Sponsored by the SANTA MONICA MOUNTAINS CONSERVANCY
and presented by the MOUNTAINS RECREATION & CONSERVATION AUTHORITY
VISTA HERMOSA NATURAL PARK
100 N. Toluca Street
Los Angeles, CA. 90026
Our newest park is now open with a spectacular view of the Los Angeles skyline. Our naturalist staff is excited to bring you fun nature programs and activities, crafts and games. [...]

Chavez Ravine was a bucolic Latino community through the 1950s, until the City of Los Angeles forcibly evicted the residents with promises of affordable housing. Mrs. Aurora Archega, whose family had resided in Chavez Ravine for 36 years, refused to leave her home, and was carried out by the police, with all of her belongings, [...]

Jesus Sanchez is a great journalist and he is one of my heroes. It is a tragedy that he is leaving the L.A. Times.
We helped spearhead the successful effort to create what is now the Los Angeles State Historic Park at the Cornfield. Mr. Sanchez covered that story in an excellent front page article above [...]

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Photo by Nic Garcia.
Angels’ Park is the home of the nearby Korean Bell and Belfry of Friendship.
Dedicated on October 3, 1976, the bell was a gift from the people of the Republic of Korea in commemoration of the United States Bicentennial.

Photo by Nic Garcia.
With over 700 official cultural and historical landmarks in the City of [...]

KTLA’s Jaime Chambers interviews The City Project’s Robert Garcia. In the summer of 2007, the community demanded that the new Olympic size pool at Miguel Contreras high school be open after school and on weekends. A year later, city and school officials are telling the community to go jump in a lake. The pool will [...]

It is a sad commentary on the health of American youngsters that we are cheering a leveling off of childhood obesity rates. Far too many children and teenagers are still overweight.
Tens of millions of young people will be at risk of illness and death unless this country commits to reversing, not just stabilizing, the epidemic.
The [...]

Larry Meyers, Executive Secretary of the California Native American Heritage Commission, has sent the attached May 27, 2008, comments to the NOAA Office of General Counsel for Ocean Services re: Foothill Transportation Corridor South (FTC-S) Toll Road. Mr. Meyers comments as follows:
“Panhe is a place that continues to be an integral part of Juaneno culture [...]

SESSION
3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Inequalities in Resources and Environments for Active Living
Location: Classroom #119, Holy Cross Hall “1st” Level
Session Manager: Holly Cairns, SW Region Environmental Advocate, Pennsylvania
Department of the Environmental Protection
Moderator: Wendell Taylor, Associate Professor, University of Texas Health Science
Center at Houston
Presenters:
Building Healthy, Livable Communities for All: Green Access and Equity. Robert Garcia,
Executive Director and [...]