Waterwise Landscaping

  • Posted on 31 July 2008
  • By Maddalena Serra

Conservation Coordinator

Many circumstances may affect your landscaping decisions, and since we are now officially in a drought, lack of water and possible water rationing might be one of these circumstances. Cost is also one of the reasons to start considering your landscaping options: 50 percent of household water is used for the yard and garden. David Lightfoot of Irrigation Management says that “Most home irrigation systems use two to three times the water needed - sometimes doubling the house water bill.

BOXER, MCKEON INTRODUCE LANDMARK SAN GABRIEL MOUNTAINS WILDERNESS BILL

  • Posted on 30 June 2008
  • By The Editor

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon (R-CA) have launched a bipartisan legislative effort to protect over 470,000 acres of wilderness and 52 miles of Wild and Scenic Rivers in California. The legislation—The Eastern Sierra and Northern San Gabriel Wild Heritage Act—would also designate as wilderness 28,000-acre Pleasant View Ridge, which Sierra Club volunteers have been working to protect for over 20 years.

Have Some Poison, My Dear

  • Posted on 30 June 2008
  • By Alan Pollack
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Keep poison off the menu by employing sustainable
gardening techniques. SIERRA CLUB ARCHIVES

Firefighters Back Ban on Flame Retardants

  • Posted on 30 June 2008
  • By The Editor

Your TV, mattress, couch and computer could be sources of man-made toxic chemicals building up in human tissues, including breast milk. Sounds crazy, but it’s not.
Many consumer products are imbued with a class of flame retardants considered by many to be bad news since they accumulate in fatty tissues, resist breakdown in the environment, and disrupt normal development in lab animals.

Passages

  • Posted on 30 June 2008
  • By The Editor
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CLUB OPPOSES HUNTINGTON BEACH'S POSEIDON DESALINATION PLANT

  • Posted on 30 June 2008
  • By Vazrig Sabounjian

We live at a time when the symptoms of global warming are prevalent in our changing environment: ice caps and glaciers are melting; sea levels are rising; national parks and wildlife refuges are at risk—there are a host of issues that we all have a shared responsibility in addressing not just for us, but for all life, and the planet itself.
Climate change changes coastlines and California’s fragile, yet threatened coastline is particularly susceptible to the devastating effects of global warming.

HISTORIC-CULTURAL MONUMENT DESIGNATION FOR GRIFFITH PARK?

  • Posted on 30 June 2008
  • By Ron Silverman

An urban oasis in perpetuity?
The Griffith Charitable Trust, headed by Col. Griffith’s great grandson, has submitted to the City of Los Angeles, an application to designate Griffith Park a Historic-Cultural Monument.
Having seen Europe’s public parks, Col. Griffith J. Griffith decided that, in order to become a great city, Los Angeles needed a park of its own. In 1896, he deeded 3,015 acres of his Rancho Los Feliz property to the city of Los Angeles.

Tip of the Month

  • Posted on 31 May 2008
  • By The Editor

It is fire season again in Southern California! Many California native plants are not only very beautiful but also fire resistant. Of course eventually everything will burn, so keep your plants at a safe distance from your house and properly trimmed.

A beautiful drought and fire resistant Southern California native bush is the lemonade berry - rhus integrifolia. This is an evergreen shrub that does not grow more than 10 feet, makes a beautiful hedge, has pretty white flowers and then red berries. You can even make lemonade with them! Nothing beats an edible and safe landscape.

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