Enlightened Living

Pardon me--I am on such a "Thoreau" kick! We've been quite environmentally concerned lately, as Violetta and I have noticed how our Los Angeles Times have piled up. Mind you, we only subscribe to the Friday, Saturday and Sunday editions (I love Iams cat chow and those Sunday coupons come in handy, plus I am convinced Saturday's Calendar Section is a)superior to the clunky Sunday version, and b) one of the best roundups of culture news period), but in our small little condo, they do start to take up usable space. That doesn't even include issues of Rolling Stone, Rabbit Monthly, The Economist, Fortune, and Cosmo Girl. No feng shui master would call this clutter of paper healthy by any means.

So, as Henry T. would no doubt encourage, we found out on the L.A. city website that there is a pilot program for free recycling at multi-family properties. That way, we could help save the precious earth, recycle our periodicals and newspapers, and everyone is happy!

Violetta got a call from a city rep today and was told the pilot program is full, but within a year hopefully the city will enact the program - again, free of charge--to ALL apartment and condo buildings. Fabulous! But until then, he pointed her to the following link:

http://www.lacity.org/SAN/docs/multifamily.pdf

There is a handy brochure that alerts apartment residents to local places where they can drop off recyclables. So until we have our own precious blue bin sitting in our back parking lot, we will be "do it yourselfer" recyclers!

Pity that this information is buried in a rather unattractive (times new roman font???) website, but it must be noted that Los Angeles' recycling program has diverted quite a bit of waste away from landfills since committing to the recycling program. Their goal is to divert 70% of all waste by 2020. If just one bunny can make a difference, than my life was worth living!

PS I'm supposed to get "Battlestar Galactica" Season 2 1/2 any day now!!