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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Commitment
2012 CGI Annual Meeting Day 2
Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton gives opening remarks during the second day of the 2012 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting. The second day of the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting focused around the theme of “Designing Our Environments," highlighting the need to produce holistic approaches for built and natural environments in order to...
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Africa's Tomorrow
We’ve just landed in Cyprus – a whirlwind week of ricocheting around southern and eastern Africa behind us. A few weeks ago, President Clinton honored me with an invitation to join him in a tour of projects the Clinton Foundation is undertaking in South Africa, Mozambique, Rwanda, and Uganda. As I’ve been working...
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Partnerships Bring Opportunity to Uganda
Today, I had the privilege of traveling with President Clinton to three separate events in Uganda.While each event focused on a different issue – education, the provision of hearing aids, and averting childhood deaths due to diarrhea – there was a common theme throughout the day: Our challenges will not be solved...
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Building Systems That Change Lives in Rwanda
On staff, I have the privilege of communicating the Foundation's great work to people the world over. Yet this past week, people have been communicating the Foundation's great work to me.
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Letter from Rwanda
My father and I just spent two incredible days in Rwanda seeing work supported by the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), the Clinton Hunter Development Initiative (CHDI), and catalyzed through the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) – always with the Rwandan government setting the priorities and working as...
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