3 posts tagged “getting green”
- It takes three times the time to get to work by bus than car. I drive here in under 10 minutes, taking the orange line (which includes walking to Chandler and Laurel, walking from Lankershim and Chandler to Lankershim and Magnolia and bus waiting time) is about 30.
- I should wear tennis shoes instead of loafers. Loafers should go in my backpack just like Melanie Griffith in Working Girl. I don't think, however, that I will be wearing velcro Reeboks and puffy socks.
- I also shouldn't forget to bring my work ID.
- Interesting people of note at the bus stop: the cute girl with the sparkly pants and military cap reading some Ken Follett and the drunk looking guitarist who strummed and yelped at inconsistent intervals and looked like he smelled bad. He didn't get on the bus with us.
- Best thing about taking the bus: Getting 10 pages into Love Is A Mix Tape which is already funny, sad and thoroughly engaging. I'm going to blow through the book. I'm also going to finally listen to my last.fm recommendations and give Pavement a try. And make a mix tape to do chores by which will include lots of songs with familiar lyrics that I can belt out. I'm guessing Louis Prima will hold position #1 in some form or fashion. When I'm dusting, I like to sing out, sister.
My favorite project concerns "bio solids" (a.k.a. crap). When you flush your toilet, your feces is diverted to an old oil chamber where it is left to decompose. As this happens, the shit lets off a bunch of methane which is then converted into energy for the city. (Don't worry - it's clean by then.) How cool is that? Apparently, we're the first city to really do this on a large scale.
- Los Angeles is green!, apophenia, 02.06.07
When Theodore Roosevelt was in office, he banned Christmas trees from the White House because he thought that Christmas tree harvesting was depleting our National forests. His two young sons brought one into the White House and were sent to the most famous conservationist of his time, Gifford Pinchot, for a lecture. Mr. Pinchot defended the cutting of Christmas trees by saying that for every tree cut down, two are replanted, which actually replenished the forests.
Greenlight Magazine, Issue 5, November 2006
So, go get your real live christmas tree, chanukkah bush or winter solstice fern and enjoy the fresh pine smell.
