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The South LA Eco-Lab is a transformative, community-driven initiative awarded $35 million in 2022 by the California Strategic Growth Council (SGC)’s Transformative Climate Communities Program (TCC). We are creating a greener, healthier and more resilient neighborhood via economic development through climate action. With 11 interconnected projects, the South LA Eco-Lab brings together residents, small businesses, community-based organizations, and public agencies to address long-standing environmental and economic challenges in South Los Angeles. The South LA Eco-Lab builds off the work from the South LA Climate Commons, funded under the Round 2 Transformative Climate Communities Planning Grant.
Rooted in a multi-year planning process, the South LA Eco-Lab focuses on expanding access to affordable housing, creating well-paying green jobs, improving public transportation, and enhancing the local environment with more green spaces and cleaner air. From installing 84 cool roofs and planting over 4,000 trees, to providing 45,255 free annual Metro passes to students and building 16 new EV charging stations, the South LA Eco-Lab ensures that South LA benefits from sustainable infrastructure improvements while protecting residents from displacement.
Through robust community engagement, workforce development programs and displacement avoidance, the South LA Eco-Lab empowers residents to take ownership of these investments, ensuring lasting benefits for generations to come. This initiative not only addresses climate resilience but also builds economic opportunity and social equity, making South LA a model for sustainable urban transformation.
The South Los Angeles Eco-Lab focuses on “Economic Development through Climate Action” to achieve the community’s vision for a socially inclusive, sustainable, green community resilient to climate change, in the heart of South Los Angeles. The South LA Eco-Lab’s synergistic projects are seeds cultivated by community residents, small businesses, CBOs, and public agencies in these neighborhoods. The seeds will blossom into a South Los Angeles oasis, one with serene green spaces, energy and water efficient infrastructure, and expansion of safe active travel and public transit, all of which enhance public health, well-being, and environmental benefits, including reduction in GHGs.
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Community Empowerment: We believe in the power of local voices to shape their future. Our work amplifies the leadership and agency of South LA residents, ensuring they drive the change they want to see.
Community Empowerment: We believe in the power of local voices to shape their future. Our work amplifies the leadership and agency of South LA residents, ensuring they drive the change they want to see.
Environmental Justice: We stand for equity in climate action. Our commitment is to correct the environmental harms that have disproportionately impacted our community, creating healthier and fairer outcomes for all.
Environmental Justice: We stand for equity in climate action. Our commitment is to correct the environmental harms that have disproportionately impacted our community, creating healthier and fairer outcomes for all.
Collaboration and Partnership: We believe in the strength of working together. By uniting diverse organizations and residents, we create solutions that are holistic, inclusive, and impactful.
Collaboration and Partnership: We believe in the strength of working together. By uniting diverse organizations and residents, we create solutions that are holistic, inclusive, and impactful.
Sustainability and Climate Resilience: We are building a future that endures. Our projects aim to create lasting environmental resilience in South LA, ensuring our community thrives in the face of climate challenges.
Sustainability and Climate Resilience: We are building a future that endures. Our projects aim to create lasting environmental resilience in South LA, ensuring our community thrives in the face of climate challenges.
Economic Inclusion and Opportunity: We believe in shared prosperity. Through workforce development and green job creation, we provide pathways to economic empowerment for all residents.
Economic Inclusion and Opportunity: We believe in shared prosperity. Through workforce development and green job creation, we provide pathways to economic empowerment for all residents.
Anti-Displacement and Equity Protection: We protect what matters most: our people. Our efforts ensure long-time residents can stay, grow, and benefit from the improvements in their community.
Anti-Displacement and Equity Protection: We protect what matters most: our people. Our efforts ensure long-time residents can stay, grow, and benefit from the improvements in their community.
Innovation and Holistic Solutions: We embrace bold thinking. By integrating environmental, social, and economic strategies, we create transformative, sustainable solutions that uplift our entire community.
Innovation and Holistic Solutions: We embrace bold thinking. By integrating environmental, social, and economic strategies, we create transformative, sustainable solutions that uplift our entire community.
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