The Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach is the city’s biggest annual event and one of Southern California’s biggest celebrations of car culture. It is the longest-running major street race held on the North American continent, with attendance regularly reaching or exceeding 200,000 people.

The car culture lives and is celebrated here, but with a falling dollar pushing gas prices beyond $100 per barrel, this is the year that the culture itself must change.Read More >>

Cleaning Up its Record and the Air We Breathe
For decades, Long Beach residents have both benefited and suffered because of the port. The 3,200-acre, 80-berth port—the second-largest in the United States—has meant some 30,000 jobs in Long Beach alone, but has also given west-side neighborhoods some of the worst air pollution in the country.Read More >>

The year is 2030. Long Beach has been lauded as the greenest, most sustainable, most livable large city in the U.S. It has the smallest carbon footprint and the smallest ecological footprint on a per-capita basis of any major city in the U.S. It is one of the nation’s most pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly cities, and long ago the Port of Long Beach cleaned up air emissions.Read More >>

A Company with Smart Ideas
On a daily basis, the creative minds behind Intelligent Energy give birth to big ideas inside a 10,000-square-foot facility in the enterprise zone near the intersection of Redondo Avenue and Spring Street. But the public doesn’t know that – yet.Read More >>