A.M. Greenlist: Soy milk becomes green energy

>> Drink soy milk, offset your home energy consumption. Silk soy milk's "Green Caps for Green Energy Program" will buy you 30 kilowatt-hours worth of green offsets -- the amount of power used in an average home each day -- if you purchase any green-capped Silk product. All you have to do is enter the UPC code of said product on Silk's website.

>> Ed Norton wants you to bring your own bag, and says so in this short video on NationalGeographic.com.

>> L.A. gets another eco-organizer: No Wire Hangers. If you need help decluttering greenly, contact Julie Naylon of No Wire Hangers or Seana Hansen of Eco-Organizer.

>> But before organizing, take a picture of the tangle of cords under your desk and enter the “What’s Under Your Desk?” photo sweepstakes, run by Green Plug, a techy company promoting "efficient power charging systems." You could win a lunch in Beverly Hills with self-named “green advocates” Christopher Knight and Adrianne Curry, co-hosts of the VH-1's “My Fair Brady.”

>> Livable Places is no more! This nonprofit, which worked to develop affordable housing and advocated for land use policy reform, is shutting down after 7 years: "We began construction as speculation and frenzied demand drove up construction costs, and we started marketing homes as the turmoil in financial and real estate markets began.... The impact on the Southern California economy has been dire, and for Livable Places, the economic downturn has proved fatal."

>> Froggy roadkill. Amphibian populations are already shrinking due to fungus infections and habitat loss -- but cars and roads are also major killers. "The roads surveyed were right next to a wetland: classic amphibian territory. As a result they cause sizeable losses, especially when the frogs make their yearly migration to their breeding grounds."

Comments

[Ron Milam]

I'm very sad to see Livable Places close its doors. Livable Places pioneered green, transit-oriented development in Los Angeles. Not only that, but they were committed to developing mixed-income housing, something that's sorely needed. I greatly appreciate the work of Livable Places' staff and board, and hope their mission of advancing affordable vibrant healthy Southern California communities through advocacy, innovation, and building continues through the work of others.

[Poor child]

great! thanks very much for sharing!