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it is a place where people can work in a hands-on way to get back to their community, meet their neighbors, work with their neighbors. particularly the grant program is one reason that many of us do take our extra recyclables down to the center. the grant program has helped any number of local organizations through the years. the open hand age emergency fund and the co-op nursery school. the former hamilton family shelter. on and on. i have always chosen to take my materials to hanc, b...

to do the right thing with the bottle bill and less waste going to landfills. they were around when they pushed having a massive burner for all of the waste down in brisbane. we kind of watch out for what they are up to. the issues of community recycling redemption centers have generated a lot of heated rhetoric. you have seen the community centers and the for-profit centers finding people but rightfully want to deposit money back into church and school groups seeking funds. but there ...

centers and the for-profit centers finding people but rightfully want to deposit money back into church and school groups seeking funds. but there are many elderly folks who are immigrants helping extended families. more and more lower income people. this is a very hard time for so many. [tone] supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. they will not go away, they will just be walking and driving farther. >>-- >> they will not go away, they will just be walking and driving farther. supervisor mi...

my name is jane murray and i am a resident of district 1. a few of us in 1970 got together to decide that we would think globally and act locally. we founded the richmond environmental action. it was in business until 1996 with a full-time staff on property at u.s. f that theyve been needed for housing. after that i joined the san francisco community recycling board, which runs the market site. i am very proud of how hanc stayed in business and met the needs of people that wanted to br...

names. [reads names] >> my name is [unintelligible] cunningham and i am here on behalf of the san francisco urban and agricultural alliance, issuing the statement that we are in support of the native plant nursery at 70 frederick street. an alliance of increasing food within san francisco, we are clearly in the support of creating more community gardens on parking and buckland. however, we do not support displacing an active garden plant nursery that offers garden education workshops a...

that process. i also feel that the conflicts arising from the neighbors in the recycling center could be addressed and resolved without evicting the recycling center. there has to be a way. this is a strong city, and we learn how to get along. thank you. supervisor mirkarimi: before i call it the next speaker, i want to read a few more names. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. i wanted to read a few more names. [reads names] >> my name is [unintelligible] cunningham and i am here on beha...

so they knew i, you know, would be observed. so, anyway, it was -- it was a frightening experience. c-span: whats the greatest source of material for you, in writing this book? >> guest: i always think my greatest source is the people i talk to. and, you know, that was -- as i say, was frustrating inside iraq. you had to do a lot of the interviews with people outside iraq. but i also think that its just sitting down and really looking at the tragedy of iraq from day one. its a -- its a...

it is a horrible story that the good news is that the fix is relatively easy, at least a big part of the fix is, to stop wasting oil and cutting oil use in half is all by doing things that we can do today, the technology is there from our trains, cars and our trucks, our communities. the second half, getting off the second half of our use of oil, cutting out the way down is to be tougher. but they history suggests once we set our minds to it, we have had a remarkable success. the clean...