News from the South Bay Environmental Services Center: June, 2023

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June is National Oceans Month

June, 2023

Save Water, Energy, Money and the Environment

Learn About Your Water at Free, Community Workshops

West Basin provides free water education for the community as an opportunity to learn about the challenges of reliable water, what West Basin is doing to meet future needs and how residents can get involved.

Know Your H2O:

Wednesday, July 19, 2023

6 p.m.-8 p.m.

Learn more about classes, tours and online chats offered by West Basin.

Conserve Water with a High-Efficiency Toilet

The City of Torrance is offering rebates starting at $40 in exchange for purchasing a high-efficiency toilet.

The largest amount of water used inside your home–about 30%–goes toward flushing the toilet. But how much water your toilet actually needs to flush properly is less than you think.

Read more about this and how to earn these rebates.

Ride More, Pay Less on Metro

The Low-Income Fare is Easy (LIFE) program provides transportation assistance to Low-Income Individuals in Los Angeles County.

The LIFE program offers discounts on select passes or 20 free rides on Metro or any of the participating transit agencies.

Starting July 1, Metro will introduce fare capping, which means the more you ride, the more you will save. Learn more.

See a list of upcoming events where you can enroll in LIFE here.

Take a Virtual Ocean Tour to Learn How Sanitation Districts Protects Local Marine Life

Since 1970, Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts have implemented a comprehensive program to monitor the quality of receiving waters (surface or groundwaters into which treated or untreated wastewater is discharged).

Monitoring vessels are employed in diverse marine habitats off the Palos Verdes Peninsula that conduct biological, chemical, and oceanographic studies and also inspect the ocean outfall system to ensure its structural integrity and safe operation.

Findings are compiled into reports and shared with the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board and other interested parties. A virtual tour of the ocean monitoring field demonstration can be accessed online. Learn more here.

Reserve Your Spot to Learn About Sustainable Landscape Design

Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) provides free introductory Landscape Training classes for customers.

These one-hour online classes provide a cursory overview of the benefits of a California-friendly native plant landscape and an introduction to the different ways on how to remove your grass.

See the full-list of upcoming classes here.

Facility Equipment Inventory Program Aims to Help Cities Identify Go-Green Opportunities

In partnership with the Southern California Regional Energy Network, the South Bay Environmental Services Center (SBESC) is cataloging energy-using devices in the South Bay to help cities become more sustainable.

Inventories have been completed in Carson, El Segundo, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, and Manhattan Beach (and more recently, Gardena and Torrance). Next stop is the city of Inglewood.

Read more about the surprising revelations of this work.

To learn more about the SoCalREN and how they are helping the South Bay cities save energy visit socalren.org/agencies.

Did You Know?

World Environment Day (WED) annually takes place in June. It's led by the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) to encourage awareness action for protection of the environment. It is the largest global platform for environmental global outreach and is celebrated by millions of people across the world.

Click Here for the June 2023 Calendar of Events and Workshops

Learn about the Green Business Program.

The California Green Business Program (CAGBN) is a network of local programs operated by counties and cities throughout California. Businesses in El Segundo, Hawthorne and Torrance are eligible to join the CAGBN.

Businesses that apply receive personal attention from the public agencies and utilities that serve them. The program is funded by grassroots contributions from local government and utility partners to make it accessible to small to medium-sized businesses in California.