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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Alliance
Empowering Others to Live Healthy
Being on the Alliance for a Healthier Generation’s Youth Advisory Board has helped me to influence my community in a positive way. Through my actions and commitment to the cause, I have educated the ones I love about healthy living. On a broader spectrum, I have changed the mentality towards health in my school and hopefully, I will change it in my state.
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Stopping Disease In Its Tracks
Formed in 2005 by express delivery company TNT Express and the World Food Programme, North Star Alliance grew out of one of the very first Clinton Global Initiative commitments. It now runs a network of 28 drop-in health clinics along Africa's major transport routes to provide health care, including HIV prevention...
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Voices from Team Healthier Generation: Jean Chatzky
Jean Chatzky is award-winning journalist, best-selling author, and the financial editor for NBC’s Today Show. She was the co-captain of Team Healthier Generation for the ING New York City Marathon. Running a marathon has been on my list...
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Voices from Team Healthier Generation Part 2
On Sunday, November 4th, we will run the most exciting race of our lives—the New York City Marathon. In our hometown of Little Rock Arkansas, we have always been involved in both our local marathon and the Clinton Foundation—Nancy was on the committee for the opening of the Clinton Presidential Center.
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Rio Hondo Elementary School: A Culture of Healthy Learning
There is increasing evidence that students who eat a healthy breakfast and participate in daily physical activity perform better academically throughout the day and over the course of the school year. For the past five years, the Rio Hondo Elementary School...
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