Category Archives: Environment
How Peter Douglas Saved Venice and the California Coast
By Jim Smith Peter Douglas, who was the chief guardian of the California coast for the past 40 years, died April 1. It would have been much better for Venice if this were a sick April Fools joke, but it … Continue reading
Filed under Development/Gentrification, Environment, Jim Smith, Venice
Venice is for the Birds
By Vanessa Cabello It’s not too often I think about birds. From time to time I spot and admire birds in the wild, but I have never really paid much attention to the study and habits of birds (officially termed … Continue reading
Filed under Environment
They’re Walkways, not “Side” walks
By Fred Owens Venice – maybe it doesn’t say so in the tourist hype about all the weird people on the boardwalk and all the ultra-cool people on Abbot Kinney – is a walking community. It’s compact, you can get … Continue reading
Filed under Environment, Transportation
Who Bombed Judi Bari?
A conversation With Darryl Cherney, Earth First! Activist And Producer Of Daring New Documentary: Who Bombed Judi Bari? By Margot Pepper Before global warming permeated contemporary consciousness, Earth First! activists Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney popularized protests against clear-cutting in … Continue reading
Filed under Crime/Police, Environment
Atomic Scientists Set The Clock Forward
Faced with inadequate progress on nuclear weapons reduction and proliferation, and continuing inaction on climate change, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) announced today that it has moved the hands of its famous “Doomsday Clock” to five minutes to … Continue reading
Filed under Environment, Science/Technology
Underground Methane – A Ticking Timebomb
By John Davis The Four Kings and One Queen who call themselves the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and the California Coastal Commission joined forces November 3 to wipe out hundreds of small boat slips, erect private buildings on … Continue reading
Filed under Environment, Marina del Rey
Reading of Moby Dick Celebrates Whale Migration
“Whenever it is a damp drizzly November in my soul …. then I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can,” — Herman Melville, Moby Dick The Venice Oceanarium will present its 16th annual reading … Continue reading
Filed under Environment
Film Review: If A Tree Falls
By Mary Getlein Coming home from seeing the movie If A Tree Falls, coming home on the #1 Bus. We pass car dealership lots – I imagine them igniting in flame as we pass. What would this world look like … Continue reading
Filed under Environment, Mary Getlein
Easing The Automobile Out Of Venice
By Jim Smith Getting around Venice can be a problem if you don’t have a car. Even then, if you park your car on the street, don’t even think about moving it on a sunny weekend, or nearly any time … Continue reading
Filed under Bicycles, Environment, Jim Smith, Traffic/Parking, Transportation, Venice
Community Garden Sprouts in Venice
CJ Gronner I had just about had it with urban problems this last month. I thought I was actually going crazy from chopper noise that one night that they hovered right over my house for four (plus) hours, just to … Continue reading
Filed under C.J. Gronner, Environment, Venice
