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  • Vertical Sand Media Filters remove organic and inorganic contaminants in agricultural irrigation.San Joaquin Valley, Kern County, California , USA
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  • Vertical farming on hillside near Porterville, Tulare County, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA
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  • Vertical Sand Media Filters remove organic and inorganic contaminants in agricultural irrigation.San Joaquin Valley, Kern County, California , USA
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  • Vertical Sand Media Filters remove organic and inorganic contaminants in agricultural irrigation.San Joaquin Valley, Kern County, California , USA
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  • Vertical Sand Media Filters remove organic and inorganic contaminants in agricultural irrigation.San Joaquin Valley, Kern County, California , USA
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  • Vertical Sand Media Filters remove organic and inorganic contaminants in agricultural irrigation.San Joaquin Valley, Kern County, California , USA
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  • Vertical Sand Media Filters remove organic and inorganic contaminants in agricultural irrigation.San Joaquin Valley, Kern County, California , USA
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  • School Children learn about and tend the vertical garden at the Downtown Value School, a charter school in downtown Los Angeles. The vertical garden is provided by Woolly Pocket and is part of their Woolly School Garden program. The school also has a flower and produce garden that goes around the school grounds, a small greenhouse and a worm compost bin that students collect for after each meal. Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • School Children learn about and tend the vertical garden at the Downtown Value School, a charter school in downtown Los Angeles. The vertical garden is provided by Woolly Pocket and is part of their Woolly School Garden program. The Woolly Pocket hangers are created from 100% recycled materials. The school also has a flower and produce garden that goes around the school grounds, a small greenhouse and a worm compost bin that students collect for after each meal. Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • Meg Glasser of Urban Farming. The Edible Garden wall created by Urban Farming for the Weingart Center on skid row in downtown Los Angeles. The vertical garden contains broccoli, cauliflower, strawberries, collared greens, beans, peppers and more and is tended by the organization Urban Farming and homeless volunteers form the Weingart Center. Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • School Children learn about and tend the vertical garden at the Downtown Value School, a charter school in downtown Los Angeles. The vertical garden is provided by Woolly Pocket and is part of their Woolly School Garden program. The Woolly Pocket hangers are created from 100% recycled materials. The school also has a flower and produce garden that goes around the school grounds, a small greenhouse and a worm compost bin that students collect for after each meal. Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • School Children learn about and tend the vertical garden at the Downtown Value School, a charter school in downtown Los Angeles. The vertical garden is provided by Woolly Pocket and is part of their Woolly School Garden program. The Woolly Pocket hangers are created from 100% recycled materials. The school also has a flower and produce garden that goes around the school grounds, a small greenhouse and a worm compost bin that students collect for after each meal. Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • School Children learn about and tend the vertical garden at the Downtown Value School, a charter school in downtown Los Angeles. The vertical garden is provided by Woolly Pocket and is part of their Woolly School Garden program. The school also has a flower and produce garden that goes around the school grounds, a small greenhouse and a worm compost bin that students collect for after each meal. Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • School Children learn about and tend the vertical garden at the Downtown Value School, a charter school in downtown Los Angeles. The vertical garden is provided by Woolly Pocket and is part of their Woolly School Garden program.  The school also has a flower and produce garden that goes around the school grounds, a small greenhouse and a worm compost bin that students collect for after each meal. Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • Woolly Pocket vertical garden hangers at the Downtown Value School, a charter school in downtown Los Angeles and is part of their Woolly School Garden program. The Woolly Pocket hangers are created from 100% recycled materials. The school uses gardens to teach students gardening and also has a flower and produce garden that goes around the school grounds, a small greenhouse and a worm compost bin that students collect for after each meal. Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • The Edible Garden wall created by Urban Farming for the Weingart Center on skid row in downtown Los Angeles. The vertical garden contains broccoli, cauliflower, strawberries, collared greens, beans, peppers and more and is tended by the organization Urban Farming and homeless volunteers form the Weingart Center. Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • The Edible Garden wall created by Urban Farming for the Weingart Center on skid row in downtown Los Angeles. The vertical garden contains broccoli, cauliflower, strawberries, collared greens, beans, peppers and more and is tended by the organization Urban Farming and homeless volunteers form the Weingart Center. Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • The Edible Garden wall created by Urban Farming for the Weingart Center on skid row in downtown Los Angeles. The vertical garden contains broccoli, cauliflower, strawberries, collared greens, beans, peppers and more and is tended by the organization Urban Farming and homeless volunteers form the Weingart Center. Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • The Edible Garden wall created by Urban Farming for the Weingart Center on skid row in downtown Los Angeles. The vertical garden contains broccoli, cauliflower, strawberries, collared greens, beans, peppers and more and is tended by the organization Urban Farming and homeless volunteers form the Weingart Center. Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • Woolly Pocket vertical garden hangers at the Downtown Value School, a charter school in downtown Los Angeles and is part of their Woolly School Garden program. The Woolly Pocket hangers are created from 100% recycled materials. The school uses gardens to teach students gardening and also has a flower and produce garden that goes around the school grounds, a small greenhouse and a worm compost bin that students collect for after each meal. Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • Young boys collect food for the worm compost bin after their class mates eat their lunch at the Downtown Value School, a charter school in downtown Los Angeles. The school uses gardens to teach students about gardening and also has a vertical garden, a flower and produce garden that goes around the school grounds and a small greenhouse. Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • A small greenhouse at the Downtown Value School, a charter school in downtown Los Angeles. The school uses gardens to teach students about gardening and also has a vertical garden, a flower and produce garden that goes around the school grounds and a worm compost bin that students collect for after each meal. Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • Teacher Chris Medinger holds a snow pea plant for repotting in the small greenhouse at the <br />
Downtown Value School, a charter school in downtown Los Angeles. The school uses gardens to teach students about gardening and also has a vertical garden, a flower and produce garden that goes around the school grounds and a worm compost bin that students collect for after each meal. Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • Irrigation source water is filtered by a vertical sand media filtration system before use in agricultural irrigation. San Joaquin Valley, Kern County, California , USA
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  • Irrigation source water is filtered by a vertical sand media filtration system before use in agricultural irrigation. San Joaquin Valley, Kern County, California , USA
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  • Geothermal Heat Pump in new residential construction building. The building utilizes a geothermal closed-loop heat-pump system in which high density polyethylene pipe is buried vertically 100 to 400' deep. Below ground temperatures are warmer than the the above ground temperatures in the Winter and the reverse in the Summer. The Geothermal Heat pumps uses the water or anti-freeze filled looped pipes as a heat exchange to warm the building in the Winter and cool the building in the Summer. Manhattan Beach, California, USA
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  • Geothermal Heat Pump in new residential construction building. The building utilizes a geothermal closed-loop heat-pump system in which high density polyethylene pipe is buried vertically 100 to 400' deep. Below ground temperatures are warmer than the the above ground temperatures in the Winter and the reverse in the Summer. The Geothermal Heat pumps uses the water or anti-freeze filled looped pipes as a heat exchange to warm the building in the Winter and cool the building in the Summer. Manhattan Beach, California, USA
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  • Geothermal Heat Pump in new residential construction building. The building utilizes a geothermal closed-loop heat-pump system in which high density polyethylene pipe is buried vertically 100 to 400' deep.  Manhattan Beach, California, USA
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  • Geothermal Heat Pump in new residential construction building. The building utilizes a geothermal closed-loop heat-pump system in which high density polyethylene pipe is buried vertically 100 to 400' deep. Below ground temperatures are warmer than the the above ground temperatures in the Winter and the reverse in the Summer. The Geothermal Heat pumps uses the water or anti-freeze filled looped pipes as a heat exchange to warm the building in the Winter and cool the building in the Summer. Manhattan Beach, California, USA
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  • Ducks line the banks of the Los Angeles River during a rainstorm. Glendale Narrows. Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • LA Conservation Corps plant a tree at a Tree planting to reforest Stetson Ranch Park in Sylmar after the 2008 devastating wildfire. Organizations such as LA Conservation Corps, Tree People, North East Trees joined Million Trees LA and other volunteers to plant 150 trees to celebrate Earth Day 2009. California, USA.
