Synapse: This Week's News for LA’s Best Buildings
ESG Prizes Awarded to 6 LA Building Owners
The Los Angeles Better Buildings Challenge celebrated its seventh annual Innovation Awards to a virtual audience of nearly 200, presenting the city’s most prestigious sustainability prizes to Los Angeles’ “Best Buildings” of 2020.
"Building Back Better" Buildings
President Biden’s new American Jobs Plan outlines a comprehensive approach to improving our nation’s infrastructure while combating the climate crisis, advancing racial equity, and creating millions of good jobs to “build back better” as we recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Importantly, the plan prioritizes investment in affordable, safe, and efficient homes and businesses, powered by reliable, clean energy. And for the first time, a U.S. president is calling for clean electricity to replace fossil fuels for heat and hot water in homes and buildings, which will help meet President Biden’s goal of reducing the carbon footprint of the U.S. building stock 50 percent by 2035. Enacting this plan will put our country on a path to a better, more efficient future for all.
Drought is Back. But Southern California Faces Less Pain Than Northern California
Drought is returning to California as a second, consecutive parched winter draws to a close in the usually wet north, leaving the state’s major reservoirs half empty.
But this latest period of prolonged dryness will probably play out very differently across this vast state.
Post-COVID Property Management Success: Lead with Resilience
Let’s begin with a reflection on the following quote from a property manager: “One interesting aspect of management is its resiliency during recessions or economic downturns. The pandemic and accompanying government response is only furthering that, as private owners [cannot] deal effectively with residents who are experiencing hardship. This better positions us for growth and provides value and education to both owners and residents.”
Women in the Workplace: Achieving an Equal Future in a COVID 19 World
Watch the panel by USGBC-LA Women in Green for a constructive and creative dialogue on women in the workplace.
Why I'm a Weekday Vegetarian
We all know the arguments that being vegetarian is better for the environment and for the animals -- but in a carnivorous culture, it can be hard to make the change. Graham Hill has a powerful, pragmatic suggestion: Be a weekday veg.
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