Jose,” says a jubilant Walesh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The challenge of higher hanging fruit\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But others, like Megan Medeiros with the Loma Prieta Chapter of the Sierra Club, paint a less rosy picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Jose has already picked off the low hanging fruit of their green vision,” says Medeiros, who feels the city has prioritized productivity before efficiency\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’d like to see a lot more energy\u003cem> efficiency\u003c/em> measures like green building taking place. So far, the city has only built, or retrofitted, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=2949\">\u003cstrong>13% of its goal of 50 Million square feet\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> of green (private and public) buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose is doing better with its efforts to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=2947\">\u003cstrong>cut per capita energy use in half\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>; it’s 25% of the way to its goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medeiros suggests San Jose adopt Palo Alto’s \u003cem>carbon neutral\u003c/em> goal or try to take the lead in alternative transportation like San Francisco has with its popular car share communities and mass transit system. But San Jose has had some success with its own public fleet of vehicles: \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=2953\">\u003cstrong>40% now run on alternative fuels\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medeiros would like to see San Jose building more pedestrian and bicycle paths and planting more trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_50388\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 337px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-50388\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2013/03/IMG_4157-337x253.jpg\" alt=\"Megan Medeiros, Development Manager at the Loma Prieta Chapter of the Sierra Club says San Jose needs to make it easy for people to get around on foot, bicycle and by public transportation. (Photo: Alison van Diggelen/Fresh Dialogues)\" width=\"337\" height=\"253\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Megan Medeiros, Development Manager at the Loma Prieta Chapter of the Sierra Club says San Jose needs to make it easy for people to get around on foot, bicycle and by public transportation. (Photo: Alison van Diggelen/Fresh Dialogues)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If it did that, it could be attracting a lot of younger people who, Medeiros says, are “flocking to San Francisco” because it provides them with a better quality of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The economic impact of green\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But SVLG’s Carl Guardino praises cities such as San Jose that have taken big steps toward more sustainable economic growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Both San Jose and San Francisco, they have taken tremendous strides, along with \u003ca href=\"http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57569425/bloomberg-pushes-green-agenda-in-final-nyc-state-of-the-city/\">Mayor Bloomberg in New York\u003c/a>, in being on the cutting edge of innovation, of the green economy, working as a public sector to bolster private sector success,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose’s Kim Walesh points out that cleantech jobs are an important new driver of the local economy. She cites last year’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.milkeninstitute.org/publications/publications.taf?function=detail&ID=38801388\">\u003cstrong>Milken Institute report\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, which described the San Jose metro area as the nation’s number one performing city in terms of jobs and wage growth - thanks to its innovative tech culture. The San Francisco metro region ranked 36.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not a splashy city that makes a lot of announcements,” says Walesh. “We’re a city of idea generators who also implement. We can talk about the green vision, but we’re really walking the green vision and we’re making some progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking to the future, San Jose city officials are abuzz about this summer’s opening of its \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/7402\">\u003cstrong>Cleantech Innovation Center\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. It’s a partnership with Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and will offer a demonstration center for cleantech startups to test, showcase and speed commercialization of their green products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To see all of San Jose’s green goals and how it’s measuring up, check out San Jose’s \u003ca href=\"http://sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/13270\">\u003cstrong>Green Vision Progress Report\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> for 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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This compares to \u003ca href=\"http://sfmayor.org/index.aspx?recordid=113&page=846\">\u003cstrong>San Francisco’s reported figure\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> of 80%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already a plastic bag ban in San Jose has reduced bag litter by 89% in the storm drain system and the city council is \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2013/02/25/116850/san_jose_city_council_may_ban_polystyrene?category=science\">moving toward banning Styrofoam\u003c/a> containers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ambitious Goals\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of San Jose’s most ambitious goals is \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=2948\">\u003cstrong>to get \u003cem>all\u003c/em> of its electricity from renewable energy\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. With 10 years to go before the deadline, it’s reached just over 20% and needs to accelerate progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s going to mean radical changes, but this is a valley that does things in radical ways,” says Carl Guardino,\u003cem> \u003c/em>president of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group (SVLG), which represents hundreds of local businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Silicon Valley and San Jose Mayor Reed sets audacious goals,” adds Guardino. “If we fall a little short, just think of how far we would have come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose has helped change national standards for\u003cstrong> \u003ca href=\"http://ca-sanjose.civicplus.com/index.aspx?NID=1898\">LED street lights\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> and is now saving thousands of dollars using efficient, dimmable street lights. Yet it’s only replaced 4% of its 62,000 lights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Using