Remove Group Remove Los Angeles Remove Neighborhood Remove Pollution
article thumbnail

California ARB awarding $1.6 million to LA for low-income EV carsharing pilot program

Green Car Congress

million to the City of Los Angeles to set up a pilot carsharing program for electric vehicles in disadvantaged communities. The grant will fulfill a key mandate of SB 1275, the Charge Ahead California Initiative, enacted last year to make clean transportation more widely available, particularly in low and moderate-income neighborhoods.

article thumbnail

South Bay Bicycle Coalition Scores $240,000 Grant! Huge Grassroots Victory for Brand New Bike Group

Creative Greenius

Your Greenius got great news from downtown Los Angeles on Friday when my pal, Todd Diapola called me from Kenny Hahn Hall of Administration to report he and the other representatives of the South Bay Bicycle Coalition, of which I am a proud founding member, had just been told our SBBC was getting the big, fat $240,000 grant we had applied for.

Grant 350
article thumbnail

How to make heavy-duty electric trucks work in practice

Charged EVs

While semi drivers can be a conservative group, those willing to become the first EV drivers in their fleets soon came to appreciate some side benefits of electric trucks. Moreover, to expand beyond depot charging—the focus of the LIGHTS project—Volvo Group announced in mid-November that it would partner with the Pilot Group.

Volvo 132
article thumbnail

The View From Here Today

Creative Greenius

Our neighborhood is called the “Hollywood Riviera&# because of its beautiful hillside homes with idyllic ocean views framed by palm trees. We’re also only 12 miles from the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach – the two largest stationary sources off air pollution and all their related greenhouse gases in L.A.

article thumbnail

Inside The Green Task Force

Creative Greenius

And the work they’re doing brings California’s leading edge fight against global warming right into my neighborhood and into my home. Colleen, for instance, serves the communities of Greater Los Angeles with an emphasis in reducing toxic air pollution from the transportation sector. The Green L.A.

Green 150
article thumbnail

The Curious Case of Buying A New State Senator From The South Bay

Creative Greenius

But this election season in my own South Bay of Los Angeles just keeps getting curious and curiouser – and it’s impossible for your friendly neighborhood Greenius not to note and comment on these curiosities. All that money from a group with such a cool Star Wars like name made me even more curious.

Chevron 290