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Energy Efficiency and Conservation

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2012

    Studio City Woman Says Neighbor's Energy-Efficient Windows Are Melting Her Prius

    CBS LAThe dark side of green living.​Thank you, CBS LA, for getting to the bottom of this one. Never has the brave new world of eco-friendly consumerism reached a conundrum so ridiculous: Heather Patron, a resident of notoriously crunchy Studio City, tells the station that her Prius is melt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2010

    L.A. Tops List Of American Cities With The Most Green Buildings

    mccarthycook.comThe Trident Center in West L.A.​Los Angeles topped the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's list of major American cities with the most energy efficient buildings, the EPA announced Tuesday. This marks the second year in a row L.A. was tops in green buildings. L.A. has the l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2010

    Mayor Villaraigosa Proposes $2.50 Per Month Water-And-Power Rate Hike

    ​As expected, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Monday proposed a $2.50 per month rate hike for customers of the city's Department of Water and Power as part of a "carbon surcharge" that would have the DWP buy solar power and retrofit L.A. businesses and homes with energy efficient ele ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2009

    L.A. Loses Out on Federal Money for Water and Power Improvements

    DWP's downtown headquarters​Only two cities in L.A. County will receive a portion of the White House's $3.4 billion stimulus funding for energy efficiency programs. Los Angeles is not one of them. Burbank and Glendale will each get $20 million in federal funding to help them develop "smart grid" p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2009

    Hustler After Dark: Flynt Building to Turn Off Lights Saturday

    Rome's Colosseum. Sydney's Opera House. San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. And now Beverly Hills' Flynt Publications Building. What these august monuments to the human spirit have in common is that, along with the Las Vegas Strip, they will all turn off their lights tomorrow during Earth Hour. Thos ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2009

    How Energy Conscious is Los Angeles? Not Very!

    Here is a mind-boggling conflict that seems strangely at odds to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power's effort to creat a green, energy-conscious city. On the one hand, the DWP is pushing homeowners to go green -- even suggesting that homeowners use low wattage bulbs instead of incandescent ... More >>

  • News

    January 17, 2008

    Lords of Your Thermostat?

    California Energy Commission caught in scalding water

  • Calendar

    January 10, 2008

    Living Like Ed

    California Energy Commission caught in scalding water

  • News

    October 11, 2007

    Brownout Is the New Black

    L.A.’s bid to copy Sydney feels like a humiliating replay of Millennium Eve

  • Stage

    May 24, 2007

    Battle of the Bulb

    Is it lights out for the chandelier?

  • News

    September 14, 2006

    LEEDing the Pack

    Why our green standards might not be green enough

  • Columns

    November 24, 2005

    Think Globally, Act Santa Monically

    One city’s attempt to cool down global warming

  • News

    September 22, 2005

    Better Mileage On Ice

    Why refrigerators are more efficient than cars

  • News

    August 4, 2005

    Bush’s Energy Disaster

    Time to park the SUVs in the White House garage

  • News

    March 3, 2005

    Leaving Bush Behind

    Companies make peace with Kyoto Protocol

  • News

    January 20, 2005

    Frame This!

    Will George Lakoff’s linguistic ideas help Democrats regain the White House . . . or are they just the progressive flip side to conservative Luntzspeak?

  • News

    March 4, 2004

    Lord of the Race

    Serving on two powerful air-quality boards., L.A. Marathon founder William Burke sets a fast pace. But it just might be when he crosses the finish line, the public — and clean air — are the big losers.

  • News

    August 7, 2003

    Driving Mr. Davis

    Idea for new gas tax dropped to save the governor grief during recall campaign

  • Columns

    July 31, 2003

    What Would Satan Drive?

    Idea for new gas tax dropped to save the governor grief during recall campaign

  • News

    July 11, 2002

    Power Crisis II

    New problems could short out Dave Freeman and his DWP legacy

  • News

    May 31, 2001

    Dressed To Chill

    The low-power wardrobe

  • News

    February 22, 2001

    Master of Disaster

    How Pete Wilson’s energy chief short-circuited the California grid

  • News

    February 22, 2001

    Power Ranger

    DWP chief plans to hitch horses, 'pull this wagon out'

  • News

    February 22, 2001

    Watt Now, Jerry?

    The 'Era of Limits' returns

  • News

    February 1, 2001

    Sacramento Scramble

    State government struggles to undo its deregulation debacle

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