Community Demonstration Garden Grant

Burbank Water and Power
Community Demonstration Garden Grant

BWP will sponsor a limited number of demonstration gardens within the City of Burbank for the purpose of showcasing sound water efficient landscape practices.

Proposals for BWP to sponsor a demonstration garden at a host site will be evaluated on 1st come-1st serve basis. General criteria listed

below. More detailed criteria in order of importance @ BWP:

~ up to 2 Demonstration Gardens per year for the next 4 years
~ starts in fiscal year (July–June) 2008/09
~ does not exceed $15,000 per site
~ must be a community based or not-for-profit organization, or local school within the COB
~ site must be accessible and visible to the public
~ organizations willing to cost share will receive preference
~ in-kind labor, donated hardscape & plant materials considered in lieu of cost sharing
~ projects that apply/receive funding from other funding source, (MWD) will receive preference
~ must agree to grant access, showcase and maintain for 5 years.

Click here for Application

Zero Waste Food Service - Burbank

Restaurant Waste Reduction Workshop
March 25, 2009: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Hands-on, interactive workshop.
How to indentify, reduce and eliminate food service wastes.
Find out how others have reduced wastes.
Valuable information, resources and an action plan.

Seating Is Limited - Please RSVP by March 20th !

Community Services Building
1st Floor Community room
150 N Third
Burbank CA 91502

For more info, call: Burbank Recycle Center - 818 . 238 . 3900

Green Day Planner

E-Waste Recycling Event: March 21
Planet Green
20724 Lassen
Chatsworth CA 91311

Items collected include: monitors, computers, TV's, cell phones, printers, fax machines, video game consoles, DVDs and DVD players, CDs and CD players, laptops, ink and toner cartridges, keyboards, telephone equipment.

From: 10:00 am - 3:00 pm

Green Room

National Clean Energy Project: Building the New Economy
Feb 23, 2009

Forum brought together a select group of high-level government, business, labor and advocacy group leaders with a focus on developing a plan and key guiding principles to lead the transformation of U.S. energy policy and to reduce the nation’s dependence on foreign oil.

“The next generation that’s coming after us will look back and assess what we did or didn’t do. And they’ll ask either one of two questions: Either, ‘what were you thinking? How could you have done this?’ or they’ll ask, ‘How did you find the courage to step up to the plate and do the right thing?’” said former Vice President Al Gore Monday at the National Clean Energy Project held in Washington, D.C. and sponsored by the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Gore joined the moderator, former Senator Tim Wirth (D-CO), in a discussion that focused on the future of clean energy production in the United States. CAPAF CEO and President John Podesta hosted the event, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) was Honorary Chair.

Joining Wirth, Podesta, and Gore on the panel were former President Bill Clinton, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Representative Ed Markey (D-MA) and energy executive T. Boone Pickens. Also participating in the conversation were AFL-CIO president John Sweeny, CAPAF Senior Fellow Van Jones, Waterkeeper Alliance Board Chairman Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and former Governor George Pataki (R-NY).

Watch 3-part video.