Environmental Justice

As a new year begins at GRID Alternatives Greater Los Angeles, we?re rolling up our sleeves and gearing up for another successful year. This year we?re looking to outdo ourselves by building on last year?s success as we aim to increase access to solar power in the communities we serve. Is it all talk? No way, we got the numbers to prove it!

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Residents of this Far Rockaway neighborhood have spent the past year rebuilding their homes and lives post-Sandy. This week, 30-plus GRID Alternatives volunteers came out to lend a hand.

Jolyn Bright got on the roof to help with her installation as we kicked off our east coast expansion in Asbury Park, New Jersey.

The Bay Area Solarthon is coming to Richmond, where the benefits will be especially meaningful.

Espanola Jackson is a San Francisco Bayview resident of 46 years, community activist, grandmother to over 70 grandchildren and the proud owner of a solar powered home thanks to GRID Alternatives.

As we look forward to Earth Day 2013 on Monday April 22nd, GRID Alternatives Greater Los Angeles will be a participating nonprofit at the Los Angeles Business Council’s (LABC) Annual Sustainability Summit this Friday, April 19th.

The Bayview-Hunter’s Point neighborhood has a long history of environmental degradation; it houses one third of San Francisco’s hazardous waste sites and has four times more toxins than the rest of the city. GRID Alternatives has partnered with 93 low-income families in this neighborhood to install PV systems that combat asthma, chronic illness, and high mortality rates caused by air pollution.

Los Angeles is increasingly becoming a clean technology hub, but for South Los Angeles residents, who face severe economic and environmental challenges—high rates of foreclosure, unemployment, and pollution—the benefits of clean energy are typically out of reach. All that changed in one neighborhood on Saturday November 10th, when GRID Alternatives Greater Los Angeles installed solar electric systems for ten low-income families in the lovely Willowbrook area.