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COMMITTEE OFFERS YOU AN EASY WAY TO HELP SLOW GLOBAL WARMING
May 31, 2009
Replace dirty brown power with clean energy with the LADWP Green Power Program. PHOTO BY DARRELL CLARKE Would you like to help slow global warming --- easily? And without having to drive somewhere in your car? If so, you're invited to...
Composting 101
May 31, 2009
This material was reproduced from a Sierra Club website with permission of the Sierra Club. Hooray for the Black, Brown, and Green It's a bit of gardening wisdom that if you feed the soil, the soil will feed the plants. And one of the best ways...
Don't Waste the Desert on Trash
May 31, 2009
A desert tortoise enjoys breakfast. PHOTO BY DONNA CHARPIED The Eagle Mountain dump will be the repository for Los Angeles' garbage for the next 117 years. Proposed by Kaiser Ventures and a shell corporation, Mine Reclamation...
ZERO WASTE: FUN WITH REPURPOSING
May 31, 2009
FIRST PLACE: Elena Driskill Elena made this darling and very functional, reusable grocery bag out of Capri-Sun drink bags. She sewed each bag together quilt-style, then, she fin- ished the interior with lime green duct tape. The judges...
LETTERS AND EMAILS
May 31, 2009
Thanks to Carol Henning for her story, Neighbors' Plans for Expansion May Spell Trouble for Griffith Park, in the April issue. Stephen V. Hymowitz Sierra Club Life Member Dear Friends: What a great column Sandra Cattell wrote in the March...
MCLEAN CD GIVES YOU FLOWER POWER AT YOUR FINGERTIPS
April 30, 2009
BY MICHAEL GOSNELL As an avid hiker in the San Gabriels, I always had a nagging urge to learn about the plants that I saw and smelled. Finally, a few years back, I decided to learn more about my surroundings in these beloved mountains. Surprisingly...
Sustainable From The Cradle: An Environmental Journalist Offers Tips for a Greener Nursery
April 30, 2009
Green kids are happy kids. PHOTO BY: Elizabeth Saas So you're having a baby. Congratulations-and yikes! your environmental footprint has grown several sizes. Plus, you're now worried about hazards that never even occurred to you before...
Vern and Debbie Jahnke's Green Dream Home
April 30, 2009
Every element of the redesign reflects the Janhkes' goal of reducing the production of waste. Photo Credit: Vern Jahnke Vern and Debbie Jahnke lost their Claremont home in the Grand Prix fire that destroyed 194 houses in the San...
Join Airport-Marina For the Do's and Don'ts of Mountain Ecotourism on May 18
April 30, 2009
Colette Simonds and the mountains she loves PHOTO Courtesy of OFPRINKITI LA Mountain Ecotourism will be presented by Colette Simonds, a veteran scaler of the Himalayas and the Andes, at the May 18 meeting of the Airport-Marina group of...
Angeles Chapter Conservation Legal Committee and Loyola Law Partner in Environmental Law Training
April 30, 2009
BY DEAN WALLRAFF Vice Chair, Angeles Chapter Conservation Legal Committee The Angeles Chapter Conservation Legal Committee and the Loyola Law School Environmental Law Society held a day-long workshop on environmental law on March 7 for...