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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Today, Speaker Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and thousands of people around the world signed Al Gore’s Live Earth Pledge. The pledge calls on individuals to fight the global climate crisis at home and at work. The Live Earth Pledge was created in conjunction with the Live Earth concerts taking place in Johannesburg, London, New Jersey, Rio de Janeiro, Shanghai, Sydney and Tokyo on July 7, 2007. You can find out more about the concerts at www.liveearth.org. Do your part, sign the pledge today. Read more »

"Thanks to the readers of ActLocallySF.org, Mayor Newsom and the citizens of San Francisco for all of the hard work you are doing to solve the climate crisis. On July 7th, Live Earth will mark the beginning of a three-year campaign that will mobilize people worldwide to take action to solve the climate crisis. Global warming can only be solved by an unprecedented and sustained global movement--but it has to start with you. We hope to jump-start that movement right here and right now.  I hope that you will join us on 7/7/07." -- Al Gore  Read more »

On Monday, May 14, in New York City’s Times Square, Yahoo and Global Green USA, launched the “Be a Better Planet” challenge to find America’s Greenest City.  This nationwide challenge is taking place between May 14 and June 8 – the winning city not only gets all the glory, but they get a fleet of ten hybrid taxi cabs.  Of course, San Francisco should be the natural winner of this competition, but to make this happen, we need you to Act Locally today.

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