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Hollywood producers looking for a hit with green ways
By Ashley Phillips
Green Right Now
Hollywood’s feature films are greening up their productions thanks to the Producers Guild of America (PGA) Green Committee. Founded in 2008, the committee is reaching out to productions worldwide, reducing their carbon footprint and leading the industry in the fight against climate change. They are replanting trees, keeping Styrofoam out of their catering services, and recycling costumes, paints, props and fabrics.
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Tags: · green living, green practices, Habitat for Humanity, LEED houses, less consumption, Los Angeles, Plastic bottles, Producers Guild of America Green Committee, sustainability
Utah wind farm to help light up LA
November 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
Officials gathered in a tiny corner of Utah yesterday to celebrate a new age of energy production that will carry the power of the wind to where it is needed most, in this case, to population centers in California.
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The occasion was the opening of the “Milford Wind Corridor Project,” which is expected to generate enough electricity to power about 45,000 Southern California homes.
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Tags: · Burbank, Bureau of Land Management, First Wind, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Departmet of Water and Power, Milford Wind Corridor Project, Pasadena, Southern California Public Power Authority, Utah
Upcoming Los Angeles green events
September 14th, 2009 · No Comments
Eco-LA is “Taking It All Off For… ART/3”
The Eco-LogicalART Gallery, 4829 W. Blvd, LA, CA, 90019 (just east of La Brea)
Oct. 10- Nov. 8, 2009. Curtain drop at 7 p.m.; Opening 6-10 p.m.
Peter Schulberg and the nonprofit Eco-LogicalART Gallery announced that “Taking It All Off For ART/3” will premiere Oct. 10th, 2009 at 7 p.m. The exhibit features a “live” curtain drop to reveal a 14-foot by 48-foot art piece painted on a recycled billboard and installed directly over the Eco-LA Gallery. Now called “Second Saturday at Eco-LA” once installed, the art over the gallery will be seen 35,000 times daily and over 1 million times by months end.
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Tags: · aquarium, festivals, Green Events, Los Angeles
The neighborhood buzz: Killing the front yard
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
I’m going to go out on a limb here and predict that it will become increasingly fashionable, practical and accepted to do away with your perfectly coiffed green velvet, water-sucking, chemically dependent lawn…and replace it with…a vegetable garden!
I’m not saying the neighbors will rush into your newly composted, tomato and potato plot with tambourines or anything, just that they might not file a homeowner’s association complaint.
There are just too many trendsetters in this arena for the concept of literally laying down roots to not take hold.
Remember the Eat the View campaign? A modest kitchen gardener in Maine and his like-minded buddies pushed through a petition with some 100,000 signers convincing the Obamas to convert some turf to veggie gardening at the White House. The presidential garden, although still surrounded by fields of grass, has been warmly watched by veggie gardeners and struck just the right note in this year of economic hardship.
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Tags: · Attack on the Front Lawn, BarbaraKesslerBlog, Creations Landscape Design, Eat the View, Edible Lawns, Fritz Haeg, grass, Irvine, Los Angeles, natives, Obama vegetable garden, ornamental grasses, vegetable gardens, Water Conservation, White House garden
LA’s Pink Cloud Events hosts green salon to help couples go eco at the altar
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
You’re thinking you should have a green wedding, go local with the food, maybe order some sustainable, um, items….
Truth is, you’re not really sure what a green wedding entails. Local greens for the rehearsal dinner? Elephant poop name plates? Pistachio bridesmaid’s dresses. Argh!
 You can go as far as you want, or you can go all out, says green guru Sarah Shewey, founder of Pink Cloud Events, a full-service, LA-based events company that specializes in green affairs.
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Tags: · green weddings, Large Marge Sustainables, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, Paperless Post, Pink Cloud Events, sustainable food, The Green Life Company, wedding salon
Report says LA County leads California in green businesses
From Green Right Now Reports
 Los Angeles County has more businesses than any other county in California that stand to benefit from the state’s leadership on climate change, according to a first-of-its-kind map of green businesses in California released today. The map was released in conjunction with an Environmental Defense Fund report outlining how the Los Angeles area can leverage its environmental leadership to create economic opportunities.
The California Green Economy map features more than 2,200 businesses statewide in four categories — energy generation, energy efficiency, green building and transportation — that are likely to grow as California transitions to a low-carbon economy.
