Let's make our voices heard:
Just a few areas, that many of you know a lot about:
Affordable/ecological housing (retrofitting for ecovillages, cohousing,
shared housing, other intentional communities), public transit
(including e.g., frequent electric shuttles in foothill communities
connecting residents to local shopping and other public transit), major
increased bicycle infrastructure, food security, permaculture,
neighborhood based waste to resource centers, composting toilets/living
machines and other decentralized water conservation measures, community
based renewable energy strategies, neighborhood sustainable living
groups, incentive funds to neighborhood councils and/or schools and/or
colleges for sponsoring green demonstrations (e.g., ecovillage
retrofits in local neighborhoods), bicycle infrastructure, public
service announcements targeting cultural change (rather than just
"switching"), low interest community loan funds for neighborhood
greening activities perhaps controlled by Neighborhood Councils with
non-council oversight committees, etc, etc.
Although the request is specifically about Energy Efficiency and
Conservation, I believe all of the above is connected, or you can make
it so...
Lois from LAEV
PLEASE GO DIRECTLY TO THE SITES LISTED BELOW. WE ARE ONLY FORWARDING
THIS BY REQUEST BUT DO NOT HAVE FURTHER INFORMATION.
Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the City
of Los Angeles has been allocated $37,017,900 as part of the Energy
Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) to develop and
implement projects to improve energy efficiency and reduce energy use
and fossil fuel emissions. The City of Los Angeles would like your
input on how this money should be used and how possible projects affect
you. Please click here to take the public survey:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=byRevBMA0e_2f_2f_2fKP0dWbHlg_3d_3d