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Glendale’s Green Business Certification Program
The City of Glendale has a program to help your business GO GREEN! Glendale's Green Business Certification Program What is it? Glendale’s Green Business Program is part of a state-wide initiative that offers local businesses free help to “go green” and qualify for Green Business Certification. The City of Glendale Website has complete information. Interested, but have questions? Contact: GreenBusiness@Glendaleca.gov …
3 Local Clean Energy Projects Move Forward
First three LOCAL Clean Energy Projects move forward, including potentially largest Virtual Power Plant in the Nation This is what climate leadership looks like! At the City Council meeting on Tuesday, October 13, GWP presented an update on the city's first three local clean energy projects and asked Council to approve motions to allow each of the projects to proceed.…
STATEMENT OF SUPPORT for the PEOPLE OF ARTSAKH and ARMENIA
The Glendale Environmental Coalition stands in solidarity with the people of Artsakh and Armenia, who wish to dwell in their ancestral homeland and live in peace with the peoples around them. For more than a century, Azerbaijan’s fossil fuel resources and infrastructure have played a key role in large-scale wars, conflicts, and disputes. Armenians’ quest to protect their homelands and…
GWP Joins Transportation Electrification Partnership
Glendale Joins Transportation Electrification Partnership ADVANCING EV INFRASTRUCTURE & INCREASING EV INTEGRATION Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator recently announced that the local utilities for the cities of Burbank, Glendale, and Pasadena have joined the Transportation Electrification Partnership (TEP) as part of the Advisory Group. The Partnership now includes over 30 members who have committed to working individually and collectively to achieve an additional 25 percent reduction…
GEC Submits Scholl Biogas Project Draft EIR Comment Letter
GWP has proposed to build a 12 MW power-generating facility at the Scholl Canyon Landfill, to burn biogas produced by the landfill. In July, GWP released a Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) for this project, and accepted public comments on the report through September 30, 2020. GEC submitted a comment letter, which addresses the DEIR and highlights GEC’s top concerns…
Laundry to Landscape Greywater System Rebate Program
New Rebate Program for Glendale residents! GWP announces The Laundry to Landscape Greywater System program. Per their website, "The program offers a rebate of up to $500 (not to exceed the actual installed cost) for residential customers who install a Laundry to Landscape (L2L) greywater system that does not require a City permit. These systems are designed to reuse the…
GEC Submits Letter RE: City Manager Selection
GEC Letter to Glendale News Press RE: CITY MANAGER SELECTION PROCESS Concerned about the lack of tranparency in the city's process of selecting the next city manager, the Glendale Environmental Coalition's Steering Committee collectively sent a letter to the editor in the Glendale News Press calling on Glendale City Staff "to embrace a deliberative, innovative, and inclusive approach by hiring…
Clean Energy Report – GWP Commission – Outcomes
CLEAN ENERGY MOMENTUM! UPDATE: GWP Commission heard a report on the first three clean energy projects (see details below) and discussed additional clean energy strategies moving forward. The outcome is a motion that will be presented next to City Council. It went through some amending and landed as follows: Motion recommending to the City Council and the City Manager to…
“Climate change is the single biggest thing that humans have ever done on this planet. The one thing that needs to be bigger is our movement to stop it.”
—Bill McKibben
City Council Recap – October 20, 2020
CITY COUNCIL RECAP October 20, 2020, 6PM EXCERPTS (Eco-related Items only) Full Agenda & Meeting Video Staff Comments: Devine mentioned that the council received a text from Assembly member Quirk in support of the council’s decision regarding the Mylar balloons. Brotman acknowledged the clean energy program approvals and requested further exploration on five topics: Evaluating solar within the commercial sector, including…
Glendale City Council Watch – October 27, 2020
Glendale City Council Watch Oct 27,2020 @ 6 pm Meeting Agenda & Video Link ECO-RELATED ITEMS ON THE AGENDA 3b Report on the Green Business Certification Program 4c (Consent item) City of Glendale’s Response to 2019-2020 Report by the Los Angeles County Civil Grand Jury regarding Cutting Down on Food Waste -and recommendations that the city already has plans in…
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Join the Virtual Power Plant
A VIRTUAL POWER PLANT is a network of residential solar panels + high-capacity batteries that generates and stores excess clean energy to be accessed by Glendale’s power grid during peak energy needs.
