Have you still not gotten around to your New Year’s organization?  Let Beth Zeigler from Bneato whip you into shape this weekend at her organizing boot camp.  Not only will Beth help you de-clutter your life, she’s a great resource for how to reduce, reuse and recycle your possessions.   Why? Cause if you haven’t used it for over two years, it’s got to go.

Location:  1226 N. Alvarado St.  Echo Park, CA 90026 (in the upstairs community room of the United Methodist Church). Date/Time: Saturday, February 20^th from 2:30 to 4 p.m. Web:  www.bneato.com RSVP: Email beth@bneato.com,  Cost $30

West Side bike riders delight in celebrating the third birthday of the Bikerowave Co-op. Join in the celebration of getting Westsiders out of their cars, onto their bikes and into the streets.  From 1 to 7 p.m. you can come a fix your bike for free.  From 7 p.m. to midnight you can drink, eat from delicious taco trucks and disco dance.  Need I say more?  Why? They’ll be raffling off a vintage Italian folding bike that is bellisimo.

Location: Bikerowave, 12255 Venice Blvd.  Marvista CA 90066 Date/Time: Saturday, February 20^th from 1 p.m. till midnight Web:  www.bikerowave.org or on Facebook

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Our friends at The Huffington Post Green section are kicking off a weeklong campaign on eating in.  For one whole week, stock up on fresh local food and see how much you can create, how satisfied you can be and how much money you can save.  There will be posts all week long on the site and you can share your experiences too. They’ve event got a great post about different apps to help you stay the course.  Why? Cause eating seasonally tastes good.  Check out this listing of local CSAs to help you get started (via greenlagirl).

For more information visit http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/the-week-of-eating-in and click here to sign up.

If you’re reading YDT, your probably familiar with the dangerous chemicals found in many over the counter skincare products, make up etc.  This Sunday you can meet representatives from the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics.  Since 2004 this non-profit has been saving us from ourselves and discovering the dirty stuff that’s inside a lot of the products we use. Why? It’s estimated that an average woman will ingests 9lbs of lipstick over her lifetime, now image that lipstick with lead and you know that doesn’t taste very good.

Location: Mar Vista Farmers Market – MVCC Green Committee Booth
Grand View at Venice Blvd.  Mar Vista 90066 Date/Time:  Sunday, February 21^st from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.  Web:  www.safecosmetics.org

If you got there too late, or we’re scared off by the lines you can watch our video and check out which trucks were serving up our favorite local, delicious farmer’s market cuisine.

Fresh Mint Ice cream sandwiches anyone?

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