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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Easy Rider Transit ridership up across U.S.		12 May 2008	News
Posted at 3:57 PM on 12 May 2008 Transit ridership has jumped across the U.S. as folks get tired of paying at the pump. From January to March, transit ridership jumped 10 percent in Boston, 8 percent in both Los Angeles and Denver, and 7.2 percent in the Twin Cities. In Philadelphia, transit ridership in March 2008 was up 11 percent from March 2007; in April, ridership in south Florida was an impressive 28 percent above the year before. "Nobody b ...
Topics: Boston, Florida, Los Angeles, news, Philadelphia, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

It's the Pitts Pittsburgh beats out L.A. for sootiest U.S. city		01 May 2008	News
Posted at 10:14 AM on 01 May 2008 Pittsburgh, Pa., has received the dubious honor of being the U.S. city most well-sooted for short-term particle pollution, topping an annual list put out by the American Lung Association. Los Angeles came in at a surprise second as Pittsburgh became the first non-California city to top an ALA list. "It's not that Pittsburgh has gotten worse," says the association's Janice Nolen. "It's ...
Topics: air pollution, health, Los Angeles, news, placemaking (all these topics)

Delicious dish Jake Gyllenhaal to open organic restaurant	Sarah van Schagen	30 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Jake Gyllenhaal is planning to open an organic restaurant with a childhood friend. The 27-year-old reportedly wants to launch a high-class eatery in LA with chef Chris Fischer ...The actor is said to be planning a cycling holiday in Tuscany with girlfriend Reese Witherspoon to help develop ideas for the menu. Oh, Jakey ... I just want to eat you up!
Topics: celebrity, food, green living, Los Angeles, organic food (all these topics)

Putting Down Roots Ousted L.A. gardeners continue to farm		28 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 3:17 PM on 28 Apr 2008 In June 2006, a land dispute led to the shutdown of the South Central Community Garden in Los Angeles. Weeks of protest and tree-sitting by celebrities and regular folk proved unfruitful, and the 14-acre garden, tended by 350 low-income families in the middle of one of L.A.'s poorest neighborhoods, was bulldozed. Nearly two years later, with legal wrangling over the land's ownership ongoing, the gardeners ...
Topics: agriculture, California, food, gardening, Los Angeles, news, placemaking, sustainable ag (all these topics)

City of Angles If you're building in L.A., you gotta build green		23 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 9:36 AM on 23 Apr 2008 Los Angeles has become the biggest U.S. city to pass green-building laws. Under the regulations announced Tuesday, new commercial and residential structures of more than 50,000 square feet will have to be LEED certified by the U.S. Green Building Council. The law also applies to major renovations. "We look toward the future through a greener lens," says Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, "a ...
Topics: green building, Los Angeles, news, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics)

Go veg ... Hollywood PETA wants Hollywood hills ad space	Sarah van Schagen	29 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Remember when I said the land just west of the iconic "Hollywood" sign was for sale? And then joked about interesting advertising opportunities?Yeah, I wasn't too far off ...PETA officials said they want to erect a large sign of their own to the west of the famed landmark that would spell out "Go Veg" in 45-foot-high letters.Heh. They said "erect."
Topics: vegetarianism and veganism, Los Angeles, placemaking, advertising (all these topics)

The hills What would you build on the land near the iconic Hollywood sign?	Sarah van Schagen	13 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Get out your checkbooks, folks: The mountaintop property located just above the "H" in the iconic "Hollywood" sign is now for sale. The asking price? A sweet $22 million. Two years ago, Los Angeles officials and conservationists tried to purchase the land atop the 1,820-foot Cahuenga Peak to create a city park, but were unable to raise the funds. No matter what is constructed there -- homes, additional words (I see an advertising opportuni ...
Topics: green space, Los Angeles, placemaking, public lands (all these topics)

On Track California declares emissions-reduction target, requires industry to track emissions		07 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 12:20 PM on 07 Dec 2007 As California's landmark global-warming law requires the state to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, the state Air Resources Board has determined just what that goal will be: 427 million metric tons of greenhouse gases. The number was devised from some 13,000 separate calculations, from the impact of the aviation industry to the number of cows and h ...
Topics: business, California, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, Los Angeles, news, progress (all these topics)

Anticipation	David Roberts	16 Nov 2007	Gristmill
I'm sitting here at the venue for tomorrow afternoon's event: the Wadsworth Theater. It is ... large. I think around 1500 people are going to be sitting in here tomorrow, judging me for the poor quality of my shoes and my neglected fitness regime. I hear from the organizers that press attention has gotten nuts. There will be many dozens of press folk in the press tent tomorrow, from lots of national media outlets. If you watched the debate last night, you'll have a s ...
Topics: climate, elections, energy, Los Angeles, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

L.A. bereft of clouds, rain; climate change the culprit?	David Roberts	16 Nov 2007	Gristmill
I arrived in L.A. yesterday in the midst of an unusual meteorological phenomenon. The sky seems to have been wiped out, replaced entirely with a deep, featureless expanse of turquoise blue. And that's not the weirdest part. All day long, a strong, bright light was falling from the sky on inhabitants, as though we were all in a big room with a huge full-spectrum bulb ... only outside. The natives are doing a remarkable job of remaining calm and orderly during the c ...
Topics: Los Angeles, climate (all these topics)

