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

>> Green West: A sustainable business expo starts tomorrow. Green West isn’t a crunchy hippie event. It’s a rather slick business conference about making green by going green. According to the organizers, the green market’s a $250-billion opportunity that’s “growing at exponential rates” — which explains the exponential growth in the number of press releases I get about green products and services these days.

>> June 8: A popular day for touring the L.A. River Missed the Great L.A. River Clean Up yesterday? Too bad — but now that volunteers have prettied things up for you, it’s the perfect time to take a grand tour of our famous but relatively unknown river. On June 8, you can join a bunch of other Angelenos to check out the L.A. River — by bike or by car!

>> Take advantage of the ‘Seven Wonders for a Cool Planet’. While all seven of the items covered in this new Sierra Club book are eco-friendly, efficient inventions in and of themselves, each also serves as a synecdoche for larger environmental issues.

>> Q&A: Those loud leaf blowers. Asks Callie: “If the city can bother itself to ticket street-cleaning violators $47 a pop, why don’t they take this environmental disaster seriously enough and have some sort of patrol?”

And a couple linky posts:

>> A.M. Greenlist: The green audit

>> A.M. Greenlist: Smart ideas

>> A.M. Greenlist: Gas prices and chopped trees

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