Wow- this is too cool... literally. The state of Florida is buying its largest sugar processor in an attempt to save the dwindling Everglades. It's an unprecedented move in this country on behalf of nature. Here's the NY Times article on this amazing, amazing move:


Florida to Buy Sugar Maker in Bid to Restore Everglades
Barbara P. Fernandez for The New York Times

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Check out this article in yesterday's NY Times in which a cool LEED platinum home in Venice is profiled. Good on Tom Schey, a homebuilder in Santa Monica, and his business partner, Kelly Meyer, along with architect Melinda Gray for getting this house built!

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/us/22leed.html?ref=science

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Hey Folks,

As you may have noticed, Green Drinks L.A. has been offline for quite a while. In talking with Barent Roth, organizer of L.A. Green Drinks on the west side, I decided to lay low as he ramped up the LAGreenDrinks.com site. Definitely didn't want to steal his thunder.

But I recently came back to see that a few people happened to find our site by chance and I realized that enough people want to connect in this community of ours that only good could come out of keeping us alive, and wor… Continue

This past Thursday night we had the chance to be a part of an amazing educational experience courtesy of LA Green Drinks. Thanks to the efforts of LA Green Drinks organizer Barent Roth and the good folks at Living Green, host of Culver City's monthly event, members of the… Continue

I can't wait until these little numbers hit the market here in the U.S. at the end of this year. I'm pretty sure I'll be trading in my Civic Hybrid when it's lease is up late '09 for one of these. They're just too cool!

http://www.zapworld.com/