Friday, August 11, 2006

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Green Products Directory

From solar lighting to low-water toilets to bamboo...and 1597 more sustainable products...

Green Building Products, covers everything from porous paving systems to photovoltaic roofing shingles and top-efficiency appliances. Products are organized according to building component, but can also be found in the index under manufacturer or product name. The book includes more than 250 product photos.

The new edition includes nearly 1,600 product listings from the GreenSpecĀ® database of green building products, which the company has maintained since 1998.

Products are selected for GreenSpec using criteria that Environmental Building News editors have developed over more than ten years. These criteria include recycled content, FSC-certified wood, avoidance of toxic constituents, reduction of construction impacts, energy or water savings, and contributing to a safe, healthy indoor environment. The full list of criteria can be downloaded for free from the BuildingGreen website.

Manufacturers do not pay to have products included in GreenSpec or in Green Building Products. "We base selections on careful in-house review by our editorial staff," said Wilson. "Keeping an arm's-length relationship from manufacturers allows us to be non-biased when we are evaluating company claims," he said.

Green Building Products sells for $34.95 (plus shipping) and is available from BuildingGreen, Inc. www.BuildingGreen.com and selected book sellers.

Sunday, August 06, 2006

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"Bellarmine Forum" focuses on the Environment: Oct 29-Nov 3: Loyola University, Los Angles

The 2006 Bellarmine Forum
"Earth to You: Do something. Now."
October 30-November 3, 2006
Presented by Fred Segal, Santa Monica

The 2006 Bellarmine Forum will focus on Environmental Responsibility, examining such issues as environmental injustice, environmental economics, Catholic teaching on the environment (together with a panel incorporating Jewish, Muslim and Buddhist perspectives), environmental ethics, nature and spirituality, green design, cultural ecology, and the green city. These topics are designed to challenge participants to think and act in environmentally responsible ways.


Programs include:
Jean Michel Cousteau, Founder, Ocean Futures Society
Yvon Chouinard, Founder, Patagonia
Bobby Kennedy, Jr. and Laurie David, stopglobalwarming.org

Film Session - Laurie David, Too Hot Not to Handle
Film Session - Max Kennedy and Bob Nixon, Endangered Species
Dance Performance: Groundswell: A site-specific dance for the Ballona Freshwater Marsh
Movie: "Inconvenient Truth"

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Los Angeles Environmental Change-Makers

A circle of Environmental Change-Makers holds monthly meetings in the Westchester area of Los Angeles. They offer speakers and topics promoting real life actions to bring society (and our city) to a more Sustainable existence.

Environmental Change-Makers meet on the 4th Thursday of every month, 7-9 p.m., in the Community Hall of the Church of the Holy Nativity, Dunbarton at 83rd St., (6700 West 83rd Street), Westchester 90045.

All meetings are free, although a small contribution to the church would be welcome in thanks for the generosity of using their hall.

For more information:

http://www.legacyla.net/LA.htm

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Rent a Bio-Beetle in LA

The first all BIODIESEL, environmentally friendly ECO Rental Cars! Bio-Beetle operates in Los Angeles and Maui, Hawaii.

Biodiesel is a lot cheaper than gas and around the same price in Los Angeles. Rentals start at $199 per week in Los Angeles.

To check up to the minute availability on any rental car
call toll free -- 877-873-6121

And to check out the full story, see their website:
http://www.bio-beetle.com/

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Earth Care Fair - Sunday Oct 8, 2006, Westchester, CA

Westchester neighborhood celebration of local "green" resources in the Los Angeles Westside area. Environmental displays, a Blessing of the Animals, speakers, music, kids' activities, fun and education for the whole family.

The Earth Care Fair will showcase contemporary ideas, local and urban solutions, through which we may better care for the earth, Creation, mankind, and future generations.

The Fair will be held in conjunction with the annual Blessing of the Animals which Holy Nativity Parish has offered to the community for many years.

For more information: http://www.legacyla.net/EarthCareFair.htm


Sunday October 8, 2006
2:30-5pm
Church of the Holy Nativity
6700 West 83rd Street
(Front lawn, Dunbarton at 83rd St.)
Westchester CA 90045.

