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Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles’
Conservation, Green living, Wildlife & Flora, Apr 17th, 2012,
At Leo Politi Elementary, a public school in inner city Los Angeles, California, students learn about wildlife in a 5,000 square foot (465 square meter) oasis of native flora and fauna. The school is located in a crowded, economically disadvantaged neighborhood – more of concrete jungle than a real jungle. But three years ago the school decided to clear a concrete area and turn it into an space for native California fauna. Soon insects and birds came to take advantage of the lush plant life. Students have thrived in their new natural environment, with science scores rising six fold in…
Tags: elementary, Leo Politi, Los Angeles, school
Politics, Dec 6th, 2011,
The couple views the wreckage And dreams of home sweet home, They’d almost paid the mortgage, Then the system dropped its bomb. –Crass “Systematic Death” Those suffering from the effects of the subprime mortgage crisis include working families who for various reasons are unable – or simply not allowed by their banks – to make payments on their homes. The very financial institutions, which caused and even orchestrated the crisis, were later bailed out by taxpayers so that, apparently, they could get back to their old tricks: profiting off the disadvantages of those they conned and fleeced with unscrupulous…
Tags: California, Los Angeles, mortgage, Occupy Our Homes, San Francisco
Weird Stuff, Wildlife & Flora, Dec 2nd, 2011,
In a well-to-do suburb in Los Angeles County, California, there is an uncommon – and uncommonly beautiful – pest. The bilingually named La Cañada Flintridge is home to a roaming band of peafowl. Peafowl are of course brightly colored peacocks and the more understated, but still large, peahens. Their exotic squawks annoy some La Cañada Flintridge residents, as do their messy droppings. Apparently they also make a mess of a few local gardens. Although the peacock and peahen population of La Cañada Flintridge numbers only 25 and is located mainly at one intersection of the city, they’ve been the subjects…
Tags: beautiful, California, La Cañada Flintridge, Los Angeles, peacock, peafowl, peahen
Green living, Pollution, Sep 7th, 2011,
If you buy groceries in Los Angeles, California, you soon may have to bring your own reusable shopping bags with you. A Los Angeles city councilman has proposed the outright ban of both plastic and paper disposable shopping bags at LA grocery stores. Instead of polluting the oceans with billions of plastic bags and adding to litter with wasteful paper bags, LA shoppers will be expected to use their own bags or purchase reusable ones at the city’s supermarkets. From the LA Times: By including paper bags in the ban, the proposal goes beyond similar measures taken recently by other…
Tags: ban, LA, Los Angeles, paper bags, plastic bags, Tesco, UK
Climate Change, Health, Videos & Documentaries, Aug 5th, 2011,
Maps using data on ozone pollution, ragweed and “extreme heat days” in the United States show California to be an especially vulnerable place. The number of unhealthy days in Los Angeles, in particular, is expected to rise in the coming years due to a combination of rising temperatures from climate change, droughts, flooding and pollution. Research shows that rising temperatures can worsen the negative health impacts of pollution and ragweed on respiratory illnesses such as asthma. Los Angeles has smog and ragweed pollen problems and is at risk for at least one unhealthy air quality day per summer, meaning the air…
Tags: California, Climate change, Health, heat, Los Angeles, Pollution, Smog
Pollution, Videos & Documentaries, Jul 19th, 2011,
From London fog to LA smog, citizens groups are up in arms over air quality in the big city. In the 80s Los Angeles was famous for its smog, caused by endless highways choked with the exhaust of millions of cars. Like the Missing Persons song says, “nobody walks in LA”. Apparently everyone has asthma instead. Things have gotten better since the heady 80s and emissions standards have become stricter, but LA is still really smoggy. One study even found that air pollution kills more people in the region than even auto accidents. Los Angeles is the smoggiest region in…
Tags: LA, london, Los Angeles, Pollution, Smog
Climate Change, Green living, Politics, Science & Technology, Nov 18th, 2010,
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors passed a ban on plastic grocery bags in unincorporated areas of the county. “No store shall provide to any customers a plastic carryout bag”. That’s what the official measure reads. Now how much people live in Los Angeles? According to the Wikipedia page for Los Angeles, the city holds 3,83 million people, while the surrounding urban area of greater Los Angeles extends to an added 14,8 million people. The county is home to 88 incorporated cities and many unincorporated areas. An unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part…
Tags: ban on plastic bags, eco-friendly reusable bags, grocery plastic bags, Los Angeles, plastic bags, sustainable living, unincorporated los angeles
Weird Stuff, Wildlife & Flora, Jul 2nd, 2010,
Are there areas in your community that are obviously lacking in plants (or green space)? Do you sometimes wish you could add more of that missing green space to your surroundings? Would you like to get your community involved, too? Then check this out: The Common Studio has developed an awesome idea known as Greenaid-Seedbomb Vending Machines. The machines are old gumball machines that are fixed up for a new purpose: the giving of seedbombs. These seedbombs are made from a mixture of clay, compost, and seeds. All it requires of you is to put some pocket change into the…
Tags: California, flowers, Go Green, Greenaid, Greenaid-Seedbomb Vending Machines, greenspace, gumball machines, Los Angeles, native species, plants, seedbombs, seeds, The Common Studio, urban greenspace
Climate Change, Nature, Feb 11th, 2010,
A series of rainstorms in Southern California have resulted in debris-lined beaches strewn with ‘mangled shopping carts, bicycle tires, tennis shoes and thousands of plastic cups and bottles’, the Los Angeles Times reports. Beaches in LA and Orange County were particularly hard hit, especially those located near river mouths. Stormy weather can cause refuse to gather in waterways such as the San Gabriel and Los Angeles Rivers, which is then deposited on beaches. Since this is a common and regular occurrence in Southern California, many residents are practical and take the trash in stride. Surfers still surf and typically eco-minded…
Tags: Associated Press, beach, California, Los Angeles, ocean, plastic, river, SoCal, Southern, storm, trash, weather
Climate Change, Videos & Documentaries, Dec 7th, 2009,
![]( "<!--:en-->Black gold in Tinseltown: The surprising tale of Los Angeles")
' src='http://gf2.statico.be/wp-content/themes/greenfudge/thumbnails/2368.jpg' alt='black-gold-in-tinseltown-the-surprising-tale-of-los-angeles-oil-fields' class='art-teaser' width='95' height='95' /> There are oil fields in Beverly Hills. In West Hollywood too, right under the famous Farmers Market. Despite L.A.’s fame for being a city driven by film and entertainment, it began principally as an oil town. From the late 19th century and into the present day, the Los Angeles metropolitan area, home to the third largest oil field in the contiguous United States, has had a flourishing oil industry. The enclave of Signal Hill, within the city of Long Beach, just 20 miles south of downtown Los Angeles, used to be known as ‘Porcupine Hill’ because it was covered with…
Tags: Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, oil, oil field, oil well, rig, Signal Hill, tower
