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2012 Green Car of the Year - VIDEO

Video 11.22.2011
The 2012 Green Car of the Year award at the L.A. Auto Show goes to the Honda Civic Natural Gas. The car has a 48 MPG highway rating that sports the cleanest-running internal combustion vehicle as certified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Read More....

What Is a Green Job, Anyway?

Jessica Goodheart 09.24.2011
I’m a professional green jobs advocate.   On my way out the door every day, I tell whoever will listen that I’m going to work to stop global warming and create thousands of jobs.  So what are green jobs? Read More....

Our Wild Wild Waste System

Greg Good 09.24.2011
As some folks know, the City of Los Angeles’ Bureau of Sanitation and Board of Public Works have been holding a series of stakeholder meetings about raising the bar for how our city picks up and handles waste  at businesses and apartment complexes.  As of now, we have what’s called… Read More....

Saved -- in Spite of Ourselves

Carl Pope 07.01.2011
Things could still go wrong, but it looks likely, if not certain, that although the Missouri River floods that have been threatening Nebraska's Ft. Calhoun and Cooper nuclear power plants will put tremendous stress on both the systems and their operators, the immediate risk of a meltdown like those that… Read More....

Acco Unveils Tool For Buildings To Evaluate Energy Usage

Jacob Coble 06.17.2011
GLENDALE, CA – ACCO Engineered Systems unveiled its proprietary Online Energy Usage Index tool today, offering building owners and managers the opportunity to gauge potential energy savings in their local markets.  As one of the first in the industry to incorporate this type of functionality into its website, ACCO hopes… Read More....

Bill Would Allow California to Harness Power from Cars Traveling Over Pavement

Mike Gatto 06.12.2011
Few will argue that we don’t need more ways to create energy and to establish independence from foreign sources of energy.  Currently, one fourth of California’s greenhouse-gas production comes from the process of creating electricity and much of that happens with foreign fuels.  There have been tremendous strides this century… Read More....

25 Green Facts about Los Angeles

From discoverlosangeles.com 06.01.2011
LA has a vast amount of natural open space, more than 214,000 acres, including the nation’s largest municipal park – 4,014 acre Griffith Park – plus 22 miles of beaches in addition to countless parks and recreation areas. LA’s top nature reserves include the 153,095-acre Santa Monica National Recreation Area… Read More....

5 Key Strategies for a Plastic-Free Life

Emily Main, Organic Gardening 05.28.2011
We’ve reduced, reused, and fretted over Ziploc bags for an entire month, and now it’s time to turn all those lessons learned into words we can live by.Here are the 5 key strategies we learned, which can help anyone live with less plastic:#1: Expect failure!!As the team of bloggers over… Read More....

Energy-Efficient LED Lighting Helps Water Treatment Plant Reduce Its Carbon Footprint, Energy Costs

Jordon P. Papanier 05.26.2011
After recently completing the installation of 637 solar panels on the roof of its carport which are expected to produce about 210,000 kilowatt hours of energy per year for its Alvarado Wastewater Treatment Plant, the Union City, California-based Union Sanitary District (USD) approached LEDtronics to explore energy-saving lighting solutions throughout… Read More....

Climate Revolutions

BE GREEN: By Tommy Stadlen 05.13.2011
When tomorrow's historians assess the origins of the Arab Spring Revolution, a number of plausible causes will present themselves. Oppressive regimes, brave and unemployed populations, digital communications and WikiLeaks -- all are factors in uprisings that have spread across the Middle East and North Africa. Read More....

Get Paid To Go Green, L.A.

CityWatch Contributor 05.13.2011
Living in L.A. means plenty of opportunities to get paid for being green, especially when it comes to home energy efficiency. Whether you’re interested in replacing that vintage clothes washer with an ENERGY STAR model or planning a whole-home retrofit, your utility provider(s) may reward you for cutting back on… Read More....

To Change or Not to Change: That Is Not the Question

BE GREEN: By Ervin Laszlo 05.13.2011
But how to change and what to change -- that is. People who are concerned about sustainability in the world know that something has to be done to keep this world going; changes have to be made. But they don't agree on the nature of the changes: some call for… Read More....

Hold That Receipt, Thank You

BEGREEN: By Laurie David 05.13.2011
You know that little slip of paper you shove into your purse, wallet or pocket many times during the day? The one you're handed when you buy your coffee, your lunch, your groceries, that new bathing suit, that bestseller, gas for your car, the pack of gum and the smoothie.… Read More....

The Missing Piece

BE GREEN: By Ronald Brownstein 05.13.2011
Peering into the future, the federal Energy Information Administration recently released a kaleidoscopic collection of 57 computer-generated scenarios for how the nation might produce and consume energy over the next 25 years. Read More....

CityWatch Announces Its Green Initiative for 2011/2012

CityWatch announces the launch of BeGREEN©, an empowerment campaign for Los Angeles stakeholders to make a personal commitment to being green.  This is in support of the City of Los Angeles’s GreenLA program.

CityWatch is looking for organizations and individuals who believe as we do that to BeGREEN starts with an individual commitment.

In 2011, CityWatch will dedicate its resources to changing the talk to commitment, with the help of businesses, government, community organizations, AND individual stakeholders.

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Water Conservation Levels Near 25%

Be Green - Continuing to embrace water conservation as a way of life in Los Angeles, single-family residential customers of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power used 24% less water in February 2011, when compared to the same month in 2007.

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Chevy Volt, Nissan Leaf ace their crash tests

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety said today that the Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf performed quite well in its first-ever crash tests on "mainstream" electric cars.

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Climate Revolutions

When tomorrow's historians assess the origins of the Arab Spring Revolution, a number of plausible causes will present themselves. Oppressive regimes, brave and unemployed populations,

Read more...