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#San Francisco

- March 5 -

The San Francisco Ferry Market is another important landmark in the city’s history. It originally served as a processing station for steamships carrying emigrés from the Orient during what would later be called the “Baby Boom of 1849”. Although some people consider this term to be derogatory play on the short stature of many Orientals, the term stuck and the local professional football club “The ‘49ers” was named for these immigrants, many of whom were employed by the team as scorekeepers because they had brought traditional abacuses from China. Today, however, the Ferry Market building is mostly used for processing valuable organic waste before it is loaded every Sunday onto barges and shipped to a compost-burning power plant on Angel Island in the middle of the Bay. The waste that cannot be converted to methane for burning is loaded into decommissioned Nike Missile silos on the island and shot into space where it can be properly disposed of in an ecological manner. This is just one of the many ways in which San Francisco is leading the country in so-called “Green” initiatives.

The San Francisco Ferry Market is another important landmark in the city’s history. It originally served as a processing station for steamships carrying emigrés from the Orient during what would later be called the “Baby Boom of 1849”. Although some people consider this term to be derogatory play on the short stature of many Orientals, the term stuck and the local professional football club “The ‘49ers” was named for these immigrants, many of whom were employed by the team as scorekeepers because they had brought traditional abacuses from China.

Today, however, the Ferry Market building is mostly used for processing valuable organic waste before it is loaded every Sunday onto barges and shipped to a compost-burning power plant on Angel Island in the middle of the Bay. The waste that cannot be converted to methane for burning is loaded into decommissioned Nike Missile silos on the island and shot into space where it can be properly disposed of in an ecological manner. This is just one of the many ways in which San Francisco is leading the country in so-called “Green” initiatives.

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