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

>> The City of Santa Monica held a 5-hour workshop ’bout transportation on a sunny Saturday — and over 100 people showed up! Here’s the summary, and here’re the details.

>> Not biking can kill you. A study that found those who didn’t bike to work — even if they were active in sports — died 40 percent more often than those who did commute by bike.

>> Metro goes mobile: Trip Planner on your celly. Works great on a Helio, I hear.

>> Finding a car buddy, post-Rideshare Week. My take’s that it’s not that easy, even with all the web apps out there –

>> Gary’s Knife Sharpening: Cutting against a disposable culture. So I hear back in the day, each lil town had a guy who’d come around once in a while to sharpen everyone’s knives and scissors. Now those people seem to’ve disappeared — but in Los Angeles we have Gary to help you out at a farmers’ market near you.

>> Click yourself free of pesky catalogues. Catalog Choice just launched yesterday. All you gotta do is register, then click on all the catalogs that’re bugging you. In 6 weeks, they’ll be bugging you no more cuz Catalog Choice’ll have told them to quit that.

>> More eco-mansions! Tour the Wired LivingHome. According to the website, the LEED-certified home “allows luxury and the environment to live together in harmony” — if you have $4 million to spend on making this harmonious synergy happen in an exclusive enclave of Brentwood.

Plus: Green Business Networking happens monthly; Blog Action Day happens Monday.

And have a fun green weekend, with the GOOD anniversary party and EcoNouveau –

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