West Hollywood's Costume Carnaval is well-known as the best place to get your revel on for Halloween, replete as it is with giant crowds, fabulous costumes and drunken faceplants. And as always, the morning after presents a fun challenge for clean-up crews.
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WeHo Carnaval Clean-Up Crew Clears Streets in Time for Morning Commute
Get Out: High Desert, Clean Beaches, Chamber Music
Get out today so you can clean up the beach, experiment in the desert or listen to some classical music.
Drop Me In The Water: Photos From L.A. River Clean-Up Day
Friends of the Los Angeles River, with support from an estimated 5000 volunteers, and in conjunction with the Mayor's Day of Service, got down to the business of nature on Saturday for the 22nd Annual L.A. River Clean-Up. From 9:00 a.m. until noon, crews helped with beautification and revitalization efforts in 14 locations with 25 tons of garbage "projected to have been pulled out of the river," reports KTLA.
The L.A. River Wild: Annual Clean-Up Day is Tomorrow
At times, the LA River can look more like a dump than a storied waterway, due largely to the litter that amasses in it. Fortunately, an effort is underway to help beautify and revitalize the river. Tomorrow from 9am to noon, Friends of the Los Angeles River, along with support from Mayor Villaraigosa, will host the annual River Clean-Up day, and the public is welcome to sign up and participate.
Sardine Clean Up Goes Into Day 3, Volunteers Needed
Things are still a little fishy in Redondo Beach's King Harbor, as the great dead sardine clean up goes into its third day. "The work was about half way done Wednesday with an estimated 35 tons of fish scooped up from the surface," reports the Daily News. Authorities estimate about 95% of the fish on the surface have been removed.
Volunteers Cleaning Up DTLA's Historic Broadway Core Today
This morning about 100 volunteers and city workers are taking part in a 4-hour community clean-up on Broadway between 2nd Street and Olympic Blvd. The effort is backed by Councilman Jose Huizar as part of his Bringing Back Broadway initiative, which focuses on revitalizing Downtown's Historic Broadway Core.
Blogger Beach Cleanup: A Major Success & Inspiration
On Saturday, over 5,000 groups from around the world gathered for the International Day of Climate Action in an effort to bring attention to the Copenhagen Climate Talks ,scheduled for December when the Kyoto Treaty will be replaced (big question, will the U.S. sign it?).
Video: How Trashed the Orange Line Bike Path Was
Following up on yesterday's Orange Line Clean-up post, here's a video showing how dirty just one small spot was. Even that black trash bag was found back there. Ick!
Photos from First of Two Great Los Angeles River CleanUps
The Los Angeles region is a behemoth, but the reality of it is that we are all connected. Garbage left on city streets ends up in storm drains, which carries it to the ocean. The water gets polluted, the animals get poisoned, the people get ill, the beaches close and none of it ends well.
$62 Million of Stimulus Money Goes to California for Environmental Cleanup
The White House today announced $6 billion in new funding nationwide to accelerate environmental cleanup work. The money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is supposed to create thousands of jobs across 12 states including California, which will receive $62 million.
Obama Wants You to Serve Los Angeles
In a follow up to last weekend's cleanup where decapitated chickens were found, the Los Angeles Neighborhood Clean Up Project has informed us that they are having another Silver Lake event next Monday on Martin Luther King Day, or what is now being called Barack Obama's National Service Day.
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