Santa Monica’s Zero-Emissions Delivery Zone Pilot launches
Feb. 26, 2021 at 6:00 am
Santa Monica’s Zero-Emissions Delivery Zone Pilot is now underway, and program participants are hoping a successful test run in the city will result in similar initiatives throughout the Westside in the near future.
Thanks to a partnership between the City, Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator and a number of private companies, the first-in-the-nation Zero Emissions Delivery Zone stretches from the city’s southern border at Dewey Street to Wilshire Boulevard, and from the ocean eastward to Lincoln Boulevard.
Residents in the area may have already spotted robots delivering sandwiches or electric bicycles carting small packages since the pilot first kicked off last year when local companies, like Cyan Robotics and its handful of human-powered bots, eagerly signed on to deliver goods from restaurants like Alfalfa on Main Street. And earlier this month, Santa Monica City Council approved a license ag
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ImpactAlpha, Feb 1 – The design mandate for the green economy: Develop better and cleaner solutions that create jobs, improve health and drive demonstrably better outcomes for communities that have borne the brunt of pollution and climate change.
That is, solve for climate justice and you solve for the environment – and for justice. A growing network of Black investors, entrepreneurs and operators is using their proximity to communities and their own lived experience to build companies at the center of the Venn diagram of urgent challenges.