A homeless man reads newspaper in front of a mural painted by artist Ruben Soto on Friday, Feburary 7, 2014, in Los Angeles.Former U.S. Vice President and Nobel laureate Al Gore, right, looks on as Los Angeles Mayor Antonia Villaraigosa in a press conference in front of the Los Angeles Department of Water building on Friday March 22, 2013, to announce Los Angeles plans to become the largest coal-free city in the country by shifting the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power off ÒdirtyÓ coal and replacing it with renewable energy sources and natural gas. LADWP currently gets 70 percent of its energy from coal plants. Gore included Los Angeles among the top five cities in the world “where combating global warming is concerned.” Only the cities of London, Toronto, Copenhagen and Berlin have “tried to do something like this,” he said, adding that Los Angeles would be the first American city to become coal-free.A woman walks on a prosthetic leg through a field of poppies near Antelope Valley in Lancaster, California, Sunday, April 27, 2014. The California poppy is the state flower. Wildflowers are showing up in massive quantities throughout desert areas in Southern California because of recent rains.An airplane approaching Los Angeles International Airport flies past the full moon in Los Angeles, California, on April 4, 2015.Kellie Mcdougle (left) and Katellyn Mcdougle run across the graves after the scouts placed flags on them. Hundreds Americans attended the Memorial Day Ceremony at Los Angeles National Cemetery in West Los Angeles Saturday. Photo by Ringo Chiu.A Calla Lily at a home garden in Sherman Oaks, California, USA. (Photo by Ringo Chiu / PHOTOFORMULA.com)(Photo by Ringo H.W. Chiu)Dorothy Pirtle, 18, of Los Angeles and Anthony Smith, 17, of Sherman Oaks embrace each other at the Reseda Park in Los Angeles California, USA. (Photo by Ringo Chiu/PHOTOFORMULA.com)(Photo by Ringo H.W. Chiu)(Photo by Ringo H.W. Chiu)(Photo by Ringo H.W. Chiu)Li Yundi performs at Disney Concert Hall. (Photo by Ringo H.W. Chiu)Pianist Fu Cong, center, looks on as Hong Kong Governor David Wilson and his wife Natasha act playing piano.
