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Climate change. Can idealism and capitalism Work Together . We go to costa rica to find out. And, two mothers living with hiv aids and their healthy kids. We visit celia and elayna in mozambique. The United Nations has released some shocking data on Climate Change. Global warming can increasingly be blamed for the worlds worst natural catastrophes whether its droughts, floods, or storms. Over the past 20 years, the United States and china have been hardest hit by extreme weather events, while india, the philippines, and indonesia have also suffered. But Climate Change is a threat to all of us, even if we live in countries that have so far been spared. It could soon look like this in many more parts of the world. ....
Everyone is aware of that and were pushing strongly the idea that you dont need to keep your grass green. It can be slightly brown. You can watch it enough to keep it alive. We do not need to kill things and this is not a mandatory reduction. Our water use has reduced by 19 on a per capital basis in the last ten years. Theres not that great amount of savings that can happen inside. You have to achieve these savings, hit the outdoor water use. Were pushing that strongly. Many of our cities have adopted ordinances are the ones youre talking about in which theyve asked their parks and Rec Department to reduce their water use, certain parks are not being irrigated, other ones depending upon the activity level at the parks and theyre being irrigated less and the recycled water makes that go farther for those areas which is a great benefit of recycled water, but its a big focus. In fact, one of the areas that were pushing is our lawn be ....
Use and the summer is our biggest area to achieve those savings and specifically we looked to the urban areas. Everyone is aware of that and were pushing strongly the idea that you dont need to keep your grass green. It can be slightly brown. You can watch it enough to keep it alive. We do not need to kill things and this is not a mandatory reduction. Our water use has reduced by 19 on a per capital basis in the last ten years. Theres not that great amount of savings that can happen inside. You have to achieve these savings, hit the outdoor water use. Were pushing that strongly. Many of our cities have adopted ordinances are the ones youre talking about in which theyve asked their parks and Rec Department to reduce their water use, certain parks are not being irrigated, other ones depending upon the activity level at the parks and theyre being irrigated less and the recycled water makes that go farther for those areas which is a g ....
Right now. So we have to be very clear about this. We do not need to wait for pg es green tariff rates to come out before we set our not to exceed rates because they are not going to be below their brown power rates and we know what the brown power rates are and we know that we just like marin and Sonoma County are going to be charging brown power rates. Pg e is not going to be able to beat that unless they go to a really anticompetitive posture which will be very challenged by pg e and not be able to get away with it. This idea that we have to wait until pg e sets its rate, they are trying to set it up so we wait for them to do that so we dont start our program and we wait until after the election and there is not enough political will to get this off the ground. I have to say this talk to wait until the end of the year to set our basic light green rate which is the rate that will establish the entire program, again the hundred pe ....