Life as a Gold

Thanks to my spontaneous retort to the L.A. Weekly’s article on whale-meat  consumption in Seoul, the word is on the street.  Jonathan Gold is indeed my brother. The Pulitzer Prize-winning foodie — who coined the slogan “Tacos Forever!” long before the food truck battles began — has spent most of his adult life chowing down [...]

A Green Giant – Sharing Our Remembrances of Dorothy

I delivered these remarks at Thursday’s memorial service for Heal the Bay founding president Dorothy Green, who passed away this week. We are encouraging others whose lives were touched by Dorothy to share their thoughts and remembrances by submitting comments to this blog entry.
Dorothy was so much to so many. Wife, mother, grandmother, environmental icon, friend, [...]

The Passing of an Environmental Legend

My closest friend and mentor passed away today. Words you never want to express. After six years of redefining courage in her fight against cancer, Dorothy Green died peacefully in her Westwood home. The same home that spawned Heal the Bay, the Los Angeles/San Gabriel River Watershed Council, the POWER (Public Officials for Water and [...]

County Greening

I’m very tempted to write an extremely positive post on Los Angeles’ proposed trio of far-reaching environmental ordinances on green building, drought tolerant landscaping and low-impact development (LID).  After all, if the L.A. County Board of Supervisors approves the three ordinances at its meeting Tuesday, it will be the singularly most progressive environmental action ever [...]

Parasite Cove

As a high schooler in the late ‘70s, I was lucky enough to live in Point Dume , spending time at local beaches like Zuma, Westward, Big and Little Dume and Paradise Cove.  The area from Big Dume to Paradise Cove has always been my favorite stretch of beach along the Bay because of its [...]

Dereliction of Duty

Memo to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state Sen. Don Perata: The ocean didn’t get us into the state budget mess, but you’re using the debacle to make a mess of the ocean.  Citing cost or politics as the rationale for killing strong ocean protection legislation and programs, as both of these men have recently done, [...]