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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CGI
What I Saw and Learned in Southeast Asia and Why I Left Inspired
Over last week, I traveled across Southeast Asia, delivering clean water as part of Procter & Gamble’s Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) commitment in Myanmar, attending the Women Deliver conference in Kuala Lumpur and ending my trip in Cambodia...
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Bringing Change to Washington’s HIV Crisis
All eyes have been on Washington D.C. as the close of the inauguration brings the inevitable return to political wrangling. But to Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) participant Tyler Spencer and a group of NCAA-Division I athletes, partisanship isn’t the capitol city’s only problem.
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Ending Hunger Through Citizen Service
Building on our commitment made at the 2011 Clinton Global Initiative America (CGI) meeting, the New York City Coalition Against Hunger has dramatically increased the size and scope of our volunteer initiative: Ending Hunger through Citizen Service, with the generous support of Con Agra Foods.
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2012 CGI Annual Meeting Day 3
President Clinton, Mutar Kent, and Gabriel Jarmillo discuss distribution systems and supply chains during the Closing Plenary Session of the 2012 CGI Annual Meeting. Yesterday, the third and final day of the 2012 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting focused around the theme “Designing Our Systems,” highlighting how the world requires systems of governance, community...
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Partnering to Rebuild a Better America
At the Clinton Global Initiative America meeting in Chicago earlier this summer, I joined President Clinton and other mayors from across the country and across party lines to explore how to accelerate investment in job-creating domestic infrastructure. Each mayor faced unique challenges, but there was an immediate...
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