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Brett Rohring

Los Angeles Proposes Banning GMOs - 0 views

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  • Los Angeles is considering banning the cultivation and sale of genetically modified organisms. If it does, the second-largest U.S. city would become the country's largest GMO-free zone.
  • Two LA city councilmen on Friday introduced a motion that would ban the growth, sale and distribution of genetically engineered seeds and plants.
  • The motion would not affect the sale of food containing genetically modified ingredients.
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  • O'Farrell said he thinks the worldwide decline of honeybees is the "canary in the coal mine" for GMOs. U.S. World commercial beehives declined 40 to 50 percent in 2012, with the suspicions of some beekeepers and researchers falling on powerful new pesticides incorporated into plants themselves. In California, almond agriculture, which depends on bees, has been hit especially hard. About 80 percent of the nation's almonds are produced in central California.
  • The LA motion comes weeks before Washington state will vote on ballot initiative 522, which calls for labeling food products that contain genetically modified ingredients. Last November, Californians narrowly defeated Proposition 37, which would have made California the first state to require that genetically modified food be labeled.
  • The U.S. has no requirement to label genetically modified food.
Adriana Trujillo

Largest NetZero plus commercial retrofit in the US opens in Los Angeles | Inhabitat - G... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 01 Jul 16
     
    The Net Zero Plus Electric Training Institute has opened in Los Angeles. The facility, considered the largest retrofit net-zero project in the US, will serve as a training facility and should produce more energy than it uses.
Del Birmingham

Fur ban: Los Angeles may become largest city yet to ban fur clothing - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 19 Sep 18
     
    This city known for its Hollywood glamour is set to become the latest to say fur doesn't fly. Without dissent, Los Angeles put itself on track to become the largest U.S. city to ban the sale of fur clothing and accessories after a unanimous vote of the city council Tuesday.
Del Birmingham

Newhall Ranch is a shot at housing sustainability | The Sacramento Bee - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 03 Aug 17
     
    Los Angeles County approves the start of the Newhall Ranch master-planned community north of the city of Los Angeles. The state has never seen a community quite like Newhall Ranch, proposed by California developer FivePoint. It will be a carbon-neutral development in the Santa Clarita Valley that tackles such critical challenges as climate change, water conservation, and the dire housing shortage that is severely threatening our economic competitiveness.
Adriana Trujillo

New Disney Facility in Santa Clarita Faces Hurdles - The Hollywood Reporter - 0 views

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shared by Adriana Trujillo on 28 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • removal of 158 oak trees
  • Planning and the Environment
  • We’re considering our options.”
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  • The Ranch, which will take up 58 acres of Golden Oak Ranch
  • an 890-acre piece of land owned by Disney that already hosts about 300 days of production each year.
  • six soundstage buildings
  • 2,854 people and contribute $533 million in annual economic activity throughout Los Angeles County.
  • Full build-out, though, could take years, even after the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved the project during a vote Tuesday. Still ahead are meetings with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board
  • SCOPE and other environmental groups have been addressed
  • plant 1,600 new oak trees in the area, and argues that 637 acres of Golden Oak Ranch will remain a natural backdrop area. Disney also touted several “green design features” for reducing energy consumption, traffic and storm-water runoff.
  • Plambeck, though, isn't satisfied,
  • "to a voluntary project condition that places a conservation easement over the remaining undeveloped portions of the Golden Oak Ranch as a condition precedent to any permit issuance."
  • not develop 637 acres,
  • but if that's the case, why won't they put it into a conservation easement to assure everybody of their intentions?"
  • The Sierra Club, for example, has taken a neutral position on the
  • SCOPE
  • Santa Clarita Organization
  • Adriana Trujillo on 28 Aug 13
     
    A local environmental group slams the plan for the just-approved 58-acre facility, which will eventually employ 2,800 people but faces months of hearings before breaking ground
Del Birmingham

LA Approves Franchise Zones to Drive Zero Waste Plan · Environmental Leader ·... - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 13 Oct 16
     
    As part of its zero waste plan, the city of Los Angeles has approved a $3.5 billion waste hauling contract that will divide the California city into 11 commercial waste franchise zones served by seven haulers, Waste360 reports.
Adriana Trujillo

FivePoint Says Plan Will Push Forward $12.7 Billion Development - Bloomberg - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 17 Nov 16
     