Honk if You Love Hypocrisy Big Auto unveils efficient cars, continues to fight against strict efficiency standards		14 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 1:28 PM on 14 Nov 2007 When the L.A. auto show opens to the public on Friday, automakers will flaunt hydrogen cars, super-efficient engines, electric vehicles, and hybrid SUVs -- leading some to wonder at the disconnect between car manufacturers' public-facing "green" ambitions and their vocal opposition to a significant increase in federal fuel-economy standard ...
Topics: Big Auto, business, cars, fuel efficiency, greenwashing, Los Angeles, news (all these topics)

Oh, Deer L.A. considers freeway overpass for wildlife		10 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 10:32 AM on 10 Oct 2007 Los Angeles is considering adding another commuter lane -- for wildlife. But a proposal for a $455,000 animal path over the 405 Freeway is unpopular with residents who argue that transportation dollars should go to easing human-caused congestion, not making the commute more enjoyable for bobcats, coyotes, deer, and opossums. source:� Los Angeles Times From the Archives Through Hell a ...
Topics: Los Angeles, news, placemaking, urban planning, wildlife (all these topics)

Health Class L.A. building schools close to freeways		24 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 11:40 AM on 24 Sep 2007 More than 60,000 students in Los Angeles attend school within 500 feet of a highway, and seven more traffic-spooning campuses are in the works, despite health experts' warnings that such pollution-proximate students are at increased risk of asthma and other illnesses. All of the schools will be built with air-filtration systems, but such systems do not reliably remove the smallest, most dangerous particulate p ...
Topics: air pollution, education, health, Los Angeles, news, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics)

Fighting transit racism: Building the environmental movement on the buses of L.A. A perspective from Eric Mann	Eric Mann	12 Jul 2007	Gristmill
A Latina woman addresses the board of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). She is part of a crowd of 1,500 people opposing the agency's proposed bus-fare increases. She holds her 3-year-old child up to the board and says, 'What would you like me to do? Take the clothes off his back or the food out of his mouth?' L.A., with 10 million people and 7 million cars on the road, is the freeway capital of the U.S. For more than 14 years, the MTA on o ...
Topics: environmental justice, Los Angeles, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

In Black	Sarah K. Burkhalter	21 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Hey, L.A.-area folk -- if you're around this weekend, head to the Jazz Bakery in Culver City at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, June 24, to watch talented teenage jazz musicians In Black. (Here's their MySpace, with songs for your listening pleasure.) The Culver City stop is part of the group's climate-focused Solutions Tour, and you can chat with them next week when they participate in Grist's InterActivist column. I'd say 'get jazzed' -- but since David informed me th ...
Topics: climate, green living, Los Angeles, music (all these topics)

South Central Community Farm update	David Roberts	26 May 2006	Gristmill
If you haven't been keeping up: The situation at the South Central Community Farm has gotten even more grim. The farmers have received an eviction order. A variety of celebs and quasi-celebs and hippie ex-celebs have taken up direct action, camping out on the farm. Julia Butterfly Hill is even sitting up in a tree. It's not looking good. Go give them some money. (Meanwhile, the same city that can't cough up $10 million for this community farm is contemplating spe ...
Topics: agriculture, Los Angeles, placemaking (all these topics)

dh love life: emergency episode Save South Central Farm	Chris Schults	22 May 2006	Gristmill
Over at Daryl Hannah's vlog, dh love life, she's posted an 'emergency episode' about the plight of the South Central Farm that Dave blogged about recently. Watch it now. (Damn, those fruits and veggies look good!)
Topics: agriculture, celebrity, food, Los Angeles (all these topics)

Why the nation's largest community garden must become a Wal-Mart warehouse	Tom Philpott	07 Mar 2006	Gristmill
The fate of LA's South Central Community Garden, the largest of its kind in the United States, looks fairly straightforward: It sits on private property, and its owner wants to sell it for development. The 300 or so families who garden there, most of whom by all accounts live under the poverty line, will have to find a new source of food. If the owner/developer, one Ralph Horowitz, has decided to erect a massive Wal-Mart warehouse there, well, that's just the way it goe ...
Topics: agriculture, food, gardening, Los Angeles, placemaking, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Gardeners: Man the green barricades in LA Why greens should join forces with gardeners to face down the bull dozers in LA.	Tom Philpott	17 Jan 2006	Gristmill
Even though I abandoned Brooklyn for the Appalachians, I'm no sentimental pastoralist. I'm a long-term disciple of the great urban theorist (and champion of cities) Jane Jacobs. Human history since the dawn of agriculture 10,000 years ago has been a history of cities. Cities are the future; as David Owen's superb article 'Green Manhattan' (PDF) shows, they may be our only hope. The trick is to create agricultural systems within and just outside of cities, minimizing the ...
Topics: agriculture, food, gardening, Los Angeles, placemaking (all these topics)

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