other people’s money\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite making progress, it’s been a tough road through the recession. Like most U.S. cities, San Jose has faced severe budget constraints and was forced to be innovative in funding its green vision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has managed to leverage more than $100 Million in federal tax credits and private and public funds to move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said \u003ca href=\"http://www.freshdialogues.com/2008/11/11/chuck-reed-californias-green-mayor-welcomes-obamas-green-tech-focus/\">from the beginning\u003c/a> that the key to being able to succeed with our green vision was to work with other people’s money,” says Mayor Reed, who is known for his pragmatism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, it helps to be located in the center of one of the country’s most innovative regions, according to Kim Walesh, director of economic development for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_50384\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 252px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-50384\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2013/03/IMG_4145-252x253.jpg\" alt=\"Kim Walesh, Director of economic development at the City of San Jose explains how the city's location within the Silicon Valley ecosystem offers strategic advantages for economic growth and innovation. (Photo: Alison van Diggelen/Fresh Dialogues\" width=\"252\" height=\"253\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kim Walesh, Director of economic development at the City of San Jose explains how the city's location within the Silicon Valley ecosystem offers strategic advantages for economic growth and innovation. (Photo: Alison van Diggelen/Fresh Dialogues)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Being the large anchor city in Silicon Valley, we are remarkably open to new ideas, to thinking differently and we’re scrappy, so we know how to pull resources together toward a common goal and leverage, leverage, leverage,” says Walesh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has certainly leveraged its sunny climate. \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiasolarstatistics.ca.gov/reports/locale_stats/\">\u003cstrong>According to state regulators\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, San Jose has installed more solar panels on its private and public buildings than any other California city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Southern California sun doesn’t hold a candle to our aggressive goals for solar installations in sunny San Jose,” says a jubilant Walesh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The challenge of higher hanging fruit\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But others, like Megan Medeiros with the Loma Prieta Chapter of the Sierra Club, paint a less rosy picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Jose has already picked off the low hanging fruit of their green vision,” says Medeiros, who feels the city has prioritized productivity before efficiency\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’d like to see a lot more energy\u003cem> efficiency\u003c/em> measures like green building taking place. So far, the city has only built, or retrofitted, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=2949\">\u003cstrong>13% of its goal of 50 Million square feet\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> of green (private and public) buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose is doing better with its efforts to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=2947\">\u003cstrong>cut per capita energy use in half\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>; it’s 25% of the way to its goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medeiros suggests San Jose adopt Palo Alto’s \u003cem>carbon neutral\u003c/em> goal or try to take the lead in alternative transportation like San Francisco has with its popular car share communities and mass transit system. But San Jose has had some success with its own public fleet of vehicles: \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=2953\">\u003cstrong>40% now run on alternative fuels\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medeiros would like to see San Jose building more pedestrian and bicycle paths and planting more trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_50388\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 337px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-50388\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2013/03/IMG_4157-337x253.jpg\" alt=\"Megan Medeiros, Development Manager at the Loma Prieta Chapter of the Sierra Club says San Jose needs to make it easy for people to get around on foot, bicycle and by public transportation. 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She cites last year’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.milkeninstitute.org/publications/publications.taf?function=detail&ID=38801388\">\u003cstrong>Milken Institute report\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, which described the San Jose metro area as the nation’s number one performing city in terms of jobs and wage growth - thanks to its innovative tech culture. The San Francisco metro region ranked 36.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not a splashy city that makes a lot of announcements,” says Walesh. “We’re a city of idea generators who also implement. We can talk about the green vision, but we’re really walking the green vision and we’re making some progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking to the future, San Jose city officials are abuzz about this summer’s opening of its \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/7402\">\u003cstrong>Cleantech Innovation Center\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/quest/2013/03/20130304science.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two-thirds of California residents rely on water pumped through the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, as its delicate ecosystem teeters on the brink, and its aging levees crumble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Planners have spent decades searching for a fix. But they'll have to finish the job without the advice of a man who’s played a central role in Delta science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_50230\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 269px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2013/03/01/aboard-the-tugnacious-with-dr-doom/mountportrait_edit/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-50230\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-50230\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2013/03/mountportrait_edit-269x360.jpg\" alt=\"Jeffrey Mount, a retired UC Davis scientist, was dubbed “Doctor Doom” for his dire pronouncements about the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. (Photo: Craig Miller/KQED)\" width=\"269\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeffrey Mount, a retired UC Davis scientist, was dubbed “Doctor Doom” for his dire pronouncements about the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. (Photo: Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jeffrey Mount, the scientist dubbed “Dr. Doom” for his dire pronouncements about the Delta, has retired from his post at University California, Davis. Science editor Craig Miller caught up with him – where else – on the river, aboard his 27-foot cruiser, “Tugnacious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is an edited version of their conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The question of what to do about deteriorating conditions in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta has dogged Mount throughout his 33 years as a professor of geology, as co-founder of the \u003ca href=\"http://watershed.ucdavis.edu/\">Center for Watershed Studies\u003c/a> at UC Davis and going back to Governor Brown’s first administration. I asked Mount – one of the Delta’s most plainspoken explainers, why it matters so much.