Recently I went to a Green Jobs Fair sponsored by the Los Angeles Community College District.  I figured it would be a good opportunity to network and meet companies; after all, few people actually get a job through such an event, so I went for the heck of it, with zero expectations.  Unfortunately, my expectations [...]

Activism.  Activist.  They are words that many people love to shout out.  To me, they often give me the creeps.   How many times have you heard someone say, “I don’t eat THIS” or “I don’t buy THAT” or “I don’t do ALLOFTHEABOVE.”   My response is:  it’s always easier to NOT do something.  It [...]

Rooting for the Los Angeles Dodgers is almost like begging for physical abuse in the Bay Area, where I grew up.  Well, now that my favorite adopted baseball team (I’m not abandoning the Oakland A’s, despite their recent sad performance), is the Dodgers, let me rave about this organization.  After all, with all the debate over energy [...]

Last night I attended the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council meeting.  The evening featured Gregory Randall, the City of LA’s lone wildlife specialist . . . in a city of 465 square miles crammed with four  million people.  Because of the recent events in Griffith Park, where eight coyotes were shot in the aftermath of two [...]

This weekend, after feeling under the weather for a few days, I decided to start my fall planting.  I had been thinking about it for a while, and then I decided to just get off the sofa and do it.  It was sad in a way–I yanked out a bunch of tomato plants . . [...]

Los Angeles and bicycling sound odd when mentioned in the same sentence.  Despite the region’s warm and arid climate, reputation having a healthy lifestyle, and sunshine year round, bicycling is a trend that really hasn’t caught on here.  You’ll find more yoga fiends than bike fanatics.  The love of yoga and health gyms reflects the [...]

You’ve probably heard of the term “greenwashing”:  slapping labels such as organic, natural, sustainable, free range, etc., which leads us to think this product is good for us.  It’s easy to fall into the trap, and well, as consumer trends change, businesses try to adapt.  But now it appears your favorite companies are going to [...]

I just found out that Los Angeles has a pilot program giving the homeowners the opportunity to gain free rainwater barrel installation on their properties.  Although priority is given to homes in West LA (the Ballona Creek watershed area is where most rain run off ends up in the Pacific Ocean), anyone within the City [...]