Image of the Day: ‘Southwest’

Posted on | November 13, 2009 | No Comments

“Southwest,” a show with photographs by Kate Dennis, Sandra Lee, David Pettit and Lynne Pomeranz, opens tomorrow at the G2 Gallery in Venice and runs through January 3rd.

When life gives you salt water, make subsidies

Posted on | November 12, 2009 | 1 Comment

THIS week, the board of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California voted a hefty public subsidy for the Poseidon Group, a private company proposing a desalination plant in Carlsbad, CA, near San Diego. To this, Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute in Oakland, CA, has a two-part response in the San Francisco Chronicle. For part one, click here, for yesterday’s part two here.

Category: Desalination
Tags: chance of rain > Pacific Institute > Peter Gleick > Poseidon Group

The Dry Garden: Harvesting rain

Posted on | November 11, 2009 | 1 Comment

IT STANDS to reason that some of the most progressive environmentalists in Los Angeles work for the Department of Public Works’ Bureau of Sanitation. They are the front line between what we discard and the environment.

Last week we looked at their fight to triage our system for recycling food scraps. This week the subject is their battle to capture rainfall before it enters L.A.’s massive storm drain system.

The bureau, along with a leading Southland water agency, the state Legislature and environmental nonprofit groups such as TreePeople and the Green LA Coalition are all moving to make harvesting rainwater as routine as recycling. To keep reading The Dry Garden column in the Los Angeles Times, click here.

For the agenda of a November 13, 2009 public meeting on the draft Low Impact Development ordinance due to go before the City Council soon, click here.

From Mark Gold, president of Heal the Bay, this report from the November 13 meeting: Despite tremendous turnout from the environmental community, the L.A. Board of Public Works today delayed its decision on a staff-proposed Low Impact Development ordinance for at least another month. To keep reading, click here.

This posting has been updated. Last update 10.14am, November 14, 2009.

Category: Landscape reform
Tags: chance of rain > Emily Green > Los Angeles Times > The Dry Garden

Western datebook: Darwin in San Diego

Posted on | November 10, 2009 | No Comments

IF YOU are looking for intelligent design, you could do worse than the newly opened show celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th of the publication of his “On the Origin of Species.” For more information, click here. The show runs through February 28, 2010 at the San Diego Natural History Museum.

For an online biography of Darwin from the Natural History Museum in London, click here or for links to the celebrated traveling show on Darwin from the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the Field Museum in Chicago, The Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Natural History, London, click here.

For the National Public Radio series Darwin: The ‘Reluctant Revol utionary,’ click here.