County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors Wakes Up

A colleague of mine (Wendy Bruget) forwarded me these two Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors motions.
Motion 1. Zev Yaroslavsky and Gloria Molina sponsored Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory Motion. The motion asks the county to create an inventory of its GHG situation, and then develop a Climate Action Plan based on it, with strategies on [...]

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In the News 5/6/09

Some stories we thought might be worth putting out there:
Energy and climate: President Barack Obama and key Democrats agree on ‘clunker’ car program but greenhouse gas accord elusive – Chicago Tribune (alright! Cash for clunkers! this is a GREAT program, and I’ve been advocating for one here in CALI for a while now. I’m glad [...]

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Renewable Energy in Emerging Markets Conference

the Eco|Angeleno had the great opportunity to go to the Renewable Energy in Emerging Markets (REEM) conference this past week up in San Francisco. What a great conference. We’re catching up on a couple stories at the moment, and we hope to post on some of the great stuff we learned at REEM soon. In [...]

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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 California [...]

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Fuel the Movie – A Review & Comments

I went to a screening of the new film, FUEL, in Santa Monica this past Friday. Here is the movie’s trailer:

Let me begin my short review with a reservation, IN GENERAL, I don’t enjoy these types of movies that much. I find in general I don’t learn very much, and I [...]

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LADWP to Buy Mexican Green Power

Somewhat dissapointing news from the Los Angeles Business Journal, LADWP is buying geothermal power from Mexico to meet its renewable energy goals… Why is this dissapointing? Well, this deal will create ZERO green jobs here in California, and will do NOTHING to improve our infrastructure or increase our energy independence… very dissapointing… would it be [...]

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In the News 1/30/09 – Some good, some bad….

LA Times – Low Snowpack in the Sierra’s (THE BAD NEWS)
Statewide, the snow’s water content is 61% of the average figure for this point in the season. Another La Niña may be developing, an expert says. Conservation is strongly urged. This is bad news, and probably, based on climate change modelings, it’s news we’re [...]

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The Curious Case of SB 375

The Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA law, in conjunction with the Ziman Center for Real Estate at UCLA held a great panel/roundtable on campus this past Tuesday, discussing the implications of SB 375, Fran Pavley’s Anti-Sprawl law. The event was hugely successful and equally informative, and it was great to [...]

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In the News – 1/21/09

Here are a few news items I wanted to highlight:
Ecogeek Blog: California Considers Killing Plug-In Hybrid Start-Ups
The California Air Resource Board…presumably an agency with a vested interest in advancing vehicle technology, might be about to push a clean-tech start-up into bankruptcy. What the frik is going on here?  LINK 
LA Times: Funding freeze halts environmental projects [...]

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Mile Automotive: A Los Angeles Based Dark Horse in the Electric Car Market?

The Los Angeles Business Journal had an interesting article on the Santa Monica based start-up, Miles Automotive Group, a small company with around two dozen employees which is working to bring an affordable all-electric, highway safe sedan to California. According to the article, Miles will have 25 prototypes ready for testing by the end of [...]

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