Welcome to the San Francisco Green Festival®, a joint project of Global
Exchange and Green America. Each year, this San Francisco event never ceases to
amaze us.

As a fledgling in 2002, San Francisco started with only 50 speakers and a
handful of special events. in 2008, the San Francisco Green Festival® boasted 3
days filled with the best in green, and continues to expand in size and scope!
With more than 150 renowned speakers and 400 green businesses, this event was an
amazing success!

Find out how Bay Area neighbors, community nonprofits and city departments are
working together to make their cities healthier places to live.

Check out our Green Week Programming for an entire week of events related to the
Green Festival®.

Ever wonder what you should do after Green Festival shuts down at night? Well
for the first time in Green Festival’s nine year history – an Official Green
Festival After Dark program has been designed to keep the green vibe going.
There are four musical extravaganzas over the Green Festival weekend to choose
from.




San Francisco Logistics

November 13-15, 2009

Friday – 12pm – 7pm
Saturday – 10am – 7pm
Sunday – 11am – 6pm


http://www.greenfestivals.org/san-francisco/

Tuesday, November 10

"Everything You Wanted to Know About Sleep but Were Too Tired to Ask"

Continuing our discussion with

William Dement, MD PhD
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford Univ. School of
Medicine
Division Chief of the Stanford Univ. Division of Sleep

Tuesday November 10, 2009
6:00 to 7:30 p.m.

Doors open at 5:15
Doors will be closed when capacity is reached


SRI Menlo Park
Middlefield Road at Ringwood
International Building
Open to all – Free of charge

Do not park at SRI's main entrance at 333 Ravenswood Ave. Entrances to
Conference Center parking are next to the church on Ravenswood and at Ringwood
and Middlefield.

At the last Café (October 13th), Dr. Dement focused on REM sleep and dreams. 
For the next Café event, Dr. Dement is returning to discuss the ramifications of
sleep deprivation, the body's accounting of sleep debt and the symptoms various
sleep disorders.

Links:

     * A lovely tribute to Dr. Dement produced by Stanford
     * NOVA scienceNOW on why we need sleep (video at link)
     * Dr. Dement on NPR's Talk of the Nation (from 2007)
     * Explore the relationship between health and sleep with Dement's The
Promise of Sleep, via Kepler's Bookstore,
     * An update on Stanford's colony of narcoleptic dogs, via the WSJ (Dr.
Dement discovered narcolepsy in dogs in 1973)
     * US Racking Up Huge "Sleep Debt", via National Geographic

Dr. William Dement is one of the world's foremost experts on sleep disorders. 
He can rightly be called the Father of Sleep Medicine.  He is a pioneer in the
field who first documented all night sleep patterns in humans, discovered REM
sleep and the relationship between REM and dreaming.  Dr. Dement and his
colleagues were also first to understand the prevalence and clinical
implications of several sleep disorders, including sleep apnea syndromes and
narcolepsy.

In the late sixties, Dr. Dement ran a sleep laboratory (complete with brainwave
machine) in the basement of Stanford's Wilbur Hall dorm.  In 1970, he opened the
Stanford University Sleep Disorders Clinic, the first of its kind in the world
(currently there are more than 1,000).  Today, Dr. Dement teaches the most
popular class in Stanford history (Sleep and Dreams) and focuses on public
education of the dangers of obstructive sleep apnea and driving when drowsy.

As a Nation, the US is remarkably sleep deprived.  A large accumulating sleep
debt can significantly impact our lives, but our tiredness and fatigue can be
blamed on erroneous things like stress, depression or aging.  For the millions
of Americans with sleep disorders, the vast majority suffer needlessly without
understanding the cause of their symptoms.

Café Scientifique events are open to all free of charge.  No reservations are
necessary.

Sponsored by ROXRO PHARMA and SRI, Café Scientifique is a place where anyone can
come to explore the latest ideas in science and technology and debate science
issues outside a traditional academic context.  We meet monthly to discuss a
variety of science topics.  Feel free to forward this message to anyone you
think could be interested.

Join us at SRI in Menlo Park
We are delighted that SRI International is the host location for Cafe
Scientifique. SRI is an excellent partner, providing us with a beautiful, large,
flexible meeting space, supporting us with highly professional staff and making
expert researchers available as guest speakers.

