Posted in Community on 19. Feb, 2010
Mar Vista Mom has teamed up with the founders of Open Mar Vista/Open Neighborhoods, James Brennan and John Ayers, to create The OPEN Daily, a daily email Essential Guide to the Westside. Free subscription, free listings (and paid advertising as well), the OPEN Daily is designed to promote local businesses, offer updates from Westside schools, [...]
Phase Two of my home’s solar conversion is complete! There are enough black glass panels on my roof now to qualify it as an electrical generator. You can read about phase one here. Here’s my roof before: Here’s what it looked like yesterday: and here it is today — all done: AWESOMENESSSSS. And check out the [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Community on 23. Jul, 2009
Be sure to come by on Saturday at 6pm if you have any questions about this solar energy project. A representative from SolarCity will be on hand to answer questions about the installation and leasing vs. buying options, and the Open Mar Vista guys (John Ayers and James Brennan) will be talking about the pilot [...]
Posted in Farmer's Market on 19. Jul, 2009
So much new stuff today! First of all, there is a shady dining area next to the Post Office, and the coffee cart, fish booth, lemonade and nachoshave all formed an open area. Plus the kids’ craft booth is in a new spot, behind the Vegan section,and there’s also a new food booth: wood-fired pizza!The Mar [...]
Ever think about installing solar panels on your roof? This being sunny Southern California, I can’t imagine it hasn’t crossed all of our minds on multiple occasions. But there’s a lot to consider, and the hefty price tag has always been a stumbling block for many homeowners. (Me included) Well, there’s a new era in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 08. Jul, 2009
This is a great resource for our neighborhood – it’s a virtual space to connect with others in our community, since we can’t always get together IRL (or, In Real Life). James Brennan and John Ayers created Open Mar Vista, and they’re helping to make Mar Vista a place on the cutting edge, what with [...]
Posted in Mar Vista on 03. Jul, 2009
Community access to Wi-Fi. FREE community access to Wi-Fi. How many ways can I say it? Dude, Mar Vista gives away wireless internet access. For Free. It may sound like I’m going overboard, but I can’t help myself: how awesome is it to have free access to the internet? It’s extremely awesome. Wi-fi is present [...]
Posted in Community, Farmer's Market on 28. Apr, 2009
Even though it’s of course the TRES de Mayo, you can still celebrate CINCO de Mayo at the Mar Vista Farmer’s Market next Sunday. There will be musical performances featuring the 9-piece salsa band OPA OPA and dance by Folkloriko Veracruzano. For the kids, there will be crafts and pinatas, and since it’s the first Sunday [...]
