Locally Owned Eco-Friendly Lawn Care Service

The La Jolla Light recently profiled Clean Air Lawn Care, in case you missed the article I thought this story was worth repeating since they offer an eco-friendly alternative to traditional gardening services:

We want to retire the gas lawn mower," says Ankist Zadeyan, co-owner of Clean Air Lawn Care San Diego. With gas lawn mowers having been the lawn mower of choice in recent years, this may seem like an ambitious goal, but he and his brother don't think the idea seems so far-fetched after all.
Ankist Zadeyan and Antranik Zadeyan, natives of La Jolla and alumni of La Jolla High, launched the San Diego franchise of Clean Air Lawn Care this summer with the hopes of providing San Diegans a lawn care service that is environmentally green. Read the full article here.

Solar panels on the company's truck powers the mowers.

I was surprised to learn the EPA says a gas mower emits the same amount of hydrocarbons in one hour as an SUV driven 23,500 miles. Learn more how Clean Air Lawn Care is Green.

4 reported injured after vehicle crashes into Cass Street Cafe & Bakery

Three children and one adult where injured when a drunk driver ran up onto the sidewalk and then crashed in to Cass Street Cafe on La Jolla Boulevard just before 7:30 p.m. Sunday, a police spokesman said.
The motorist was southbound on La Jolla Boulevard when he hit three children on the sidewalk before crashing into the restaurant, the police spokeman said. The man was in custody.
Four people were injured, with two of them children reportedly being transported to to Rady Children's Hospital. It appeared that a man came around the roundabout near Starbucks and lost control of his car. He reportedly went between two trees, hit a power supply box and then went into the restaurant.
At 8:10 p.m. the vehicle was still inside the restaurant and structural engineers were on the scene.


Source: La Jolla Light 

2010 Best of La Jolla Awards

Each year the La Jolla Light gives readers a chance to tell them about their favorite restaurants, stores and services - and to win a prize for voting.
This year’s voting will be conducted entirely online with user-friendly drop down menus and a chance to write in your own choices.
To support your favorites click here. Voting will end at 8 p.m. on Sept. 3. Winners will be published in the Oct. 21 edition of La Jolla Light.
Also, each week a name of a voter will be drawn for a gift from La Jolla Playhouse, Birch Aquarium, San Diego Symphony and Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego.

Erosion Impacting Bird Rock Neighborhood Landmark and Namesake

This weeks La Jolla Light newspaper interviewed Bird Rock Resident, Don Schmidt, about the erosion impacting "Bird Rock". The Bird Rock neighborhood's namesake geological formation is offshore at the end of Bird Rock Avenue. "One of these days, there's going to be a big wave that comes in, and when it does, the rock is going to collapse," predicted Schmidt, a Bird Rock resident and La Jolla Historical Society member who has watched the rock literally "washing away" the last couple of years." Click here for rest of article.

Surfrider debuts Water Conservation Film at The Loft at UCSD

To celebrate World Day of Water, the Surfrider Foundation's San Diego Chapter will premiere its animated short film, "The Cycle of Insanity: The Real Story of Water," as a public service at 6 and 7:30 p.m. March 22 at The Loft at UCSD, Price Center East, second floor, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla. A happy hour menu will be available. Seating is free, but reservations are recommended at water@surfridersd.org.
The film is narrated by actress Zuleikha Robinson of "Lost." Its premise is that "the water cycle taught to students in fourth grade has been dramatically altered over time, leaving Americans with a broken system that wastes water and energy, pollutes the natural waterways, harms critical marine life, and poorly deals with flooding and other water management problems."
The film takes a holistic look at water management, highlights controversial problems, and suggests solutions that integrate multiple economic and environmental benefits.
The intended audience includes entire communities: from homeowners and the general public, to public agencies and elected government officials.
After each showing, there will be a Q & A session. The discussion will dive into subjects that range from steps each person can take at home, creative solutions to restore natural functions to urban watersheds, and the controversial topics of recycled wastewater and ocean desalination.
The international observance of World Water Day is an initiative that grew out of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro. It is still a reality that an estimated 1.1 billion people rely on unsafe drinking-water sources.
Improving healthy ocean water quality has been one of the Surfrider Foundation's priorities since the organization was founded 25 years ago. Thanks to its Blue Water Task Force water-quality monitoring program, the foundation raised nationwide awareness of the ongoing decline in marine water quality - inspiring municipalities across the country to adopt monitoring programs of their own.
In 2010, the Surfrider Foundation will roll out the program "Know Your H2O," to "proactively educate and mobilize the public on actions to be part of the solution to pollution and a multitude of other threats to a healthy coast and ocean." Central to this effort will be a flash media Web site, where the story of water can be told.
http://www.surfridersd.org/

Source: LJLN