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  • Staking a tree at a tree planting celebrating Earth Day in South Central Los Angeles. LA Conservation Corps joins with community volunteers to plant trees along West Adams and Central Avenue near a new Fresh and Easy Market that plans to open on the corner. Los Angeles, California, USA.
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  • Mission San Diego De Alcala, Bell Tower, San Diego, California (SD)
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  • 82 Kilowatt Solar Array on roof of Big Blue Bus Terminal, Installation by Martifer Solar USA, Santa Monica, California, USA
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  • Batteries, solvents and cleaning materials get put in large drums and then sealed before shipping. S.A.F.E  Collection Center, Sun Valley, Bureau of Sanitation for the City of Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • Carrots at the Culver City Farmer's Market Tuesday afternoons, Culver City, Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • Currents increase and waters rise dramatically in the Los Angeles River during rainstorm. Glendale Narrows. Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • Day 2 of the Los Angeles River Expedition 2008. Organized by LA river kayaker and LaLa Times publisher George Wolfe, boaters embarked on a 52-mile exploration of the full river, from its source (Canoga Park) to its estuary (Long Beach). Deemed not to be a “traditional navigable water” by the Army Corps of Engineers — and therefore not worthy of clean water standards, the Expedition’s purpose is to prove it is navigable. Glendale Narrows, Los Angeles County, California, USA.
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  • Spray cans and graffiti under a bridge along the LA River in the Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Area. San Fernando Valley, California, USA
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  • "Spirit of the CCC" statue at Travel Town, Griffith Park, Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • Young girls and their mother learn about the garden at their elementary school. Wonderland Elementary School, Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • Child's hand with artichoke. Students, parents and teachers work on the garden at the 24th Street School garden on Big Sunday, the largest annual citywide community service event in America, West Adams, Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • Yvonne Savio holding a head of broccoflower. Yvonne Savio,  Master Gardener Coordinator at UC Cooperative Extension's Common Ground Garden Program, offers training at a workshop in her garden in Pasadena. Once trained, Master Gardeners provide free gardening workshops and their technical expertise to approximately 60 public community gardens, hundreds of school gardens, and many senior and shelter gardens throughout Los Angeles County. California, USA
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  • Cleaning up the Dominguez Channel at Artesia Transit Center. Over 14,000 volunteers took part in Coastal Cleanup Day in Los Angeles County, cleaning up beaches, parks, alleys, creeks, highways and storm drains at 69 different sites. Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • 82 Kilowatt Solar Array on roof of Big Blue Bus Terminal, Installation by Martifer Solar USA, Santa Monica, California, USA
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  • 82 Kilowatt Solar Array on roof of Big Blue Bus Terminal, Installation by Martifer Solar USA, Santa Monica, California, USA
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  • Secondary Clarifier, Hill Canyon Wastewater Treatment Plant, Camarillo, Ventura County, California, USA
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  • Green workers install a residential grid-tied solar array on a hillside in Malibu, Installation by Martifer Solar USA, California, USA
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  • Lettuce crops. The Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens is one of the oldest organic farms in California. Located on 12 acres, the 100-year-old farm provides the community with organic fruits and vegetables. Goleta, California
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  • From 2008. Front of Main LA Eco-Village house on Bimini Place. Started in 1993, LA Eco-Village demonstrates the processes for creating a healthy neighborhood ecologically, socially and economically and to reduce environmental impacts while raising the quality of neighborhood life.
