tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80502172090633890952024-03-05T08:14:16.517-08:00Water Wise Expo at the Mar Vista Farmers' Market on March 29thSherri Akershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14480823187244123148noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8050217209063389095.post-79946484818605482612015-03-09T16:45:00.000-07:002015-03-09T13:43:57.594-07:00Save The Date!<div align="center" style="text-align: center;">
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Sherri Akershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14480823187244123148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8050217209063389095.post-87178430698417967682015-03-08T08:18:00.000-07:002015-03-27T06:55:14.897-07:00Let's Be Ready For The Rain That We Do Get! <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #333333;">For easier pick up, distribution on March 29th will be from </span><span style="color: #333333;">8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. </span><span style="color: #333333;">at</span><span style="color: #333333;"> the <a href="http://www.thehubonvenice.com/">Hub on Venice</a> at 11827 Venice Blvd.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Meet <a href="http://www.rainbarrelsintl.com/">Rain Barrels International</a> and learn about nature's solution to our drought, and explore all the opportunities that fresh, soft chemical free water offers to your garden.<strong> </strong></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The rain barrel is an invention that has been used for centuries, but in recent years their relevance has become more pronounced. When we do get rain, we can't tolerate the waste of letting it run into storm drains. Learn how it can be captured and reused!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Rain Barrel Company was started in 2006 by our 12 year old son (who wanted to make one for me as a birthday gift). I loved the barrel and so did all my friends. My son then took it to a local garden center (Norwood Road Gardens, Raleigh, NC) who graciously agreed to sell his product. In the next couple of days the garden center sold four rain barrels and my son enlisted the manufacturing assistance of his twin sister. The children decided that this would be their way to help the environment and make some extra holiday spending money. They quickly found out they were providing a top quality product with high demand.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The business has grown and our products are currently sold in 119 stores in nine states. On Friday nights, we no longer all go into the garage as a family to watch a video, eat popcorn and make rain barrels together. However, both of our young teens are still very involved in the business and are learning the day to day operations of running a company. Our company now has a crew that assembles our rain barrels out of recycled food grade barrels that would otherwise be headed to landfills.</span></div>
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Sherri Akershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14480823187244123148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8050217209063389095.post-44880019620596831382015-02-27T16:40:00.001-08:002015-03-13T17:37:10.628-07:00Preview Screening - " WATER WOES: We Plan for Your Eating"<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Please join us for the special preview screening of <b>"</b></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>WATER WOES: We Plan for Your Eating"</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> - a work-in-progress documentary exploring how
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Sherri Akershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14480823187244123148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8050217209063389095.post-26730281409137023732015-02-24T08:54:00.002-08:002015-02-24T08:54:44.522-08:00Open Office Hours with CD11 Councilmember Mike Bonin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sherri Akershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14480823187244123148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8050217209063389095.post-47138438964004067642015-02-24T06:26:00.001-08:002015-02-24T06:28:37.765-08:00Fracking - How Much Water Does it Use? How Much Does it Poison?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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10% of what we read, 50% of what we see and hear, but 90% of what we
DO. The <a href="http://www.greengardensgroup.com/programs/homeowner-programs/"><b>G3 Residential and Garden Steward Programs</b> </a>are
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hard surfaces, and conserve water, energy and wildlife habitat. Meet the team from <a href="http://www.surfrider.org/programs/entry/ocean-friendly-gardens">Surfider Ocean Friendly Gardens</a> at the Expo on March 29th and learn about their hands on workshops and how you can transform your lawn!</span><br />
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Surfrider Foundation. Except for one of the gardens, the designs are created by
Surfrider partner, <strong><a href="http://surfrider.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5d644ab1f1b96d0a0866d2c8c&id=3bf06ef324&e=223262ddfd" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal;">G3/Green Gardens Group</span></a></strong>.
