green LA girl art/lit/music

Santa Monica s now giving out prizes for green lit!
Almost a year ago, the City of Santa Monica cut the ribbon to its solar-panel-topped, low-VOC-paint-wearing . Now, the Santa Monica Public Library wants to encourage sustainability within its silver-LEED-certified walls by encouraging green literature.
Today, the the , created to encourage and commend authors, illustrators, and publishers who produce quality books that make significant contributions to, support the ideas of, and broaden public awareness of sustainability.

Four Green Prizes one each in Adult Fiction, Adult Nonfiction, Youth Fiction, and Youth Nonfiction categories will be awarded in September 2007.

Black Gold comes to LA Jan. 12

Inspired to act after watching ?

( ). This post s part of a series for people who ve seen (or want to see) the film and . [ ]
At long last, Black Gold s coming to LA for reals.

It opens on Jan. 12, 2007, at Laemmle Grande. This theater s downdown 345 S.

Figueroa St. You can .
Action Step VII: Spread the word in Los Angeles!

We need to get the word out and people into theaters. The materials at our disposal: Posters, postcards, and java jackets. The question: What ideas do you have for getting the word out using the above materials?

So far, the SAJE let us put Black Gold stuff all over the Just Holidays Marketplace event and even used some of the java jackets for the Remy Sol coffee :)
Do you have an event where we could distribute some of this stuff and spread the word?
has offered some help (and I m holding you to it, Ric! :P) but of course, we need more grassroots help.

Email me and let me know what your ideas are, and we ll get some materials to ya :)

You re sick of seeing another and another Starbucks opening up in your hood. What can you do? Some kids found a lil culture jamming solution, back in 2002, via the .

The group s , grassroots artist-activists who ve come together to protest, to question, and to disprove. Its nemeses are unethical corporations, censorship, the slanted media, hypocrisy, excessive advertising, and plain stupidity. Its heroes are art, discussion, independent thought, and creation.

These kids went to a Starbucks-to-be in South Beach, Miami and spray-mounted a 6 ft silhouette of a man drinking coffee, with a caption: I love a good Starbucks invasion.

You know how I whine about how I wanna get rid of my car, but can t, cuz I m a single gal in her 20s who likes her social life?
Now comes a documentary about an LA gal like me who really goes carless!

The name of the docu: Carless in LA. The girl: Katie, aspiring screenwriter. (left: Katie, me, Drew)
The goal: To have almost zero carbon impact while maintaining her life as a single woman on the scene.

We follow her as she dates, tackles her long commute to work, and struggles to get to important meetings. But will her efforts make a difference? And can she keep her sanity (and mascara fresh) while finding out?

Granted, Katie s only doing this for 80 days which I feel I could do without losing all my friends on the East Side. Still, it s an admirable effort Check out the strict rules on the !
Katie hit day 40 on Nov.