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Stories in Green:
The ultimate California garden story
Veronique at L.A. Now points us to this cool story and photo gallery about a retired Hollywood Hills economist who perfected a “no-dig” landscape. Pat Marfisi grows a bounty of backyard vegetables using lasagna-like layers of alfalfa hay, bone and blood meal and compost — and hardly any water. And yes, there’s even a [...]
Inspiring
Readers at Low Impact Living share their green resolutions for 2008.
Eco-libris
Read a book. Then plant a tree. GhostWord shares a resource for guilt-free reading.
Showdown at Tejon
Edward Humes shifts gears from the evolution wars to the climate-change war, as he explores plans for a new city and luxury resort north of Los Angeles, carved out of a unique and mostly untouched California wildlands.
An epic battle over property rights, conservation and global warming is unfolding now on the Tejon Ranch, [...]
Previously featured
as our new release of the week: Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century. By Alex Steffen (Sterling Books). Steffen and an army of contributors have compiled a roadmap for a future that is ‘bright, green, free and tough.” Business Week says WorldChanging “reads like a smart, hip mini-encyclopedia of what’s new and [...]
Sold
Journalist Novella Carpenter has closed a deal with Ann Godoff and Jane Fleming at Penguin Press for Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer “about the author’s urban farm in downtown Oakland, where she keeps ducks, chickens, rabbits, pigs, fruits, and vegetables, and the triumphs and travails of living the rural life in the [...]
Addressing the junk mail problem
Stopjunkmail.org is a great resource. Built for people in the San Francisco Bay area, the site is useful for anyone with a US postal address. It is free and gives you what you need — including form letters and contact information — to reduce the amount of trash your letter carrier stuffs into your box [...]
The ultimate California garden story
Veronique at L.A. Now points us to this cool story and photo gallery about a retired Hollywood Hills economist who perfected a “no-dig” landscape. Pat Marfisi grows a bounty of backyard vegetables using lasagna-like layers of alfalfa hay, bone and blood meal and compost — and hardly any water. And yes, there’s even a [...]
Inspiring
Readers at Low Impact Living share their green resolutions for 2008.
Eco-libris
Read a book. Then plant a tree. GhostWord shares a resource for guilt-free reading.
Showdown at Tejon
Edward Humes shifts gears from the evolution wars to the climate-change war, as he explores plans for a new city and luxury resort north of Los Angeles, carved out of a unique and mostly untouched California wildlands.
An epic battle over property rights, conservation and global warming is unfolding now on the Tejon Ranch, [...]
Previously featured
as our new release of the week: Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century. By Alex Steffen (Sterling Books). Steffen and an army of contributors have compiled a roadmap for a future that is ‘bright, green, free and tough.” Business Week says WorldChanging “reads like a smart, hip mini-encyclopedia of what’s new and [...]
Sold
Journalist Novella Carpenter has closed a deal with Ann Godoff and Jane Fleming at Penguin Press for Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer “about the author’s urban farm in downtown Oakland, where she keeps ducks, chickens, rabbits, pigs, fruits, and vegetables, and the triumphs and travails of living the rural life in the [...]
Addressing the junk mail problem
Stopjunkmail.org is a great resource. Built for people in the San Francisco Bay area, the site is useful for anyone with a US postal address. It is free and gives you what you need — including form letters and contact information — to reduce the amount of trash your letter carrier stuffs into your box [...]
Meet the authors of the California Authors Directory. Visit the directory to discover writers like Christina Meldrum, a Bay Area attorney whose book Madapple was just released this month. “In debut novelist Christina Meldrum's mesmerizing literary mystery, 
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