By The Dave Room •
April 4, 2008
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I hope PG&E is not an advertiser on Green Options, because they almost certainly would want to censor this post. I feel compelled to do the post because a lot of folks in the Bay Area are concerned about PG&E’s effort to subvert California’s Community Choice Energy law (AB 117). So is the Attorney General; see the article below!
Community Choice enables cities and/or counties to pool their purchasing power and collectively bulk purchase electricity from their selected providers. It is structured as a private-public partnership in which cities do their own procurement, opting for greater quantities of renewable energy than they could with PG&E, and PG&E continues to do the transmission, distribution, metering, billing, and customer service.
By Max Lindberg •
October 8, 2007
If you’ve ever been to San Francisco, or lived there for a time as I have, you can’t help but be charmed by the city, but also aware of the natural beauty of the entire 9 county bay area. That charm and beauty, in many cases, was won in difficult and often contentious battles between environmentalists, governments and developers to name a few.
By Sara Holt •
May 8, 2007
Photo Credit: Ecocity Builders
What if your commute to work included an experience in the following:
- Plant and pedestrian-friendly plazas
- Pedestrian streets
- A bike ride
- Rooftop gardens
- Bridges between buildings
- Car-free streets
- And neighborhood waterways
How different would we feel if our cities were designed “for the long term health of human and natural systems?”
At Ecocity Builders, this question is asked every day with an urban re-design approach that treats each city as a giant living organism, with
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