Green Living
Problem A: It’s Christmas Eve and half-way through Hanukkah. You have many gifts yet to buy, but don’t have the time or patience to deal with store mobs and LA traffic. At the same time, you are thinking green and don’t want to overnight items from different on-line stores and distribution centers all over the country. Solution A: This helpful service can go to the stores of your choice, buy the gifts on your list and bring them to your door step.
Problem B: You are at the airport checking-in for your flight home for the holidays when you realize you forgot your ID at home. Your roomie is home, but can’t make the trip. Solution B: DeliverLA can pick up and deliver your ID before you miss your flight!
DeliverLA’s Green Bonus Points:
- Small packages can be delivered by bike, motorcycle or small hybrid car.
- You don’t have to package your items in bubble wrap and cardboard boxes. You can have it picked up and delivered “naked.”
- Carbon offsets for every vehicle will be implemented in the first quarter of 2009.
- Plus, it’s always nice to support a local LA company.
ydt Deal: Use code”ydt10” on-line at deliverla.com and receive 10% off your first job.
ydt Recommendation: Enjoy your new found minutes of holiday peace and quiet over a cup of healthy hot chocolate. See the Delicious by Nature recipe at left sidebar or click here.
ydt Mini Holiday Weekend Guide
The faces behind “Good For The Jews“, Rob Tannenbaum and David Fagin will be putting the “Ha” in Hanukkah at the Echoplex on December 25th. Ditch the cliches of Chinese Food and Movies on Christmas Day and spend the night laughing away to this musical comedy duo. You don’t have to be Kosher to attend this event, gentiles are welcomed too. Read some of their reviews from the Washing Post and others here.
Location: The Echo Plex, 1154 Glendale Blvd. Echo Park, CA 90026 Date/Time: Dec 25th, 8 p.m. Admission: $ 20 Web: www.goodforthejews.net
If you’ve opened all of your presents and aren’t experiencing a food coma from over eating your favorite holiday treats, head to one of L.A.’s classic spots and watch films that might not qualify as traditional holiday cheer. Mondo Xmas will be featuring all sorts of odd clips and vintage footage of department store Santas. The evening will conclude with a screening of “Christmas Evil“. It’s not your traditional feel good Christmas movie, but a must see nonetheless.
Location: The Silent Movie Theatre 611 N. Fairfax Ave. Los Angeles CA 90036 Date/Time: Dec 25th, 8p.m. Admission, $12 Web: http://cinefamily.org/calendar/
We’ll if the cold weather keeps up, the L.A. River might just freeze over. Chances are still slim, so enjoy the holiday spirit by ice skating this weekend. You can head to Pershing Square in Downtown or Head over the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica. Both venues are open well into January.
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Info: Pershing Square, Web: http://www.laparks.org/pershingsquare/doi.html . For Santa Monica, Web: http://www.downtownsm.com/about/winterlit.html
After spending the last few weeks gorging on food, it’s important to take a moment to think about where that food actually came from. Path to Freedom in Pasadena will be showing “Broken Limbs: Apples, Agriculture and the New American Farmer.“ The film is an Emmy nominated documentary that focuses on sustainable agriculture and what we as individual consumers can do to make this the dominant system for our farms. A vegetarian potluck will also be taking place, so bring some sustainably farmed foods to share with your new agricultural conscious friends. RSVPs required.
Location: 626 Cyress Ave. Pasadena CA 91103 Date/Time: Dec 28th, 5 p.m. Admission: $10 Web: http://www.pathtofreedom.com RSVP at www.pathtofreedom.com/form/eventregistration.htm
ydt NOTE: Happy Holidays! We’ll be taking the rest of the week off in order to give the ydt staff time for some holiday cheer. Starting on Monday the 29th, we’ll be suspending our regular article posts to bring you The Best of ydt 2008.
We are happy to have been here for almost a year and we want to share what have been our most popular articles. We encourage you to vote for your favorite post by using our comment feature below each article.
We’ll be back in full swing on January 5th 2009 to share the good green L.A. happenings!
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HalfMagic Mama
Love your website and mandate but how is the promotion of delivering a cupcake green, conscious living? Are they on bikes?
Tracy from ydt
Hi HalfMagic Mama,
Yes in fact Deliver L.A. has made a serious effort to add bicycle, motocycle/scooter and even hybrid cars to their fleet for their local deliveries throughout Los Angeles. They aren’t always able to use the options but are making a growing effort to do so. USPS, Fed Ex and UPS currently don’t offer these options. Thanks for the comment!
