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They are asking for it, really asking for it

LADWP asks public for input on solar plans 0
Posted 1 month, 4 weeks ago When it comes to sustainability, Los Angeles has its work cut out for it.
Smarter cities

The 15 most sustainable U.S. cities 28
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
Seattle is the most sustainable big city in the nation, according to a list compiled by Smarter Cities, an NRDC project that looks at the progress American cities are making toward going green. Find out which other 14 cities made the list.
Buy It

The Informal Economy: Michael Jackson Edition 1
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
The mass memorial for the recently departed mega-star breathed surprising life into the underutilized downtown of Los Angeles.
Buying the farm

Fighting for the right to grow food in L.A. 1
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Scott Hamilton Kennedy's Oscar-nominated documentary, "The Garden," tells the story of a 14-acre plot in Los Angeles that became a community garden in 1992. After the city tried to sell the land to a developer, the gardeners decided to fight back.
Air quality fail

Failing grades issued for air quality in Seattle, other major cities 3
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
How does your hometown score on the American Lung Association's air quality report card?
Photon wrangling

For eSolar, clean energy starts with computing power 3
Posted 7 months, 4 weeks ago
As solar projects finally start to be built, a shakeout is inevitable. The winners will be those solar technologies that produce the most carbon-free electricity at the cheapest prices.
'What happens in Vegas doesn't stay in Vegas'

Drinking water: Toilet to tap—get used to it! 0
Posted 7 months, 4 weeks ago
In the future, your drinking water is going to be recycled from your toilet -- believe it.

As the population grows and global warming drives desertification and the loss of the inland glaciers (see here), fresh water will become increasingly in short supply. As the AFP reported recently:
Hello sunshine?

Los Angeles rejects solar plan, still likes solar power 0
Posted 8 months ago
Los Angeles citizens voted on a citywide solar energy plan on March 3, but the very narrow results didn't become official until yesterday: It lost (by about 1 percent).
L.A. solar not dead, regardless of final vote on ballot measure 0
Posted 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Los Angelenos narrowly reject city-wide solar plan 4
Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago
L.A. solar vote could measure nation’s appetite for renewables 1
Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Me, in the L.A. Times on Los Angeles’ Measure B 0
Posted 9 months ago
L.A. ballot initiative on solar energy faces questions about cost and feasibility 4
Posted 9 months, 1 week ago
TreePeople founder discusses his Ashoka fellowship and green infrastructure 0
Posted 10 months ago
It Takes a Villaraigosa

L.A. will go big with solar power under mayor’s plan 3
Posted 12 months ago
Smog in Your Throat?

Houston joins Los Angeles in having ‘severe’ smog problem 3
Posted 1 year, 1 month ago
L.A. train collision dismays new riders 12
Posted 1 year, 2 months ago
In L.A., Mayor Villaraigosa plays footsie with Forever 21 over site of former farm 3
Posted 1 year, 3 months ago
Urban fruit: An untapped resource 12
Posted 1 year, 4 months ago
Easy Rider

Transit ridership up across U.S. 7
Posted 1 year, 6 months ago