LADWP Announces Its First Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Thursday announced it appointed its first chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer who will report to the department’s general manager, as directed by an executive directive issued by Mayor Eric Garcetti to have all city departments appoint racial equity officers.

Lessons from Inside the Heat Dome About the Future of the Electric Grid

The impacts of climate change feel abstract until they’re not. 

Sarah Golden of GreenBiz spent the last five days living through an unprecedented heat dome in Oregon. The temperatures are suffocating. It’s a reminder of how our systems are limping towards climate chaos, and we — and our infrastructure — are not prepared.

Governor Asks Californians to Voluntarily Cut Water Use

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday asked people and businesses in the nation’s most populous state to voluntarily cut how much water they use by 15% as the Western United States weathers a drought that is rapidly emptying reservoirs relied on for agriculture, drinking water and fish habitat.

The water conservation is not mandatory, but it demonstrates the growing challenges of a drought that will only worsen throughout the summer and fall and is tied to more intense wildfires and heat waves. Temperatures in parts of the region are spiking again this week as firefighters battle several wildfires in Northern California and other states but are less extreme than the record heat wave that may have caused hundreds of deaths in the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia in late June.

GSA - The Largest Real Estate Portfolio Automation Project in the World

Each week, Realcomm Live speaks with influential industry leaders and subject matter experts about commercial and corporate real estate top of mind topics. Recently, we had a conversation with GSA's Chip Pierpont, Director of Innovation, Technology and Performance and Ana Rawson, Smart Buildings Program Manager, who shared how this very progressive government agency leverages technology and data to optimize management and operations of the government’s massive real estate portfolio.