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It’s true, I still don’t compost.

I outline my quandary in detail in my latest FilterForGood post, but basically, the problem is that composting sans a plot of ground to call your own is difficult and unsatisfactory, due to either logistics and cost.

The worm composter appears to be my best option — you can read the FilterForGood post to see how I got to this conclusion — but apparently the wrigglers won’t eat about 3/4 of the vegan organic material I was hoping to compost. I’m still also afraid of killing them by simply deciding to go out of town for a bit.

So I ask you — Should I get a worm composter? Convince me –

Update, 5/21/09: Mission composting delayed until 7/1

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I have a confession to make. I still haven’t seen The 11th Hour. Or Human Footprint. And I’m reluctant to watch Blood Diamond, even though it’s not even a documentary. Or to click the Watch Instantly button on Netflix to finally see Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price.

And you already know from my Eco Trip post yesterday that I haven’t read Bottomfeeder or Bottlemania.

On the other hand, I’ve still watched a lot more eco-documentaries and read a lot more research-based nonfiction eco books than the average person. And I watched one more docu film, FLOW, last night — which I’ll review shortly. And I have to watch a couple more docu DVDs sitting on my coffee table right now because I’ve committed to reviewing them. And I have 5 or so books on my shelves I need to read and review.

The thing is, I’m glad that these films and books are coming out. Each will interest, I hope, a different subset of people that may not’ve been introduced to the environmental movement otherwise. But the combo of all these films and books being delivered straight to my door for review — and the fact that almost all these films take the “give ‘em 90 minutes (or 200 pages) of doom and gloom then a 10-minute (or 20-page) ray of hope dependent on achieving near-impossible large-scale enviro policy changes at the end” format — has actually driven me to the point where I cringe when I hear about a new eco documentary or good eco book coming out.

I guess this is a long way of saying you may be seeing less book and film reviews here — at least after I’ve gotten through the current backlog. I’m also wondering if anyone can commiserate with this feeling that I SHOULD be reading and watching this stuff because it’s “important” — but I just don’t want to / can’t anymore –

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Don’t you love green LA girl’s new header and slightly modified design? That’s a rhetorical question :)

The new and improved blog design comes courtesy of Kim Woodbridge, my tech guru whose excellent work I recommend to every WordPress blogger who wants to spend more time blogging and less time futzing impotently with tech issues, and Cassandra Davis, a car-free graphic designer who designed the dreamy new header.

My question is this: How can green LA girl metamorphose to better serve you? Are there other features you wish green LA girl had? Is there stuff you want green LA girl to cover — or cover more or less frequently?

All constructive criticism and suggestion’s very much encouraged. Comment away — or feel free to email me at greenlagirl@gmail.com if you’d like to keep your ideas private. Thanks for interacting –

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So I started taking Larry Santoyo’s Permaculture Design Class last weekend — and I realize now why I never got any tomatoes from my balcony garden: I was trying to impose my love of tomatoes on my balcony, instead of using my balcony for uses it’s actually suited for :P

Illustration: This is how much sun my balcony was getting at 9:35 am yesterday. That’s right — none.

At 12:34 pm there are the first glimmers of sun on the edges –

And at 2:09 pm we’ve got some real sun –

Which, by 5:35 pm, is gone again.

You may be wondering why it took me so long to figure out tomatoes won’t grow well on my balcony. Let’s just say I was blinded by my love of tomatoes –

My question is this: What does my balcony want to grow, if anything? Are there any yummy shade-loving veggies I can balcony-garden?

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Word of my speaking at BlogHer ’09 must’ve gotten out because the conference is officially sold out!

I’d love to meet as many green LA girl readers at BlogHer this year as possible — and have even been thinking of putting together some sort of green event on Thursday night, provided I can convince my conference roomie to throw one with me in our room at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers and line up sponsors.

What I’m wondering is: Are you registered for BlogHer? And if so, are you getting in Thurs., in time for my potential party?

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