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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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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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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After forty-three years in the Palace of Fine Arts near the Golden Gate Bridge, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.exploratorium.edu/\">Exploratorium\u003c/a> is moving to a restored pier on the Embarcadero. The move is a big experiment for the museum: how to grow into its new location, without losing the feel of its old self.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Leaving the Roman Ruin\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Palace of Fine Arts is a rosy-colored faux-Roman ruin, sitting next to a pond popular with swans and brides. Stepping inside was always a funny juxtaposition: going from the Fantasia on the outside, in, to the din of the Exploratorium. In its old space, the museum was a buzzing, windowless warehouse, centered around a shop where museum staff figured out how to hack together its hundreds of quirky contraptions that help teach kids scientific concepts and where everything had a familiar, “do it yourself” feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I first took this job, a designer friend of mine said, 'So you gonna clean this place up?' And I said, 'No, please.'\" laughs Tom Rockwell, the director of exhibits at the Exploratorium. He took the job knowing it would eventually involve a move. 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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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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. (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. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91776\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/19/where-californias-water-future-is-really-being-decided-hint-its-not-about-tunnels/tuolumne_modesto_nws/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-91776\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-91776\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Tuolumne_Modesto_NWS-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The state is deciding how much freshwater should flow into the Delta from tributaries like the Tuolumne River. (Photo: NWS)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The state is deciding how much freshwater should flow into the Delta from tributaries like the Tuolumne River. (Photo: National Weather Service)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year, all eyes are on Governor Jerry Brown’s \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/2013/03/15/controversial-california-water-plan-takes-shape/\">$23 billion water plan\u003c/a> – what he’s calling a solution to California’s long-standing battles in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Two massive, 35-mile water tunnels would ensure the water supply for 25 million Californians. More than 100,000 acres of habitat restoration would bring back imperiled fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, a different state agency is quietly taking on a planning process that could have a much larger impact on the state’s water supply and wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/programs/bay_delta/bay_delta_plan/water_quality_control_planning/2012_sed/\">State Water Board is making a controversial determination\u003c/a>: is too much water being taken out of the Delta? Over the past 50 years, the Delta has been tapped to meet the needs of a rapidly growing state. Today it supplies cities from Sacramento to the Bay Area and Southern California, as well as millions of acres of farmland in the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the State Water Board finds that too little water is being left in the Delta for endangered salmon and other wildlife, the agency has the power to get that water by amending what’s long been considered sacrosanct in the state: water rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many say the Governor’s plan, known as the \u003ca href=\"http://baydeltaconservationplan.com/Home.aspx\">Bay Delta Conservation Plan\u003c/a> (BDCP), will address key environmental factors like the powerful water pumps in the south Delta that harm fish, the plan won’t address the overall balance of water use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The water board process is the number one, two and three most important things that could lead to restoration of the Delta,” says Jon Rosenfield of the Bay Institute. “BDCP is a distant fourth or fifth.” \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Natural River Flows\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The central debate is over the freshwater needed to support fish populations that have declined in recent years, like Chinook salmon. Biologists say the natural river flows they depend on have been dramatically altered by dams and water pumping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, the State Water Board is \u003ca href=\"http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/board_info/calendar/index.shtml\">holding a public hearing\u003c/a> looking at the flows of the San Joaquin River, one of two major rivers that meet in the Delta. In December, the agency released a preliminary draft recommending that at least 35 percent of the river be allowed to flow from February to June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.google.com/fusiontables/embedviz?viz=GVIZ&t=LINE&gco_vAxes=%5B%7B%22title%22%3Anull%2C+%22minValue%22%3Anull%2C+%22maxValue%22%3Anull%2C+%22useFormatFromData%22%3Atrue%2C+%22viewWindow%22%3A%7B%22max%22%3Anull%2C+%22min%22%3Anull%7D%7D%2C%7B%22useFormatFromData%22%3Atrue%2C+%22viewWindow%22%3A%7B%22max%22%3Anull%2C+%22min%22%3Anull%7D%2C+%22minValue%22%3Anull%2C+%22maxValue%22%3Anull%7D%5D&gco_curveType=&gco_booleanRole=certainty&gco_lineWidth=2&gco_hAxis=%7B%22useFormatFromData%22%3Atrue%2C+%22minValue%22%3Anull%2C+%22maxValue%22%3Anull%2C+%22viewWindow%22%3Anull%2C+%22viewWindowMode%22%3Anull%7D&gco_legend=right&gco_title=San+Joaquin+River+Flows+(Cubic+Feet+per+Second)&gco_series=%7B%220%22%3A%7B%22lineWidth%22%3A4%7D%2C+%221%22%3A%7B%22lineWidth%22%3A4%2C+%22color%22%3A%22%23ff9900%22%7D%2C+%222%22%3A%7B%22color%22%3A%22%23ff0000%22%2C+%22lineWidth%22%3A4%7D%7D&containerId=gviz_canvas&isXyPlot=true&q=select+col0%2C+col1%2C+col2%2C+col3+from+163JYJuFSybHi98niaYT9mJu_85zk00gJtQyKZ1o&qrs=+where+col0+%3E%3D+&qre=+and+col0+%3C%3D+&qe=+order+by+col0+asc+limit+45&width=650&height=400\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s closer to natural flow than the current flow regime,” said Les Grober of the State Water Board. “The current regime is: store as much water as possible during the spring months and keep it in storage for release in the summer for agriculture and hydropower.