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  • Rolls of steel in a warehouse in Vernon. Located just a few miles from downtown Los Angeles, Vernon's official slogan is "Exclusively Industrial" and at the last census had a population of 91. Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • Picking Wood-sorrel. Foraging for wild edibles in Los Angeles neighborhood Echo Park. Nance Klehm leads her Urbanforage guided walk showing and educating attendees about various greens, herbs and other edibles readily found along streets, lots and front yards. Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • The Venice Community Garden's first planting included Rosemary, Basil, Bell Peppers, Artichokes, and Cherry Tomatoes, 8/11/10. The Venice Garden broke ground in April, 2010. Soil tests revealed high levels of arsenic and lead because of previous uses which included a railroad line going through the lot. Steps were taken which included adding protective layers and adding new soil. Planting began in August and the first harvest was in October, 2010. Venice, California, USA
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  • A discarded skateboard lies in the Los Anges River at the Glendale Narrows. Urban runoff carries an assortment of trash and debris from catch basins where a network of pipes and open channels create a pathway to the Ocean at Long Beach. Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • Los Angeles River with waterfowl, south of downtown Los Angeles. Bell, Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • Nurdles are pre-production plastic pellets and resin materials typically under 5mm in diameter. When released during the transport, packaging, and processing of plastics, these materials find their way to coastal waterways and oceans and frequently end up in the digestive tracts of various marine creatures, causing starvation and death. Seal Beach, Orange County, California, USA
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  • Wire in bin at Recycling Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • Aluminum cans on conveyer belt ready to be crushed. Recycling Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • Metal scraps in bin at Recycling Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • Aeryn picks her first harvest which includes zucchini, swiss chard, yellow squash and cucumbers on October 14, 2010. The Venice Community Garden broke ground in April, 2010. Soil tests revealed high levels of arsenic and lead because of previous uses which included a railroad line going through the lot. Steps were taken which included adding protective layers and adding new soil. Planting began in August and the first harvest was in October, 2010. Venice, California, USA
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  • August 14, 2010. Denise and Frank plant their seeds and seedlings in their planting box. The Venice Garden broke ground in April, 2010. Soil tests revealed high levels of arsenic and lead because of previous uses which included a railroad line going through the lot. Steps were taken which included adding protective layers and adding new soil. Planting began in August and the first harvest was in October, 2010. Venice, California, USA
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  • August 14, 2010. Denise and Frank plant their seeds and seedlings in their planting box. The Venice Garden broke ground in April, 2010. Soil tests revealed high levels of arsenic and lead because of previous uses which included a railroad line going through the lot. Steps were taken which included adding protective layers and adding new soil. Planting began in August and the first harvest was in October, 2010. Venice, California, USA
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  • July 24, 2010. Laying down the soil for the final preparations of the planting beds at the Venice Community Garden. The Venice Garden broke ground in April, 2010. Soil tests revealed high levels of arsenic and lead because of previous uses which included a railroad line going through the lot. Steps were taken which included adding protective layers and adding new soil. Planting began in August and the first harvest was in October, 2010. Venice, California, USA
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  • July 24, 2010. Watering the Gypsum for the final preparations of the planting beds at the Venice Community Garden. The Venice Garden broke ground in April, 2010. Soil tests revealed high levels of arsenic and lead because of previous uses which included a railroad line going through the lot. Steps were taken which included adding protective layers and adding new soil. Planting began in August and the first harvest was in October, 2010. Venice, California, USA
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  • Culver Hotel in downtown Culver City, Culver Blvd, Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • Bus map at bus stop On Culver Boulevard in Culver City, Los Angeles, california, USA
