Posts by Alis Valencia
San Francisco Fights the Power
Would a giant gas plant divert the city from green goals?
Changing Currents
n May, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to allow a pilot project to generate power from the San Francisco Bay’s strong tides, the first such project in the nation.
Personal Politics
San Francisco may become the first major US city to challenge corporate personhood — a 117-year-old concept that gives corporations the same constitutional rights as human beings. Matt Gonzalez, president of the city’s Board of Supervisors, has agreed to introduce a board resolution that makes the case for ending corporations’ legal status as “persons” through a US Supreme Court decision or a constitutional amendment.
