State’s water allotment to Long Beach dries up
If you like water–as many of us do–you’d better start building a rain barrel, or digging a hole in the sand like that woman in the movie about the dunes, “Woman in Dunes.”
The state Department of Water Resources has announced that in 2008, Long Beach will get just [...]

All that fear of the Santa Anas is justified today–Malibu is on fire again.

It’s later than you think
The UN scientific panel that shares this year’s Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore issued a new report today. The news isn’t good– unless you enjoy hunger, disease, droughts, floods, and heat waves. If that’s the case, the future looks bright, and much closer than you might imagine.

Native Plant Sale: Kill your lawn, then stock up and save up on native and drought-resistant plants at the El Dorado Nature Center. All purchases help support the Center and habitat restoration. 9am.
EL DORADO NATURE CENTER 7550 E Spring St, Long Beach 90815; 562.560.1645.
Larry Mantle: The host of KPCC’s AirTalk comes to the Main Library [...]

The City of Long Beach tries cutting back on water

Today’s top Press-Telegram story online? The fires whipped up in Malibu, Canyon Country and Agua Dulce by the Santa Ana winds. The top local story appears to be something by Kelly Puente about the wind. But keep reading; there’s local news downpage.

Solution to the water crisis? Kill your grass. Now.

PHOTO by SUSAN SABO
It was lawn-mowing day, but I had forgotten that until a small flat-bed truck pulled up to the curb in front of my house, and my gardener got out. Abel Alegria was a man of such innate happiness that it was his last name. [...]