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|| **When The Longevity Revolution Hits Your Town.** || Cecily O'Connor
[[image:cecily252.jpg width="146" height="193" link="longevity"]] || <span style="font-family: Arial">Northern California communities – especially those not typically seen as retirement havens – are bracing for dramatic challenges that will force them to re-think affordable housing, medical services, public safety, transportation and other essential services as the baby boomers creep past retirement.</span>
=<span style="font-size: 120%">[[longevity|More info here!!!!!]]</span>= || <span style="color: rgb(255, 11, 0)"><span style="display: block; text-align: center"><span style="color: rgb(255, 11, 0)"><span style="font-size: 130%">**100% Raised!!!**</span>
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|| **The Bay Area's Cement kilns and global warming** || [[http://www.chrisamico.com/work|Chris Amico]] || <span style="font-size: 70%">**Topic**: Environment, Business
**Short description**: California needs cement, but doesn't want the pollution that comes with it. If plants leave or shut down, they'll likely be replaced by kilns in other states with less stringent environmental laws, or by international competitors like China, which already produces half the world's cement and more carbon dioxide than the US. Can cement plants in the Bay Area cut emissions and stay in business?
</span>=<span style="font-size: 70%"><span style="font-size: 70%"><span style="font-size: 160%">[[cement|More info here!!!!!]]</span></span></span>= || <span style="color: rgb(255, 11, 0)"><span style="display: block; text-align: center"><span style="color: rgb(255, 11, 0)"><span style="font-size: 130%">**100% Raised!!!**</span>
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|| **Ethanol Could Be a Weak Link in State's Energy Network** || [[http://www.alexismadrigal.com/|Alexis Madrigal]] || <span style="font-size: 70%">**Topic:** Energy
**Short Description:** California's biofuels usage is expected to jump nearly 600 million gallons over the next couple of years, but the ethanol supply is already stretched to its limits. In this investigation we find out what lessons are learned in scalling the infrastructure to handle such an increase.</span>
[[envirodetails|**READ MORE DETAILS**]]
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=<span style="color: rgb(255, 11, 0)"><span style="display: block; text-align: center">[[image:success.png width="111" height="117"]]</span></span>[[http://blog.spot.us/2008/09/04/changing-locomotion/|Read the Final Story]]= ||
|| **Bay Area Political Advertisement Tactical Unit** || Newsdesk.org Will Hire - Stay Tuned || <span style="font-size: 70%"><span style="font-size: 130%"><span style="font-size: 70%">**Topic: Government/Politics**
<span style="font-size: 120%">Increased voter awareness in San Francisco, through investigative coverage and fact-checking of local political advertisements.</span></span>
</span></span>[[election|READ MORE DETAILS]] || <span style="color: rgb(255, 11, 0)"><span style="display: block; text-align: center"><span style="color: rgb(255, 11, 0)"><span style="font-size: 130%">**100% Raised!!!**</span>
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|| **Local versus Sustainable? Measuring the carbon footprint of imported vs. domestic beef.** || TBD: <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 3)">IF YOU ARE A REPORTER - BUILD THE PITCH THERE'S ALREADY $340 on the TABLE!!! We can raise more based on your pitch</span> || **Topic**: Health, Environment
**Description**: A journalist is needed to measure the total [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_footprint|carbon cost]] of both local and sustainable beef processes and make an unbiased determination as to which is actually "greener." Whats the carbon footprint of sustainable imported beef versus local corn feed beef. |||||| **Potentially raised** $340
**Show Support: [[estanciainfo|more information + sign here]]**
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|| **"On the Bay Area's Recylcing"** || TBD: <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 3)">IF YOU ARE A REPORTER - BUILD THE PITCH THERE'S ALREADY $100 on the TABLE!!!! We can raise more based on your pitch.</span> || **Topic**: Health, Environment
**Short Description**: Track and report on what happens to recycled trash, city by city in the Bay Area. Does it really get recycled? Into what? Which local companies use recycled materials?
[[cement|More info here.]] |||| **Potentially raised** $150
**Show Support: [[dumpsters|more information sign here]]**
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|| **Community Relations to Police** || TBD: <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 3)">IF YOU ARE A REPORTER - BUILD THE PITCH THERE'S ALREADY $100 on the TABLE!!!! We can raise more based on your pitch.</span> || Topics: Education Law/Politics
The story "[[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/21/BAUK12EPEJ.DTL|Oakland cops mass before entering ambush area]]" both intrigued and worried me. If entire areas of Oakland are seeing the police as the enemy, and are creating ambushes to kill them, I am worried for the future of our city. I would really like to see a piece of investigative journalism that probes what Oakland residents (of some of our worst areas) really think about the police, and what the police are doing about this. |||| **Potentially raised** $110
**Show Support**: [[police|Sign Here]]
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