This is a Clean Energy Solution for Glendale that not only helps our community avoid a polluting gas plant—but may also save you money!
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GEC SPOTLIGHT
GEC Is a local organization, and our main focus is on local environmental concerns. Attacks on Artsakh and Armenia are happening over 7,000 miles away, yet they are strongly felt in the environment of the City of Glendale. The GEC steering committee unanimously agreed to issue a statement in support of our Armenian friends and neighbors in Glendale and Armenians around the world.
We recognize that this incursion is yet another example of larger governments exerting control and dominance over indigenous people and their ancestral homeland. Azerbaijan’s fossil fuel resources supply funds for its militarization, so the world's reliance on oil and gas is another familiar factor.
With all this in mind, the GEC steering committee unanimously decided to issue a statement of support for the people of Artsakh and Armenia. We crafted a statement, published it on our website, and called in to read a portion of it during the October 27, 2020 Glendale City Council meeting. Members of the city council and the public appreciated our gesture.
For those wishing to learn more about Artsakh, USC's Institute of Armenian Studies has a summary webpage with links to in-depth resources, and the UCLA's Promise Institute is presenting an online program on Saturday, October 31.
armenian.usc.edu/focus-on-karabakh/
www.international.ucla.edu/armenia/event/14629
Nagorno Karabakh/Artsakh and the Palimpsests of Conflict, Violence, and Memory
www.international.ucla.edu
<b>The Armenian Studies Center of the UCLA Promise Armenian Institute</b> presents "Nagorno Karabakh/Artsakh and the Palimpsests of Conflict, Violence, and Memory," a one-day International Conference ...gec.eco/city-council-recap-october-20-2020/
City Council Recap - October 20, 2020 - Glendale Environmental Coalition
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CITY COUNCIL RECAP October 20, 2020, 6PM EXCERPTS (Eco-related Items only) Full Agenda & Meeting Video Staff Comments: Devine mentioned that the council received a text from Assembly member Quirk in s...GEC SPOTLIGHT
Since 2014 the Arroyo Verdugo Trail Committee has pentitioning Glendale conduct a feasibility study for the Glendale Bike Master Plan alongside the Verdugo Wash. In 2018 the Glendale Environmental Coalition publicly supported and endorsed the Arroyo Verdugo Trail Committee effort by requesting the Glendale City Council expand and enhance the scope of a Verdugo Wash feasibility study. GEC met with staff and emailed local representatives, lobbying them to include in the study the beneficial environmental impacts for the community of hydrology, storm recapture, naturalization, and heat island effect. And as of August 2020 Glendale City Council approved the Verdugo Wash study, allocating a budget of $250,000.
City staff has since requested council approve an additional $200,000 for a further expansion of the scope and hiring !melk landscape architecture and urban design firm to conduct the Verdugo Wash feasibility study. Staff is also recommending expanding the scope of the study include additional aspects of further hydrology, mobility, sustainability and branding.
This Tuesday, October 27 you can call in to Glendale City Council to support this request. A link to how to support this expanded scope and information about !melk can be found here:
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Glendale City Council Watch - October 27, 2020 - Glendale Environmental Coalition
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Eco-Related items on the Glendale City Council and various commission schedules.GLENDALE ENVIRONMENTAL COALITION
In The News
Letter to Editor: Let’s Go “All In” on Clean Economy – READ
Glendale News Press
Repowered Southern California Natural Gas Power Plant Will Have Lots of Green – READ
Planetizen.com
Nearly 400 rally against burning fossil fuels in aging electricity plant in Glendale – READ
Pasadena Star-News
Hundreds protest plan to continue burning fossil fuels at Glendale power plant – READ
Los Angeles Times
Commentary: The time has come to say ‘no’ to Grayson plan and ‘yes’ to renewable energy – READ
Los Angeles Times
State’s last gas-powered electric plant proposal pits Glendale utility against resident activists – READ
Los Angeles Daily News
Rally Precedes Council Meeting – READ
Crescenta Valley Weekly
Protests in Glendale Over the Grayson Power Plant Hold Lessons for NELA on Scholl Canyon – READ
Boulevard Sentinel
Concern Growing Over Glendale’s Air Quality – READ
Spectrum News1
Activists turn from protesting to collaborating, like Glendale Environmental Coalition and Grayson Power Plant plans – READ
Los Angeles Daily News
