The free bicycle valet at the zero waste Santa Monica Farmers’ Market on Main Street’s more popular than ever –

>> Trash bags as citywide eco art intervention. A NY artist is swapping out standard black garbage bags with biodegradable pink polka dot — or otherwise brightly colored — bags. The point: A prettier city, plus a social awareness of the amount of stuff we throw “away.” (via Read more...

>> Twitterers compete for twitties. The putdown tweets’re pretty funny; I voted for @killregrets. There’s an ecoish one too under snarky tweets! zdarsky: “I’m swingin’ at windmills because I fucking hate alternative energy sources.” Voting’s open until Sept. 12. (via Read more...

LA’ll be getting a whole buncha new parks a week from today — albeit temporary ones. The second annual Park[ing] Day LA — when green space-loving activists turn car parking spots into temporary urban parks — returns Friday, Sept. 19.

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>> Ethical pescatarians: Send your best sustainable seafood recipe to Food & Water Watch’s “Get Cookin’” contest for a chance to win $250 — or a Food & Water Watch aprons. Deadline: Oct. 6.

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A twice-weekly sharing of eco-shwag.

Today’s giveaway is a tote bag from the LA County Fair. Actually, I’m giving away TWENTY LA County Fair tote bags — and they go to the first 20 people who ask for them.

The bag’s made out of recycled materials — and is...
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>> Totally lost on the health care issue? Timothy Noah at Slate gives you a quick rundown of articles to read to catch up on the health care debate.

>> Timothy also expoynds on why Obama’s health care...
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LA County Bicycle Coalition’s turning 10, and wants you to cycle over to its party!

Festivities feature a potluck dinner and drinks, live music, a DJ, and a silent auction with prizes ranging from a weeklong stay in a restored house in southern...
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What happens to a poem deferred? Apparently, they appear in Fringe Magazine 7 years after they were written. Check out Issue 16 of Fringe and read five of my poems.

The first four — “ZZ,” “SS,”...
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This evening’s the first of this round of the Subway to the Sea meetings — and I’m here live blogging it!

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