EDITORIAL ENVIRONMENTAL HOPES.LOS Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. may be a trend-setter in many ways, but not when it comes to setting a ``green'' example. Despite efforts to push the Department of Water and Power to use environmentally friendly Environmentally friendly, also referred to as nature friendly, is a term used to refer to goods and services considered to inflict minimal harm on the environment.[1] power sources, which included spending more than $100 million for its ``green'' program, the DWP DWP Department of Work and Pensions (UK) DWP Drinking Water Program DWP Dynamic Weapon Pricing (gamin, Counter-Strike: Source) DWP Department of Water & Power DWP Drinking Water Protection gets only about 3 percent of its energy from windmills, solar, biothermal and other green power sources. That's setting a pretty poor example, particularly in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, where sunshine and wind are in abundance. Now Mayor James Hahn and City Councilman Tony Cardenas are pushing for the DWP to increase the amount of green power it uses to 20 percent by 2017. It's an admirable goal. But it's tough to imagine a revolution at the dinosaur DWP given its recent history. The agency's past efforts at greening L.A. only resulted in the passing around of about $100 million in taxpayer greenbacks promoting itself with parties, catchy slogans and fat contracts to public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most firms. It's a hopeful sign that the DWP has apparently stopped wasting millions on that program. Perhaps the strong commitment voiced by Hahn and Cardenas, as well as the crack oversight by City Controller Laura Chick, will be enough to make it stick this time. |
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