Green Los Angeles

Welcome to Green Los Angeles.
Through our blog, bulletins and friends network, we plan to help you connect to people and projects involved with making the Los Angeles metropolitan area green, liveable, and sustainable. If you've ever gazed at the city and its surrounding mountains on a clear, windswept day, you know the potential is great. And if you've been stuck in a car on the 405 on a smoggy day, you know the downside. We have to support mass-transit projects, provide bike paths and walkways, increase the green space and public space, clean up the L.A. River and Santa Monica Bay, and help people get out of their cars and connect with each other. This is a beautiful place with a remarkable history and endless creativity. Let's work together to make things better.
Here is one writer's vision of a future Los Angeles:
It is the Year 2025:
"The maglev monorail train passed above Jaco and Bolo with a smooth whoosh, gliding along at more than 200kph on flexi-pylons that lifted it high above the Ted Nelson freeway. It headed south towards the vast sprawl of Los Angeles County, twenty million people living in a welter of ethnic barrios and urban islands. It had been home to Korean malls, British pubs, Farsi newspapers, Spanish-language TV, and its own global economy for decades now, but had come together as a community only after radical steps to improve L.A.’s mass transportation, expand its public space, introduce green belts, and implement smog-less alternative energy on a grand scale....The L.A. area had improved in other ways as well. Gun control had reduced murders, and the legalization of drugs and moral crimes had crippled mafias and reduced public spending. Major investments in job training, education, and youth recreation had reduced the gang population to a tenth of its former size. It hadn’t been easy, or cheap, but the benefits were tangible. The megalopolis was thriving, the skies were blue, and a river ran through L.A. these days -- the Los Angeles River, cleaned up and allowed to run free, the old concrete banks replaced by long stretches of riverine parkland full of sycamores and native brush."
-- The Big God Network (A Near-Future Sci-Fi Novel)