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.

Follow the lively discussion about perceptions of race, crime and parks generated by our KCET column about Baldwin Hills at Hidden Los Angeles’s facebook page.

From 1980 to 2004, the percentage of young people who were obese tripled nationwide, rising to 18 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Here in Los Angeles County, officials report more than half the adult population is now overweight. And while obesity is a problem for Americans in all walks of life, it’s [...]

Civic leaders testified on Preventiion for a Healthier California at the Joint Oversight Hearing of the California Assembly and Senate Committees on Health on March 6, 20102. The City Project testified on physical activity to help students move more, eat well, stay healthy and do their best in school and in life, while promoting economic [...]

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 [...]