In this case, the G3 designer was <strong><a href="http://surfrider.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5d644ab1f1b96d0a0866d2c8c&id=0fe51183bf&e=223262ddfd" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal;">John Tikotsky</span></a></strong>,
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spread and sink rainwater. All the plants are local natives. Click <a href="http://surfrider.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5d644ab1f1b96d0a0866d2c8c&id=516b8afca2&e=223262ddfd" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #6dc6dd;">here</span></a> to
read more, and go check it out: 710 Pier Ave, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. </span>Sherri Akershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14480823187244123148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8050217209063389095.post-78095343626337432622014-12-10T08:14:00.000-08:002015-03-21T18:41:54.735-07:00Learn How We Can REUSE the Water in Our Homes on March 29th!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Visit them at the Expo on March 29th to Take the Dirty Car Pledge</h1>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sign the pledge and pick up a “Dirty for the Drought” car sticker (It’s static cling, so it won’t ruin your car ). </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> 10,000 pledges they have received have saved an estimated 3
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Put the sticker on the inside of your back car window to help spread the word while you’re driving.</div>
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Take a photo and post it on social media with the hashtag #DirtyCarPledge. Tag your friends in the post and challenge them to take the pledge, too!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This tour of sustainable and edible gardens </span></span><span style="color: #444444;">empowers Angelenos to adopt environmentally conscious living solutions. </span><span style="color: #444444;">Each garden has one or more of the following sustainability features: California native/drought tolerant plantings, edibles, water catchment systems or chickens. Visitors can</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4;"> talk with landscapers and meet landscapers as well as do-it-yourself gardeners who share knowledge and experience. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4;">S</span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">pecial guest presenters at many gardens will enhance your knowledge of sustainability in daily living.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.treepeople.org/" style="font-weight: normal;">TreePeople</a><span style="font-weight: normal;"> has partnered with us as Co-Host on the Water Wise Expo and will help us understand how to protect our trees through the drought.</span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Trees are the most vital resource for environmental well-being in urban areas. While it may seem counter-intuitive to irrigate trees in a water crisis, it is the single most important thing to do. Trees actually are key to a sufficient local water supply in Los Angeles.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When it does rain, a mature tree can capture thousands of gallons of rainwater in its canopy and root zone, sinking that rain into the aquifer. Because so much of our city is paved, every time it rains an inch in the City of Los Angeles, 3.8 billion gallons of precious water runs off into the ocean and is wasted. When it doesn’t rain, trees shade and cool our city by as much as 10 degrees Fahrenheit.</span></div>
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Sherri Akershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14480823187244123148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8050217209063389095.post-12347384690641660092014-02-08T08:28:00.000-08:002014-03-09T09:28:41.608-07:00How the Drought is Impacting Our Farms - Gonzaga Farms<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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general contractor and Tess Gonzaga began her career in the medical field as an
RN</span>. They founded <a href="http://www.gonzagafarms.com/">Gonzaga Farms</a> in July 2001 with the idea of bringing a
high quality of fresh and unique produce to the Southern California community
at competitive prices. Their mission is to help create a stronger community by
providing nutritional education to consumers while encouraging them to eat
healthy organic food. <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They have 4 sites
and 3 different wells but in the city of LA, historically it has been cheaper
to buy water than to use the electricity to pump from their wells.
Pumping costs twice as much with electricity rates being so high within
the City of LA. Now the city water is no longer available except in the
case of emergency. They have had to make deposits on emergency supplies.
It used to be $158 an acre, now it is $1200. It’s getting to the point
where they can’t sell enough fruit to make the money needed to afford the
water. They can buy outside water but it is 180% more expensive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sprinklers next to the trees to irrigate. These shoot water efficiently just
to the crucial point that feeds the root. When it rains they can wait two
weeks to water. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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trees to plant but aren't doing it yet because they fear not having enough
water. If things don't improve, they may have to let those trees just
decompose and die.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Sherri Akershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14480823187244123148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8050217209063389095.post-13908888413342571032014-02-08T08:15:00.000-08:002014-03-09T08:58:12.883-07:00How the Drought is Impacting Our Farms - Arnett Farms<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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been operating one of the best farms in California. Arnett Farms, located in
Fresno, grows over 200 different varieties of stone fruits, citrus, and
berries, as well as apples and persimmons.</span></div>
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their water comes from <span id="yiv5536987022yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1394346305038_13691">surface irrigation from
nearby lakes with pumps. Today, those lakes are at 15-17% capacity. When
they can’t get surface irrigation, they use their wells, which is much more
expensive. This year, 90% to 100% of their water will come from the wells. They
are working to upgrade the wells, but so is every other farm in the area and
the service providers are back up 2 to 3 months. It’s a race to get the wells
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is the worst year of drought in Scott’s lifetime - going into the 3rd year of
little rain with no drainage carry over to replenish their ground water. They
are trying to convert to drip irrigation – most farms have stayed with surface
irrigation in the past because it replenishes the ground water. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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recently. All they can do is their best to get their wells in shape and
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Sherri Akershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14480823187244123148noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8050217209063389095.post-20559006064376631092014-02-08T07:58:00.000-08:002014-03-02T11:50:15.504-08:00Conserving Water With Native Plants - Learn How on March 16th!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A single-family residential customer may use 140 gallons of water a day - and about 40 percent of that is used outdoors to water our lawns.</span><br />
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native plants helps to conserve water, and also even conserve energy!
