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

>> Now that you’ve switched from bottled to filtered water…. Here comes another recycling opportunity that’ll be beloved by anyone who switched to a Brita filter to reduce plastic waste from all those one-use water bottles. The Take Back the Filter campaign wants your old Brita filters!

Update, 11/18/08: Brita’s new filter recycling program will begin Jan. 2009.

>> Free Malibu Public Beach Safaris start next week. Don’t be fooled by the “private street” signs; many Malibu beaches are publicly owned, as urban nature activist Jenny Price often points out. If you’re afraid to venture alone into the notoriously public-unfriendly city — which by the way is also trying to restrict people from camping in public parks — The Los Angeles Urban Rangers can help.

>> ‘The World Without Us’: Fragile dams and resilient plastics. For a primer on current environmental concerns — alongside lessons in sociocultural, architectural, and political history around the world — pick up Alan Weisman’s book, “The World Without Us.”

And a linky post:

>> A.M. Greenlist: Shopping green made easier

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