Recent Streetsblog LA posts about environmental justice

Transportation and food Access idea 3: Regional Food Hubs

By Mark Vallianatos | Nov 15, 2011 | 1 Comment

I’ve written about how transit could be improved and sidewalk vending legalized to increase access to healthy food. Before food can get from stores and food trucks and carts to shoppers, it first has to be transported from farms, through distribution chains, to retail sources. This third installment in a short series on transportation and food […]

Transportation and Food Access Idea 1: Transit and Good Food

By Mark Vallianatos | Oct 25, 2011 | 6 Comments

(Mark Vallianatos is Policy Director of UEPI and an Adjunct Professor at Occidental College, where he currently teaches the Environmental Stewards class. Mark is co-author of The Next Los Angeles: the Struggle for a Livable City and a number of publications on food access, transportation, and goods movement.) Several years ago, our institute collaborated with […]

USC Research: Freeway Pollutants Cause Brain Damage in Mice

By Damien Newton | Apr 7, 2011 | 2 Comments

In a study that should give pause to anyone proposing a highway expansion project near where people live, A new study out of the University of Southern California should give them pause. Research by University Professor and senior author Caleb Finch and Constantinos Sioutas of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering demonstrates a direct correlation […]

Are Environmental Reviews to Blame for Infrastructure Project Delays?

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 16, 2011 | No Comments

Highway projects can take 10 to 15 years from planning through construction. The length of the process leads to cost overruns, some due to inflation, some from having to pay engineers and contractors for years on end. No matter how you feel about the worthiness of road capacity expansion, if a project gets built it […]

The Lorenzo Project in South L.A. Is Controversial, But Is it T.O.D.?

By Damien Newton | Jan 20, 2011 | 12 Comments

Last week, at a packed meeting of the City of Los Angeles Planning Commission, the Commission punted on a proposed $250-million residential development known as the Lorenzo. The developer, Geoffery Palmer of Palmer Construction, is known for his other Italian-themed apartment developments Medici, Visconti, Orsini and Piero. He’s also known for successfully challenging a local […]

Too Big to Miss: Confronting the Costs of Freight Transport at the Moving Forward Together Conference

By Mark Vallianatos | Oct 28, 2010 | 2 Comments

Community members, activists and researchers met at THE Impact Project’s Moving Forward Together conference in Carson last weekend. THE (Trade, Health, Environment) Impact Project is a local collaboration of environmental justice organizations and academic institutions that banded together to fight pollution from the goods movement/ logistics industry in Southern California. http://www.theimpactproject.org/ ‘Goods’ movement or logistics […]