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After a decade of planning, Claremont social entrepreneur Devon Hartman has opened the very first nonprofit solar panel assembling factory in the world. Located in Pomona, Community Home Energy Retrofit, known as CHERP, has established the phrase one goal of installing solar panels on 6,000 low-to moderate homes in Pomona and Claremont.

The switch to solar is projected so save those residents a combined $6.5 million in energy costs annually. Plus, the factory will create approximately 200 positions. 

If you're like me, you're increasingly concerned about climate change but sometimes feel overwhelmed by the magnitude of the problem and your ability to make a difference through everyday decisions.

Angelenos Margaret To and Margie Peng, to the rescue.

They are the co-leads of the Los Angeles chapter of Climate Designers, a global hub for designers and creative professionals from all industries, committed to using their creative skills for climate action.

The legacies of the world's most influential proponents of nonviolent social change, Mahatma Gandhi and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, live on through Cities4Peace. An initiative of the International Association for Human Values, Cities4Peace is a global initiative that helps cities improve their quality of life by actively promoting peace, compassion, and nonviolence. It does so through a series of intensive workshops that bring together groups of indivduals who have lived in conflict with one another.

LA2050 recently held a grant competition that attracted 285 proposals from a wide range of nonprofits, social enterprises, B corporations, and government entities.

Applicants pitched their ideas for improving life in Los Angeles in the following areas--Learn, Connect, Live, Create, and Play. A total of $1 million was distributed among the top 25 winning submissions.