Comments on: Los Angeles is green!

By: Jake Beene

Jake Beene — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:08:10 +0000

Hello,

I own and operate an Environmentally friendly home, office, and event cleaning company. We use only non-toxic, biodegradable products, and we recycle all of our used materials (such as empty plastic bottles). I am trying to find out how to get my company involved with the afformentioned Los Angeles and Pasadena governments new “Green” efforts. Any contact information you have would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you.

http://www.LAGreenClean.com

By: Ron Davison

Ron Davison — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:55:51 +0000

Urbanization is great – seriously. With more congestion, the effects of pollution are more obvious. As they become more obvious, people have more incentive to do something about it. Open spaces may look great, but people living so far apart tend to pollute with less compunction.

By: Jessica Margolin

Jessica Margolin — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 14:49:41 +0000

Check out Pacoima Beautiful for urban fixing. I particularly like their PB-YES program, but it’s all at http://www.pacoimabeautiful.org

Here’s a Grist profile.
http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2006/03/31/wiltenburg/

By: crzwdjk

crzwdjk — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:28:27 +0000

LA is definitely improving a lot, and the 1 million trees thing is pretty cool. Especially since not one of those million trees will be a palm. Maybe we can finally have some shade on the streets, and make it easier to walk in the hot summer sun. Oh yeah, and if you want street life and the like, go to places like Koreatown or East LA. The better off parts of LA are too busy hiding from those “undesirables” to pay any attention to their own streets.

By: pjm

pjm — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:59:13 +0000

I think the water issue may be the biggest one for LA (though of course energy consumption has the greatest worldwide impact.) The thing that really interests me about the area, though, is the wildfire/mudslide cycle that John McPhee wrote about in “The Control of Nature.” The mountains around the city are the fastest-rising mountain range in the world, with a very steep angle of repose, so when a wildfire burns off the vegetation (common even without people) they’re extraordinarily prone to mudslides (again, common even without people.)

By: Daniel Haran

Daniel Haran — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:02:42 +0000

Worldchanging had an article nearly two years ago about planting trees in LA to reduce its urban heat island effect:
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/000587.html

They quote $273 million saved annually for planting 10 million trees; I guess 1 million is a goal politicians could envision.

By: cassidy

cassidy — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 04:16:28 +0000

Bringing back the LA River? Oh no! That’d mean the end of all the great graffiti down there (including this one by Saber– the only graffiti I know of that’s visible from space!

Oh, and yeah, Jane Jacobs totally rocks.

By: AJ Pikul

AJ Pikul — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 23:59:30 +0000

The areas that receive the harshest criticism in terms of anything always seem to have the biggest rebound. It’s like some sort of elastic. I’m sure people have studied it. Anyway, look at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6337385.stm . Similar ilk.