Co-Director and producer Ralph King will be discussing
radical designs and their social implications for the world’s poor
with moderators Greg Galle and John Bielenberg
immediately following the film

What:
Extreme By Design is a new documentary that follows a band of idealistic young Californians who, using a radical new design approach, make life-changing products for the poor. From a breathing device that keeps babies in Bangladesh from dying of pneumonia to discovering a way to store drinking water for Indonesian villagers, Extreme By Design follows the experience of three Stanford University graduate students as they design and build these amazing products. With the documentary airing nationally on PBS later this year, The Half Moon Bay Brewing Company is honored to screen this “sneak peek” along with the film’s co-director and producer Ralph King, who will be in conversation immediately following the film with moderators Greg Galle and John Bielenberg, the co-founders and executive producers of Future, a rapid ingenuity firm.

When:
Thursday, March 7, 2013
6 to 8:30 p.m.
Buffet opens at 6:30 p.m.
Film begins promptly at 7:00 p.m.

Where:
Mavericks Event Center
107 Broadway Ave.
Half Moon Bay, CA 94019

Reservations and Tickets:
Admission to the screening is complimentary, but advance reservations are required and seating is limited. A special homemade pizza dinner prepared by Chef Gaston Alfaro of the Half Moon Bay Brewing Company will be available for $22. Beer, wine and other beverages are available for purchase.

Please purchase tickets in advance at http://extremebydesign.eventbrite.com/# or by calling 650-728-BREW.

Dinner and A Movie Menu

Field Greens Mini Salad Bar with assorted local baby greens and balsamic vinaigrette

Fresh Seafood Pizza with Alfredo sauce on house-made beer focaccia

Roasted Vegetable Pizza with fresh marinara sauce on house-made beer focaccia

For More Information:
Call 650-728-BREW (2739) or visit www.hmbbrewingco.com. For more information and for a preview of Ralph King’s documentary please visit
http://www.kikim.com/xml/projects.php?projectId=86

Speaker Biography:

Ralph King is an independent filmmaker and founder of Hawkview Pictures in Portola Valley, Calif. Prior to Extreme By Design, he produced Around June and co-produced Presque Isle which are narrative features that premiered at the Mill Valley Film Festival. Before turning his love of storytelling to film in 2005, he spent 25 years as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal and several other national magazines. He was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and won the National Association of Science Writers’ Science-in-Society Award and the California Governor’s Media Award. He is a graduate of Stanford University.

Moderator Biographies:

Greg Galle, co-founder at Future, wakes up excited by the possibilities that he works to create with his clients—and what those mean for human kind. He has been exploring how design improves lives through story, experience, visualization, user interface, and innovation for more than 27 years. He has won awards, contributed to books, and helped all kinds of organizations achieve more through design. Still, he feels his greatest accomplishments are his children. Greg leads Future Blitzes that unlock people’s ingenuity—what they imagine and build with Future’s help gives him great hope for a better future.

John Bielenberg, co-founder at Future, delights in helping people find the courage and sense of humor to bring their stories, ideas, and ingenuity out into the world—the wilder and crazier, the better. He has won more than 250 design awards in his career, and became an AIGA Fellow in 2008. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has acquired six of his design projects, and staged a solo exhibition of his work in 2000. In 2009, John was awarded the Washington University Skandalaris Award for Design Entrepreneurship in St. Louis. He went on to receive an honorary doctorate degree from Maryland Institute College of Art. John was also awarded the 2011 NASAD Citation for outstanding work and overall impact in the fields of art and design, as an author, educator, social activist, and designer. He has been featured in the ID 50 and teaches at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

In 2003, John created Project M, an immersive program designed to inspire and educate young designers, writers, photographers, and filmmakers by proving that their work—especially their “wrongest” thinking—can have significant impact on communities. Project M has developed projects in Alabama, Baltimore, Connecticut, Costa Rica, Detroit, Germany, Ghana, Iceland, Maine, Minneapolis, and New Orleans.

