Posts Tagged ‘Mar Vista’
Small Business Boutique Sunday, April 29, 2012
April 24, 2012 at 9:06 pm
marvistamom.com
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Come shop at the Small Business Boutique Sunday, April 29, 2012, from 11am – 5pm. Support local small business!
Free Solar Webcast on New LADWP Program to Purchase Power From Los Angeles Rooftops
April 24, 2012 at 2:02 pm![ladwp-solar-feed-in-tariff_450x2951[1]](http://theopendaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ladwp-solar-feed-in-tariff_450x29511-96x62.png "ladwp-solar-feed-in-tariff_450x2951[1]")
LADWP is launching a new program to purchase solar energy from commercial and multi-family rooftops and parking lots in the City of Los Angeles. Open Neighborhoods will be hosting a free webcast event this Thursday April 26 at 2pm to discuss the new program and how you can participate. More information is available at openneighborhoods.net/communitysolar.
5% Day for The Community Center at Mar Vista Historic Firestation 62
April 21, 2012 at 3:09 pm
www.openmarvista.net
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Whole Foods Market, West Los Angeles will be donating 5% of its net sales of the day to The Community Center at Mar Vista Historic Firestation 62. They are builing a place to share and socialize, discover and enjoy. Enriching the lives of children and families, the center hopes to offer space for lots of [...]
Ex-appraiser Says He Cut Westside Property Values in Hopes of Donations to Assessor
April 20, 2012 at 4:00 pm
www.latimes.com
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Scott Schenter says L.A. County Assessor John Noguez promised him a promotion and implied that it was tied to his reducing the valuations on pricey Westside homes. Noguez denies offering the promotion. A former county appraiser who secretly and improperly slashed tens of millions of dollars from the taxable values of Westside properties in late [...]
Westside Meeting on Proposed DWP Rate Increase
April 20, 2012 at 3:52 pm
marvista.org
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LADWP to Hold Community Meetings to Discuss Proposed 2-Year Power and Water Rate Changes West L.A.: read more
Betsy Butler Sending Thousands of Plastic Baby Bottles to Westside Residents?
April 19, 2012 at 9:15 am
veniceforchange.blogspot.com
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Political blog Venice for Change is reporting that 50th Assembly District candidate Betsy Butler has distributed thousands of plastic baby bottles wrapped in campaign advertisements to residents of West LA and Santa Monica. Concerns have been raised over the environmental impact, with only 5% of plastic baby bottles reaching recycling bins. Do you have information or opinions on this report? Please share your comments with The Open Daily.
LA County offering $2000 for green home upgrades
April 18, 2012 at 9:08 pm
www.scpr.org
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To commemorate 10,000 homes in California environmentally efficient enough to earn the GreenPoint Rated label, Energy Upgrade California is offering L.A. County residents up to $2,000 in rebates to bring their homes up to the same standard.For a home to qualify for a GreenPoint Rated label, it has to meet requirements across five categories: energy [...]
Lowest Cost Residential Solar Power in California
April 17, 2012 at 7:50 pm
openneighborhoods.net
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A March 2012 report on the energy future of California identifies the Open Neighborhoods group-purchasing program in Los Angeles County as offering the lowest cost residential photovoltaic solar panel systems in California, at $4.40 per Watt.
Free Ticket Giveaway – 2012 Sustainability Summit at The Getty
April 17, 2012 at 7:36 am
The Open Daily is giving away a free ticket to the 2012 Sustainability Summit presented on Friday, April 27th at the Getty Center. Simply enter to win before 5pm local time on Friday, April 20th and a winner will be selected at random to attend the Summit. Tweet about the contest and win additional entries!
Burglaries at off-campus UCLA university apartments spike since September
April 16, 2012 at 10:53 pm
www.dailybruin.com
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There have been more than 20 burglaries and attempted burglaries since September at university apartments on Sepulveda and Sawtelle boulevards and Rose and Keystone avenues, in a set of graduate student apartment complexes called University Apartments South, according to a recent report released by the UCPD.
California schools harness sunshine to cut energy costs
April 16, 2012 at 10:00 pm
www.latimes.com
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More schools install solar panels to tap California's sunshine and reduce energy costs. But among the snags are predictable complaints about aesthetics and an unexpected directional mixup. To plug in to solar energy, you need photovoltaic cells, controllers, inverters, combiner boxes and plenty of copper wiring.
Vegan-Friendly Soaps in Mar Vista
April 16, 2012 at 9:30 pm
la.racked.com
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Los Angeles has more stores than anyone could physically tackle, but somehow we always keep returning to the usual suspects. To break out of the rut, we've asked some local shopping and fashion gurus to provide their hidden retail gems—those unique stores around LA that we might not all know about. Cue the Beatles: We're [...]
