Los Angeles Regional Energy Innovation Cluster

CEC Innovation Cluster Workshops will bring together innovators, entrepreneurs, students, sources of finance, community members, and technical specialist to brainstorm innovative ideas that provide benefits to rate payers. It will also help expose entrepreneurs and innovators to resources available through LACI, our partners, and throughout the CSU5 that can help them bring new technologies to market.

Tree Planting and Education in a Next Century Public School

The goals of the project are to provide much-needed greenery to a very disadvantaged neighborhood, to beautify the landscape, shade buildings, remove pollutants from the air, sequester carbon dioxide, and provide food and habitat for many insects, birds and animals. In periods of heavy rain, they will also reduce stormwater runoff and provide erosion control. The tree planting project will enrich the community of Pacoima through these be...

Examining ways to conserve irrigation water on turf grass

In an effort to meet the ambitious goals set out by mandates from the CSU, CSU, Northridge (CSUN) has pursued various options for water conservation. A large portion of the University?s water consumption occurs outdoors, thus, turf removal has been a primary strategy for meeting our water reduction goals. However, turf removal is not always possible, as turf is necessary for many of our programmatic activities (sports, rehabilitation, outd...