The community of Pescadero asked California Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) to allow local members to participate in DPR’s Pescadero Marsh and Lagoon Science Panel. Panelists, selected by DPR, are tasked to evaluate the physical and biological characteristics of the Pescadero system and similar estuarine systems and to include in that evaluation the review of existing literature and data in order to draw conclusions about how the lagoon and marsh is functioning.

No local member has been invited to participate in DPR’s Science Panel, nor was Dr. Jerry Smith who has the most experience on this subject, and who has published many studies for DPR, including his ten recommendations listed in a 1996 DPR report.  Instead, a public meeting to introduce DPR’s Science Panel, and to allow public comment, is scheduled for Wednesday, February 27th, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m, in Half Moon Bay at the Train Depot on Higgins Canyon Road.

Pescadero requests DPR to fix the issues of Pescadero Marsh:  Fish Die-off (aka: Fish Kill), repair DPR-altered levees impairing water flow, and removal of rusted, inoperable DPR-installed tidal gates. 

This request is separate from the community’s request to fix the annual flooding of Pescadero Creek Road at the bridge crossing Butano Creek.

The DPR press release states, “The science panel will not address the community’s flooding issues.  Questions related to flooding should be directed to local flood control agencies.”

Pescadero-Butano Watershed – Agency Jurisdiction

Pescadero’s lagoon and marsh ecosystem lies within Pescadero State Beach and Pescadero Marsh Natural Preserve which are managed by DPR.  The lagoon and marsh are separated from the beach by Highway 1, which is a State Route managed by Caltrans. Pescadero Creek Bridge allows the highway to cross over the creek mouth.  A sandbar forms every year at the creek mouth, as is a normal occurrence at creek mouths each summer, but Pescadero’s sandbar is manually breached by DPR representatives when nature is unable to do so (an activity funded this past year by two local community groups: C.A.S.E. and Native Sons).

Pescadero Creek Road and its Pescadero Creek Road Bridge border the south end of the marsh, allowing passage over Butano Creek.  The County road and bridge are managed by San Mateo County’s Department of Public Works and Parks (DPWP). 

Pescadero-Butano Watershed is in Region 2 of the California Regional Water Quality Control Board.  This watershed is the largest coastal watershed between the Golden Gate and the San Lorenzo River.  Pescadero and Butano Creeks flow northwestward from their headwaters near Skyline Boulevard and Highway 9 through a mix of publicly owned land (California State Parks, San Mateo County Parks) and privately owned property.  Across this agency puzzle, watches the Department of Fish and Wildlife and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, as contributors and stakeholders, but not as decision makers.

Butano Creek - Flood Control

At the December 2012 San Mateo County Board of Supervisors meeting, Supervisor Don Horsley received the Board’s approval to transfer $392,500 from a Reserve account to the DPWP for specific projects addressing the flooding of Pescadero Creek Road.  The money is to cover the following goals: 1) Short Term, provide safety during flooding: signage, lighting, and County email/text notifications, 2) Mid Term, study dredging potential for alleviating the flooding of Butano Creek at the County-maintained bridge, and 3) Long Term, San Mateo County Resource Conservation District to liaise agencies to arrive at a holistic solution.

Pescadero Estuarine Science – Holistic and Who-listic Solutions

Talking points for attendees at Wednesday’s public meeting concern physical characteristics believed to impact the marsh and lagoon biology:

a. Channelization to Butano Creek to allow steelhead to reach their spawning grounds.
b. Restore levee breaks, to mitigate yearly fish kills.
c. Repair or eliminate north marsh gates to restore bird, frog and snake habitat.
d. Continue to open the sandbar, as necessary, to prevent fish kills until restoration project is complete.
e Close the levee breach at the southern steel footbridge so that anoxic material can no longer find its way into the water column from the borrow ditch
f. Re-establish the channel depth from the Butano at the Pescadero Creek Road bridge to the Butano’s mouth.
g. If the highway is eventually elevated or realigned in a way that no longer rigidly fixes the location of the mouth of the estuary, how would that affect the panel’s recommendations?
h. How will the panel encompass the flooding issue to see what restoration efforts DPR can undertake to allow for water flow through the marsh and out the creek mouth?
i. How will the panel include both creeks’ hydrology in its evaluation of the marsh and lagoon?

