Asked what they thought of todays news so i quit my job and i went about as far away as i could go and i moved to the country of cambodia and i spent a year and a half there reporting on events there and it was amazing. The country was emergingfor 30 years in the civil war and genocide. 24 people died of starvation and disease and what struck me while i was there was the human resilience. It was very noble experience. A lot of information, but just seeing peoples lives and how they bounce back, it changed the way i looked at journalism and what i wanted to do and when i came back, i wanted to write more about the theme of human resilience and i found in the United States one of the most exciting stories of human resilience are being written by technology and thats really what my book is about. Its a book about bioengineering im sure youve heard about and you know, i guess my presentation is less datadriven than some of this stuff but when i tried to do was put some of these things we a
And digital currency. This is just under 2 1 2 hours. Hello. Thanks for having me. My name is adam piore, and im glad to be here. Im here to talk about my book, the bodybuilders inside the science of the engineered human, and some of the trends that i reviewed. Its funny to be here, because i left d. C. I used to cover im a journalist. I used to cover capitol hill. About 20 years ago i left and said i was never coming back. And actually, i covered congress for a newspaper in new jersey, and i left in the middle of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. My job was to stand off the house floor and ask every congressman what they thought of the days news. So, i quit my job and i went about as far away as i could go, and i moved to the country of cambodia. And i spent a year and a half there reporting on events there, and it was an amazing experience. People were the country was emerging from 30 years of civil war, from a genocide in which one in four people died of murder, starvation, and disease.
The clerk the next it em is a presentation on San Franciscos Community Choice Aggregation Program clean power sf. And Jessie Denver Program Manager will be speaking on behalf of the director and combine it with item 7e with the energy distributed Energy Resources Program Including zero Emission Vehicles. Hello. Great. Okay. So the citys Energy Program aligns with the states vision and action to help shape the Energy Resources future. The citys Energy Program not only works on Energy Efficiency and renewables like youve heard tonight, but also in collaboration with our colleagues at the sf puc works on renewables and also Energy Storage and zero Emission Vehicles and market transformation. The focus of the majority will be on zero emissions vehicles. My director is sick with the flu so he gave me permission to give you highlights he also wanted know relay to you and would be happy to come back and give you a full update on clean power sf. San francisco is loading on the use of the power
Great. Okay. So the citys Energy Program aligns with the states vision and action to help shape the Energy Resources future. The citys Energy Program not only works on Energy Efficiency and renewables like youve heard tonight, but also in collaboration with our colleagues at the sf puc works on renewables and also Energy Storage and zero Emission Vehicles and market transformation. The focus of the majority will be on zero emissions vehicles. My director is sick with the flu so he gave me permission to give you highlights he also wanted know relay to you and would be happy to come back and give you a full update on clean power sf. San francisco is loading on the use of the power grid. Grid is 44 renewable with the goal of getting to 50 renewable by 2020 and 100 renewable by 2030. The department of the environment and energy team also works on developing reach codes or commissioner mcallister called them stretch codes. For example, with renewables we passed a better roof ordinance. That
My director is sick with the flu so he gave me permission to give you highlights he also wanted know relay to you and would be happy to come back and give you a full update on clean power sf. San francisco is loading on the use of the power grid. Grid is 44 renewable with the goal of getting to 50 renewable by 2020 and 100 renewable by 2030. The department of the environment and energy team also works on developing reach codes or commissioner mcallister called them stretch codes. For example, with renewables we passed a better roof ordinance. Thats considered a reach code. We also in San Francisco in addition to municipal utility and what they contribute we know have clean power sf. Launched in 2016 its serving about 80,000 accounts today and has an enrollment goal of july 2019. Its account holders, utility accounts currently being served by sf puc hydro power system. The next face of the enrollment will happen in july. Our colleagues at the puc have been busy procuring resource to get