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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Service
Uniting to be the Solution
Only two days stand between now and Chicago Cares’ 20th Annual Serve-a-thon. This event started as an idea and has become a Chicago institution – today, Serve-a-thon is the largest single day of service in the city.
To help celebrate, we are partnering with the Clinton Foundation for a Day of Action on June 15 and Chelsea Clinton will help kick off the day, making our 20th anniversary event more exciting than ever. The Day of Action follows the two-day Clinton Global America Meeting in Chicago, which gathers leaders from the business, foundation, NGO, and government sectors to find solutions…
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A Hand-Up Rather Than a Handout: President Clinton's Unique Public Service
Yesterday, July 18, was Nelson Mandela Day in nearly every country in the world – a day that asks us to spend time serving others, in the spirit of Mandela himself. Yet for President Clinton, who has been so inspired by Mandela’s life and work, every day...
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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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