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Tags: · Environmental Defense Fund, Los Angeles
Watt Plaza awarded Gold LEED status
Photo: Business Wire
Watt Plaza, a twin 23-story office tower complex encompassing 900,000 square feet in the heart of Century City, has been awarded Gold LEED Existing Buildings Operations and Maintenance (EB O&M) certification by the U.S. Green Building Council, making it the first office building in Los Angeles to achieve this distinction in this category.
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Tags: · Century City, Los Angeles, Watt Plaza
Feds give $5 million to boost California agriculture air quality
From Green Right Now Reports
The USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service says it will add to California’s air quality resources. With the grant, California has received a total of $20.9 million from NRCS to help farmers and ranchers reduce air quality emissions from off-road mobile or stationary agricultural sources.
The primary goal of this new portion of the Environmental Quality Incentives Program is to help farmers and ranchers attain the standards set by the National Ambient Air Quality Standards. Producers in the 36 California counties that are currently not in compliance with one or more of these standards are eligible for the program.
 “These funds should help California producers comply with local and state regulations,” Dave White, chief of the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, said in a statement. “We believe agriculture can be on the leading edge of setting a cleaner, greener example for protecting the air we all breathe. We’re doing what we can to help in that pursuit — technically and financially.”
White was named chief of NRCS in March. With approximately 12,000 employees and an annual budget in excess of $3 billion, NRCS is the nation’s leading agency in conserving natural resources on private lands.
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Tags: · Alameda, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Contra Costa, Dave White, El Dorado, Fresno, Imperial, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Los Angeles, Madera, Marin, Mariposa, Merced, Mono, Napa, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Nevada, Orange, Placer, Riverside, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Joaquin, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, Sonoma, Stanislaus, Sutter, Tulare, Tuolumne, Ventura, Yolo
Montage Beverly Hills attains LEED gold status
April 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment
From Green Right Now Reports
 Montage Beverly Hills, the 201-room luxury hotel that opened November 2008 in Beverly Hills, has earned Gold certification under the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) LEED for New Construction rating system.
This is the first certified ultra-luxury hotel in Southern California for LEED for New Construction and one of only four Gold certified hotels worldwide designated by this third-party benchmarking system designed to encourage the design, the construction and the operations of more sustainable buildings. Montage Beverly Hills is also the first newly constructed mixed-use hotel and residential project to be LEED certified as a single development, denoting it as a high performance building that is a responsible, efficient and healthy place to live and work.
“We’re gratified to have created and be operating Southern California’s first hotel and residential project to obtain Gold level certification,” Alan J. Fuerstman, founder and CEO of Montage Hotels & Resorts, said in a statement.
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Tags: · Alan J. Fuerstman, LEED for New Construction, Los Angeles, Montage Beverly Hills, Montage Hotels & Resorts
Tesla planning London dealership
From Green Right Now Reports
Tesla Motors announced it will opening a sales and service center in London, the first of three European stores that the electric vehicle manufacturer plans to launch this year.
The London facility will open this spring at 49-51 Cheval Place in the Knightsbridge district.
Tesla says it is scouting sites in Munich and Monaco. The company, based in San Carlos, Calif., plans to delivering cars to European customers beginning in late
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Tags: · London, Los Angeles, Menlo Park, Tesla
Green Apple Festivals will kick off Earth Day in major U.S. cities
By Sommer Saadi
Green Right Now
Do not underestimate the excitement of Earth Day. Trust us. There is a lot to look forward to this year – the Green Apple Festival and Earth Day Network are making sure of it.
The two organizations have teamed up to put together the largest Earth Day festival in America. The event will take place April 17 to 19 (the weekend before the official Earth Day on April 22) and features simultaneous service events in ten major cities across the nation including New York, Boston, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Austin, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle.
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Tags: · 1 House at a Time, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Earth Day Network, Green Apple Festivals, International Bird Rescue Research Center, Los Angeles, Lower East Side Ecology Center, New York City, Planet Green, Seattle, Washington
US cities ranked on wasteful ways
By Harriet Blake
Learning not to waste – whether it’s food, electricity or water – is not only good in these economic times, but even more important, it’s beneficial for the environment.
 The Nalgene Least Wasteful City Study, released this week, ranks the country’s 25 largest metropolitan areas on wasteful behavior. San Francisco led the group with the least wasteful habits, while Atlanta ranked at the bottom.
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Tags: · Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Indianapolis, Least Wasteful City Study, Los Angeles, Nalgene, New York, Portland, Recycle & Reuse, San Francisco, Seattle, St. Louis
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