Travel Gadgets: You already have them!

May 24, 2010 No Comments by

Sorry, I stay away from top 10 lists–but I thought I’d share some tips for how you can be more eco-friendly while you are on the road. You probably already have them in your home or office!

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Earth Hour, 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm, Your Local Time – Why It Matters

Mar 26, 2010 No Comments by

Earth Hour will occur Saturday, March 27, between 8:30 and 9:30 p.m. local time around the world.  Some may scoff and say it’s a fad:  but in my opinion, it’s more important and meaningful than Earth Day.  Here’s why.   Throughout 137 countries and countless towns and cities, the lights will go off for one [...]

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Water Wars: The Floodgates Have Opened!

Feb 03, 2010 No Comments by

Wow.  Two weeks ago I posted a short film I did with Patrick Benson on LA’s tenuous relationship with water.  And as I often do weekly, I posted the link to most of the LinkedIn groups to which I belong.  From a bird’s eye view, the results were interesting:  I think few actually watched the [...]

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LA’s Fragile Water Supply

Jan 20, 2010 No Comments by

Los Angeles and water sure have a sordid history together.  Of course there’s the 1974 movie, Chinatown, that sums up the backroom deals and violence that worked to bring water to a thirsty and ambitious Southern California.  Now we are on the verge of another chapter in the “water wars,” as years of drought, increasing [...]

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A Walk in the Forest

Dec 29, 2009 No Comments by

Last week I was in Aptos, California, visiting my parents for Christmas.  They have lived in Aptos (just east of Santa Cruz) for over 12 years, yet until last Saturday, I was completely clueless about a treasure two miles from their home:  The Forest of Nisene Marks, a California State Park.   For forty years, [...]

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A Happier Halloween!

Oct 08, 2009 2 Comments by

Halloween holds a special place in my heart—my birthday is close to the holiday, so growing up, my mother often had very creative ideas for my Halloween-themed birthday parties . . . I remember one birthday party where we made individual caramel apples, using licorice, of course, for those 70s moustaches.  Years later, in my [...]

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It’s in the Toilet

Jul 25, 2009 No Comments by

My dear friend in Ottawa announced several weeks back—on Facebook—that she had bought a dual flush toilet.  I remember seeing these all over East Asia, especially in Korea and Japan.  It makes sense, right?  Smaller flush for #1, and well, a bigger flush.  That’s actually how I figured out the Chinese characters for “big” and [...]

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Green is grey

Jul 13, 2009 No Comments by

I recently had a discussion with like-minded folks where we bantered about what it meant to be “green.”  It’s gone from fringe to fashion, activist to academic, from mocked to a true movement. Growing up, the debate had always been so polarized.  Remember the spotted owl controversy of the early 1990s?  Then there was the [...]

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