| Action | Title | Description |
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| Becoming Actively Engaged in Your City | LA County - Register to Vote |
Before you can vote in Los Angeles County, you must register to vote. This is the first step in the voting process. You must be registered to vote at least 15 days prior to an election in order to vote in that election. |
| Circling Your Economy | LA County - Compost |
LA Compost is a community-based non-profit that supports the cycle of composting through education and community action. Reduce your waste by getting involved. |
| Reducing Your Household Waste | LA County - Compost |
LA Compost is a community-based non-profit that supports the cycle of composting through education and community action. Reduce your waste by getting involved. |
| Reducing Food Waste at Home | LA County - Compost |
LA Compost is a community-based non-profit that supports the cycle of composting through education and community action. Reduce your waste by getting involved. |
| Becoming Actively Engaged in Your City | LA - Edible Healing Garden Volunteers |
The Edible Healing Garden is a hospital-based community garden to help promote food equity, provide nutrition and gardening education, and improve cultural diversity and inclusivity in the greater Los Angeles area to the medically underserved. This garden intends to be a healing environment that also addresses nutrition insecurity in the pediatric population at LAC+USC by empowering kids and families with nutrition knowledge, food sovereignty, and access to nature.
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| Planting Gardens Together | LA - Edible Healing Garden Volunteers |
The Edible Healing Garden is a hospital-based community garden to help promote food equity, provide nutrition and gardening education, and improve cultural diversity and inclusivity in the greater Los Angeles area to the medically underserved. This garden intends to be a healing environment that also addresses nutrition insecurity in the pediatric population at LAC+USC by empowering kids and families with nutrition knowledge, food sovereignty, and access to nature.
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| Generating Power From the Sun | LA - SOMAH |
Solar energy incentives for disadvantaged community members. California affordable housing properties can qualify for state-funded solar panel incentives. See property eligibility. |
| Becoming Actively Engaged in Your City | LA- LA Works Volunteers |
LA Works has volunteer opportunities related to disaster preparedness, including preparing emergency kits for neighbors.
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| Building Resiliency and Connection on Your Block * | LA- LA Works Volunteers |
LA Works has volunteer opportunities related to disaster preparedness, including preparing emergency kits for neighbors.
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| Eliminating Litter with Teamwork | LA - Litter Clean Up |
Participating in a cleanup event is a great way to get involved and make a difference in keeping our local rivers, creeks, lakes, and beaches pollution free! Every year, volunteers pick up several tons of trash at numerous events sponsored by environmental and community-based organizations. This is trash that would otherwise flow into our local rivers, creeks and lakes! |
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“Cities are the platform for change in our world today. The Cool Block links the challenges facing our planet to the intimate, personal, social scale of the city block. This program starts and ends with the premise and promise—that the individual, household, and neighbors are the way forward in the face of seemingly insoluble global problems.”
