Cutting down stone pines for renewable energy does not make sense
February 16, 2024 3 a.m. Pacific Time To the editor: The Times reports that ranchers and federal land managers across…
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Will Southern California Be the 'Napa Valley of Coffee'? The crop is incipient but is booming
It's a Sunday afternoon at the San Francisco Coffee Festival at Fort Mason in San Francisco, and Jay Ruskey, founder…
Compared to other states' plastic problems, California looks good
February 15, 2024 3 a.m. Pacific Time To the editor: Thirty years ago, I moved from Los Angeles to North…
How everyone can help capture more stormwater in Los Angeles
February 11, 2024 3 a.m. Pacific Time To the editor: The answer to the question of whether the Los Angeles…
9 people died in the huge California storm.
State officials have reported that nine people across California died in the largest storm of the season, a major atmospheric…
Unrelenting, unprecedented rain keeps Southern California on high alert
Rainfall from a relentless atmospheric river storm has already broken records in Southern California, and the torrential weather has not…
Stephanie Villegas' 'ancestral cuisine' is more than just making chocolate
Making chocolate is a sacred process, particularly for descendants of ancient Mesoamerica, and for those seeking to reconnect with ancestral…
Responsible California Landscaping Requires More Than Drought Tolerance
Prevailing notions of responsible landscaping and gardening in California have long focused on a single metric: water use. By ignoring…
How to live Los Angeles like a poet
I was walking through Venice with poet Tom Laichas when he showed me a hard-to-describe object sticking out from the…