Archive for November, 2008
Better Place and City of San Francisco Announce Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Initiative
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and Better Place founder Shai Agassi announced today a partnership to establish the first electric vehicle infrastructure for a city in North America. Better Place already has EV community infrastructrure project s in Isreal and Denmark. It was thought that Hawaii would be a first target in the U.S. due to it’s limited geographic span. I am happy to see San Francisco again take the lead in innovating. Austrailia recently got the financing in place to support a Better Place project there. Though this is a city agreement it will likely go state wide.
Party with a Purpose - Benefit for Sophia Healing Center Saturday 9PM
This is an exercise in rapid manifestation. I met Suzie Chang of the Pink Revolution today at the Green Festival. After being dazzled by her energy an opportunity to collaborate emerged. With all the amazing people in San Francisco this weekend for the Green Festival, The Global Summit and the HUB Awakening Your Brilliance conference an opportunity to help a community healing center gives us another opportunity to gather great hearts and minds for a purpose.
Green Festival San Francisco
There is a great line up for this years Green Festival, San Francisco, November 14-16th. I have listed out the my picks below of the “not to miss” sessions. I have seen many of the speakers before but, I am still psyched to hear the latest updates from them on the world transforming. I have not seen Jill Bolte Taylor before except on TED (), looking forward to her talk. Awesome to have Agape represented with the extremely talented spirit of Ricki Byars Beckwith.
The Green Collar Economy of Van Jones
It was a proud day for all of us in this movement to see Van’s new book reach #12 on the New York Times best sellers list last week. Van is a local hero who’s ideas are rapidly gaining national attention. Founder of the Ella Baker Center and Green For All, Van is taking on urban issues with pragmatict policies and a rethinking of paradigms.
