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

>> Freeways have failed us — Part One: Valley Girls. Cassandra Davis, trainer, freelance writer, and car-free L.A. blogger, writes about why freeways suck. This is the first in a series, which’ll go on to show why freeways suck for pretty much every demographic –

>> Hey Mr. Green, or the lawn as a tombstone-less graveyard. “Hey Mr. Green” is a compilation of the advice Mr. Green’s doled out since Feb. 2005, when his column launched. The Q&As, loosely organized into sections like “At Home” and “Food for Thought,” are humorously informational — not the least because Mr. Green takes on even the oddest and rudest of questions.

>> Low Carbon Diet Calculator: Know the CO2e of your lunch. Locavoring and freeganism tends to get all the attention these days, but when it comes down to reducing carbon emissions, eating less meat will produce more dramatic results than picking local lettuce over greens shipped from China. That’s what the recently-debuted Low Carbon Diet calculator tries to illustrate.

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