By John Upton
San Francisco Examiner

The heavens will power Grace Cathedral — with help from The City — if supervisors vote to bankroll solar-panel installations, according to an environmental and religious leader who joined others Tuesday in endorsing the program. The City’s public utilities commissioners Tuesday unanimously endorsed the proposed solar incentive program, announced last month by Mayor Gavin Newsom. If approved by the Board of Supervisors, the program will provide grants of up to $10,000 per building to help meet solar-panel installation costs. “We’ll be taking advantage of it,” the Rev. Sally Bingham, environment chair of the diocese of California and president of California Interfaith Power and Light, told commissioners before their vote. “We are looking right now at putting solar on our Grace Cathedral roof at the top of Nob Hill.”

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In case you missed it, the City Controller's office released a report on Friday, which found that free WiFi will save San Franciscans an estimated $9 to $18 million a year, because of increased competition.  Free WiFi would also help bridge the digital divide and "incorporate low-income and disadvantaged populations into the economic mainstream," the Controller's report found.  But to make sure free WiFi becomes a reality we need you to Act Locally today.  Join us today for a rally on the steps of City Hall at 1PM, on the Dr. Carlton Goodlett Place side.  Then come testify at the special WiFi hearing at 2PM. Read more »