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Though I haven’t tried it myself, I mentioned Green Speed Dating events a couple times here — only to hear back from a couple girl friends who took the plunge about how undateable the men at the event were — at which point I stopped mentioning them so as not to make more women ...
Green Living
>> Westside bicycle co-op Bikerowave’s having a swap meet this Sunday, Dec. 6, from 11 am – 4 pm. There’ll good deals on bike parts plus coffee, donuts, fruit, and good times. Earlier: DIY bike solutions at BikeRoWave .
>> Missed the latest round of Subway to ...
Green Living
Afraid you won’t be able to keep a live Christmas tree alive? Fake Christmas trees are generally frowned upon by environmentalists, since most are made in China of synthetic plasticky materials. But I’ve found a couple fake trees I can endorse — because they’re made of ...
Green Living
The dead vs. fake debate’s over. Finally, Los Angeles has its own rent-a-tree service, thanks to the The Living Christmas Co. , a company that’ll deliver a locally-grown, live tree to your doorstep — in a biodiesel truck, no less!
The Torrance-based company offers five ...
Green Living
>> Free the staircase ! Dan Koeppel, author of Banana and Big Parade LA founder, reports that the Effie/Mohawk stairs in Echo Park have been suddenly gated:
There are over 20 closed stairways in Los Angeles; a few may have been legitimately shuttered, but others have clearly been ...
Green Living
The greenest closet’s the one you already own — and the greenest additions are pre-loved items. Even the greenest eco-fashionista, however, tends to draw the get-it-used line at underwear! Eco-friendlier panties can make some of the best green gifts: Useful, cute, comfy. Here are 3 ...
Green Living
Switched your lightbulbs — but haven’t thrown out the old incandescent ones? Then learn how to turn them into a holiday ornament tonight at Santa Monica eco-store The Green Life . The one stop green shop’s celebrating An Evening of Sustainable Art Food & Drinks tonight ...
Green Living
A twice-weekly sharing of eco-shwag.
Today’s giveaway is a set of two reusable bags, given out as shwag bags at events around town:
>> A Get Hip Get Green tote made of polypropylene — a.k.a. virgin plastic that’s recyclable in some towns — that was made in China, ...
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China
India
>> See a Comedy Slideshow about car-free living by Kristina Wong , whose Car Free Mondays interview you can read here. The show’s part of Diane Meyer’s photo exhibit, Without a Car in the World: 100 Car-less Angelinos Tell Stories of Living in Los Angeles ) and happens Wed., Dec. 2 at 7 ...
Green Living
Organic Food
Here’s an eco-luxury shopping event for well-heeled environmentalists — an event complete with eco-celebs like Rachelle Carson-Begley & Ed Begley, eco-couture from Linda Loudermilk, and eco-friendly drinks and eats. Gifts Giving Back , a sustainable shopping event benefiting ...
Green Living
Linda Loudermilk
Does the phrase “cap and trade” made you twitch — because you still don’t quite understand what it means although you’ve heard it so often you know it must be something you should know?
Annie Leonard of The Story of Stuff -fame’s got your back.
The ...
Green Living
Men: Here’s a necktie that’ll really get you noticed at the next Green Drinks. Vintage flair meets hipster style meets upcycled fashion with Cut by Wesley ties — all made from once-considered-fashionable but now-no-longer-loved vintage ties!
All Cut by Wesley ties are ...
Green Living
Eco Gift Festival isn’t happening this year, but don’t despair, green gift seekers — We’ll still have many, many more green shopping events and festivals than you could possibly need to celebrate the holidays. And Unique Los Angeles , the first and one of the biggest of ...
Green Living
Got a treehugging friend who’s already greener than green but still wants to make an eco-resolution for the new year? Here’s an uber-green, eco-habit forming present to consider: PeopleTowels — a reusable alternative to paper towels in public bathrooms.
While everyone ...
Green Living
While I love and celebrate Buy Nothing Day , I’m not at all against gift giving during the holiday season. I just don’t like wasteful, un-eco-friendly, useless, will-break-tomorrow crap that gets passed off as “gifts.” Yet the holiday pressures to keep buying this type ...
Green Living
If you, like me, signed up at BeyondTalk.net to engage in peaceful civil disobedience to demand strong action to combat climate change — then I hope you live in one of these 9 cities: Chicago, New York, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, Burlington, VT, two cities in Maine, and Washington ...
Green Living
Pretty much every time it rains in L.A., local eco-nonprofit TreePeople sends out a press release — not only about how much good clean rainwater we wasted by dumping into our gutters, but also about how much gross, motor oil-tainted, cigarette butt-infested urban runoff we spewed onto our ...
Green Living
>> Thanksgiving Dinner at the White House featured local produce from the White House garden. Yes, Obama now can eat home-grown arugula without worrying about Whole Foods prices! Earlier: Michelle Obama’s made good on her organic garden promise .
>> Maira Kalman’s put ...
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Whole Foods
Organic Food
California’s gotten quite a bit of Stimulus Bill money to create green jobs — but jobs in renewable energy and clean tech have been slow in coming. Why? Alana Semuels explains in L.A. Times :
Some of that delay was to be expected. The stimulus package gave priority to so-called ...
Green Living
California
How do you save people from crappy gifts and eternal debt? By caroling with the Church of No Shopping Gospel Choir, of course, joyfully belting out lyrics like these: “Squeeze our fat in gap apparel / Fa la la la la la la la la!”
That’s just one way performance activist Rev. ...
