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After the Green Apartment Living workshop on Wednesday, Mia — the Co-opportunity person who organized the event — said she was psyched a good number of guys attended. Apparently, only women attended the previous workshop! Traci says one dude gasped after Summer said she gardens in bikini so she can get a tan. I’ve always thought that [...]

The Greywater Guerrillas are in LA this weekend! This women-founded team — profiled by the NY Times here — promotes and installs gray water systems — coverly, because California’s complicated laws make these systems expensive to put in, even though gray water use is legal in the state. Check out the Greywater Guerillas’ book, [...]

>> Fun events I’m missing this weekend because I’m in San Francisco for the BlogHer conference: * Glow, a dusk to dawn artsy spectacle in Santa Monica starting 7 pm Saturday, July 19 * Bicycle Film Festival, an all-weekend event including rides and parties. >> Some details on that proposed sales tax hike to fund public transportation [...]

>> Regular people can’t tell the diff between expensive and cheap wine, concludes Steven D. Levitt at Freakonomics after a failed attempt to pay less as a non wino member of a highbrow dining club of sorts. Ignorance is bliss — and drunken savings. >> PETA’s cheap attention-getting schemes often treat women like meat. The [...]

The problem with shwag bags: Most of the stuff’s just junk to you. This year, BlogHer’s letting conference attendees drop off the unwanted magic 8-balls and “Saving Grace” T-shirts in a recycling room run by Zwaggle. What’ll happen to the unwanted shwag? I talked to Adam D. Levy of Zwaggle — who said that the [...]