San Franciscan officials have announced that the city’s taxis have surpassed the 2008 greenhouse gas emissions goal of a 20% reduction by 2012 amid numerous efforts to clean up the city's streets. In 1990, the average San Francisco taxi emitted 59 tons of GHG every year. Today, the average city taxi emits 30 tons; a…
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New ‘Clean Car’ Measures May Be Added in California
California’s “Advanced Clean Car” program proposes new laws that would force all car and truck makers to build vehicles that emit only a quarter of the current pollutant level by 2025. The legislation would also require that one of every seven cars sold in the state be a plug-in hybrid, electric or zero emission automobile….
Bay Area Teens Launch Sattelites at the International Space Station
A programming competition by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has two teams of Bay Area teens controlling robots on the International Space Station this coming Monday. The project comes as part of the finals of the Zero Robotics SPHERE Challenge, following months of trials and three qualifying stages for the high school students. Participants in…
Employment Looking Up for Bay Area Techies
Certainly, this news should help Bay Area techies to sleep a bit more easily. A new study commissioned by NOVA, a Sunnyvale-based economic development agency, has predicted that tech hiring in the Bay Area in 2010 will outpace other industries. This could translate to the creation of 28,000 new jobs in tech. Approximately 58% o…
New Electric Car Mitsubishi i Arrives in San Francisco
A new electric car has arrived in the Bay Area: the Mitsubishi i. In a transaction with local dealer San Rafael Mitsubishi, the car manufacturer has delivered its first fleet of all-electric 2012 ‘i’s to City CarShare in the San Francisco Bay Area. The non-profit organization works to promote creative, cost-effective transportation options to support…
GE Sets Up Software Business in the Bay Area
General Electric has recently taken an interest in the software business, and has decided to set up its home base in the Bay Area. GE has announced its new $1 billion Global Software Center in San Ramon, which opened 00 new jobs in the Bay Area. The center aims to “speed the pace of innovation,…
SF’s Seedwell to Release New Channel on YouTube
Late last week, YouTube announced that it would begin releasing new, original channels on its platform next month. Over the course of the year, advertising-supported channels will be revealed on YouTube in areas such as fashion, comedy, news, education, sports, music and more. The project was executed with the help of experienced content producers, and…
San Francisco Aims to Reduce Cellphone Radiation Exposure
San Francisco supervisors have recently approved the legislation which aims to reduce consumer exposure to cellphone radiation. The legislation was unanimously approved, and Supervisor John Avalos said it may “save lives.” The measure is similar to the one which was passed last year. However, that one was left in limbo after being challenged in a…
22-Year-Old Converts Cars to Electric At Home
Nathan Hutchinson is a Bay Area-based “early stage entrepreneur” who specializes in converting traditional, gas-powered cars to electric cars, by adding lithium batteries that can be plugged into wall outlets. The rising fuel prices, though stressful for many business owners, have done a lot for his project. “I knew when I started this business I…
Zynga Files with the Securities and Exchange Commission
Zynga, the San Francisco-based startup company who invented “Farmville,” “Cityville” and numerous other social games for Facebook, has recently filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in order to initiate stock offering to the public. Zynga aims to sell as much as $1 billion worth of stock. “Zynga is a company with more than 2,000…