URGENT GREEN LA ACTION ALERT – STOP VALERO

Earth Day Protest – this Thursday, April 22 – at Valero Gas Station, Melrose & Western, 10:30 AM Two Texas oil companies – Valero and Tesoro – are spending millions to push a deceptive ballot proposition that would kill California’s clean air and clean energy law, AB 32. The oil companies’ “Dirty Energy Proposition” will: [...]

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Daily Links – 1/4/10

LA Times: L.A., Long Beach ports fight to stay dominant Southern California’s twin ports make up the nation’s biggest cargo container hub — and they’re launching an ambitious campaign to stay that way as they navigate a weak economic recovery and increasing competition from foreign and domestic harbors. NY Times Editorial: Where the Action Is [...]

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Water World: Who’s Getting Flooded in California?

The Pacific Instutite has recently released a new study which looks at which Coastal area’s in the state are most at risk of climate change driven flooding: According to the study, “480,000 people; a wide range of critical infrastructure; vast areas of wetlands and other natural ecosystems; and nearly $100 billion in property along the [...]

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City of LA Looking at Bike Share Program

Want to know what the City is up to? Well, sometimes it’s best to look at what the city is trying to buy. A couple weeks ago, the city of Los Angeles put this RFI (Request for Interest) up on their Business Assistance Virtual Network – basically, the site they post open business contracting opportunities: LINK [...]

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The Curious Case of SB375 Updated

Here is the link to the online materials from the SB375 seminar I posted on previously: LINK

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News in Brief: Highways and Toxic Discharges

Governor Fast Tracking Highway Construction: So it looks like the Governor is looking to fast track some major state highway projects through the environmental review process in an attempt to boost the economy – LINK. “Schwarzenegger is proposing that the California Department of Transportation forge ahead with some construction projects that are tied up in [...]

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How Solar is your Zip?

I just got wind of an interesting project being organized by Peter Black of the Environmental Defense Fund. It is called the “Climate Atlas Project,” and it appears to be a project developed to visualize the growth of the green/clean tech sector. The maps are great, be sure to check them out. Here it is [...]

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UCLA Extensions Public Policy Programs

UCLA Extensions is hosting some great Public Policy seminars over the next few months. I’m defenitly going to try and make a one of two of them (note, they aren’t free, but they do have some scholarships for recent graduates). Click here for more information or to register. Here are the seminars:  Successful CEQA Compliance: [...]

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Congestion Pricing – Coming to CA?

While not focused on LA, I thought this was an interesting article worth highlighting nonetheless. It’s an article that appeared in the SF Chronicle today discussing the application of London style congestion pricing in SF. It’s title, “SF is not London” , might clue you in on its position . Still, I think it brings up [...]

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Largest Solar Panel Installation in SoCal Complete!

The largest solar installation in SoCal history, some 600,000 solar panels atop a distribution center in Fontana, is complete as of yesterday~ Just 1 of 150 solar projects planned for factory and warehouse roofs in SoCal, this site will produce enough electricity to power 1,300 homes.  Check it out in more detail!  LINK

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