City of Long Beach Office of Sustainability

Long Beach businesses can access a $500 rebate to help them become a Certified Green Business! Save water, save energy, reduce waste and pollution, and get recognition for your environmental efforts. Find out more at www.longbeach.gov/greenbusiness Featured here: Rockwell Process Consulting Inc.

Do you know which California native plants are visible in this photo? We'll give you a native plant seed packet if you can guess either of these plants correctly! (Up to 5 seed packets available.) Hint: the answers are in the latest Native Plant Workshop on fall planting basics. The first person to guess BOTH plants correctly will win a potted native plant. So that we don't give away the answer, we'll message the winners directly. Good luck and happy planting!

Happy Electio Day! Let's go vote!

Check out these upcoming virtual workshops from Long Beach Recycles on reducing waste in the kitchen and how to recycle right in Long Beach!

What you plant in your yard and parkway can have huge benefits for our local ecosystem and your community! Native plants support local pollinators and save water, while trees provide habitat for birds and shade to combat urban heat. Find resources to plant trees (#TreeYourself) at www.longbeach.gov/treeyourself and for drought tolerant gardens at www.lblawntogarden.com

In this Native Plant Workshop we will share with you some of the native plants you can grow and begin planting this fall. We will talk annual wildflowers, purchasing native plants, and we will demonstrate a planting of mugwort up at Longview Point! We hope these basics will encourage you to incorporate natives into your landscaping or garden, and happy fall planting! For an upcoming local native plant sales, visit the City of Long Beach, El Dorado Nature Center and Regional Park for their "Reimagined" California Native Plant Sale November 3-21.

Repost from @cleanyourstoop! We’re not hosting cleanups for now but that doesn’t mean we can’t all pick up litter wherever we are! Thanks @cleanyourstoop for helping keep LB clean!

Fall is here! Tis the season for planting natives, and we're excited to share with you some of the native plants you can grow in our next Native Plant Workshop this Thursday right here on Facebook. We will talk annual wildflowers, purchasing native plants, and we will demonstrate a planting of mugwort up at Longview Point! Watch until the end for a tour of our demonstration garden and learn about some of the native plants that are growing there.

Volunteer for the 13th Annual Bike & Pedestrian Count! Every October, volunteers and City employees work together to tally the number of bicyclists, pedestrians and e-scooter riders across key intersections in Long Beach. This event allows City staff to determine the effectiveness of existing infrastructure & better design future projects. Read more: https://bit.ly/3moG9cv Sign up to volunteer: https://bit.ly/2TvaNEE

Do you have space to add a tree to your yard or parkway? We have resources to help you choose the best tree for you, plant it, and care for it. #TreeYourself and help grow Long Beach's urban forest! Find resources at www.longbeach.gov/treeyourself

Fewer cars on the road means fewer emissions in the air, and less traffic! Tomorrow (10/22, 4pm) at the Sustainable City Commission meeting, we'll hear from Long Beach Transit about their clean energy and sustainability program, and transition to zero-emission busses. Find the links to tune in or sign up for public comment at www.longbeach.gov/scc

Did you miss it? We talked with City of Long Beach Economic Development - Government about resources for local businesses and with some of our Certified Green Businesses (including Long Beach Creamery) about how they've adapted to COVID-19. You can watch the recording anytime here: https://app.bitly.com/bbt2/ with password: Adapt2020

This Thursday at 4pm at the Sustainable City Commission, learn about the Long Beach Municipal Urban Stormwater Treatment (LB-MUST) Facility, which is envisioned to capture stormwater from 12,300 acres and treat it before it is released into the LA River or reused. Find the links to tune in and sign up for public comment at www.longbeach.gov/scc Learn more about LB-MUST at www.longbeach.gov/pw/projects/lbmust/