The Go Green Expo is this weekend at the LA Convention Center.  It’s only $10 for a full weekend pass.  I looked through the lineup of events, speakers and booths.  There’s a lot of good stuff packed in.  There is an event on Saturday titled “Creating an Eco-logical Home” which sounds interesting.  Should be some good info.  Take a look at the lineup.  You can take some and leave some or just wing it!

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It’s raining all week in LA and I still see sprinklers going.  Most of you probably have them set with an automatic timer and forget they are still running and wasting water in the rain.  This is a friendly reminder to turn them off during a week like this.  No need to waste water.  If you are worried you will forget to turn them back on, write yourself a reminder and put it where you’ll see it.  Using the rain will save thousands of gallons of water.  You can help conserve water by remembering this helpful tip.  Come on, you know you want to…

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You find both of them thrown out on curbs!

It’s mid-January now and Christmas is over, and you know what else is over, curbside collection of trees.  Most areas collect trees for up to two weeks after Christmas.  That means it’s OVER for this year.  So throwing your rotty old tree on the street just means you are hoping someone else will deal with your tree.  Real nice.  You got the tree and you should properly get rid of the tree.  I drive around and see these trees sitting on curbs for weeks and it’s just plain RUDE.  I know you see your tree sitting there every day like an eyesore.  You are waiting for the day you come home and it’s gone.  Your relief that finally SOMEONE ELSE did the work for you.

Now for mattresses.  Even worse than Christmas trees.  I saw 3 or 4 while driving for a half hour today.  Why does throwing your dirty old mattress on the curb and sidewalk seem to be a good idea?  Because you don’t want to deal with it?  Do you think anyone else wants to touch your mattress??  Unless it’s bulk pick up day, don’t put your mattress on the street.  I guess you think SOMEONE will want it.  Are you telling yourself it’s a way to donate and you leave it there feeling “good” about yourself.  Well my friend, let me tell you, you are the problem and not the solution.  Thanks for contributing to your community (said with sarcasm and judgement.)  And, to add insult to injury, it rained today, so now think of those mattresses…

There are plenty of places and people that can help with getting rid of both of these items.  If you just don’t know, let’s educate you.

Trees:  Go to this site - http://earth911.com/  and type in Christmas Trees and your city or zip and it will give you a list of recycling centers.  If you have questions, give your local recycler a call.  They are there to help.  Here’s what it looks like.

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What a lovely view.  This could be yours for the price of zeroing out California state park general funding and replacing it with a bribery tag of $140 million for an oil lease off the coast of Santa Barbara.  What a deal!!!


It might just be me, but something sounds wrong with state park funding being held hostage and to survive they have to agree to an offshore oil drilling lease.  Does anyone want to start the pros and cons list?  Come on, it’ll be fun!


If you care about state parks, if you care about not having offshore oil drilling, or if you don’t have an opinion at all, get one and check out the following and send your letter of support.


California State Parks Foundation

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