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  • Gay marriage ban declared unconstitutional in California. Several hundred people gathered for a candlelight vigil on Olivera Street near downtown Los Angeles, on the evening of August 4, 2010, to celebrate a California federal judge’s ruling that Proposition 8, the state's ban on same-sex marriage that was passed by voters last November, was unconstitutional. The “Day of Decision” vigil was organized before the ruling was announced for opponents of Proposition 8 to either support or protest the impending decision. Both sides had pledged to appeal the ruling depending which way it went. Olivera Street, Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • Young girl waters the strawberries at her elementary school garden. Wonderland Elementary School, Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • Young girls and their mother water the garden at their elementary school. Wonderland Elementary School, Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • Installation of a residential wind turbine is filmed for an episode of the DIY network show "This New House". Bob Hayes of Prevailing Winds and his crew install a Dyocore SolAir 800 I wind turbine which integrates two small solar panels into its design and is capable of producing up to 800 Watts at 12 mph. The two solar panels produce up to 45watts. Redondo Beach, Ca, USA
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  • Students, parents and teachers work on the garden at the 24th Street School garden on Big Sunday, the largest annual citywide community service event in America, West Adams, Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • Freshly picked Purple Carrots. Urban garden encircles house in Rancho Palos Verdes. Judy Frankel’s three year old garden has a variety of citrus, Nectarine, Peach, Apple and Cherry trees as well as seasonal vegetables in planting beds in the back yard. Rancho Palos Verdes, Los Angeles County, California, USA
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  • Planting Beds. Urban garden encircles house in Rancho Palos Verdes. Judy Frankel’s three year old garden has a variety of citrus, Nectarine, Peach, Apple and Cherry trees as well as seasonal vegetables in planting beds in the back yard. Rancho Palos Verdes, Los Angeles County, California, USA
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  • Judy Kirshner working in her garden. Urban Garden in front yard of home in upscale Hancock Park. Judy Kirshner started the garden 10 years ago. At the time, her neighbors did not approve, but the garden has become a popular spot over the years and attracts many visitors. The plot contains about 50 varieties of vegetables, 12 winter herbs, 9 kinds of flowers<br />
and 12 fruit trees. Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • Cranes picking up garbage debris after first rain of the season. The Garbage boom on the Los Angeles River in Long Beach was built in 2001. Urban runoff carries an assortment of trash and debris from catch basins where a network of pipes and open channels create a pathway to the Ocean. The man made debris can include plastic bags and bottles, Styrofoam cups, cans, tires, and household furniture. After the first major storm of the season, the boom may collect over 50,000 pounds of trash.
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  • Captain Charles Moore, the man credited for first discovering the plastic soup in the Gyre over 10 years ago, showing plastic samples collected in the North Pacific Gyre.  The ORV Alguita returns to Long beach after four months at sea sampling the waters of the “great Pacific garbage patch" in the North Pacific Subtropical  Gyre (NPSG). The Algalita Marine Research Foundation has been studying and educating the public about the effects of oceanic micro-plastic pollution on the ocean's ecosystem and marine life for over ten years. Long Beach, California, USA.
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  • Cleaning up the Dominguez Channel at Artesia Transit Center. Over 14,000 volunteers took part in Coastal Cleanup Day in Los Angeles County, cleaning up beaches, parks, alleys, creeks, highways and storm drains at 69 different sites. Over 300,000 pounds of debris and recyclables were removed by the various environmental organizations, community groups, families, local businesses, faith-based organizations and students that took part. Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • Solar Technicians with Grid-Tied Photovoltaic Inverter in Control room for 82Kw Solar Array on roof of Big Blue Bus Terminal, Installation by Martifer Solar USA, Santa Monica, California, USA
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  • Bio-reactor Basin, Hill Canyon Wastewater Treatment Plant, Camarillo, Ventura County, California, USA
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  • Bio-reactor Basin, Hill Canyon Wastewater Treatment Plant, Camarillo, Ventura County, California, USA
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  • Young latino boy plays in the shadow of an oil refinery in Wilmington.
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  • Installaion of Grid-tied solar array on roof of Big Blue Bus facilites, Installation by Martifer Solar USA, Santa Monica, California, USA
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  • Cleaning up the Glendale narrows. FoLAR' (Friends of the LA River) annual river cleanup, La Gran Limpieza, was held  May 9, 2009. Thousands of volunteers at 14 sites pulled out accumlated trash, mostly plastic bags, from river runoff that might normally find it's way downstream into the Pacific Ocean.
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  • LA Conservation Corps plant a tree at a Tree planting to reforest Stetson Ranch Park in Sylmar after the 2008 devastating wildfire. Organizations such as LA Conservation Corps, Tree People, North East Trees joined Million Trees LA and other volunteers to plant 150 trees to celebrate Earth Day 2009. California, USA.
