More precious than faang, the one surprising investment thats making some more money than all the top tech names that you know its thursday, august 29th and Worldwide Exchange begins right now. If the black keys cant get you going, i cant help you friends. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, where where ever in the world youre watching look at this, dow futures are soaring up 209 points right now. They were not like this a couple of hours ago futures made a dramatic move around 3 00 a. M. New york time this morning, look at that boom, were muddling along down a couple of points this is at the same time that the Chinese Commerce minister, china opposes any more escalation of a trade war. They hope the United States will show sincerity and concrete action adding both trade teams have been in touch and are working to create conditions for what they call successful negotiation. Futures were up 209 right now. The bond market is not moving as much on the headlines. Yield still low, a
Office retail and the restaurant sectors we will be having those created in spanish and chinese and those are currently in the process at the moment and so we are hoping to complete them shortly and as wells the second thing that we are working on further is the businesses work very hard to receive this recognition and to achieve, the high Environmental Standards of the program and so we created a video to help the businesses market their green recognition to the clients and customers, so they understand what to do with the green recognition once they have received it. And, to conclude, the San Francisco Green Business program does offer many benefits to businesses in San Francisco. We as a program do strive to help the businesses go green and take advantage of the many free resources, services, audits and rebates offered by the city here. And so, from myself, and my colleagues, gabby and sue ellen thank you for having us here and we will take any of your questions if you have any. Tha
In the city, economically and environmentally. And so, over the course of one year, our greens and businesses have reduced over 36 Million Pounds of co2 and diverted 1. 6 pounds of waste by composting and waters through the greening measures that we asked them for undertake because that makes sense by using less water and less energy you will save those as an Environmental Impact because if you use this you will have less utility costs and that helps a businesss bottom line. So with the program, we are there, each step of the way to help the businesses, and some of the direct out reach that we do, to businesses, are through, indepth phone consults and on site visits from january, 2013, to june of 2013, so far we have conducted 32 sfoen consults and help to educate, and answer questions and set up audits and offer the rebates to a variety of Small Businesses and also on a larger scale, the program puts out a quarterly newsletter that goes out to the recipients and we also have a Faceboo
Fewer than 100. In the coming year, our program is focused on enhancing our business collateral and improving the material to provide more robust information to employers about options for a complete Transportation Program including commuter benefits but also the other Transportation Programs that we offer. We are also focusing more on enforcement of the ordinance, to insure that all businesses that are required to offer benefits to their employees, understand the requirements and are working in these programs with us. And during a partnership of the office of economic and workforce development, smart will be conducting the out reach specifically targeted to businesses with neighborhood commercial corridor and this out reach will focus on commuter programs and also electric vehicle programs. And finally, the regional ordinance will be taking effect later this year, and that will effect the businesses with 50 or more employees in the 9 county bay area. And the San Francisco commuter ben
We felt that we did raise awareness around a local neighborhood area. In the coming year, we do hope to move forward with another campaign to increase awareness of the program. The program was able to connect with the Hotel Council of San Francisco and we are able in the partnership to put on a Green Business forum to put on hotels of San Francisco and their partners and the forum was very well received by the council and so we are actually moving forward with a fivepart workshop series to assist the hotels, to green themselves so this is a very industry specific out reach that we are trying to do here. And other items that the program is moving forward with, is a set of translated checklists for the Office Retail and the restaurant sectors we will be having those created in spanish and chinese and those are currently in the process at the moment and so we are hoping to complete them shortly and as wells the second thing that we are working on further is the businesses work very hard t