    Developer FivePoint has a new plan to reduce carbon emissions at its proposed $12.7 billion master-planned community in California's Los Angeles County after a court blocked the project on environmental grounds. The company hopes to begin construction in 2018 and will implement zero-net-energy construction when it builds the 21,500 homes, each of which will have a charging station for electric vehicle.
Adriana Trujillo

United Flights from LA to San Francisco Now Use Biofuel, Create 60% Less Emissions | Su... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 24 Mar 16
     
    Regularly scheduled United Airlines flights between Los Angeles and San Francisco will be fueled by a blend of 30 percent biofuel and 70 percent traditional fuel, reducing an estimated 60 percent of greenhouse gas emissions compared with regular fuel. United says it is "the first U.S. airline to begin use of commercial-scale volumes of sustainable aviation biofuel for regularly scheduled flights."
Adriana Trujillo

Hyundai, Honda Roll Out Fuel Cells Vehicles · Environmental Management & Ener... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 05 Dec 13
     
    Hyundai and Honda both made fuel cell vehicle news at the Los Angeles Auto Show this week. Hyundai says it plans to offer its next-generation Tucson Fuel Cell vehicle for the US market for $499 per month for a 36-month term, with $2,999 down. This includes unlimited free hydrogen refueling and At Your Service Valet Maintenance at no extra cost. Availability will begin in spring 2014 at several Southern California Hyundai dealers.
Adriana Trujillo

Largest US Landfill Closes · Environmental Management & Energy News · Environ... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 07 Nov 13
     
    The largest landfill in the US shut it gates forever on 10/31/13. After 56 years of operation, the Puente Hills Landfill in southeastern Los Angeles County has collected around 130 million tons of waste since 1957 and is 40 stories high in some places, according to the San Gabriel Valley Tribune.
Adriana Trujillo

LA Has Found a Creative, Low-Cost Way to Conserve 300M Gallons of Water a Year | Sustai... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 18 Aug 15
     
    In a creative attempt to protect California's waning water supply, Los Angeles released 20,000 "shade balls" into the LA Reservoir. According to researchers, shade balls could reduce surface evaporation by 85 to 90 percent, protect water quality by preventing chemical reactions triggered by sunlight, deter birds and other wildlife, and protect the water from rain and wind-blown dust. 
Del Birmingham

Who's Behind the 96 Million 'Shade Balls' That Just Rolled Into L.A.'s Reservoirs? - Bl... - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 14 Aug 15
     
    The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has now dumped 96 million balls into local reservoirs to reduce evaporation and block sunlight from encouraging algae growth and toxic chemical reactions. The balls are coated with a chemical that blocks ultraviolet light and helps the spheres last as long as 25 years.
Del Birmingham

Deforestation-linked palm oil still finding its way into top consumer brands | News | E... - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 27 Sep 18
     
    A new report by Greenpeace finds that palm oil suppliers to the world's largest brands have cleared more than 1,300 square kilometres of rainforest - an area the size of the city of Los Angeles - since the end of 2015.
Adriana Trujillo

25 C40 Cities Commit to Become Carbon Neutral by 2050 | Sustainable Brands - 1 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 29 Nov 17
     
    At the COP23 conference in Bonn, Germany, mayors of 25 major cities from around the globe have signed a commitment to make their cities carbon-neutral by 2050. The list includes US cities Boston; Los Angeles; New York City; Philadelphia; Austin, Texas; and Portland, Ore.
Adriana Trujillo

LA's plan to go from smog and sprawl to green economic hub | GreenBiz - 1 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 08 Apr 15
     
    The California city is betting on new environmental targets and equitable economi development, along with new smart cities technology from vendors like Philips, as part of a first-of-its-kind sustainability framework.
Adriana Trujillo

New smog rule would throw counties out of compliance - Spreadsheets - Los Angeles Times - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 26 Nov 14
     
    The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to propose tightening limits on ozone, the lung-damaging ingredient in smog, to between 65 to 70 parts per billion. The current standard of 75 parts per billion has been in place since 2008.
Adriana Trujillo

Why Engineers Can't Stop Los Angeles' Enormous Methane Leak | Motherboard - 1 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 14 Jan 16
     
    The Southern California Gas Company is attempting to fix a methane leak at one of its energy facilities in Aliso Canyon, California, which is reportedly spewing 110,000 pounds of the gas into the air every hour. The Environmental Defense Fund has called it "one of the biggest leaks we've ever seen reported" and "absolutely uncontained."
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