For those who joined us for the Green Apartment Living Class last week — As promised, some links and resources to eco your westside rental:

Balcony Gardening by Summer Bowen
Here’s the Grilled Tofu dinner recipe — along with Tzatziki Sauce and chopped salad made with balcony garden produce.

You can also read up on porch gardening via Summer’s blog posts on growing lemons, making summer garden omelettes, window herb gardening, and caterpillar picking.

Read the comments for fascinating convos such as this:

Me: I’m a lil creeped out — Did it try to nibble on your finger?

Summer: Nah, he’s vegan.

Summer Bowen is the founder of online eco-store BTC Elements, a boutique collection of fashion, gifts, and accessories that are hand selected with an eye to the environment and social justice. Here’s the potato chip wrapper waste basket featured in Traci’s presentation.

Eco Apartment Renovations by Traci Reitz
Stay on top of the enviro-news in Santa Monica by visiting Sustainable Santa Monica. There you can find more information on the Low Carbon Diet event happening July 29 and also sign up for the monthly Sustainable Santa Monica e-Newsletter.

For more info on the 6-week residential greening program, visit Sustainable Works and/or read this post.

Traci Reitz is the Community Sustainability Liaison for the City of Santa Monica. She recommends the blog Re-Nest for more on green apartment living.

Car-free apartment living by me
Find links and resources for making more friends while using less fossil fuels here, along with some long term ideas I’m thinking about and a few recommendations for further reading.

Thanks for coming, everyone!

Photos by Summer Bowen

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