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  • March for Water, World Water Day 2009, in downtown Los Angeles. March 22, 2009. A community march highlighting the local state water crisis that has resulted from a dysfunctional management, and to raise awareness of the plight of the people that are suffering from a global mismanagement of water. Starting at Los Angeles Historic Park, the length of the march is approximately 3 miles, the distance that on average people in other places of the world have to walk to find water to sustain their lives, many marchers will be carrying water vessels on their heads throughout the march in an act of solidarity with others around the world.  Community-Based Organizations & Environmental Justice Groups  will be marching as well as students of all ages (including 3 elementary schools) from all over the city will have banners representing their schools and their love for water.
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  • LA Conservation Corps helping with Tree Planting at Calvert Elementary School in Woodland Hills. Los Angeles
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  • The Garbage boom on the Los Angeles River in Long Beach was built in 2001. Urban runoff carries an assortment of trash and debris from catch basins where a network of pipes and open channels create a pathway to the Ocean. After the first major storm of the season, the boom may collect over 50,000 pounds of trash.
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  • Day 1 of the Los Angeles River Expedition 2008. Organized by LA river kayaker and LaLa Times publisher George Wolfe, boaters embarked on a 52-mile exploration of the full river, from its source (Canoga Park) to its estuary (Long Beach). Deemed not to be a “traditional navigable water” by the Army Corps of Engineers — and therefore not worthy of clean water standards, the Expedition’s purpose is to prove it is navigable. Sepulveda Basin, Los Angeles County, California, USA.
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  • GM employee demonstrates refueling of GM's new Equinox SUV. On June 26, 2008, Shell opened California's first retail hydrogen car refueling station in West Los Angeles. In hydrogen vehicles, an electric motor powers the wheels. A chemical reaction inside a unit called a fuel <br />
cell – usually between hydrogen and oxygen – creates electricity for the motor. Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • No Dumping sign, Los Cerritos Channel, Long Beach, California, USA
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  • No Dumping sign, Los Cerritos Channel, Long Beach, California, USA
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  • The Research vessel Alguita readies to tow out the maiden voyage of the "Junk" raft, from Long Beach Harbor. 5/18/08.  in June of 2008, the raft named "Junk"  will sail 2,100 miles from Los Angeles to Hawaii to bring attention to the plastic marine debris (nicknamed the plastic soup) accumulating in the North Pacific Gyre. Designed by Dr. Marcus Eriksen and Joel Paschal, the raft is constructed from 20,000 plastic bottles, an airplane fuselage, discarded fishing nets, a solar generator, and a bicycle generator. California, USA
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  • Lettuce crops. The Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens is one of the oldest organic farms in California. Located on 12 acres, the 100-year-old farm provides the community with organic fruits and vegetables.Goleta, California
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  • The produce stand sells seasonal fresh fruit and produce. The Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens is one of the oldest organic farms in California.. Goleta, California
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  • Garbage Truck picks up dumpsters of non-recyclable trash in West LA alley, In 2008 Los Angeles launched SWIRP (Solid Waste Integrated Resources Plan) which will include pick up of recyclable refuse from multi-family units, California, USA
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  • Greystone Mansion, Greystone Park, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California (LA)
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  • Residential wind turbine, Palmdale, Los Angeles County, California, USA
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  • The Ballona Wetlands is a protected area near Marina Del Rey and Playa Del Rey, and is one of the last significant wetlands area in the Los Angeles basin. Development and the  concreting over of the Ballona Creek in the 1930's for flood control purposes, reduced the 2100 acre wetlands to its present size of about 700 acres. Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • Footbridge over Baliona Creek at sunset, Culver City, Los Angeles, california, USA
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  • Rain water empties from Storm Pipes into Ballona Creek, a nine-mile waterway that drains the Los Angeles basin. Urban runoff carries an assortment of trash and debris from catch basins where a network of pipes and open channels create a pathway to the Ocean at Santa Monica Bay. Ballona Creek is designed to discharge to Santa Monica Bay approximately 71,400 cubic feet per second from a 50-year frequency storm event. Culver City, Los Angeles, California, USA
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