SoCal > Departures > Land of Sunshine > Green Justice> Parque Madrid Río, Don Quixote y Sancho Panza Puente de Segovia en el río Manzanares Click here to read this column in English. Justicia Verde El Parque Madrid Río, Don Quijote y Sancho Panza por Robert García Madrid ha creado el Parque Madrid Río, al [...]

The community celebrated the grand opening of the North Atwater Creek Restoration and Park Expansion project on April 12, 2012. The $4-million project regraded an 800-foot narrow open channel, reshaped it, and removed invasive plant species to improve water flow. Structural stormwater best management practices including a trash removal device and native vegetation improve water [...]

The City Project and diverse allies have submitted a letter to the California Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Water in support of Senate Bill 1201, which promotes open and equitable public access to the Los Angeles River for recreation and education. The bill is being heard in Committee today. We support the bill’s proposal [...]

SoCal > Departures > Land of Sunshine > Green Justice > A Tale of Two, Three, Four, or Five Rivers Green Justice A Tale of Two, Three, Four, or Five Rivers by Robert Garcia Your intrepid reporter is on assignment this week covering the greening of the Manzanares River in Madrid, Spain. Cities around the [...]

SoCal > Departures > Land of Sunshine > Green Justice > The Grass Roots Fight for Clean Water and Green Justice Share Green Justice The Grass Roots Fight for Clean Water and Green Justice by Robert Garcia on March 22, 2012 2:04 PM The City of Los Angeles is complying with the Clean Water Act [...]

Mark Williams writes: We share sad news with broken hearts and great sorrow that Reverend Eugene Williams III passed on Friday, March 16, 2012. We ask that no one send flowers. Our family needs your prayers and your patience more, while we mourn our father, our brother, our uncle, our grandfather, our friend, and our [...]

Fondos para este proyecto han sido provenidos en conexión con el acuerdo en forzamiento del Clean Water Act en Baldwin Hills y South Central Los Angeles.

Funding for this park project was part of the Clean Water Justice settlement in the Baldwin Hills and South Central Los Angeles.

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 [...]