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GooGooSwap Your Baby Stuff for Cheap
Just in time for Mother's Day, is GooGooSwap, (think: Freecycle for the baby world) - perfect for all moms and moms-to-be. And no, they're not swapping babies (sounds like the next reality show, eh?). Tired of the overpriced
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City of Angels Greens It Up for Earth Day
Long ago they paved over the parking lot of LA's sprawling metropolis in the desert. But besides the ubiquitous Prius, the Southland is greening its arid land with native greenery, urban
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Spring/Summer Fashion 2009: ecoSkin
Mother Earth is ecoSkin's muse for Spring/Summer, resulting in vibrant, saturated turquoise, purple, and plum hues that set off feminine ruffles, off-the-shoulder cuts, and plunging necklines.
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Port of Los Angeles to Install 1.16 Million Square Feet of Rooftop Solar Panels (10 MW) Over Next Five Years
Though it can't claim the prize for the world's largest rooftop solar power array, the announcement by the Port of Los Angeles that it will be installed solar panels over 71,500 square feet of its World Cruise Center roof by
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Be Love: Apparel on a Mission of Peace
Photo credit: Be Love Be Love isn't your typical apparel company. Its sweatshop-free and mostly organic line of men's, women's, and kids' shirts serves to promote peace, which isn't too much of a stretch when you consider that its founders are board
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Jake Gyllenhaal & Global Green Launch "National Green Schools" Initiative (Video)
The good folks at Global Green USA have teamed up with Jake Gyllenhaal to launch the "National Green Schools" initiative with a Green Service Day at Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles, helping students to clean up the school's edible garden.
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This Warms the Cockles of My Heart: True Bus Rapid Transit in Los Angeles
Photo: Flickr, CC Something Rare: Bus Rapid Transit Done Right in the US! Our friends at StreetFilms had a closer look at the Orange Line Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in Los Angeles, and what they found makes me very happy. This BRT line, though short, is
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Start Your Own Cul-de-Sac Commune
All over the world, people are losing their jobs. In America, there are millions of homes in foreclosure. The suburban areas are particularly hard hit, and many are asking how the suburbs will be reinvented. The Cul-de-Sac Commune project may be a
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Los Angeles Voters Reject 400 Megawatts of City's Ambitious Solar Power Plan
Back in November, Los Angeles' plan to develop 1.28 gigawatts of solar power was announced with some fanfare. Now, after two weeks of sorting through votes cast on Measure B, which would have seen 400 megawatts of solar
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7 Hot CEOs and Their Cool Green Companies
Scott Mackinlay Hahn, Loomstate. Photo courtesy of Loomstate. Sustainable companies are on the rise but that didn't make it any easier for us to pick out the hottest eco-CEOs paving the way. However, we've managed to narrow the list down to seven that
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Ultimate Boarder Takes Sports and Green to the Extreme
Folks in SoCal love their sun and they love their action adventure (extreme) sports. With all these folks congregating in one spot for competitions, it was only a matter of time before they also decided to clean up
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Taste Test: Organic Chipotle-Lime Ranch Dressing
While perusing the aisle of my local grocery store the other day, looking for some sort of "sauce" to go on quesadillas and burritos, I ran across this Chipotle-Ranch Dressing. Perfect I thought. Then I got it home and
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Home Office is "New Staple of the American Home"
According to the Los Angeles Times, "Forget great rooms, walk-in closets and spa-like bathrooms. The home office has become the new staple of the American home."
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Ed Begley, Jr. Campaigns for Solar Energy and Green Job Creation
"You could call me a strategic opportunist as much as an environmentalist," says Ed Begley, Jr. The actor and host of Living with Ed on Planet
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Learning to Cook From the Heart
Owner and Chef Monica Reti wants to teach you to do just that with HipCooks - a fun, experiential cooking class (in Portland and Los Angeles), that teaches you to slow down, enjoy your food and cook from the heart. Measuring cups?
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Event: Green Living Project Reports From Southern Africa Trip
We first mentioned the Green Living Project team and founder Rob Holmes last fall as they were reporting back on their trip to eastern Africa. Well, tomorrow night (Weds, Feb 11), they will be bringing their green love
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Resurf: First Group to Recycle Surfboards and Wetsuits
So you hit a gnarly wave and end up on shore with your board in two pieces. Bummer dude. But your green side can't bear to just trash that board that's gotten you through some pretty wild rides. You could repair it yourself,
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Los Angeles Ecovillage: Building a Sustainable Urban Community (Video)
Los Angeles Ecovillage Nurtures Community in the City Never having been there, I've always assumed that LA is one big grid-locked metropolis with very little going for it, sustainability wise - yet I keep having my ignorant prejudices challenged by
