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...that could be changing. The engineering company CH2M Hill is now joining hands with the U.S. Department of Energy to provide Internet solar maps of 25 American cities, using Google Earth technology to chart the precise solar potential of neighborhoods, literally rooftop by rooftop. The company has just finished mapping all of San Francisco, allowing residents to enter their address and take the solar measure of their own home. "People in San Francisco think we don't have any solar potential,' says Gavin Newsom, the city's deep-green mayor. "But the map shows we have a lot more...
...install solar panels, doing battle with his own housing community, which is against solar power on aesthetic grounds. Most San Francisco residents have things easier, and that's thanks to Newsom and CH2M. Click on the San Francisco solar map website - sf.solarmap.org - and you'll get a Google Earth-eye view of the entire city, from the Sunset District to North Beach. CH2M Hill has already labeled all 925 existing solar systems throughout the city, including commercial sites, government sites and the handful of residential sites, which is nice if you're keeping track of these things. But the really...
...sort of a roll-up-your-sleeves and get-down-to-work kind of individual...He brings a very down-to-Earth perspective." - Debra Strauss, president-elect of the Illinois PTA, Washington Post...
...Carol Browner's appointment as a 'climate czar' should signal to the world that the U.S. is taking a new direction on this issue." - Kathleen Rogers, environmental attorney and president of the Earth Day Network, in a statement...
...Obama's senior aide, David Axelrod, wore earth tones, a tweed coat and no tie, while his campaign manager, David Plouffe, arrived in a proper dark suit with a glittering pink tie. McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, brought a knit blue tie (and wry sarcasm), while his chief pollster, Bill McInturff, sat beside Davis in a white shirt with an open collar. "Here we are in the year that we elected the first African-American President, and I get to share the stage with four white guys," joked the moderator, Gwen Ifill, a correspondent for PBS who was still...