The video clip is taken from the April 26th Hermosa Beach City Council meeting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sswh242BWTQ
Also, We’ve attached (SBESC Letter) a very kind letter from Jacki and Marilyn at the South bay Environmental Savings Center thanking us for speaking at the South Bay Cities Council of Governments meeting on
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We will be briefing the Hermosa Beach City Council at their meeting at 7pm tonight!
The South Bay Environmental Services Center asked us to speak at the quarterly South Bay Cities Green Task Force Meeting to share information about our 97.5% landfill diversion milestone. We will be complementing Lisa Coppedge’s presentation on Grades of Green’s incredible efforts to reduce trash and how that translates into
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We got a number of responses to our post re concrete. One of the most popular suggestions we got to reduce the harmful impacts of cement is to add fly ash to the mix. This solution also gets you LEED and Build It Green points.
Fly ash is the leftover
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April 1, 2011 was the start of the Wyland Clean Water Pledge. Mayors across Southern California are squaring off to see whose city is the greenest. Our Mayor, Pete Tucker, has our support on this initiative: www.mywaterpledge.com
Dency Nelson, the most passionate activist we know and one of the first supporters of the GIH, is featured in SouthBay Magazine
We are off to the Torrance Environmental Fair, a free event from 10-2pm today.
During Earth Hour at 8:30pm we will be sitting in the dark with millions of other people – a good metaphor for our energy policy, or lack thereof.
Robert was honored to speak about the GIH at the “Green Building: Legal and Regulatory Realities” conference. It was held at the Annenberg Community Beach House, an unbelievable public facility right on the water in Santa Monica.
The conference had an outstanding faculty. A couple of the standout speakers were
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We didn’t feel it was fair if we entered LA County’s Home Energy Makeover Contest, but you still have 15 days to submit your entry at: https://energyupgradeca.org/county/los_angeles/makeover_contest
YouthBuild is a youth and community development program that simultaneously addresses core issues facing low-income communities: housing, education, employment, crime prevention, and leadership development. In YouthBuild programs, low-income young people ages 16-24 work toward their GEDs or high school diplomas, learn job skills and serve their communities by building affordable
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