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!
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]