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Open Neighborhoods announces a regional solar initiative and comparison shopping service for residential, commercial, tax exempt property owners and multi-family communities in greater Los Angeles seeking to reduce utility bills with solar energy.

GoSolar.LA launches this week with a new website at www.GoSolar.LA providing free services including information about solar rebates and incentives…

ROAR SHACK

A Partnership with

Portuguese Artists Colony

Presents:

PAST IS PROLOGUE

Sunday, September 9, 2012 at Stories Books

5 – 7 p.m.

The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.

--Sarah Orne Jewett

For writers, there is What Happened, and there is What Happened Next, and the connective…

Sponsored - Eastside yogis (or curious beginners) can stretch and strengthen at Still Yoga's sustainably built Silver Lake studio. The majority of classes are Anusara-style, a hatha/spiritual blend that offers fun and lighthearted classes for those who want to work their physical and spiritual well-being.…

latimes.com - Silver Lake residents will be affected by a DWP pipeline project that's still being decided. It's a classic choice between two evils: in this case, dig or drain?

Silver Lake's open-air reservoir no longer meets federal standards for storing drinking water. In 2010 LADWP launched what is now a $60-million, 4,900-foot bypass project to re-route water from the…

LADWP has released a statement regarding the possible draining of Silver Lake Reservoir for approximately 18 months:

LOS ANGELES — As many Silver Lake residents and businesses are aware, LADWP is currently evaluating an alternative approach that would construct a bypass line inside Silver Lake Reservoir instead of tunneling under and installing a bypass line along West Silver Lake Drive and Redesdale Avenue. This alternative avoids most traffic and other impacts of the…

A 
new poll has found that 87 percent of voters in Los Angeles want more local solar powering the city.

81 percent support LADWP increasing its local solar goal to 1,200 megawatts. Support for this goal remains strong across the political spectrum, with majorities of Democratic,…

Thomas Edison invented electric power generation and distribution to homes, businesses, and factories – a crucial development in the modern industrialized world.

Do you wonder what would Edison say about the extreme weather, …

The public is invited to attend a free Solar Mixer on Wednesday March 14 at Living Room (3531 West Sunset Blvd.) in Silver Lake.

Mingle with local residents, business owners, community leaders and environmental advocates.  Enjoy a glass of wine and complimentary hors d'oevres, relax…

Join us in experiencing the LA Green Festival this weekend. We'll be presenting Community Solar and the LA County Solar Challenge in booth #632, next to Energy Upgrade California.

The event is October 29 & 30 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Ride your bike or take public transportation for FREE…

Tantra in Silver Lake became a Spacecraft design project earlier this year.

The restaurant will be unveiling itself with a new name on…

Join the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council and Open Neighborhoods for a Free Solar Workshop on Tuesday October 18, 2011 from 6-8pm in the Silver Lake Library, located at 2411 Glendale Blvd.

RSVP at www.opensilverlake.net/rsvpsolar.

Renters, homeowners, business owners, and community leaders are invited to learn how to qualify for Los…

Over the weekend a developer demolished the local landmark original home of A Different Light bookstore, a pioneering gay bookstore.

Plans were in the works to nominate the building  as a cultural historic landmark, and the developer…

Open Neighborhoods and the Sierra Club's LA Beyond Coal Campaign announced that the organizations will co-host a solar tour on Sunday, October 2, 2011 to showcase innovative green buildings and homes and to demonstrate how homeowners can use energy efficiency, solar energy and other sustainable practices to reduce utility bills.  The Silver Lake Solar Tour will be part of a nationwide series of events presented by the American Solar Energy Society, which expects 165,000 attendees to…

Open Neighborhoods has teamed up with PermaCity, Inc. to make going solar easy and affordable with group discounts, neighborhood workshops and a Solar Challenge to raise up to $40,000 for school booster clubs, religious institutions and other non-profit organizations.

Together…

Downtown Lobby has published a rapidly-updated schedule of the last-minute gigs that are popping up every few minutes in the wake of the cancellation of this…

The U.S. Department of Energy and National Science Teachers Association have announced a nationwide student contest to help families save money by saving energy at home. America’s Home Energy Education Challenge will engage students in elementary and middle schools across the Nation to help them learn…

We are excited to announce free classified ads for Silver Lake!

Submit your free listing here and let us help get the word out in the neighborhood.  Categories include Housing, Services, Just for Kids, Wanted, and General listings.

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The LA Weekly takes a look at this weekend's Silver Lake Jubilee and gives five reasons its impressive roster of bands, comedians,…

The Silver Lake Neighborhood Council unanimously passed a motion to attain 100% clean power by 2018.

The vote followed a recent Earth Day Conference sponsored by the neighborhood council to discuss innovative and inexpensive ways to harness solar and renewable energy in Silver Lake to achieve 100% clean power.

The event at Silver Lake Public Library included participation from LA…