Editor’s note: This story is part of an ongoing series that tracks the city’s expenditures appearing on upcoming Santa Monica City Council consent agendas.
Dear EarthTalk: The U.S. House of Representatives recently voted to strip the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of its authority over state water quality.
CITY HALL — A resident of a local trailer park has filed a $5.15 million claim against City Hall, alleging that the preliminary approval of a development agreement for the 2800 block of Colorado Avenue will deprive him and other tenants of their homes.
CITYWIDE — Sometimes, acting with the best of intentions can be extremely inconvenient. I fully grasped this in a stairwell of a nine-story office building on the 200 block of Wilshire Boulevard, praying to the high heavens that there were no video cameras, or particularly industrious members of the
Dear EarthTalk: What is a “dead zone” in an ocean or other body of water? Victor Paine Tallahassee, FL So-called dead zones are areas of large bodies of water-typically in the ocean but also occasionally in lakes and even rivers-that do not have enough oxygen to support marine life.
Dear EarthTalk I don’t hear much about the environmental impacts of our consumer culture any more, but it seems to me that our “buy, buy, buy” mentality is a major contributor to our overuse of energy and resources.
Dear EarthTalk I’ve been hearing more and more references to the need to clean up our agricultural practices for reasons pertaining to health, food quality, even global warming.
Dear EarthTalk Why can’t plastics of all types, instead of being initially sorted, simply be melted together to be separated later? It must be a monumental and error-prone task to separate truckloads of plastics.
CITY HALL — The last five years in Santa Monica have been a time of great change for the direction of the city in terms of development and planning. After years of work, the ground breaking Land Use and Circulation Element — called the LUCE — was formally adopted, paving the way for the next two dec
CITYWIDE — For perhaps the first time in Santa Monica’s history, City Hall will officially push forward a policy to redistribute wealth, but not of the dollars and cents variety.
Dear EarthTalk: Why don’t we reprocess and re-use our nuclear waste like France does? Would it be possible for us to start doing so? — Albert Jukowsky, Silver Spring, Md.
CITY HALL — Our modern world contains many new devices that provide convenience and luxury, but could they be making us sick? That’s a question confronted by Elizabeth Barris, a former Santa Monica resident who has been on a quest to raise awareness about electronics that most take for granted, and
