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Energy Technology

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2012

    Greenpeace Activists Call Apple's iCloud a "Dirty Cloud"

    Giant walking iPhones greeted Apple employees as they entered the company's headquarters in Cupertino this morning where Greenpeace activists criticized Apple's iCloud for using "dirty power."Demonstrators stood outside demanding employees and executives stop powering its iCloud using coal-fired pow ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    Who Hates Smart Meters? Glen Park Residents

    It's been a while since we've seen any good sparring over the contentious so-called smart meter, but apparently strong sentiments are circulating in parts of the city. A kind and anonymous reader passed along this photo that's being posted around homes in Noe Valley and Glen Park neighborhoods, wher ... More >>

  • News

    June 8, 2011

    Clean Energy Stimulus Cash Is Slow to Be Spent

    It's been a while since we've seen any good sparring over the contentious so-called smart meter, but apparently strong sentiments are circulating in parts of the city. A kind and anonymous reader passed along this photo that's being posted around homes in Noe Valley and Glen Park neighborhoods, wher ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 13, 2010

    Trendsetter

    It's been a while since we've seen any good sparring over the contentious so-called smart meter, but apparently strong sentiments are circulating in parts of the city. A kind and anonymous reader passed along this photo that's being posted around homes in Noe Valley and Glen Park neighborhoods, wher ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2010

    Report Touting Prop. 23 'Simply Nonsense' -- Stanford Prof

    Matt SmithHere's what we'll do, y'see: We'll put out crazy-assed think-tank reports, and see if people believe 'em.​The Pacific Research Institute bills itself as a think tank that champions freedom, opportunity, and personal responsibility by advancing free-market policy solutions. But judging fr ... More >>

  • News

    September 22, 2010

    Who cares about gas lines? Worry about killer cellphone radiation

    Matt SmithHere's what we'll do, y'see: We'll put out crazy-assed think-tank reports, and see if people believe 'em.​The Pacific Research Institute bills itself as a think tank that champions freedom, opportunity, and personal responsibility by advancing free-market policy solutions. But judging fr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2010

    Green Energy Fetches a High Price -- and Many Customers -- in Marin County

    The future of Bay Area energy?​As both San Francisco and Marin County struggle to get "community choice aggregation" green-energy plans up and running, one of the big questions on observers' minds is whether electricity consumers will pay more for power from renewable sources such as wind and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2010

    Boycott of Alberta Urged By San Francisco's 'Corporate Ethics.' Canadians Pissed, Eh?

    That's not maple syrup​Corporate Ethics International, a rabble-rousing San Francisco environmental nonprofit, on Thursday launched a campaign urging a boycott of Alberta in protest of the Canadian province's oil sands petroleum extraction project. The group has erected a billboard in Seattle comp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2010

    Labor Dispute Over Solar Panels Heats Up

    Members of Aboriginal Blackmen United wait for a meeting with City Administrator Ed Lee​A labor dispute over solar technology is heating up, with one union now considering legal action against the city, and a Bayview worker's group visiting City Hall to demand meetings with top officials.At issue ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    Smoked Out: City Announces Plans to Close Mirant Power Plant -- This Time, Definitely!

    Going, going, gone​The final word is in: after more than a decade of activism and negotiations, the Mirant Power Plant will be closing for good by the end of 2010. "There was really no need to have these dirty power plants continue to exist in San Francisco," City Attorney Dennis Herrera tol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2009

    Local Eco-Conference Swaps Press Passes for Ad Placement

    Being forced to trade adspace for media coverage of an event is not the current journalistic norm. Sadly, it may become commonplace in the future.​ In the impending newspaperless world dreaded by journalists, and glowingly touted by futurists, we'll all be glorified ad-salespeople, burnishing our ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2009

    No Smoking: City Attorney Announces Settlement to Shut Mirant Potrero Power Plant 'Irrevocably' By 2010

    Joe EskenaziCity Attorney Dennis Herrera delivers the big news, backed by (from left) PUC head Ed Harrington, Supervisor Sophie Maxwell, and former Board of Supes President Aaron Peskin​The answer has been revealed to the "mystery settlement" announced yesterday by City Attorney Dennis Herrera ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2009

    SF Gov InAction: Gavin Newsom Will Be Told That David Chiu Is Rejecting MUNI's Budget Sometime In Early 2011

    From a numerical standpoint, the Supes are finally getting their act together. At the beginning of the year, we were lucky if they made it through four meetings a week. Now they're hitting six or seven almost every time. That's the good news. The bad news is that the number of meetings appare ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2009

    Billionaire Oilman's Traveling Green Energy Road Show Hits S.F.

    Daniel KramerT. Boone PickensAs Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens hits San Francisco tonight in his ongoing tour promoting a curtailing of foreign oil imports and a bolstering of domestic clean energy (in which he is invested to the gills), a long, strange article about Pickens' long, strange trip h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2009

    Neighborhood Group Sues City over Bayview Hunters Point Biodiesel Plant

    If a neighborhood group has its way, it may be a while before you see a scene such as this in San FranciscoA Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood group last week filed suit against the city planning department alleging San Francisco trampled environmental laws when it exempted a proposed biodiesel pla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2009

    PG&E Steals SF Activists' Thunder -- Make That Sunlight -- With New Solar Power Plan

    David BlaikieMore attractive than ever.San Francisco-based utility Pacific Gas & Electric Co. announced yesterday that it will be undertaking a $1.5 billion project to produce more solar energy for its customers throughout the state. The initiative, which includes plans to build new solar-power ... More >>

  • News

    January 14, 2009

    Green Scheme

    The city's master plan for cleaner energy is fraught with risk. And, like it or not, you're already signed up.