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Craig Miller: Eight in 10 Californians can’t even tell you where or what the Delta is. Why do they need to know?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JM: Very few Californians get the notion that this is an interconnected system now, with water that comes all the way out of the Trinity River, piped over and into the Sacramento River and down through the Delta, run into canals and ends up in San Diego. I mean really, that’s extraordinary, all the way from the Klamath Basin to San Diego. This is an interconnected network, so 25 million people get some of their water out of the Delta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_37115\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37115\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/05/slideshow-delta-explainer640.jpg\" alt=\"aerial view of the Delta\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/05/slideshow-delta-explainer640.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/05/slideshow-delta-explainer640-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>CM: You said in an interview that you thought we were down to our last shot with the Delta. What did you mean by that? And what do you think the real chance is that we'll have a long-term solution in hand by, say 2020?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JM: Let me explain why I think we’re down to our last shot. We have deeply entrenched interests, and regrettably it’s not simple. You’ve got farmers fighting against farmers. You have urban interests fighting against urban interests. You have environmental groups fighting against environmental groups, and then they’re all fighting each other, and that makes it wickedly complicated. And instead of coming out of their foxholes, they seem to be digging deeper and deeper foxholes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_37951\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 170px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/?attachment_id=37951\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37951\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-37951\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/05/DeltaThumbnail5.jpg\" alt=\"map\" width=\"170\" height=\"195\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta network.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Events will eventually dictate how we manage the Delta and I have said many times, and nothing in the last seven or eight years has changed in this, that we’re dealing with a system that is unstable, and it will rearrange itself, whether from floods or earthquakes or rising sea level or changing human demands on the system or invasive species, it is unstable and it is changing and if we don’t get our hands around it now, it’s going to be doubly hard to get our hands around it in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Some believe one way to “get our hands around it” is to move southbound water around this fragile ecosystem – or in the case of the latest proposal, under it, with twin tunnels that would shuttle water from upstream on the Sacramento, more than 30 miles south to serve needs in the Central Valley and Southern California. Mount agrees, saying it’s the only way to comply with current laws that put water needs and the environment on equal footing.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JM: To meet the co-equal goals of the 2009 legislation, I think you’re going to have to have a tunnel or two. Don’t like it, go back and change the policy. You could say, \"We’re going to manage this ecosystem. We’re going to go for ecosystem health as the primary objective within it.\" If that’s the case, at best you want a tiny little pipe – a peripheral garden hose would be the best description of it. You want to dramatically reduce your withdrawals from the Delta, both in-Delta exports and then all those people upstream; all those people like San Francisco, let’s take them for example, they’re taking water from the Delta, they’re just taking it out upstream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CM: By upstream, you mean up in the Sierra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JM: Yeah, they’re just taking it out before it gets to Delta, that’s all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_36945\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-36945\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/05/DeltaOverview.jpg\" alt=\"A canal in the south Delta, sending water to the Central Valley Project.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/05/DeltaOverview.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/05/DeltaOverview-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A canal in the south Delta, sending water to the Central Valley Project.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>CM: Give me your pithiest version of why a tunnel beats a canal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JM: Actually I don’t think there’s any difference between the two in terms of system performance, but there are major differences politically. 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When the state water project was developed, they knew all along that they had left a hole in it, and that is the Delta. They knew there was a problem even back in the 1950s that the Delta was going to be a major issue. From that point on, this intractable, difficult wicked problem has bedeviled governors, heads of the Department of Water Resources and water managers in California nonstop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CM: If they were so aware that this was a problem looming, why didn’t they address the problem head on the first time around?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JM: There’s a tendency in water supply to leave the most complicated and difficult problems to later. We are a society – and there’s no difference in the water supply community – that likes to pluck the low hanging fruit and put off the hard work until later. 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