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Why is it So Hard to Get Solar Power in San Francisco?

San Francisco Bay Guardian | April 16, 2008

Across California, citizens are jumping at the chance to decrease their carbon output. Yet in San Francisco, where environmental sentiment and high energy costs ought to be driving a major solar boom, there's very little action.

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Tags: San Francisco, California, environment, solar power

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Profiles Of Change: President Obama's Call for Citizen Action Is Already Resonatingnew

"Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America," President Barack Obama told US citizens on his Inauguration Day. That rang in the ears of people who changed their lives in response to his call.

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Amanda Witherell | 01-21-2009 | Politics

Tags: San Francisco, community organizing, Obama inauguration

Rose Aguilar Looks for Change on 'Red Highways'new

Red Highways: A Liberal's Journey into the Heartland is the result of Aguilar's six-month road trip through reliably red states to ask people why they identify with one party over another, or vote for certain candidates, or don't vote at all.

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Amanda Witherell | 11-12-2008 | Nonfiction

Tags: politics, America, blue states, red states, nonfiction, Red Highways: A Liberal's Journey into the Heartland, Rose Aguilar

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Groupon's Secretnew

Are misleading online ads the secret to Groupon's success? And is Google implicated?

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Sarah Phelan | 06-15-2011 | Business & Labor

Tags: Groupon, Daily Deals, Living Social

Homeowner Defense Groups to Target Wells Fargo Shareholdersnew

While deep-pocketed lobbyists have been making it hard to pass laws that would offer at-risk homeowners more protections, homeowner defender groups have decided to target, and now protest against, the group they believe stand directly in the way of equitable reforms: the banks.

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Sarah Phelan | 05-04-2011 | Housing & Development

Tags: Foreclosures, Mortgages, Wells Fargo

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