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By Sejal Choksi, Baykeeper and Program DirectorPublished: July, 2009 A few months ago, this column focused on once-through cooling, a harmful technology in use at three Bay Area power plants. Once-through cooling plants kill fish and marine life as they pull in Bay water to cool heated machinery. In response, we received this inquiry: “My […]
Published: July, 2009 The USS Hornet Museum is commemorating the 40th anniversary of its historic, safe recovery of Apollo 11 with Splashdown 2009, a three-day festival to take place on the ship. From Friday, July 24 through Sunday, July 26, there will be a series of special events that will appeal to people of […]
By Captain RayPublished: July, 2009 Summertime in the Bay Area has the conditions necessary to create strong, steady, reliable winds. Sailors wait all winter knowing these winds will return with the coming of summer. The hot rising air in the Central Valley creates a slight vacuum that pulls the wind in the Golden Gate, where […]
Published: July, 2009 Now that July is here, summer is in full swing in the Bay Area, and people are converging on the water and waterfront attractions. The City of Richmond is a waterfront lover’s paradise, with 32 miles of shoreline offering stunning views of the Bay and 6,000 acres of City and Regional Parks […]
By Paul V. OlivaPublished: June, 2009 Every day, hundreds of thousands of people look out at the sailboats, tall ships, windsurfers and kiteboarders on the Bay. Many wonder how they can join in with the elegant sails cutting the water. Soon, they’ll have their chance. Planned for June 20 is the Bay’s grandest celebration of […]
By Captain RayPublished: June, 2009 In the mid-1930s, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed the 403-acre Treasure Island on the shoals north of Yerba Buena Island. The water at the site varied in depth from as deep as 26 feet to as shallow as two feet, creating a significant hazard to navigation carefully avoided by […]
By Bill PicturePublished: June, 2009 On May 12, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors gave San Francisco-based Recurrent Energy the go-ahead to install 25,000 solar panels on the rooftop of an eight-block reservoir in San Francisco’s Sunset District. The 5-megawatt system will be the largest in California, and the largest municipal solar project in the […]
By Paul DuclosPublished: June, 2009 When Bay Crossings caught up with David Gockley, San Francisco Opera’s sixth general director, he was busy preparing for the company’s summer season, which features three major productions: La Traviata, Tosca and Porgy & Bess. Following in the footsteps of General Directors Gaetano Merola (1923-1953), Kurt Herbert Adler (1953-1981), Terence […]
Published: June, 2009 On May 21st, the wax version of President Barack Obama came to San Francisco in style aboard Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Presidential Yacht, USS Potomac, with all of the pomp and circumstance that would be provided for the real deal. The 44th Presidential figure was personally escorted by his Democratic predecessor, FDR […]
By Teri GardinerPublished: June, 2009 Cycling advocates, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition (SFBC) and City leaders are hailing a City decision expected in June to double the number of bike lanes on city streets, as a three-year injunction that has frozen all physical bike improvements is finally nearing an end. The San Francisco Planning Commission […]