She will talk about the things you need to consider when determining which
native plants will work in your yard. Ballona Institute has been working
for four years with two schools in the LA Unified School District, growing
native plants from seeds and cuttings, and realizing the need for more
nurseries and others to grow native plants so we can bring back more native
songbirds, butterflies and other pollinators to the flora in our region.</span><o:p></o:p><br />
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Sherri Akershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14480823187244123148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8050217209063389095.post-30831209469463629542014-02-08T07:46:00.000-08:002014-03-02T11:50:54.458-08:00Take Back the Tap! Take the Pledge on March 16th!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Food & Water Watch will also be on hand presenting information to urge us to take the pledge to choose tap water over bottled!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We believe <strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">water should be safe, accessible and affordable for all; that clean water is a basic human right and a public service, not a corporate commodity.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tap water is a better choice than bottled water, for many reasons:</span></div>
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Sherri Akershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14480823187244123148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8050217209063389095.post-82369309960137331462014-02-08T06:18:00.000-08:002014-03-02T11:51:24.987-08:00Conserving With Home Filtration Options - Learn More on March 16th!<br />
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Sherri Akershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14480823187244123148noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8050217209063389095.post-4582856302433852412014-02-08T04:44:00.000-08:002014-03-02T11:51:54.230-08:00Our Diet Has a Water Footprint Too! Learn More on March 16th!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sherri Akershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14480823187244123148noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8050217209063389095.post-8993242616771225502014-02-08T03:15:00.000-08:002014-03-09T08:57:50.602-07:00How the Drought is Impacting Our Farms - Fat Uncle Farms<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Water Wise Expo at the Mar Vista Farmers' Market will share how the drought is impacting the farms we rely on. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.fatunclefarms.com/">Fat Uncle Farms</a> is worried about keeping trees alive that have been in the family two generations. They are a very small, second generation, family farm in Wasco. They have been told that they can't have any water from the water district this year. So they are in "wait and see" mode as they pray for rain. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They still have some left from last year but once they run out they will be dependent upon neighbors who are willing to sell them water. Rebecca Siemens of Fat Uncle says she is worried the neighbors will not sell them any this year - several of them have dug deeper wells - dropped 500 feet - and hit bedrock! Because of this, they may hold all they have out of fear. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In Kern County the water feeds from a reservoir in the Sierras which is now at 10% capacity. Allotments are based on prior usage - in a severe drought year a small farm may not get any because of the percentage rule.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Sherri Akershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14480823187244123148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8050217209063389095.post-70475562628930177582014-02-08T02:07:00.000-08:002014-02-17T10:36:47.904-08:00How The Drought Is Impacting Our Farms - The Garden Of...<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We all know <span style="background-color: white;">The Garden of..... and </span><span style="background-color: white;">Debby and Shu Takikawa from our Sundays at the market. Maybe you read the wonderful profile on them in the LA Times, </span><a href="http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-market-watch-20120618,0,5699379.story#axzz2taxh0o3g" style="text-align: center;">Market Watch: Takikawas' the Garden of ..... </a><a href="http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-market-watch-20120618,0,5699379.story#axzz2taxh0o3g" style="text-align: center;">connects the dots to quality</a><span style="background-color: white;">. </span></span><br />
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with the amount of water they use - Shu has always felt that over-watering is
very bad for the health of the plants and his conservation of water is one of
the cornerstones of his basic farming method. Still, their water use for 70 acres
of farmland is 30,000 cubic feet per month on average. Normally, this time of
year they can rely on rain to supply all of their irrigation needs. This year,
their water bill is over $1,000 a month. More important, the plants prefer rainfall
and grow better and soil needs rainfall to wash away the saline buildup of
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wild life and plant life is
affected all around them, and this also impacts their farm and the way that they
feel. It seems like the drought is a symptom of an environmental imbalance, and
since their farming practice is based on harmony with nature, this feeling of
