Published: July, 2003 Today House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi announced that the San Francisco Bay Area Water Transit Authority will receive $2,483,750 from the U.S. Department of Transportation to construct the first zero-emission passenger-only ferry in the world. Pelosi requested these funds in the 2003 federal Transportation appropriations bill, following the $100,000 she secured in […]
By Paul DuclosPublished: November, 2009 Now on view at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum is Emerald Cities: Arts of Siam & Burma, 1775-1950, the first exhibition of its kind to use a systematic approach to present artworks from this region and period. The exhibition features more than 140 artworks drawn exclusively from the museum’s […]
BY BILL PICTURE Published: June, 2018 The California Energy Commission (CEC) has updated energy efficiency building standards to require that all newly constructed homes be outfitted with solar systems beginning in 2020. The annual reduction of greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the new requirement is expected to be the equivalent to taking 115,000 gas-burning […]
