Los Angeles County is in the process of designing a PACE (Property-Assessed Clean Energy) program to help property owners “go green”.  While it is still in the early stages of development, this program will provide financing to home owners making green improvements on their property, allowing  costs of these improvements to be carrier by the property itself rather than incurring massive out of pocket expenses.  California has implimented similar programs in Berkeley(Berkeley FIRST), Palm Desert (Energy Indepence Program) and Sonoma County (Energy Independence Program.) 

To learn more about this program and others like it please visit The Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency.