Latest from Emerald City, my enviro-blog at LAtimes.com

>> Arbor Ardor: Make your own forest tomorrow. Make art, create forest. Make your own large mixed-media tree sculpture at the Arbor Ardor event, happening at the Santa Monica Museum of Art tomorrow. Your tree sculpture will be part of a larger collaborative piece that will serve as an “artistic illustration of what can happen when you put trees in an area,” according to Asuka Hisa, SMMoA Director of Education.

>> IKEA to nix all disposable bags by Oct. 2008. In a show of how cheap Americans really can be when something shows up as a line item on their receipts, IKEA reports that, since it started charging customers 5 cents per bag, disposable plastic bag use has gone down more than 92 percent in U.S. stores. And now, IKEA’s gonna get rid of that last 8 percent. As of Oct. 2008, IKEA will no longer offer disposable plastic bags at checkout.

>> 8 Billion Reasons You Might Consider Riding a Bike. Alex Thompson does some biking math: “8 billion + 500,000 + 7,223 + 100 +30 + 9 + 1 = ???”

>> Motorboard Maintenance Kathryn Pope shows you how to get a motorboard wheel changed in L.A.

>> Green activism ads hit both small and big screens. The Al Gore-backed Alliance for Climate Protection is going to spend $300 million on ads to recruit eco-minded people. Get ready for green ads, both on the TV and in theaters.

>> Make short eco-video or photo essay, win $10K. Aspiring filmmakers and photographers with an enviro-conscience: Got an idea to make the world a greener place? Put it on camera and you could win $10,000 from Sundance.

And a couple linky posts:

>> A.M. Greenlist: Carrotmobs and hydrogen highs.

>> A.M. Greenlist: Bad news for cars — even hybrids.

Update, 11/17/08: Kathryn’s now got her own blog — and has de-car’d entirely!

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