Projects 3 & 4 Kick-Off Meeting Monday, October 12 from 7:00-8:30pm
Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Office (453 S. Spring Street)
If you plan on attending, please RSVP to sustainability@dlanc.com.Join us to discuss how we will work towards increasing participation in cost-saving City of Los Angeles programs to improve energy and water efficiency and cut our waste.
We are planning to develop a
small business-focused Green Primer program to recognize best practices. Come get involved in this exciting program!
Online Survey of Services: Have you used a City program for energy, water or waste? We want to know more about it! Please complete the survey
online.
Determine existing resources available downtown businesses and residences to help reduce waste and increase recycling. (A. Zarella)
EDUCATION: Identify different educational tools such as seminars, posters, emails, local media coverage, etc to facilitate better understanding and knowledge about value of trash and recycling.
OUTREACH: Partner with organizations currently working on waste and pollution reduction. Research and identify innovative outreach efforts that were successful at increasing trash and recycling participation in other cities and use as model for Downtown. Create and implement at least one bilingual outreach initiative in 2009 to reach out to stakeholders on this issue.
ADVOCACY: Lobby the city to install Big Bellies bin and public recycling containers in downtown.
Project Lead: Corey Prost
