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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Humanity
The Spirit of Ubuntu
There is a Zulu proverb called Ubuntu that says: “I am a person through other people. My humanity is tied to yours.” Archbishop Desmond Tutu explained it this way: “One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu — the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can’t exist as a human being...
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