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For those not not planning to attend the Festival of Books, there are a few Earth Day events around town this weekend: everything from KCET's Strange Planet screening event at the Aquarium of the Pacific to hand-on, down-and-dirty creek restoration projects. LA Weekly's Judith Lewis has a list of Los Angeles Earth Day events, as does Earth Day LA. Not a joiner? You don't have to sign up to plant a tree, ride your bike,...

For those not not planning to attend the Festival of Books, there are a few Earth Day events around town this weekend: everything from KCET's Strange Planet screening event at the Aquarium of the Pacific to hand-on, down-and-dirty creek restoration projects. LA Weekly's Judith Lewis has a list of Los Angeles Earth Day events, as does Earth Day LA. Not a joiner? You don't have to sign up to plant a tree, ride your bike,...

Spring sprung in April, with LAist chewing on ideas about LA River Restoration. It seems Treehugger.com, one of our favorite enviro-blogs, has been thinking about river restoration as well, with an interesting post today on "Guiding Principles for River Restoration" and applications to green product design--the idea is that smart design principles are cross-cutting, and apply as much to rivers as to cell phones. Aside: Treehugger is also great for if you're looking for consumer...

Spring sprung in April, with LAist chewing on ideas about LA River Restoration. It seems Treehugger.com, one of our favorite enviro-blogs, has been thinking about river restoration as well, with an interesting post today on "Guiding Principles for River Restoration" and applications to green product design--the idea is that smart design principles are cross-cutting, and apply as much to rivers as to cell phones. Aside: Treehugger is also great for if you're looking for consumer...

We at LAist were shocked to find Los Angeles celebrating Earth Day on April 16, instead of the 22nd (as it has been for the last 35 years). But then we realized that it was really just those crazy Santa Monicans that were a week off with their Earth Day event, and it all started to make sense. And we breathed a sigh of relief. April is generally the time for all things Earth--Earth Month,...

We at LAist were shocked to find Los Angeles celebrating Earth Day on April 16, instead of the 22nd (as it has been for the last 35 years). But then we realized that it was really just those crazy Santa Monicans that were a week off with their Earth Day event, and it all started to make sense. And we breathed a sigh of relief. April is generally the time for all things Earth--Earth Month,...

After a fundraiser this past weekend, we were faced with the disposal of 120 leftover hot dogs. We called around to a few downtown homeless shelters (no answer, we left messages!); we even tried to persuade the anarchist vegetarians at Food Not Bombs to take our all-beef franks. To no avail. (Interesting how you can be an anarchist and also very rule-oriented at the same time. No meat!) Then there was the hastily considered...

After a fundraiser this past weekend, we were faced with the disposal of 120 leftover hot dogs. We called around to a few downtown homeless shelters (no answer, we left messages!); we even tried to persuade the anarchist vegetarians at Food Not Bombs to take our all-beef franks. To no avail. (Interesting how you can be an anarchist and also very rule-oriented at the same time. No meat!) Then there was the hastily considered...

Is the LA River really a river? Flowing from headwaters in the San Fernando Valley through to Long Beach, where it meets the ocean, the LA River that most of us see is less river and more concrete spillway. Yes, the one in Grease. LAist was recently out to a portion of the river with a naturalist and photographer from the East Coast. "I've never seen anything quite like it," he said sadly of...

Is the LA River really a river? Flowing from headwaters in the San Fernando Valley through to Long Beach, where it meets the ocean, the LA River that most of us see is less river and more concrete spillway. Yes, the one in Grease. LAist was recently out to a portion of the river with a naturalist and photographer from the East Coast. "I've never seen anything quite like it," he said sadly of...