Coffee, tea and biscotti will be complimentary, provided by SRI
Bring your own mug if you wish to avoid using disposable cups

Courtesy of Kepler's there will be a drawing for a $30 gift card for books or
merchandise at Kepler's on El Camino Real in Menlo Park. Those who choose to
enter the drawing will have their names added to the Kepler's mailing list.
Special thanks to Kepler's for supporting Cafe Sci.

Café Scientifique is a place where anyone can come to explore the latest ideas
in science and technology. The Café provides a forum for debating science issues
outside a traditional academic context. We are committed to promoting public
engagement with science and to making science accountable - all spoken in plain
English. There is no admission charge to attend our events. Building on its
great success outside the United States, Café Scientifique Silicon Valley is the
first such Café on the West Coast.  We meet monthly to discuss a variety of
science topics.

Ask a Scientist [topic: bio invasion]

THIS MONTH'S TOPIC: Biological Invasion!

Humans are now moving around the world at a fantastic rate, carrying plants and
bugs and diseases which have been trapped on separate continents for millions of
years. The organisms we transport are changing our world — Sudden Oak Death and
other pathogens are eliminating forests, human pandemics are shaking national
economies, and invasive plants are homogenizing natural communities. There are
striking parallels between these biological invasions and the 19th-century human
disease outbreaks which spurred the science of epidemiology. Thankfully,
solutions to our invasion crisis are as clear and simple as those early public
health solutions. Daniel Gluesenkamp will give us an overview of this exciting
stage in Earth's evolution, review solutions to this challenge, and present
examples of recent efforts to clean up our act.

ABOUT THE SERIES: Ask a Scientist is an informative, entertaining, monthly
lecture series, held at a San Francisco cafe. Each event features a speaker on a
scientific topic, a short presentation, and the opportunity to ask all those
burning questions that have been keeping you up at night. No tests, grades, or
pressure…just food, drinks, socializing, and conversation about the universe's
most fascinating mysteries. http://www.askascientistSF.com

ADMISSION IS FREE, but please support our generous hosts at Axis Cafe by
bringing your appetite and enjoying dinner during the talk.
Tuesday, 10 November, 2009
07:00 PM - 09:00 PM

Cost: Free


Axis Cafe
1201 8th Street (btw. 16th & Irwin)
San Francisco, CA 94107

WE HAVE A NEW MEETING LOCATION.

   Due to facility restrictions at our new location, all meetings will be
starting and ending promptly at the times indicated below.  The San Francisco
Tesla SocietyPresents

  a free presentation featuring

Eric Dollard "A History of the Marconi & RCA Station:Bolinas California" Sunday,
November 8, 2009 1:45 - 4 p.m.

at the San Francisco Public Library
Richmond Branch - 10th Avenue Entrance
351 9th Avenue near Clement
San Francisco, CA

  On September 24, 1914, the first transpacific link in a globe-encircling chain
of wireless telegraphy stations was completed with the opening of two big local
plants at Bolinas and Marshall, Marin County, by the Marconi Wireless Company.
For more than a year the 300 kilowatt duplex station which connected a similar
New Brunswick, N.J. facility, with a Kahuka, Hawaii facility, had been in the
course of construction.

The Bolinas/Marshall installation was a vital ship to shore Pacific maritime
communications center for many decades before its retirement to the National
Park Service. A little known and extraordinary Alexanderson directed antenna
system at the complex will be featured in Eric Dollard's talk.

Eric Dollard has spent much of his life studying the works of Nikola Tesla, C.
P. Steinmetz, J.J. Thompson and others. Eric built his first 10 KW transmitter
during high school and later excelled in the Navy as a microwave telecom trouble
shooter. He is the author of several significant books on electrical theory.

Eric was an on site scientific investigator at the Bolinas site working with the
Park Service until much of the equipment there was destroyed by others.

Eric Dollard currently provides consultation services to electric utilities. 
The above article with relevant hyperlinks can be found at:

http://www.sftesla.org/Newsletters/2009/SFTS_news_2009_11_08.htm

A PDF version of our quarterly newsletter can be found at

http://www.sftesla.org/sfts_pdfs/2009t_pdfs/SFTS_Flyer_2009_Latterr.pdf