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Edible Landscaping in SoCal - Joanne Poyourow

Today's urban landscape doesn't have to be a monoculture carpet. With native plants that feed the butterflies and insects -- to edible landscaping to feed two-legged gourmets, Joanne Poyourow is building a wonderful outreach to tell Los Angeles residents about the many possibilities of sustainable gardening...and living.

Take a look at her helpful list of resources at LegacyLa.net to find organic information, edible landscaping, native plant sources and more. Edible Landscaping is about planning and planting a garden in unusual nooks and crannies that also brightens the corners of your dinner plate. She offers PDF overviews of her findings and insights on this revolutionary approach to urban landscaping.

Joanne lives in Westchester, CA and gardens in a typical urban lot. Her website also points you to her new book, "Legacy: A Story of Hope for a Time of Environmental Crisis." A devoted gardener, and a columnist at the international online network Gardening Organically, she finds haven in her edible landscaping garden.

Get to know this growing voice for greening LA:
http://legacyla.net/bio.htm

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Wildflower & Native Plant Research - Theodore Payne Foundation

Theodore Payne foundation is a well respected name in Southern California landscaping circles. Their grounds include a nursery of hundreds of varieties of California Native plants including shrubs, vines, berries, and there's an information booth to help you with native plant questions and choices.

On their website, you'll find a Gardening Guide with seasonal tips, a calendar of classes, as well as mail order seeds and a nursery inventory of plants available. And don't forget about their annual Wildflower Hotline that opens each MARCH for the wildflower season.

The annual Native Plant Garden Tour is held in April of each year...what a beautiful introduction to landscaping ideas with native, low-water natives.

Theodore Payne Foundation promotes the understanding and preservation of California native flora.

Theodore Payne represents what happens to many folks who come to California. "He came to Los Angeles in 1893 and fell in love with the California flora, dedicating his life to its preservation." Even in the early years of this century, native vegetation was being lost to agriculture and housing at an alarming rate. He urged the use of California native plants and lectured across the state on preserving the wild flowers and landscapes native to California.

In 1915 he laid out and planted 262 species in a five-acre wild garden in Los Angeles' Exposition Park. He later helped to establish the Blaksley Botanic Garden in Santa Barbara, planted 178 native species in the California Institute of Technology Botanic Garden in Pasadena, helped create the native plant garden at Los Angeles' Descanso Gardens, and advised the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden in Orange County.

By the time he retired in 1958, Payne had made over 400 species of native plants available to the public.

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Southern California Native Plant Nursery - Las Pilitas

New to native plant gardening or landscaping? If you've been reading about natives, you're probably very confused and frustrated. But when you see how it's done -- everything is much simpler. Take a tour of a nursery with the atmosphere of an old style farm with some demonstration plantings.

Las Pilitas' nursery setting is in a fragment of San Diego County featuring native plants and wildlife. They stock San Diego, Orange and Riverside County species.

One easy approach is planting a bird and butterfly garden. Las Pilitas stocks over 20 types of Salvia (sage) to attract and nurture birds and butterflies.

The few acres of nursery grounds are in a native setting of 21 acres, with a growing demonstration garden. Your visit will be pleasant as well as educational as you learn about San Diego native plants that grow alongside nursery plants.

The nursery is located in San Diego County about a half mile south of the I-15 off of Old 395 at 8331 Nelson Way, Escondido, 92026.

Las Pilitas
8331 Nelson Way,
Escondido, CA 92026.
760-749-5930
www.laspilitas.com

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California Native Seeds - Larner Seeds

"It is our goal to bring to the California gardener the perspectives and information of the whole humming world of natural history as it applies to the California landscape."

Larner Seeds promotes the riches of our California flora, through supplying customers with seeds, plants, books, advice, and landscaping services.

This is truly a one-stop source for seeds of Native Wildflowers, Grasses, Trees and Shrubs.
Larner Seeds supplies fifty different wildflower species and four wildflower mixes, available in bulk as well as by the packet. Their catalog includes both annuals and perennials, wildflower mixes, grasses, shrubs, and trees. They also offer site-specific seed collection.

One of the classic books about native plant gardening, "Gardening With a Wild Heart" was written by Judith Larner Lowry.

Contact:
Larner Seeds
PO Box 407
Bolinas, California 94924
415-868-9407
info@larnerseeds.com

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