Eradicate recycling centers.  Homeless people live and scavenge neighborhoods that are close to recycling centers, like the Bayview. Name Withheld Read This Posty »

Speaking from my experience pioneering sustainability in the Southeast, why not harness the creative idealists (burning man type progressives) who have lots of cool ideas and skills particularly at reusing materials, with local community folks with entrepreneurial and marketing skills who like to peddle products? The market for stuff made from local reused materials is right in our backyard. Let's get creative at harnessing it via business! The BBRC/Renaissance can facilitate this (since they need to freshen up and are  looking for a new niche anyway!) Paul Liotsakis Read This Posty »

Please invite Senator Feinstein to pay a visit to the Bayview-Hunters Point Farmers' Market.  Tks for the resolution urging farm bill reform (U.S. Conference fof Mayors.) SF needs more community food grants. Cynthia Rapak Read This Posty »

Pass it.  Support it.  Become a world leader.  Create a model that other cities might follow. Spare the native Southwest, long torured by coal-fired power, and spare Bayview Hunters Point from the gas turbine peaker plants, and the oil-burning plant sitll out there. And, as the vote approaches, watch this viceo: http://blip.tv/file/133936/ --Ann, San Francisco Read This Posty »

The vast majority of San Franciscans want clean, green, truly renewable power: wind, solar, and tidal, produced as close to where we use it, here in San Francisco, as possible.  We want to see the Community Choice Energy Aggregation legislation passed by Ross Mirikarimi passed by the Board of Supervisors this month and hope that you and your staff will do all that you can to make sure that this finally happens.  Many people have given many years of their lives to see San Francisco operate on clean, sustainable power, that harms neither San Franciscans, other people, or species.  And Read This Posty »

Fully fund NCLB so every child's needs can truly be met (meaning beyond the political rhetoric.)  The "lottery" system for choosing SF schools to attend is ruining integration.  I work at a school where 2 Caucasian children wait for a school bus to take them to a school outside their neighborhood, yet they do not attend their neighborhood school whose main demographic is Latino and some African-American, many of whom are from rough neighborhoods.  And many of the parents who send their children to our school, do so to be away from what they deem "unsafe" schools in Bayview.  I Read This Posty »

1)  Promote home ownership by people who already live in the city.  People who own houses in the community are invested in the community and will help to care for it.  2)  Sharply limit the number of "investment properties" that can be purchased in the city.  3)  Provide funding for long-term mental health care.  I am a mental health professional, and work every day with people who will never be able to support themselves.  These people need our care and compassion.  They do not need *bus tickets out of town* where they will become "someone else's problem".   4)  For homeless Read This Posty »