Drink from the sink
Posted on | July 9, 2009 | No Comments
THE TITLE of a Government Accountability Office report “Bottled Water: FDA Safety and Consumer Protections Are Often Less Stringent Than Comparable EPA Protections for Tap Water” released yesterday underscores what inside water people have said for years: forget bottled water, drink from the sink.
From the Associated Press via the Denver Post today, “The GAO and the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization, recommend in reports released Wednesday that bottled water be labeled with the same level of information municipal water providers must disclose. The researchers urged Americans to make bottled water ‘a distant second choice’ behind filtered tap water because there isn’t enough information about bottled water. But the working group recommends purifying tap water with a commercial filter.”
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Sober from lawn
Posted on | July 9, 2009 | No Comments
KILLING grass is relatively easy. Don’t water it. However, creating a beautiful, low-maintenance garden in its stead is the hard part. Help is at hand. From a large selection of dry gardening courses offered this summer, the theme that dominates is how to transition from lawn to a drought tolerant garden, one step at a time.
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How does your garden grow?
Posted on | July 8, 2009 | 1 Comment
WHILE this could be seen as a case of the dry polling the dry, when Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden asks the gardeners it serves about how it may serve them better, it is incumbent on the dry gardening community to respond.
Click here for the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden questionnaire
Tags: chance of rain > Emily Green > Native Gardening > Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden
Alligator in Vegas, two in LA
Posted on | July 7, 2009 | No Comments
Officials warn "importing or owning alligators is illegal in Nevada."
(07-07-09) LAS VEGAS, Nevada. AP Reports:
Animal control officials say a man angling for catfish at a Sunset Park lake instead reeled in a 3 1/2-foot-long alligator.
For the full story, click on the alligators.
Over in Los Angeles, Saturday July 12 is Reptile and Amphibian Appreciation Day at the Natural History Museum. Crafts and activities for families, along with experts from the California Herpetological Association and the California Turtle and Tortoise Society. Animal guests include a duo of American alligators, a 13-foot Python, California rattlesnakes, Indian cobras and poison arrow frogs. Click here for details.
July 8: This post has been updated to add the Natural History Museum event.
The week (and a day) that was 6/28-7/5/2009
Posted on | July 5, 2009 | No Comments
- “…people are looking for responsible luxury.” From a July 4 Los Angeles Times roundup of fashionable private swimming pools
- “Many of us think the situation is even more dire.” Jet Propulsion Laboratory climatologist William Patzert on the White House Climate Change report
Click here for the rest of the Week That Was
Tags: chance of rain > Emily Green > headlines > The week that was
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