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.
When I was a kid I was “born again,” a process that involved being fully and totally immersed in water. Much more recently I was on the home stretch of an 8-mile walk in the hot sun when the minister I was walking with kindly poured her drinking water on my hot little head.
Sonny McLean’s serves food? That was my initial reaction as I bellied up to the bar for a cold one. The barkeep enthusiastically showed me a menu and pointed to a bunch of cooking trophies behind the bar won by their head chef.
DOWNTOWN — The wind rushed by, distorting Fred Seaman’s words. “Johnny Depp’s loving this wind,” Seaman says. Up at a vineyard in Southern California, Seaman, 53, and Depp, a falcon — not the actor — are participating in what Seaman calls “a 4,000-year-old cooperative relationship.
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.
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.
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.
CITY HALL — Nothing occurs in a vacuum, particularly development in a dense city like Santa Monica. Perhaps never has that been more true than with three projects, located on Colorado Avenue a quarter-mile from the proposed Bergamot Transit Village, that are all at various stages in the planning pip
CITY HALL — The City Council Tuesday approved a measure that would allow the city of Bayou La Batre, Ala. to keep two loaned fire engines, culminating an arrangement made when the town was rebuilding after the ravages of Hurricane Katrina.
The Santa Monica Bay Restoration Foundation is working with Culver City to fund a program that aims to install rain barrels in 500 homes in its first year.
DOWNTOWN — Water quality around the Santa Monica Pier continues to improve as the beach surrounding the historic landmark was taken off the Natural Resources Defense Council’s “10 Repeat Offenders” list, attorneys in the environmental advocacy group’s Santa Monica office said Wednesday.
