Smart Folks Now Water Their Yards With Washing Machine Runoff, and the DWP...
When Cat and Jonney Ahmanson bought their house in Eagle Rock, the backyard was full of tangled weeds. Rather than put in grass or dirt, the newlyweds worked with landscape designer Kim Kelley and...
View ArticleThe Future of Seafood: Is Wild Catch Going Extinct?
On a quiet Wednesday morning in Newport Beach, locals line up at the only fish vendor open mid-week at the Dory Fleet Fish Market: Scott Breneman’s West Caught Fish Company. The vibrant red snapper and...
View ArticleCalifornians Fear Global Warming Is Drying Out Our State
By now most of you probably agree that global warming is a matter of scientific fact. Where the slope gets slippery is when armchair meteorologists try to figure out what, exactly, this warm-up is...
View ArticleFracking-Affected Food Should Be Labeled, Lawmaker Says
We've had our battles over the labeling of genetically modified food. In 2012 California voters rejected an initiative that would have mandated such warnings. Now an L.A. area state lawmaker wants to...
View ArticleWe Suck So Much Water Out of the Ground That Our Land Is Sinking
Parts of California are sinking at a rate of two inches ... a month! That's the astonishing conclusion from a new report from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena this week. "Progress Report:...
View ArticleBy Ripping Out Its Lawns, Is L.A. Choking Out Its Worms, Butterflies and Birds?
In her busy bird-supplies shop in Sherman Oaks, Bonnie McFarlin describes her motionless butterfly habitat with dread. "In a good year we would have, I don't know, 25 or 50 monarchs in there at a time,...
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