SoCal > Departures > Land of Sunshine > Green Justice > The Baldwin Hills, Black L.A. and Green Justice Green Justice The Baldwin Hills, Black L.A. and Green Justice by Robert Garcia The Baldwin Hills is an epicenter of excellence in African American culture across the United States, along with Sugar Hill in Harlem and, now, the White House. Even so, black folks in Baldwin [...]

PREVENTION FOR A HEALTHIER CALIFORNIA Joint Oversight Hearing of the Assembly and Senate Committees on Health Agenda Tuesday, March 6, 2012 1:30 p.m. California State Capitol, Room 4202 I.       Welcome and Opening Remarks  Assemblymember Bill Monning, Chair, Assembly Committee on Health  Senator Ed Hernandez, O.D., Chair, Senate Committee on Health II.      An Overview: Prevention for [...]

Soccer players warm up in the Baldwin Hills park. See The City Project’s policy report How to Keep Baldwin Hills Clean and Green for Generations to Come and the agreement to better protect human health and the environment in the Baldwin Hills.

Environmental Grantmakers Association State of the States 2012 The Perils of Shrinking Government: New Challenges for Our Environment Across the nation, state and local governments are accelerating the pace of deregulation and privatization of public services, resources and more. These “solutions” are endangering common assets and the public trust, and are putting at risk the [...]

SoCal > Departures > Land of Sunshine > Green Justice > L.A. State Historic Park: A Deserted Railroad Yard is Transformed Yet Unfinished SHARE by Robert Garcia on February 23, 2012 11:38 AM “On a deserted railroad yard north of Chinatown, one of Los Angeles’ most powerful and tenacious real estate developers, Ed Roski, Jr., met his match,” reported Jesus Sanchez in a front page article in [...]

San Francisco’s elementary school students are not getting enough physical education, according to UC San Francisco researchers who spent several months last year observing gym classes at 28 San Francisco Unified School District campuses. The researchers, led by Dr. Kristine Madsen, an assistant professor of pediatrics, found fifth-graders at some elementary schools were getting as [...]

Click here to see the High Line slide show and photo gallery by Nic Garcia for The City Project. The park has created a “thriving sense of community that suggests . . . that the very words High Line will eventually become international shorthand for a certain mode of urban reinvention. ‘It’s going to become [...]

The South Central Los Angeles Wetlands Park is funded in part through the settlement agreement resolving the Clean Water Justice action to improve the City of Los Angeles sewer system city wide. The action resulted in a $2 billion settlement agreement and court order in 2004. This work in and out of court is a best practice example [...]

Social science research demonstrates how important physical activity is for the full development of the person. For example, recent studies on the impact of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 on progress in the work place and human health found that equal access to sports makes a long-term difference in a person’s life. [...]

The River, one of the most environmentally degraded in the world, runs 52 miles through some of the most underserved communities in the region. Community revitalization along the River that puts children and families first can serve as a best practice example for community redevelopment throughout the country. Click here to learn more about ways [...]