Conservation

"Smart House" Launched in Venice Beach

VENICE BEACH, Calif.

Hello Friends of our SM Bay and environment

...I sent this to the PPRA and PP Community Council and City Councilman Bill Rosendahl. I think it is a very important, possibly dire situation, if this project is allowed to progress. Please share with concerned friends. This should not be a "secret". We need public input.

Maureen Cruise

Dear Community Leaders, City Councilman and Representatives,

Sept. 26th, I attended a public hearing on the issues to be considered for the scoping process regarding the construction of a LNG facility proposed to be built in our Santa Monica Bay. This would be a floating factory 3 football fields long 20 miles from our beaches with a pipeline extending to the shore and continuing under the streets near LAX carrying highly flammable gas. The floating off shore facility would liquefy gas transported across the ocean from Australia. There will be consequences for marine life, off shore air pollution, water temperature, and shipping lines. The Australian company Woodside Natural Gas INC is lobbying and cutting deals for jobs and ships with various maritime associations to assure compliance with their plan. Recipient organizations were there to support the project. (Even a former DWP official turned lobbyist/proponent)

Wow, I just found this site and read the post about the expanded recycling capabilities of the city. I had no idea the list had expanded so much!

The sad part is, there seems to be little attempt to notify LA residents that so much more is being recycled. And here I thought I was going the extra mile to make sure to only recycle containers with the 1 or 2 in the recycling logo (which is what the city's website said when I researched the issue several years ago).

I guess the good part is few people probably pay much attention to the number on the recycling logo and throw everything possible in the recycling bin. And now it truly is all being recycled.

LOS ANGELES IS NATION*S FIRST LARGE CITY TO INCLUDE POLYSTYRENE FOAM IN CURBSIDE RECYCLING PROGRAM

Contact: Richard E. Lee
(213) 978-0324
(213) 978-0333
Email: richard.lee@lacity.org.

LOS ANGELES (July 26, 2007) - Los Angeles residents now can recycle
polystyrene foam (popularly known as Styrofoam) among other plastic
products in their Blue Recycling Bins, announces City of Los Angeles
Public Works Board President Cynthia M. Ruiz. *As of July 1, the
City*s Blue Bin Recycling Program became the first large city in the
nation to include polystyrene foam in its recycling program,* adds

We are excited to be collaborating with The Gallery of Functional Art
for their new eco show.
New works by: Dianna Cohen Fabian Geyrhalter Carolyn Mendoza Topher Paterno Basil Tantaros

Opening Reception: Saturday, July 14, 2007 6:00 – 9:00pm
Exhibition will run from July 14 through September 9, 2007

Gallery of Functional Art
Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Avenue E-3
Santa Monica, Ca 90404

*Of course resident artists will still be on display on epOxybOx

To see a video of the lighting of the Venice Sign, go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1acajxFGXHI

More information about the Venice Sign can be found here: http://www.virtualvenice.info/visual/venice_sign.htm

Contact: Richard E. Lee
(213) 978-0324
(213) 978-0333
e-mail: rlee@bpw.lacity.org

REGISTRATION PAVES WAY FOR CITY*S NEW
FREE MULTI FAMILY RECYCLING PROGRAM

LOS ANGELES (March 22, 2007) - The City of Los Angeles Department of
Public Works is registering multifamily residential buildings for a free
recycling program that will begin early this summer, Board of Public
Works President Cynthia Ruiz announced.
*Our Bureau of Sanitation*s Solid Resources Citywide Recycling
Division (SRCRD) is implementing this new program,* said the Board
President. *Multifamily residential buildings of five units or more,

From the "Presidents Row Neighborhood Association."

After almost 4 years of labor by Lindsey Folsom and Harris Levi, the Presidents Row Neighborhood Association is proud to announce the arrival of the first residential solar street light in the city of Los Angeles. You may visit little Plexus at 613 Victoria Ave. PRNA eagerly awaits the imminent birth of its sibling on Coeur d'Alene Ave.

If anyone was wondering what those strange three wheeled vehicles are around town are, the answer is electric cars from Zap Car. Local Indie online radio station Little Radio has teamed up with the manufacturer to promote them in LA. Check out their temporary show room at Abbot Kinney and Venice Blvd for a test drive.

The current models go 25 miles at up to 40 mph for less then $10K. Pretty handy little second cars for around town perhaps.

www.littleradioev.com

Thought you'd be interested in this google map that shows which parts of Venice are lowest and vunerable to flooding.

http://flood.firetree.net/?ll=33.9890,-118.4627&z=2&t=0

You can see which areas are under water at different hypothetical sea level rise levels. I think we have a decade or two left before global warming causes the sea to rise 7m, but it's still a useful tool to quickly see which parts of Venice are low and vunerable to rain water flooding.

If you zoom out and raise the water level to 10 meters (30 ft) you can see how the lowest areas of LA roughly map the boundaries of Venice, bounded by Rose Ave North, Walgrove/Lincoln to the East and Jefferson to the south.