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LA City Council Members Call for Fracking Moratorium
Fracking Daily Kos / By Dan Bacher The measure would outlaw fracking by changing the city’s zoning laws. Gas is burned off in a flare at a Vintage Production facility in Shafter, California....
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Gunman Kills One and Injures Others at LAX Airport in Los Angeles
AlterNet / Investigations The Guardian / By Rory Carroll Man reported to be in custody after exchange of fire with armed officers and wounding of at least one TSA employee. Photo Credit:...
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These motion-activated streetlights could cut L.A.’s energy use by 40 percent...
By Holly Richmond Tvilight At night, brightly lit office buildings are depressing — you know that either people are working too hard, or the building is wasting energy. Dutch mechanical engineer...
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Hello! Fraud-Ridden Banks are Not Our Only Option
Web of Debt blog / By Ellen Brown North Dakota has a public bank. Why not your state or city? The headquarters of JPMorgan Chase & Co in New York City. US banking giant JPMorgan Chase Friday...
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California Gov. Jerry Brown Faces Protests Over Fracking as Epic Drought Looms
Environment AlterNet / By Tara Lohan CA’s Democratic Party is split over a toothless regulation bill, and water-intensive drilling. Photo Credit: Randy Miramontez/Shutterstock March 11, 2014 |...
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These frackers have the nerve to call L.A. leaders “appallingly irresponsible”
Grist By John Upton Shutterstock Nobody wants to be called “appallingly irresponsible,” but it’s especially galling when the insult comes from the fracking industry. Members of Los Angeles City...
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LA’s Little Tokyo Aims to Become the Country’s First ‘Cultural Ecodistrict’
The Huffington Post F. Kaid Benfield Become a fanSpecial Counsel for Urban Solutions, Natural Resources Defense Council Posted: 04/07/2014 9:10 am EDT Updated: 04/07/2014 9:59 am EDT Co-authored by...
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L. A. Like Other Cities Is Being Swindled by Wall Street
News & Politics AlterNet / By David Sirota Bankrupt cities spend more on financial fees than on basic services. Photo Credit: Konstantin Sutyagin/Shutterstock.com May 13, 2014 | When a city...
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LOS ANGELES KNEE-HIGH IN SPILLED CRUDE OIL
Massive Pipeline Rupture Coats Streets Of Los Angeles In ‘Knee-High’ Crude Oil By Joanna M. Foster May 15, 2014 at 9:38 am Updated: May 15, 2014 at 4:30 pm CREDIT: A.P. Images Residents in Atwater...
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Truthdigger of the Week: JoAnn Wypijewski
Truthdigger of the Week Photo by Phil Roeder (CC BY-SA 2.0) By Alexander Reed Kelly How far might those seeking to replace public schools with privately run institutions go to realize their dreams of...
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Activists Working to Transform LA County Sheriffs Hope Changes Will Apply for...
TRUTHOUT Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca. (Photo: David Markland / L.A. Metblogs) “To be an inmate in the Los Angeles County jails is to fear deputy attacks. In the past year, deputies...
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President Obama Set To Create New National Monument In Southern California
by Katie Valentine CLIMATE PROGRESS A stream in the San Gabriel Mountains CREDIT: shutterstock Southern California will soon be home to the newest national monument in the country. On Friday,...
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Fracking Threatens Millions of Californians
ANASTASIA PANTSIOS OF ECOWATCH ON BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Reprinted with permission from EcoWatch (Photo: EcoWatch)A new report shows that 5.4 million Californians—more than 14 percent of its 38.3...
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Los Angeles Imports Nearly 85 Percent of Its Water – Can It Change That by...
YES MAGAZINE BY MADELINE OSTRANDER Walk the glaring streets of Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley on a sun-soaked afternoon in a drought year, the dry, brush-covered mountains rising behind you, and it...
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The incredible shrinking megacity: How Los Angeles engineered a housing crisis
SALON.COM Los Angeles used to be the promised land for America’s homeowners. Now it’s tearing at the seams Henry GrabarShutterstock) Los Angeles is at capacity. The Los Angeles-Santa Ana-Long Beach...
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L.A.’s New City Plan Will Make You Want To Move There
by Ari Phillips CLIMATE PROGRESS Palm trees at the Magic Hour in Los Angeles, C.A. CREDIT: flickr/ Chris Goldberg Los Angeles is a city of a million intersections, and a new sustainability plan...
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Who controls California’s tap? Here’s what I learned from a fat book
Black.Dots. By Nathanael Johnson GRIST Like lots of people in drought-desiccated California, I have been hustling to educate myself about the power dynamics of water in the state. And so I read this...
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SEE LivingHomes @ Dwell on Design, May 29-31
LivingHomes <LivingHomes@mail.vresp.com> 12:19 PM (4 hours ago) May, 2015 LivingHomes @ Dwell on Design, May 29-31 First LivingHome in San Diego! Come see the LivingHomes C6 at Dwell on Design,...
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SUNSHINE AND NOIR
A new volume of photographs captures the romance, grit, and many contradictions of Los Angeles. Ed Ruscha METROPOLIS MAGAZINE Mitch Dobrowner Big Cloud 2011 Both Sides of Sunset: Photographing Los...
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IS THE LOS ANGELES WATER SUPPLY BEING POISONED?
Environment California has investigated more than 2,000 injection wells for possible risks to public safety, clean water and natural resources, but Governor Brown hasn’t released the findings. Center...
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