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For visitors to Pasadena, Calif., 5 great free things, from farmers markets to flea markets | February 28, 2014 — Street-side viewing of the nationally televised annual New Year's Day Rose Parade isn't the only free thing to attract visitors to Pasadena, Calif., a mere 17 kilometres northeast of downtown Los Angeles. |
Crescenta Valley Water District offers rebates for water-saving efforts | February 27, 2014 — It's part of an annual rebate program that comps CVWD customers $1 per square foot, up to 800 square feet, to replace turf with drought-tolerant and California native plants. This is on top of a $1 per-square-foot rebate being offered through the Metropolitan Water District (MWD) of Southern California, which has no cap. |
Los Angeles City Council Unanimously Confirms Marcie Edwards as LADWP General Manager | February 21, 2014 — Marcie Edwards will be the first woman to run the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power. |
When Los Angeles Abandoned its Mountain Frontier | February 20, 2014 — The perilous escape from Mount Lowe that night was part of a gradual abandonment of extraordinary recreational and commercial ventures that had sprung up in the mountains of Los Angeles since the 1880s. The zealous spirit that had initially inspired these exploits and fostered them for nearly five decades was rooted in the tantalizing national myth of the vanishing frontier. |
Security Issues Hamper Public Opening of Ed P. Reyes River Greenway | February 19, 2014 — Despite rumors that have alleged this project's unavailability to the public might be fallout from political rivalry between Council District 1 councilmember Gil Cedillo and his predecessor Ed Reyes, Deborah Deets from the Bureau of Sanitation's (BOS) Watershed Protection Division adamantly says this isn't true. Deets says the reason the greenway hasn't been open is because of a security issue. |
Jay Famiglietti's mission: to rescue us from our bad water habits | February 19, 2014 — Patt Morrison asks Jay Famiglietti about the future of water in California. |
Water war boils down to farmers vs. fishermen | February 19, 2014 — George Skelton of the LA Times talks sense about the realities of a drought and the characterization of California's water wars as a fight between farmers and fish. |
California Drought: Database shows big difference between water guzzlers and sippers | February 10, 2014 — The historic drought is making average residents think twice every time they turn on the tap, despite the weekend rain. But there is nothing average about the way Californians consume water: A little-known state database that measures water use in every community shows huge -- sometimes shocking -- differences between California's water sippers and guzzlers. |
They're Getting It Right "Down Under" and the U.S. Should Follow Their Lead | February 7, 2014 — Lisa Novick talks about finding native plants at Australian big box nurseries and the country's embrace of its native landscapes. |
Epic California Drought and Groundwater: Where Do We Go From Here? | February 4, 2014 — UC Irvine professor Jay Familighetti presents some alarming analysis of groundwater levels in California based on satellite observation. |