Regional Resources + Programs

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LA County Chief Sustainability Office Resource Library

The Los Angeles County Chief Sustainability Office compiled a library of resources for cities to use when addressing sustainability challenges. This extensive list contains model ordinances and policies, toolkits, guidance documents, and partnership opportunities.

To learn more, please visit the Resource Library.

LA Energy Atlas

The LA Energy Atlas provides Californians the opportunity to interact with the largest set of disaggregated energy data in the nation. This first of its kind interactive website can be used to inform energy planning and research in Los Angeles and throughout California as the State works to achieve its ambitious energy goals and local regions work to create energy sustainability. All data is downloadable and complies to protect privacy. The website is powered by a geospatial relational database that connects address level energy consumption to building characteristics and census information.

The Energy Atlas, developed by the UCLA California Center for Sustainable Communities (CCSC), was funded by the Southern California Regional Energy Network (SoCal REN) and the County of Los Angeles’ Office of Sustainability, it has benefited from the support and input of a number of partners including the Los Angeles Regional Collaborative for Climate Action and Sustainability (LARC), and the Energy Coalition (TEC), as well as interest from a broad range of policy makers, energy experts and program administrators. The Atlas provides important public interest energy data and analysis to assist the state in meeting its energy goals. It improves transparency of building energy consumption in the most populous county in the United States.

Regional AdaptLA: Coastal Impacts Planning in the LA Region

With funding from the Ocean Protection Council (OPC), the Coastal Commission and Coastal Conservancy, USC Sea Grant will develop a comprehensive shoreline change and coastal erosion model for the Los Angeles region. The model will be developed by a strong team of experts (ESA PWA, TerraCosta Consulting Group). They will integrate their work which is focused on shoreline and beach response, with the work led by the U.S. Geological Survey to develop a coastal storm modeling system(CoSMoS) for Southern California.

The City of Santa Monica serves as the grant lead, but this project will be conducted in close collaboration with 11 participating jurisdictions; the University of Southern California (USC) Sea Grant Program, the Los Angeles Regional Collaborative on Climate Action and Sustainability (LARC); the CA State Coastal Conservancy; Heal the Bay; the Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commission (SMBRC); USGS; TerraCosta Consulting Group; and ESA PWA.

To learn more, visit USC Sea Grant's website.