Dear Earth Talk: What is the environmental impact of those "K-Cups" everyone seems to be using nowadays to make coffee at both home and office?
— Chris B.
With the continuing rise in world population comes more energy needs, meaning ever-more demand on water resources. That's the message coming out of World Water Day (March
The men's NCAA basketball tournament, which began in 1939, has evolved into one of the biggest annual sporting events in America. Not coincidentally it's also the
Exploring the concept of well-being struck a chord for us. As two Santa Monica residents who are active in our community, we paid attention last year when our city
From the mid 1920s when the city of Santa Monica held a special municipal election on park bonds to acquire much of the existing Santa Monica Airport property (SMO), decisions
Study after study shows that we are being inundated with more messages, advertising, marketing, and distractions than ever before in history. Between the TV, newspapers, magazines, books, e-books, Facebook,
One of the city's smaller, but more contentious developments is before the Planning Commission this coming Wednesday evening. It's the granting of a conditional use permit
Dear EarthTalk: If "cap and trade" has worked so well in Europe for reducing greenhouse gas emissions there, why haven't we tried something similar here in