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Sunrun Employee Volunteers Bring Some Sunshine in South Los Angeles
With February temperatures in the 80’s, it was hard not to embrace the sun during Jeymmy Ponce’s solar installation last week in South Los Angeles. A single mother of four, Jeymmy has struggled to make ends meet since moving to Los Angles from Tijuana ten years ago, and hopes the savings from her system will help her have a little extra money each month to put towards the needs of her children.

Mary Luévano joins the GLA Board
We are excited to announce our newest appointment to the GLA Board, Mary Luévano. Mary comes to the GLA Board with over fifteen years of environmental experience gained from serving as both Vice President and Policy and Legislative Director of Global Green USA where she oversaw many of Global Green’s groundbreaking initiatives related to green building and clean energy.

Marc Spohn: Second Chances Really Do Matter

 GRID GLA Volunteer Marc Spohn wrote to us to share his experience with the GRID family. With his permission, we have excerpted a portion here.

Second Chances Really Do Matter

On May 02, 2013, I was a life prisoner who had no reasonable expectation of regaining a spot in the real world. I lived in the world of prisoners and had for a long time. On May 03, 2013, I was released into the world. I believed I would not be released. I needed to make amends to the people I betrayed; to myself and to society & the universe.