Some question conservation targets in water-system upgrade
By Peter Jamison
The $4.4 billion plan to upgrade the Bay Area’s aging water system — a vast public-works edifice that delivers water from Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park to San Francisco and surrounding cities — represents a fraught balancing act between the thirst of a rapidly swelling urban hub and the vulnerability of natural resources that have borne more than their fair share of strain from the steady dev
The Environmental Defense Fund embarks on a national campaign to shame San Francisco into restoring the other great Yosemite valley, Hetch Hetchy. But is shame really a good political strategy?
On Saturday at noon, Justin Herman Plaza was sun-drenched and buzzing with the activity of particularly open-minded crowd, and passersby were beginning to take notice. "What the hell are all these people doing half-naked and shit?" one man cried.He was obviously not familiar with the way things are here in San Francisco, where bare and body-painted cyclists have pedaled to Golden Gate Park and back once a year, for the past six years, as part of the larger international World Nake
Some day, our bridge will comeThere may yet be mitigating factors regarding this morning's fatal plunge by a speeding truck driver off the Bay Bridge's ungainly new S-Curve to Yerba Buena Island 200 feet below. But it seems that the takeaway is a message so simple that state authorities and the media have rapidly grown overbearing in their delivery of it: The speed limit on the bridge isn't a joke. And now, failure to obey it can result in a terrifying and heretofore undiscovered way to die.
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