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...Newsom knows the challenges of going solar in a first-hand way. The mayor is in a well-publicized fight over his right to 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mapping Renewable Energy, Rooftop by Rooftop | 12/22/2008 | See Source »

...When union people get paid good wages, that money stays in the community, it helps to provide a vibrant economy, it helps to also even send their children like me...to college and to eventually even run for office." - On the Employee Free Choice Act, which would make it easier for employees to form unions and to bargain with employers (Washington Post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor Secretary: Hilda Solis | 12/22/2008 | See Source »

...elect Barack Obama tapped California Democrat Hilda Solis to be his administration's Labor Secretary, union leaders across the country rejoiced. The four-term Congresswoman has spent the better part of two decades championing workers' rights, including the Employee Free Choice Act, a new bill that would make it easier for workers to organize. But some Republicans have taken issue with her legislative approach, deriding her as an unyielding advocate of environmentalists and labor groups. Solis might very well agree with the "unyielding" part: she told the Los Angeles Times in 2000 that compromising "just to keep things moving along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor Secretary: Hilda Solis | 12/22/2008 | See Source »

...hotels are looking at other options: one is to cut services - closing gyms, shutting business centers earlier and no more 24-hour room service. Of course, this is easier for mid-price hotels to cut than luxury hotels, where customers expect a certain level of service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hotels Try to Adapt to Hard Times | 12/17/2008 | See Source »

...they can be shared, transferred, translated; we borrowed a tradition from our godcousins (is that what families become if another couple are godparents to our kids and we to theirs?): they have two sets of twins, which makes this easier, but the rule in their house is that if birthdays are for getting, half birthdays are for giving. On their kids' half birthdays they go through their drawers and toy boxes, gathering up everything that's outgrown or underappreciated, and take it to the church or the Salvation Army. Then they come home and have a party with half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Listen to the Kids | 12/17/2008 | See Source »

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