The Green Booth at the Mar Vista Farmer’s Market was all about lunches last Sunday! Annie Barnes of InspireTheChange.com and I co-hosted the booth and were joined by Jennifer Taggert of TheSmartMama.com, Elizabeth Rietz of WhiningNDining.com, Emily Carey of ScrappyNaps, and Melissa Davis of Melissa’s Food Blog. We had the following products donated by their [...]
Posted in Farmer's Market, Green, Mar Vista on 18. Oct, 2009
Today’s shopper is Dr. Susanne Bennett, a holistic chiropractor who also founded a line of skin care products called Purigenex. She’s going to make her organic heirloom tomato bolognese sauce. She starts with 6 – 7 cloves of garlic, minced, and about 2/3 of a yellow onion, chopped and sautes them in grape seed oil [...]
I’ve got proof: UPDATE: One barrel is not enough. Overflow!
Posted in Community, Family Fun, Green, Weekend Plans on 03. Oct, 2009
I attended the festival this morning and here’s my impression, via Whrrl. More stories at Mar Vista Recreation Center Powered by Whrrl
My 250-gallon rain barrel is all set up. See Before and After.These barrels will collect runoff from the roof during a rain storm so it can be used to water plants during the dry times. It’s totally smart – and the barrels normally cost around $250. But I got this one free. And if you [...]
Posted in Community, Family Fun, Green, Weekend Plans on 26. Sep, 2009
Saturday, October 3rd, Mar Vista park holds its annual Fall Festival, and this year’s theme is Green! The festival runs from 10am to 4pm, and there will be bouncy houses, face painting, games, prizes, an art show, a Kidz Go Green Zone, booths with Eco solutions, products and info, and live entertainment all day long. [...]
Posted in Green on 20. Aug, 2009
Mar Vista Mom is going Solar! I am so excited, in a very geeky, green way. I have lived in sunny climates most of my life and have always wanted to take advantage of the power of the sun, but there was always the big price tag standing in the way. Now with the leasing [...]
It was a capacity crowd that showed up Saturday evening to hear Open Mar Vista‘s John Ayers and James Brennan introduce their vision for clean energy in Mar Vista, and to introduce SolarCity, the contractors who are running the program and would install the solar panels here. Aleida Montejo and Kevin O’Donnell, of ThreadCollaborative, were [...]
