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Café Review: Green Earth Coffee, Lake Forest

By On July 11, 2013 · 2 Comments · In Communityology, My Wifi Life, Sustainability

I’ve been coming to Green Earth Coffee in Lake Forest for the last couple of years whenever I’ve been in the area. I love it for the relaxing sense of retreat, the great coffee and the solid wifi.

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How an Outdoor Nature School Helps Create Community

By On December 19, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Communityology, Cool Stuff, People, Sustainability

There is a growing movement of outdoor nature schools that are inspiring urban/suburban dwellers to rebuild relationships with their natural environment. Southern California’s Coast Live Oak School is one of them.

Rather than meeting at a single place, Coast Live Oak holds classes at locations all over northern Orange County, from […]

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Materialism, a Little Less Materialistically

By On September 10, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Communication, Money, Sustainability

I am taking in a great article on my latest blog gem, The Simple Dollar. I found it while working on the redesign of another financial site that is chock full of content so inscrutable it’ll make your eyes water. This blog is subtitled, “financial talk for the rest of us”. It does […]

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27¢ left on your Macy’s gift card?

By On February 11, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Cool Stuff, In Brief, Sustainability

A site called Donate a Gift Card has taken care of this sticky issue. You can take those remainder amounts you’re never going to use on old gift cards and donate them to the cause of your choice.

If there’s absolutely nothing left on a gift card, you can check out this coaster […]

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Blackle: The Energy-efficient Google

By On July 3, 2007 · 5 Comments · In Cool Stuff, Sustainability, Tech Innovation

According to the folks at Blackle (who were inspired by a post on ecoIron), presenting the Google search pages on a black screen would conserve something like 750 megawatt-hours a year.*

There is an argument that the cost in readability, as well as the very small actual savings per view (74 […]

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My Letter to BP

By On May 16, 2007 · Leave a Comment · In Marketing, Sustainability

Dear BP,

That’s a cool gas station you’ve built over on Robertson and Olympic.

I would be delighted to see more vibrant, plant-lined and clean structures here in Los Angeles, although I personally wouldn’t want to be overrun with metallic buildings. And I appreciated how clean it is. Pretty bathrooms, […]

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More evidence that there is hope for humanity

By On April 28, 2007 · Leave a Comment · In Cool Stuff, In Brief, Sustainability

We’re going to make it, and we’ll do it well. Any species that will weave a marriage proposal into a product description is destined to see the day that billboards and smog evaporate, leaving blue skies, inspiring architecture and ample space for children to play.

(Total and complete credit goes to Andy Nulman […]

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Roofing Roads with Greenery

By On November 13, 2006 · Leave a Comment · In Sustainability

This would be a dream come true for me… or the beginning of it.

It’s already happening in other cities worldwide, and it could happen here in Los Angeles. Hollywood is embarking on a feasibility study that could cap a portion of the Hollywood Freeway with a 24-acre park.

With the destruction of […]

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Healing Urban Rivers

By On October 18, 2006 · 2 Comments · In Cool Stuff, Sustainability

For all our complaints about wasted government money, I’d rather “waste” it on this:

(Thanks to rinux and flickr for this image, only one of rinux’ many glittering views of the Cheonggyecheon)

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa visited the Cheonggyecheon (pronounced Chong-ee-chon) Stream in Seoul, South Korea this […]

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