Tom Bradley Legacy Foundation at UCLA
BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2006

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The Tom Bradley Legacy Foundation
at UCLA
Green Technology Institute




The Green
Economy Forum II
Saturday, April 22, 2006 * 9 am to 4 pm
Audubon Center at Debs Park,
4700 N. Griffin Ave., L.A. 90031
Discovery Room

We must plan to build a Green Economy powered by solar & hydrogen and deconstruct the Gray Economy based on fossil energy, if we are to create a sustainable future in the 21st Century. The Tom Bradley Green Technology Institute's Project Green Phoenix provides a framework to begin the transition to a Green Hydrogen Revolution based on solar, digital technologies, and the Internet to empower the global villagers.

Big Dreamers for Los Angeles

"Angelenos, we need to start dreaming big again, and facing up to our biggest challenge. Let's heed Mr. Rhodia's words today. Let's do something big for Los Angeles."

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, City of Los Angeles
Inaugural Address, July 1, 2005

"We, the people, are the World Custodians, and we got work to do and dreams to share!"

Les Hamasaki, Managing Director
Tom Bradley Legacy Foundation, Green Technology Institute

Discovery Room

10.00 am

Green Africa Tomorrow: Adopt a Solar Televillage Project
Virtual Conference with Malawi, South Africa and Japan

Africa is at a crossroads for its future development. Will Africa take the path of building a new economy based on solar renewable energy, the Internet Superhighway, and digital technologies? Or will it continue on the path of the Gray Economy, relying on oil and coal to power development? Africans can re-plan, redesign and rethink their future based on new and practical opportunities. The "wireless world" of solar power and digital technologies can make it possible to leapfrog the Industrial Revolution and instead get on a pathway to the "Hydrogen Information Superhighway Revolution".

This doesn't have to be expensive or very "high tech". A startup solar televillage can begin with low cost solar panels and car batteries powering lights and telecomm devices such as receivers for AfricaSat info channels. A step up can provide flexible photovoltaic shade structures where entrepreneurs selling goods at a bazaar in one village can connect with others elsewhere through cell phones, digital cameras, computers, and electric vehicles, all powered with solar energy. Select sites can evolve into centers for community-based E-Schoolhouse, E-Commerce, E-banking, E-communications, E-clinics, and E-Cinemas and Entertainment. Africa can thus transition from an Informal Economy to a Virtual Economy, moving toward local engagement in regional and world economies offering future markets for locally based informational products and services.

Malawi is uniquely favored as a potential resource center for its region in the future E-conomy. It has a relatively benign history, and political stability. Self-described as the "Warm Heart of Africa", it is the center of a comparatively stable and non-violent region including its neighbors Tanzania, Mozambique and Zambia. Eskom, the national utility of Malawi, will soon open a large capacity optic fiber link between the two main cities, providing a major step toward a future Internet Backbone for the region.

The Green Technology Institute is supporting its counterpart, the Malawi Green Technology Institute and its host group, MAFUWA, to help build a prototype in this region for "authentic development" of Green Africa Tomorrow. This panel will be a working session on the new optic fiber link and its potential uses, connecting the U.S. support team by teleconference with colleagues in our new offices in Blantyre, Malawi.

"Adopt-a-Solar Televillage Project" avails institutions and individuals a diverse range of opportunities to participate in a hopeful strategy to mitigate poverty and stabilize rural areas, helping reverse today's flow of villagers to crowded urban centers. If there are better ideas of how to proceed (and where else), we want to know of them.

12:00 noon

Hydrogen Village & the Green Technology River Parkway Development Opportunities
Les Hamasaki, Tom Bradley Green Technology Institute

The City of Los Angeles must plan on building a sustainable Green Economy based on solar and hydrogen technologies and deconstructing the unsustainable Gray Economy built on fossil energy. Imagine living and working in a Hydrogen Village (H2Village) of the future with solar farms producing hydrogen to power cars and buildings. Imagine an efficient Cybertran people mover powered by solar energy farms along the banks of the Los Angeles River. Imagine a mixed use, multigenerational, river front vertical garden villages of housing, green industries and commercial offices. Imagine high speed Internet connections to the global villages. Imagine the River becoming an aquaculture farm for catfish and tilapia. And imagine the LA River becoming an Art and Cultural Eco tourism Parkway, and its bridges becoming sculptures lighted with solar during the nights. Imagine under and on the bridges becoming performance spaces and festival venues. Envision the redevelopment of the Los Angeles River, Historic Cornfield site (the birthplace of the city), the surrounding industrial land use and the developments of a new high school and community college on San Fernando Road providing a remarkable opportunity to rethink, re-plan and reinvent the City of the Future into the Solar Hydrogen Century Los Angeles.

The choice is clear. We must plan for the "End of Oil" before it devastates our economy. In the State of the Union Address, President Bush stated, "Our Nation is addicted to oil…and we must build a hydrogen economy." In addition, Governor Schwarzenegger has established the Hydrogen Highway Initiative and the Million Solar Roofs Program as solutions to deal with the "world oil peak" and the summer energy crisis facing Californians. California State University at Los Angeles is providing the leadership in developing a Hydrogen Station to educate and train our students to become part of the hydrogen economy.

The panelist will share their views of the possibilities, opportunities, and potential in creating the Green Los Angeles in the 21st Century. The goal of the Symposium is to promote ideas on how to transition into a Green Hydrogen Economy.

Hydrogen Village & Green Technology River Parkway Development Opportunities

Aerial Photo of Historical Cornfield Site, Existing Industrial Development and the Los Angeles River

Ken Yeang's Concept of a possible H2Village Green Mixed use, Multigenerational River Front Development

Prototype of CyberTran River Transport System Powered by Solar and Hydrogen

Mixed Used Green Development in Fukuoka, Japan

2.00 pm

Urban Farms to Green Roof Gardens Initiative: Community Seeds Project
Carmelo Alvarez, Community Seeds Project Director

The Urban Farms to Green Roof Gardens Initiative provides a platform to discuss the opportunity to redesign and recycle brownfields into urban greenfields of dreams as well as gray roofs into green roofs for micro parks and farms. The "Not a Cornfield" environmental art project on the Cornfield brownfield site has sparked the imagination of the community to redefine open space as part of the spirituality of man and the environment. The corn seeds from the "field of dreams" are now part of a green project to empower the people to understand the value of the land we live on.

The Panels will discuss the impact of urban gardens on communities and how gray roofs of industrial buildings can be turned into green roofs for micro parks and urban farming.

3:00 pm

Solar Schools Earthquake Preparedness & Education Initiative
Michael Winters and Joe Conner, Urban Teachers

When, not if, a major earthquake devastates Los Angeles and all the power lines are down for months, will you be prepared or will you be scared? When the Big One Hits Los Angeles, we will have 4 seconds, not 4 days notice as in Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. It will affect 3 million people without power, not 300,000.

The neighborhood schools will become the Emergency Preparedness Centers for the community to get help. The Project Green Phoenix has launched a Solar School Initiative to install solar systems in schools as part of an education and training program for students and teachers to be prepared to communicate with the first responders with digital communications technologies.