Greening Our Planet, One Bulb at a Time
by Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa
At 6,500 miles, Los Angeles has the largest network of streets and roads and the second largest number of street lights – 210,000 – to light the way. In 2009, the City of Los Angeles teamed up with the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) to find out how much those lights were costing the City - and our climate.
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Improving Community Health in Palm Springs
In December, the Clinton Foundation hosted a blueprint development session for the Clinton Health Matters Initiative (CHMI). The session convened local health and wellness leaders to outline the goals of CHMI and the health status of the Coachella Valley.
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How You Helped Build a Better World in 2012
In 2012, we reached new milestones across our programs including: improving access to pediatric medicines in the developing world, increasing incomes for smallholder farmers in Africa, bringing new investment opportunity to Haiti, continuing to expand our climate change work to cities around the world, and reducing beverage calories in schools across the United States...
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Pounding Cake Into a Business
When I was starting my own business, I faced many challenges, from financial or logistical issues, to strategic ones. Many small business owners, like myself, are burdened with responsibilities that can prove to be too great to overcome. But when these small businesses fail to get off the ground, it is not only the...
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Featured Solutions: The Kitchen Community
Today about one in three kids is overweight or obese, and only 20 percent of high school students in the United States report eating the recommended five servings of fruits and vegetables every day.
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Featured Solutions: Prescription Drug Misuse Strategy
Prescription drug abuse is the nation’s fastest-growing drug problem. Today, overdoses involving prescription painkillers kill more Americans than heroin and cocaine combined, and prescription drug misuse is now the third leading cause of accidental deaths.
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