Composting: What’s the Big Deal & Why Should I Bother?

As seen in the previous post, this blog has taken up composting – in addition to biking as transportation – as a personal crusade.  To me, the virtues of composting are so obvious… Read More →

Be A City Earthworm!

Hello Readers! I apologize for my looooooong absence.  I thought that graduating from grad school would free me to blog more, but instead I have learned how inconvenient it is to blog at… Read More →

Bicycle Parking Ordinance goes before PLUM Committee, Tomorrow

Reblogged from LADOT Bike Blog: Tomorrow afternoon, the Planning & Land Use Management Committee will review an ordinance that aims to vastly improve bicycle parking requirements in the city.  If adopted, the Bicycle… Read More →

About. Friggin’. Time.

I recently returned from another thoroughly lovely weekend visit to the City by the Bay.  In case you are wondering, yes, I traveled via the least environmentally friendly transport option possible: flying.  And,… Read More →

I want one!

Good design excites me.  One of the best I’ve seen recently is in fact not new at all, but its simplicity explains its enduring popularity.  I’m speaking of the olla, which is Latin… Read More →

Let the Experiment Begin!!

About a week ago, I gazed upon the supposed reward (that would be my semi-monthly paycheck) for my last 2 years of misery (that would be  graduate school and interning for a pittance)… Read More →

These are a few of my favorite things…

A new business based in downtown LA combines my two most favoritest things in the world: ice cream and biking!  Peddler’s Creamery “makes high quality artisan bicycle-churned organic dairy and non-dairy ice cream and frozen… Read More →