Recreation and Parks staff has put the finishing touches on the reconstructed Echo Park Lake Bridge, completing their work an entire week before the 29th Annual Lotus Festival.
Deteriorated to the point where it was unsafe to cross, the bridge and island were closed to park users. In the interim, with the exception of the occasional filming or special event, the island has become a de facto bird sanctuary. Read the rest of this entry »
The Right Site Coalition is encouraging the community to help stop the needless destruction of the historic homes on the proposed elementary school site known as Site 9A. The neighbors may have been run out of their homes with illegal threats and intimidation by real estate contractors working for LAUSD, but the historic fabric of this abandoned community still stands. Read the rest of this entry »
Big fans of the New York Mets, the two Bubo Virginian us behind our house in Elysian Park celebrated the teams win early this morning. Throughout the course of the baseball season only the deep calls of the male owl could be heard after dark and we had feared for the fate of his partner. Read the rest of this entry »
Finally, after years of trying, Echo Park is getting its very own certified Farmers’ Market! Join your neighbors for the Grand Opening Carrot Cutting Ceremony on Friday, October 13th, at 3pm.Fresh fruits and vegetables direct from farmers can be found in city parking lot #663 at Logan 1/2 block south of Sunset Blvd. 3-7pm.Artwork by Katrina Alexy with Holly Hampton
The closest Michael Conney will get to Echo Park to promote his new mystery Echo Park is South Pasadena… Maybe, just maybe we can convince him to stop in at the Eden dale Library for a reading.
Perhaps an early copy of Echo Park will show up in my mail box for a review too, especially when all the Connolly fans start Go ogling “Echo Park” and they end up here and only find quotes from James Ellroy books! Read the rest of this entry »
The Hill by its residents, it survived as a semi-rural pocket of modest hillside homes a brief distance from the center of the city. The night-time diorama of light from central Los Angeles proved one of the major attractions of living in this urban woodland where small wildlife–raccoons, possums, birds–abounded in the thicket and chaparral. Read the rest of this entry »
Sometimes I have asked the industry relationships that produce toxic chemicals and pharmaceuticals. This relationship has a long history even before the so-called Green Revolution. With the promise of ending hunger in the world over sixty years we have been practicing an industrialized agriculture based on massive amounts of toxic chemical inputs sick land, water and living organisms . Read the rest of this entry »
Sanitary standards are Affecting whole agricultural production. Already face the problem big trade ban raw milk to boil unresolved problem But Postponed good Hour Before Opposition merchants and producers. Today What we looking is the mess on Possibility for Colombian Peasants raise and Sacrificing Stephens Sties Grounds to sell meat. Read the rest of this entry »
Education is, at the same time, product and instrument of social transformation of society where it is inserted. Therefore, educational systems are both agent and result of social change processes. Now if the rest of the social partners not acting in the direction of change is very unlikely that the education system to transform the complex network that sit in the socio-economic structures, relations of production and exchange, and consumption patterns In short, the development model established. Read the rest of this entry »
If on the one hand speak of constructivism to indicate the action of a person go about building, moment by moment, day to day knowledge and skills, aided by a facilitator, based on what that person already knows, we must consider the other, the destructive action, led largely by the media and so-called new technologies of communication and information on what is built in the field of environmental education, especially for the school through the formal environmental education, in the same person. Read the rest of this entry »