imbalance affects their ability to maintain equilibrium.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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stopped growing vegetables that require large amounts of water, for example
celery. If there is not enough water to farm with they will be forced to stop
farming – while big agricultural continues. That would be a heartbreaking loss
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Sherri Akershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14480823187244123148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8050217209063389095.post-64938811447925076322014-02-07T04:11:00.000-08:002014-03-02T11:53:11.385-08:00Learn About LADWP FREE Water Conservation Tools and Rebates on March 16th!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Vista resident and National Association of Realtors GREEN Designee, <a href="http://www.gibsonintl.com/agents/5164-Susan-Klos">Susan Klos</a> </span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">,
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Participants receive in-home installation of water saving devices including
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California Friendly Landscape Incentive Program, information on the federal tax
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Sherri Akershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14480823187244123148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8050217209063389095.post-79517734731219471182014-02-07T03:01:00.000-08:002014-03-02T11:52:37.857-08:00Plastic Bottled Water - What a Waste! Join KOR Water on March 16th!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">We are in the midst of a drought, yet as many </span><a href="http://christopherkeelty.com/in-the-news/california-drought-and-bottled-water/">as 100 brands of bottled water may be drawing water from California aquifers</a>. </span></o:p></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Although our State’s Department of Health requires them to report how much they are removing from groundwater sources, this information is not made available to the public or to lawmakers in the state. Do we really want to support this waste?</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.korwater.com/shop/vessels/vida750-arcticwhite" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="http://www.korwater.com/shop/vessels/vida750-arcticwhite" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4Mmbfk1qKar6VAnrcW1lJP0-itygwctd_XvUWEIbE6__gdOX6xCarg4uRyMYPiyk9BIKiCf-tVh8CEa7Oi7VFrayh_YrTAj2UPjL8zMvdjYGqjFcH4dM0lcZfjPPSaDWi8-vt_6aywYoS/s1600/KOR+steel.jpg" height="320" width="254" /></a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: #444444;">Check out these great documentaries on the topic -</span> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><a href="http://www.flowthefilm.com/">Flow </a><span style="color: #444444;">and </span><a href="http://www.tappedthemovie.com/">Tapped</a> <span style="color: #444444;">to learn more</span></span></div>
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<br />Sherri Akershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14480823187244123148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8050217209063389095.post-25661610980644015252014-02-06T07:51:00.000-08:002014-03-02T11:53:49.544-08:00Save Water - Learn How to Kill Your Lawn on March 16th!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://losangelesaudubon.org/">Los Angeles Audubon</a> will be giving out FREE copies of <a href="http://losangelesaudubon.org/index.php/education-mainmenu-194/science-illustration-mainmenu-244/926-kill-your-lawn-comic-book">Kill Your Lawn</a>. <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 21.760000228881836px; text-align: justify;">During the summer of 2011, a core group of students in Los Angeles Audubon's </span><a href="http://losangelesaudubon.org/index.php/education-mainmenu-194/baldwin-hills-ed-programs-mainmenu-202" style="background-color: white; color: #0a5e69; line-height: 21.760000228881836px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Baldwin Hills Greenhouse Program</a> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 21.760000228881836px; text-align: justify;">completed artwork for the "Kill Your Lawn" comic book. This project was one aspect of the </span><a href="http://losangelesaudubon.org/index.php/toyotatogether-green-mainmenu-201/156-togethergreen/togethergreen-fellowship?layout=blog" style="background-color: white; color: #0a5e69; line-height: 21.760000228881836px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">TogetherGreen Fellowship</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 21.760000228881836px; text-align: justify;"> grant received by Los Angeles Audubon, and the goal was to create a comic-style brochure for the public about the conservation value of replacing lawn with native plant species. These students worked hard, dedicating five weeks of their summer break to the project, and they created outstanding comics that address the whys and hows of killing your lawn, how to care for native plants, and designing a food and native plant garden. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 21.760000228881836px; text-align: justify;">What could be easier? In one visit, presenters will give you information on how the <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-0216-lopez-dry-20140215,0,4319346.column#axzz2tV68bqCR">LADWP will pay you to remove your grass</a>, LA Audubon will give you a simple "How To" guide and Ballona Institute will advise you on how to plant with natives!</span></span></div>
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