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2008

    "You Go Down to Moscone Convention Facilities. It's Compostable." And Other Gavin Newsom Environmental Insights from the State of the City Address

    Does Gavin Newsom turn into Stalin when the moon is full? By Benjamin Wachs (This is State of the Citysode III: The Environment. Click here for Part II: Education, and Part 1: Health Care) 00:00 - Gavin begins philosophically. "I like to say that the world's consumption is the sum of all loc ... More >>

  • Culture

    November 12, 2008

    The Eyes Have It

    Cheryl Meeker's show about the effects of nuclear dust requires more than passive viewing.

  • Calendar

    September 17, 2008

    Fortunate Sun

    Cheryl Meeker's show about the effects of nuclear dust requires more than passive viewing.

  • News

    August 6, 2008

    November ballot measures promise eco-confusion

    Cheryl Meeker's show about the effects of nuclear dust requires more than passive viewing.

  • News

    July 16, 2008

    Public Power Grab

    Why some "progressives" are putting energy into a bad idea.

  • News

    December 5, 2007

    Cooking with Gas

    Why some "progressives" are putting energy into a bad idea.

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2007

    San Francisco Taxi Rates To Rise Pending Health Care Plan: SFGovernmentInAction

    Why some "progressives" are putting energy into a bad idea.

  • News

    September 13, 2006

    Hemp and Housing

    Why some "progressives" are putting energy into a bad idea.

  • News

    May 31, 2006

    A Bridge Too Costly

    The city's way of contracting out public works construction is broken — so much so that companies are not bidding on important municipal projects and that could cost us billions

  • Calendar

    September 28, 2005

    Shuck, Swallow, Repeat

    Eat the good life

  • News

    June 18, 2003

    First SF Weekly Sharpie Literary Awards

    DISCUSSED IN THIS REVIEW: Cons, Scams & Grifts, 2001, Mysterious Press, Confidence, 2003, Lion's Gate Films What Should I Do With My Life?, 2002, Random House

  • News

    January 8, 2003

    Nuclear, Dude

    When it comes to terrorism and U.S. atomic power plants, we may as well put Homer Simpson in charge

  • News

    April 24, 2002

    Mirant's Morass

    The plan to build a massive new power plant in San Francisco -- once thought inevitable -- hits a few snags

  • News

    February 13, 2002

    Attack of the Self-Serving Pol!

    A deft film in which a southland legislator and lazy journalists rewrite history, blame Enron for the energy crisis, and leave Sacramento corruption untouched

  • News

    December 19, 2001

    Apples and Oranges; Water Fight

    How Kennedyesque is Gavin Newsom?

  • News

    November 21, 2001

    The New Economy

    The road to Punta Abreojos is paved with hollow intentions

  • News

    November 14, 2001

    Will Blackouts Be Back?

    With many power plants scheduled to go down for repairs, a stretch of bad weather could spell trouble

  • News

    August 29, 2001

    Some People Have All the Luck

    And then there's developer Michael Strausz

  • News

    August 1, 2001

    Letters to the Editor

    Power Point;The Chronicle Chronicles;Outlawing Landlords and Other Amusements

  • News

    August 1, 2001

    Power Politics

    Two major S.F. energy projects are in the works. Do we need both? The question isn't really being discussed.

  • News

    July 4, 2001

    Gray Skies

    If Gov. Davis has his way, California soon will have dozens of new power plants -- a lot of them in the wrong places, some of them unnecessary, and very, very few of them based on renewable energy

  • News

    July 4, 2001

    "They're Hijacking Our Rally!"

    Opponents of the Potrero Hill power plant expansion could use a lesson in organization.

  • News

    May 30, 2001

    Contract Killings

    How the state's contracts with crucial electric power providers actually encourage them to gouge us

  • News

    April 25, 2001

    Russian Roulette

    The Western Pacific gray whale, once thought extinct, clings to life in a remote Siberian sea. Biologists fear their research is serving as cover for massive oil drilling that could wipe out this lost tribe once and for all.

  • News

    April 4, 2001

    MUD in Your Eye

    A small group wants to foist a municipal utility district on the city without evidence its version of "public power" will work. Demand evidence.

  • News

    April 4, 2001

    Delusions of Power

    Is it smart to jump into the Bay Guardian's version of public power, without even studying whether it will save money?

  • News

    January 31, 2001

    Don't Let Them Turn Out the Lights

    It's time for consumers to take back California

  • News

    January 10, 2001

    Letters to the Editor

    Letters from January 10, 2001

  • News

    September 20, 2000

    Power Politics

    Why a retreat from electricity deregulation is a victory for PG&E, and a loss for you and me

  • News

    May 27, 1998

    Unlocking the Secrets of Fusion

    Why a retreat from electricity deregulation is a victory for PG&E, and a loss for you and me

  • News

    December 31, 1997

    Imbalance of Power

    Competitors say delay in electric deregulation helps PG&E, other utility monopolies

  • News

    May 14, 1997

    PG&E Is All Charged Up

    The S.F.-based utility embarks on a nationwide buying spree

  • News

    March 29, 1995

    Whirly Birds

    The wind-power entrepreneurs at Kenetech have spent millionsin vain tosolve this avian mystery: Why have hundredsof raptors, including golden eagles, died alongside the windmills of Altamont Pass?

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