When 5,000 kids ages 12-21 turned out for Saturday's Environmental Youth Conference staged at the Los Angeles Convention Center, they got a sweet surprise as celebrities like Will.i.am, Vanessa Hudgens (High School Musical) and Tyrese (Transformers) took the stage to share a few words with the kids.
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Hangar 25 is the first LEED Platinum certified aviation facility in the world.

Shangri-La Construction has built the world's most sustainable aircraft hangar in Burbank, California. Hangar 25 was built for the same cost as a traditional hangar and that's even before factoring in the Federal Investment Tax Credit...

"The Grammy Museum: Exploring and Celebrating A Legacy of Great Music" is the signage that greets you when you enter the museum.

"Music can create strong feelings of belonging and connection..." Daniel Cavicchi, Curator, Songs of Conscience, Sounds of Freedom, Grammy Museum. "This power has been harnessed throughout American History...

President-Elect Obama just announced his goal of creating 2.5 million "green" jobs as part of his economic stimulus package. Governor Schwarzenegger is big on entrepreneurs and businesses as a driving force behind "greening" our state on so many levels. Van Jones, fellow HuffPo Blogger and now NY Times...

The Governors' recent Climate Summit afforded many opportunities to hear directly from the decision makers and thought leaders in finance, industry, NGO's and government as they relate to the environmental well-being of our planet and people. Below are a few firsthand interviews as recorded by Paige Donner at the Govs'...

Truly remarkable is the fact that this summit was an international meeting on climate change between regional leaders from around the globe. This truly remarkable element of the Governors' Global Climate Summit held in Beverly Hills Nov. 18th and 19th is what marks us on a path toward "thinking as...

I'll 'fess up. "Democratizing sustainability," is not a phrase I coined nor one I've even used before. I first came across this "big idea" when reading a Fortune Magazine, July 2006 article about Wal-Mart, the "Green Machine," written by Marc Gunther. In it he says that, "The bigger idea here...

Best host of the Environmental Media Association's Awards night goes to Jeffrey Tambor who joked after introducing both Toyota, title sponsors of the evening and Tiffany & Co., EMA Corporate Responsibility Award Recipient...

"....and what they forgot to mention is that we're all going home with a Lexus hybrid...," and...

Prior to joining Grist, Russ Walker was assistant managing editor for Nation and World at Washingtonpost.com.

Walker agreed to this interview while attending the Opportunity Green Conference held this past weekend on UCLA's campus. Media coordination provided by eConnectGroup.

Paige Donner: Are we going to see a...

TotSpot is a new social networking site for parents and their kids to post family pictures and information online. Hollywood moms and dads, including a few familiar faces, turned out with their tikes for its recent launch hosted at TreeHouse Social Club, benefiting Generation Rescue.

California's Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger trekked up to the rooftop of the STAPLES Center to commemorate the final solar panel installation of the total 1,727 photovoltaic solar panels that now grace the roof of the Laker's home court venue.

Lee Zeidman, STAPLES...

Election night's Obama-Biden victory party began officially at 8:01 PST here in Los Angeles at the Century City Plaza Hotel in Century City. Lines snaked around the entrance to the mega-hotel by 7:00 p.m. By 8:15 p.m. fire marshals were already on the scene -- the celebration venue had reached...

When Eric Ritz founded Global Inheritance in 2002, high speed internet connections were just becoming prevalent enough to allow for unprecedented accessibility in the establishment of tech savvy nonprofits. "It has to have been next to impossible to start a nonprofit before the internet unless you had a lot...

Little Green Goblins are everywhere this Halloween thanks in part to Ecostation's Enchanted Green Hallow's Eve. Ecostation, located in Culver City, has created an environmentally aware Haunted Fun House for kids and parents that offers an afternoon of trick-or-treating and learning about Earth's animal-kingdom inhabitants, all rolled into one.

"Be Who You Are" was the theme Maria Shriver designated for this year's California Governor and First Lady's Conference on Women. As she addressed the crowd of 14,000 attendees, most of whom were women, and the additional 1 million viewers watching the streaming live broadcast on Californiawomen.org, she said:

Fuel is a movie about a boy's passionate love affair with bio-diesel fuel and his bio-diesel-powered "Veggie Van." Like any good love story passionately told, it is filled with a magnetism that draws you in and, by the end of it, has you...

"We can still be successful in this marketplace. Winners win. We can move forward. It's all about the mindset," said Earvin "Magic" Johnson in his Keynote address to the Association for Financial Professionals whose conference opened today at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Though it was widely commented upon that...

Deirdre Wallace is Owner and Operator of The Ambrose Hotel and Founder and President of The Ambrose Group. The Ambrose Hotel is the first-ever U.S. hotel to earn LEED-EB (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Existing Buildings) certification by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). Rick Fedrizzi, president,...

"We're doing a full retrofit of Los Angeles. L.A. 2.0. We're creating a sustainable prototype by retrofitting Los Angeles with a functioning forest," said Andy Lipkis, TreePeople's founder, president and visionary, at their most recent An Evening Under The Harvest Moon celebration. TreePeople is responsible for the planting of...

Maggie Gyllenhaal hosted The Eco-Fashion Runway show presented by Gen Art to kick off L.A.'s Fashion Week. Gyllenhaal, who is known for embracing a natural lifestyle and is particularly interested in supporting the growing trend of eco-friendly fashion, noted "lots of short skirts and amazing fabrics made out of bamboo,"...