Washington area. Lets talk about enlightenment change and building green cities and a low carbon future away from fossil fultsdz fuels. Mayor lee what is San Francisco doing your projection was a leader and youre not out there as much what is San Francisco doing to modify tarnished a low carbon future like new york and other cities have seen first of all, mayor newsom when he made some announcements i was through and said okay. Ill do it and get it done. I was the led of his whole electric we created the whole region for things that have to get regional so the electric vehicle nafblths my car is a chevy volt. I hardly ever get past the 40 miles so electric vehicles they run on electricity. Exactly. But were building the infrastructure to welcome m that in we worked region alley to do so and that will be a my priority and the gofrnl came down to nouns another he wanted to go from moon beam to sunbeam laughter and at the same time creating businesses Small Businesses that support that th
The folks that work there the consumption on mid market goes from 10 the street to an. We got some pretty good skews because with tweeter and one king plain they all came about 5 to 7 of them. But the real skews the biggest success we felt was duo i didnt looshts came in at 8 and 10 and market without invite and said we dont need our taxation break were going to locate our business right there and theyre under construction as we speak. Donates the real testament. I understand what government can do but ive been around the corn too. Its sustainable for government to run programs forever whether its welfare. This is our role to get people on their feet. Thats why i emphasis that example that we used we created the right invitation i believed we identified the right infrastructure, we were working with them on bikes lanes to transportation routes, we commented to a safer Market Street so thats why you see the subway on market we helped them realize they could have a better Market Street a
Sunbeam laughter and at the same time creating businesses Small Businesses that support that that whole infrastructure i want to explore my wind and certainly solar power is a huge conversation in San Francisco. We are working hard to establish larger prints where we can compliment our green energy prostitution in the city and then we still are commented to reducing the energy use in the city. No now a building particularly no new Office Building is anything less than a gold lead. Were proud of everyone one of the 19 Downtown Office be buildings that you see those cranes up and around the Transit Center theyre all going to be at at least lee gold theyre going to be very efficient clapping theres some interesting plans out at Hunters Point like raising the sea rise and there is some kind of waste collecting and tell us about a future thats very uncertain about climate. Were blessed because its right on the waterfront thats a wonderful asset and selling homes and property there. But your
In the sector slowed to a threemonth low. And indias headline inflation up at a 14 month high increasing expectations that the rbi will hike rates again this week. Announcer youre watching Worldwide Exchange bringing you Business News from around the globe. Well, welcome to the first Worldwide Exchange of the week. We kick off the latest survey for Business Activity out of europe. The eurozone december flash composite pmi up 52. 1. Stronger than the reuters poll of 51. 9 and its stronger than the 51. 7 in november. But when you dig into that, theres once again sharp divergence here between germany and france. These are two countries that we will individually detail. The composite for december 5rks 5. 2. November, 55. 4. It was again very strong. Then you break down the french number. The french pmi number down to a seven month low. 47. 48 in november. Rob is a senior economist at market. He joins us now. Good to see you. Is france in a recession . It very well could be. It fell in the
Whether its the incural culture or better immigration whether its capital willing to invest and still enough of a production, you know, platform that if were smart in this post recession environment well wont go back to the economy well move forward. Im bullish about this and this region is rich in small batch and boutique on up to advanced technology will have a role in all of that as well. If you see this company 3d technology for example, willing regulation in his the way we looked engineering systems because you could see it. Auto desk is growing rapidly in San Francisco they just opened up another portion of their work on pier 9. Were all talking about advanced manufacturing no longer have the machines but the machines are operating with an ipad and your reading out precision cutting everybody from chocolates to clothing to manufactured products so extension is going to play a big thing in manufacturing. If youre joining us think on the radio were talking about Economic Growth and