S.F. JOINS THE GREEN TREND NEW DEVELOPMENT

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Sunday, February 4, 2007 | Patrick Hoge

[stephenjohnbanker]

Wrong! Hillary uses more than 50% of our natural gas.

[Plutarch]

Hey San Francisco, get off your green high horse as long as you are getting your water supply by damming the beautiful Hetch Hetchy valley in Yosemite.

[NicknamedBob]

You should be able to use solar cells incorporated into shingles, as long as they are unobtrusive in design.

Many of these ideas simply make good sense. It is certainly very American to bridle at the coercion being touted. Simple economics should be sufficient, if city planners don't put obstacles in the way of efficient designs.

Homes are an obvious place to use better engineering, but commercial buildings will bring about more rapid acceptance and design implementation.

[Eva]

Don't worry, they will probably be adopting the unisex bathrooms that they have in Germany, with the talking toilet seats that advise men to sit, not stand while urinating.

[Eva]

So, they're going to have waterless urinals, but free showers. Maybe it's recycled water.