To ensure inclusion in the science panel’s review of existing literature and data, ask the science panel for its bibliography.  The community requests that the past 40 years of reports and studies be reviewed, before yet another study is considered.

In a March 2000 letter sent to then-Supervisor Rich Gordon from Herb Hamor, then-Chair of Pescadero Municipal Advisory Council, Mr. Hamor wrote, “While it is impractical to restore the area to the condition shown in the earliest accurate mapping of 1854 Coast Survey Map, we can approximate the natural hydrology based on the information provided by this map, as well as the vast information offered by early aerial photographs and other completed studies, including the DPR-sponsored 1990 Pescadero Marsh Natural Preserve hydrological Enhancement Plan, the County’s 1999 Pescadero Creek Road Hydraulic Study, and the late 80’s/early 90’s biological research performed by Dr. Jerry Smith and Prof. Sam McGinnis. These sources provide virtually all the information needed to complete the final design and get to work.”

Learn how

to make your home more energy efficient, and save money at the
  same time

  Get FREE advice from a panel of green building and remodeling experts

 

  WHEN: Wednesday March 6, 7:00PM to 9:00PM.

  WHERE: Sharp Park Library, Community Room. 104 Hilton Way, Pacifica

SPEAKERS:

 
• •  Ann Edminster of Design AVEnues
 
• • Chris Hunt of PowerDown
 
• • Dustin McGahan of Little Feet Renovation
 
• • Jeff Moroso of Moroso   Construction
 
• • Lorna Fear of Visual Cue Thermal Imaging
 
• • Mike Balma   of SunWork and SolarTech
   

The Half Moon Bay Coastside Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring a candidate forum for the Coastside Fire Protection District on Thursday, March 14, 2013, 7-9 pm at the Ted Adcock Community Center, 535 Kelly Avenue, Half Moon Bay 94019.

The League of Women Voters of North and Central San Mateo County will provide the moderator, timekeeper and other personnel and will use League procedures in conducting the forum. The sponsors neither support nor endorse the recall or any candidate for the office and all candidates, including the board members of the Coastside Fire Protection District who are subject to recall, have been invited to participate.

Elephants no doubt died to supply the ivory in this piano’s keys.

Trees certainly died to supply the wood.

This piano was - essentially - taken from its former owner and left to a family that neglected it.  It’s being left to the elements and it will then be burned.
Its destruction by fire will warm no one, will light no one’s way, it will sound its own death.

Its carbon will dirty our air.  (To paraphrase Melville, we will all breathe in its dying breaths.)

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20130211/APN/1302110750?p=1&tc=pg

When: Sunday February 10   5:00pm
Location:Ms. Kitty’s Harmony Road
Address:731 Main Stret, HMB downstairs in the yellow Victorian
What: Vocal jazz with the San Andreas Singers
Why: Support Cabrillo Education Foundation
Suggested minimum donation is $15 per person. Larger donations are welcome and tax deductible.

New Leaf and its partner MBA Poultry, the producer of Smart Chicken®, have donated a total of 3.3 tons of poultry to Second Harvest Food Bank. Of the total, 1.3 tons were donated to Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties, and 2.0 tons to Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Cruz County. The total donation of 3.3 tons, delivered January 24, is a 49% increase over last year.

Enjoy an afternoon of chamber music on the coast. Members of the Coastside Community Orchestra will present a chamber Sunday Jan. 13 at 2:00 p.m. at the Harbor Village Mall in El Granada.