Source: Xinhua
04-17-2009 09:52
Special Report: Tech MaxLOS ANGELES, April 16 (Xinhua) -- Los Angeles, the second largest U.S. metropolis, is seeking academic help to develop clean technology in a bid to become the nation's "cleanest" and "greenest" city, it was reported on Thursday.
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Under a plan announced earlier by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, the city will partner with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) and the University of Southern California (USC) to achieve this goal, the Los Angeles Times said.
The partnership is part of the agenda Villaraigosa outlined in his State of the City speech earlier this week to lure and retain companies that focus on green endeavors such as solar, wind, battery and hydrogen fuel cell technologies, according to the paper.
With the support from the three universities, the city would be positioned to compete for hundreds of thousands of federal dollars for clean technology research and a proposed state institute to study climate change, said the paper.
Villaraigosa said on Wednesday that the CleanTech LA alliance, which also includes the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles Business Council and Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp., represented a "giant leap forward in our effort to make this city the global capital of clean technology."
"We're formalizing a partnership to leverage what we've done over the last four years in the city, what we're doing at all three universities to develop the jobs of the new economy," the mayor said.
