Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti Friday announced the formation of the L.A. Sustainability Leadership Council to help guide the city’s environmental efforts.
The council was formed in partnership with UCLA and its chancellor, Gene Block, and will work to advance the mayor’s Sustainable City pLAn, UCLA’s Sustainable Grand Challenge and other environmental initiatives in the region.
Garcetti will co-chair the council with Block.
“Building a sustainable Los Angeles is one of the great challenges of our time — and we need our greatest minds working together to meet it,” Garcetti said. “The L.A. Sustainability Leadership Council will support the collaboration and innovation we need to help us fight climate change, protect our environment, and build an economy for the next generation.”
The Sustainable City pLAn was released in 2015 and sets environmental markers for the city to achieve by 2017, 2025 and 2035. Ninety percent of the plan’s 2017 goals have been met, including reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and water usage.
“The creation of a high-powered Leadership Council, chaired by Mayor Garcetti and Chancellor Block, will result in a more focused, coordinated effort to make Los Angeles the world’s first sustainable mega-city,” said Mark Gold, associate vice chancellor at UCLA for the Grand Challenge.
The full list of L.A. Sustainability Leadership Council members includes:
— Yael Aflalo, CEO and founder, Reformation
— Lori Bettison-Varga, executive director, LA County Museum of Natural History
— Michael Burke, Chairman & CEO, AECOM
— Brad Cox, senior managing director, Trammell Crow Company
— Kevin de Leon, Ppresident pro Tempore of the California State Senate
— Michael Dubin, CEO, Dollar Shave Club
— Mark Gold, associate vice chancellor for Environment and Sustainability
— Antonia Hernandez, president and CEO, California Community Foundation
— Jody Heymann, UCLA dean of Public Health
— Ann Karagozian, UCLA vice Cchancellor for Research
— Richard Katz, environmental and policy consultant, Former CA State assemblyman
— Jenna King, Jenna & Michael King Foundation
— Sheila Kuehl, supervisor of Los Angeles County, District 3
— Lyn Lear, environmental leader, co-founder of Environmental Media Association
— Mary Leslie, president, Los Angeles Business Council
— Debra Man, COO, Metropolitan Water District
— Felicia Marcus, chair of the State Water Resources Control Board
— Kelly Meyer, environmental leader
— Jennifer Mnookin, UCLA dean of Law
— Jayathi Murthy, UCLA dean of Engineering
— Marc Nathanson, chairman, Falcon Waterfree Technologies
— Mary Nichols, chair, California Air Resources Board
— Ron Nichols, president, Southern California Edison
— Manuel Pastor, director, Program for Environmental and Regional Equity – USC
— Jonas Peters, Bren professor of chemistry and director, Resnick Sustainability Institute — Caltech
— Tom Penn, president, Los Angeles Football Club
— Tony Pritzker, managing partner and co-founder of The Pritzker Group
— Bonnie Reiss, global director, USC Schwarzenegger Institute
— Anthony Rendon, CA State Assembly speaker, 63 District
— Robert Ross, president and CEO, California Endowment
— Laura Shell, co-chair, California Advisory Board, Trust for Public Land
— Hilda Solis, supervisor for the First District of Los Angeles County
— Victoria Sork, UCLA dean of Life Sciences
— Terry Tamminen, CEO — Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, president/founder Seventh Generation Advisors
— Patricia Turner, UCLA senior dean of the College of Letters and Science
— Phillip Washington, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
— Steve Westly, managing partner, The Westly Group
— David Wright, general manager, LADWP
— City News Service