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Typically, the San Joaquin runs with only about 30 percent of its natural flow, though it varies from year to year. The new requirements would largely affect two of the tributaries that feed the San Joaquin, the Merced and Tuolumne rivers, which currently have spring flows of about 20 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, the State Water Board released a report recommending that at least 60 percent of the river be allowed to flow, looking solely at wildlife protection. The agency arrived at the current recommendation of 35 percent by including the needs of water users and agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our role is to develop water quality objectives that provide for the reasonable protection, not the absolute protection [of fish],” said Grober. “Reasonable means you have to look at the water supply costs of providing some level of protection to fish. We talk about balancing the competing uses of water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board will set flow levels for the rest of the Delta, including the Sacramento River, in the next phase of the process. After staff recommendations are made, board members will look at the water rights to determine where the extra water will come from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Criticism from Both Sides\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The State Water Board’s proposal is getting heat from both sides of the debate – wildlife groups and farming communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“Obviously a third of a river is not a whole river, or even half a river.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“What it means is very little change from the status quo,” said Rosenfield of the Bay Institute. “Obviously a third of a river is not a whole river, or even half a river. It means that less water is making it to the Delta than needs to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosenfield and other environmentalists argue that spring flows are crucial to the Delta’s ecosystem. “Juvenile Chinook salmon are migrating out of the rivers and into the Delta and so freshwater flows are helping them do that,” said Rosenfield. “In the Delta itself, Delta smelt and longfin smelt are spawning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re going to lose a lot of land to fallowing,” said Allen Short of the San Joaquin Tributaries Authority, a group representing major water districts that use the San Joaquin River. “The economy is going to spiral downwards because you’re going to lose jobs and you’re going to lose the agricultural base.” The State Water Board estimates a 7 percent reduction in irrigated acreage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The water districts argue that the invasive species that prey on young salmon, like striped bass and largemouth bass, are a larger threat. “We don’t believe additional flows are going to make a difference in increasing the fish population,” said Short. “You need to fix the other stressors in the Delta and the San Joaquin before you require additional flows to go down the river.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Short would like to see programs that encourage more bass fishing. “Instead of catch and release, catch and eat,” he said. “The idea is to drive the population down so our fish have a better chance of coming back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosenfield says some of the economic costs will be offset. “I think the cries that ‘the sky is falling’ is hyperbole in the extreme,” he said. “We have a river that used to be one of great Chinook salmon rivers in the world and if it was even marginally restored, it could support another 100,000 salmon per year. That could be a great boon to our fishing economy up the coast all the way to Oregon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Battles to Come\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many expect a bitter fight even before the State Water Board begins looking at water rights. Major water districts, including the Modesto and Turlock Irrigation Districts, have pledged to fight any increases in river flow. Even San Francisco could be involved, since the city depends on water from the Tuolumne River. “If additional flows are required, San Francisco does have skin in the game at that point,” says Short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Water Board staffers say they’ll be working closely with the state agencies developing the Governor’s water plan. Ultimately, that plan won’t move ahead without approval from the Water Board. In the meantime, the board will continue the contentious process of dividing up California’s water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the crux of what’s important to all people in the state of California: how we value water and how do we think water should be used?” Grober said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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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. 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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. 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In fact, some conservation groups are so concerned about the state of West Coast anchovy and sardines, that they took the National Marine Fisheries Service to court this month in San Francisco. The suit is asking for stronger fishing regulations on forage fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While herring aren't included in the current lawsuit, Audubon and Earthjustice have expressed concern about how California’s Department of Fish and Wildlife are managing the state's herring stock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely something the department is concerned with,” says Fish and Wildlife's Tom Greiner. He and his team fish for herring samples on the Bay to take back to the lab. But Greiner says the mystery of the missing older generations isn’t unique to San Francisco — which makes solving the problem tricky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s actually a coast-wide concern,” he says. “Including areas that aren’t even fished. So if we only had it in fished populations, then we’d assume it was overfishing. 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