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Sustainable Santa Monica Community Event: Low Carbon Diet
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Please join us for an eye opening presentation on how food choices affect the global environment, local economies, and the quantity and quality of healthy foods.
When:
Tuesday, July 29th
Reception: 6:00-6:30
Presentation: 6:30-8:30
Where:
Santa Monica Main Library, 601 Santa Monica Blvd., MLK Auditorium
Cost:
FREE, RSVPs appreciated: traci@sustainablesm.org
Speaker:
Helene York, Director, Bon Appétit Management Company and Foundation
Helene's work was recently featured on the front page of the LA Times on Earth Day: "Treading lighter with low-carbon diets." Article Link
Bon Appétit Management
Company Foundation is an operating foundation whose mission is to
educate consumers, institutional purchasers and culinarians about how
their food choices affect the global environment, local economies, and
the quantity and quality of healthy food, now and for future
generations, and to activate them to make change.
A pioneer in environmentally-sound sourcing policies, Bon Appétit has developed programs with Environmental Defense, the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch, the Humane Society of the United States, and other leading conservation organizations. Based in Palo Alto, CA, Bon Appétit has more than 400 cafés in 28 states, including Oracle Corporation, American University and the Getty Center.
For more information please visit Sustainable Santa Monica or contact traci@sustainablesm.org
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Green Building Resource Center Event
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The Carbon-Free HomeStephen and Rebekah Hren, co-authors of a new book entitled The Carbon-Free Home: 36 Remodeling Projects to Help Kick the Fossil Fuel Habit, will be speaking at Green Building Resource Center's July panel discussion. More info on the bookStephen and Rebekah Hren live in Durham, North Carolina, where they are both actively involved with renewable energy, natural building, and edible urban gardening. Rebekah works with Honey Electric Solar, Inc., as a professional designer/installer of photovoltaic systems and domestic solar hot-water systems. Stephen is a professional restoration carpenter, focusing on antebellum houses. He teaches natural-building classes and workshops at the local community college, and in any spare time works with Bountiful Backyards, an edible-landscaping cooperative. Books will be available for sale at the panel. When: Tuesday, July 8 6:30-8:30PM Where: Santa Monica Public Library 601 Santa Monica Blvd. Cost: Free For more information please contact the Green Building Resource Center: gbrc@globalgreen.org, 310.452.7677, Green Building Resource Center
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Event: Glow: Dusk-to-Dawn
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Glow will fill the hours between dusk to dawn with compelling, enchanting and effervescent sights and sounds situated in spaces and times that expand possibilities for where, how and when the public experiences contemporary art.
With the historic Santa Monica Pier and adjacent world-famous Santa Monica Beach as their space, artists were commissioned to create unique and inviting works of art that welcome the public to be both audience and actor for twelve celebratory hours. Inspired by the wildly successful Nuit Blanche in Paris, Glow takes its spirit from the fabled grunion that live in local waters and come ashore several times a year to spawn in the sand creating a momentary sensation of iridescence.
When:
Saturday, July 19, 7:00pm to 7:00am
Where:
Santa Monica Pier and Beach
Cost:
Free
Glow is a project of the City of Santa Monica and the Santa Monica Arts Foundation
Glow
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City of Santa Monica Landscaping Classes |
Smart Irrigation Controllers
Learn about the latest technologies in irrigation system controllers.
Find out which system will work best for your clients' landscapes, how to program them, troubleshooting, and rebates.
When:
July 15th
4 to 7 pm
Sustainable Landscaping for Professionals
Sign up for this FREE two-day workshop offered by the City of Santa Monica to encourage landscape professionals to include sustainable landscaping elements in projects. The workshop covers sustainable landscape design, plant selection, water-efficient irrigation system, smart irrigation controllers, and other topics specific to Santa Monica. Successful completion of the workshop is required for inclusion in the City's Sustainable Landscape Professional List.
When:
July 22nd & 24th
4 to 7 pm
Prerequisite: Must be a practicing landscape professional.
For additional details, send email to environment@smgov.net or call (310) 458-8972.
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Event: Green Apartment Living
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Co-opportunity Community Greening Classes
Co-opportunity is sponsoring the second in a series of Community Greening Classes. This class is a firsthand look into the practical applications & concepts of sustainable apartment living. Learn sustainable practices & how to integrate them into your apartment dweller lifestyle, improve your quality of life & save money while saving resources.
When:
Wednesday, July 16th, 7:00pm to 8:30 pm
Where:
the Santa Monica Synagogue
1448 18th Street (18th and Broadway)
Cost:
Free
Speakers:
Led by Siel, who writes greenlagirl.com, an environmental lifestyle blog with a focus on the eco-happenings in the L.A. area. She lives in Santa Monica and rides a pink Townie bicycle. Siel will be joined by Summer Bowen, balcony-gardener and owner of eco-fashion boutique BTCElements.com, and Traci Reitz, Community Sustainability Liaison.
Co-Opportunity
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Environmental News: Gov. Schwarzenegger Proclaims Drought and Orders Immediate Action to Address Situation
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Following two straight years of below-average rainfall, very low snowmelt runoff and the largest court-ordered water transfer restrictions in state history, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger proclaimed a statewide drought and issued an Executive Order, which takes immediate action to address a dire situation where numerous California communities are being forced to mandate water conservation or rationing. The lack of water has created other problems, such as extreme fire danger due to dry conditions, economic harm to urban and rural communities, loss of crops and the potential to degrade water quality in some regions. Full Text of Executive Order
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I look forward to working with all of you and continuing our progress toward a more Sustainable Santa Monica.
Sincerely,
Traci Reitz
www.sustainablesantamonica.org
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Sustainable City Plan
The purpose of this Newsletter is
to provide Santa Monica residents, businesses
and
organizations with the information and resources
needed to help meet the goals of the Santa
Monica
Sustainable City Plan.
Thirteen years ago Santa Monica launched the
Sustainable City Plan, a visionary plan for the
community's future. With wide community
participation, the Plan was developed to help us
make positive contributions to our community's
environmental, social and economic viability.
Since its adoption, the Sustainable City
Plan
has
been responsible for many positive changes in
the
community in eight goal areas:
--Resource
Conservation
--Environmental and Public
Health
--Transportation
--Economic Development
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Open
Space
& Land Use
--Housing
--Community
Education
& Civic
Participation
--and Human Dignity
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