>> The LA City Council approved an experimental composting-type program that’ll give some LA residents a small food scrap bin. I’m not sure why the City Council doesn’t just encourage more people to put food scraps into the green bins, which LA residents are already allowed to do. After all, even with this new fourth-bin program, “The food scraps will be added to the city’s green waste and transported to a composting center near Bakersfield.”

>> One dude in Manhattan Beach will get a $16,000 rebate in the form of federal and state tax incentives — all for installing a solar power system with the help of v. attractive financing. “Yes, his $550 loan payment is more than the $300 or so he used to spend each month on electricity bills–so far, he has generated enough solar power that he doesn’t need to take any juice from the grid–but after he pays off the loan, his power will be free.”

>> The one bonus children with one white and one black parent get, according to Freakonomics. “Mixed-race kids do have one advantage over white and black kids: the mixed-race kids are much more attractive on average.”

>> A book about coral reefs won a Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the only international literary peace prize awarded in the US. Fragile Edge, written by Julia Whitty, “takes readers on an underwater journey to explore the threats facing coral reefs and why they are vital to human survival.”

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