tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91526820554415175012024-03-13T11:06:38.799-07:00Melina WattsMelina Wattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14078892208436817153noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152682055441517501.post-78099178284853819712021-01-27T19:24:00.001-08:002021-01-27T19:24:46.507-08:00Tales by the Sea -"At Wit's End"- January 24, 2021<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/XgZ20Hkf2YQ" frameborder="0"></iframe>Melina Wattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14078892208436817153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152682055441517501.post-90912178066710961592017-10-23T10:12:00.001-07:002017-10-23T10:12:40.310-07:00Melina Sempill Watts: The Roots of Tree<a href="http://beatrice.com/wordpress/2017/10/23/melina-sempill-watts-guest-author/">Melina Sempill Watts: The Roots of Tree</a>Melina Wattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14078892208436817153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152682055441517501.post-37562090080870457702015-04-24T15:31:00.001-07:002015-04-24T15:31:07.696-07:00Water is Life: Rivers Need Water<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Rivers have a right to life; landscapes have a right to rivers.</p>— Melina Watts (@melinaswatts) <a href="https://twitter.com/melinaswatts/status/584201956672974848">April 4, 2015</a></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Melina Wattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14078892208436817153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152682055441517501.post-15802008759100336852015-02-26T17:00:00.002-08:002015-02-26T17:00:57.440-08:00<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/LaOpinionLA">@LaOpinionLA</a> ¿Pueden 3 estudiantes de ingeniería españolas dejar de redes fantasma de matar a los mamíferos marinos?<a href="http://t.co/3uVsuyuBIe">http://t.co/3uVsuyuBIe</a></p>— Melina Watts (@melinaswatts) <a href="https://twitter.com/melinaswatts/status/570707722359820288">February 25, 2015</a></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Melina Wattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14078892208436817153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152682055441517501.post-29420980219399861592015-02-26T16:54:00.002-08:002015-02-26T16:54:54.676-08:00<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/zonker35">@zonker35</a> Can three Spanish engineering students save marine mammals from death by ghost nets? Check it out: <a href="http://t.co/3uVsuyuBIe">http://t.co/3uVsuyuBIe</a></p>— Melina Watts (@melinaswatts) <a href="https://twitter.com/melinaswatts/status/570711827748794369">February 25, 2015</a></blockquote>
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<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Melina Wattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14078892208436817153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152682055441517501.post-55566979343240024602015-01-29T14:49:00.001-08:002015-01-29T14:49:12.316-08:00"As Environmentalists, We Need to Make “Ananda” Central to Our Lives," article from "Earth Island Journal"<a href="http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/as_environmentalists_we_need_to_make_ananda_central_to_our_lives/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/as_environmentalists_we_need_to_make_ananda_central_to_our_lives/</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From the article: "<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">The author Madeleine L’Engle often interwove ideas about science, religion, and the arts into her science fiction books for children. But there’s a lot in there that’s good for actual grown-ups, too. In particular, she addressed a major theme in Hinduism, the idea of “</span><em style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">ananda</em><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">,” which she, most gracefully translates from the Sanskrit as: “Ananda: the joy without which the universe would cease to exist.”</span></span>Melina Wattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14078892208436817153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152682055441517501.post-34384527899603527632015-01-29T14:47:00.000-08:002015-01-29T15:13:38.317-08:00"When a River Doesn't Run Through It," article from "Earth Island Journal"<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/when_a_river_does-not_run_through_it">http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/when_a_river_does-not_run_through_it</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An article on photographer Pete McBride, the Colorado River Delta and other rivers he has shot. Because sometimes a picture is worth a watershed.</span>Melina Wattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14078892208436817153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152682055441517501.post-43073545778991070222015-01-29T14:45:00.004-08:002015-01-29T15:13:53.422-08:00"RCDSMM Native Plants Sale, December 6," article from "Topanga Messenger"<a href="http://www.topangamessenger.com/story_detail.php?ArticleID=7224"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.topangamessenger.com/story_detail.php?ArticleID=7224</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Love living in the mountains? Learn how to go wild in your own garden.</span>Melina Wattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14078892208436817153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152682055441517501.post-32217299457376308642015-01-29T14:45:00.000-08:002015-01-29T15:14:08.245-08:00"Wild Fest: Smart Fisheries Aloha Style," article from "Heal the Bay Blog"<a href="https://www.blogger.com/goog_2081071796"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></a>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A look at the films and career of Hawaiian filmmaker + environmental lawyer Teresa Tico and an invitation to come see "Fishing Pono" this Saturday at Pepperdine University at the Elkins Theatre in Malibu, California at six-thirty p.m.</span></div>
Melina Wattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14078892208436817153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152682055441517501.post-82449249682105297512015-01-29T14:43:00.003-08:002015-01-29T15:14:24.817-08:00"'Wild Fest': A Chilling Look at Glaciers in Africa," article from "Heal the Bay blog"<a href="http://www.healthebay.org/blogs-news/wild-fest-chilling-look-glaciers-africa">http://www.healthebay.org/blogs-news/wild-fest-chilling-look-glaciers-africa</a><br />
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A big thank you to #HealThBay for posting this blog on "Snows of the Nile" and an interview with filmmaker Dr. Neil Losin.<br />
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Film is showing this weekend at the RCDSMM Wild and Scenic Film Festival at Pepperdine University. Event starts at 6:30.<br />
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Local hero Senator Fran Pavley whose effective legislation to reduce climate change impacts has been replicated in states across the country and countries across the world, is our featured speaker.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An interview with Paul Colangelo about his stunning documentary film, "Sacred Headwaters: The Fight to Preserve the Source of Three Canadian Rivers" - which is a part of the upcoming RCDSMM Wild and Scenic Film Festivals at Pepperdine University in Malibu on Saturday October 25 and November 8th.</span>Melina Wattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14078892208436817153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152682055441517501.post-26465083005563509032015-01-29T14:40:00.007-08:002015-01-29T15:14:58.902-08:00"Nativescaping: Habitat Restoration, One Garden at A Time," article from "Earth Island Journal"<a href="http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/nativescaping_habitat_restoration_one_garden_at_a_time/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/nativescaping_habitat_restoration_one_garden_at_a_time/</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Looking to heal our world? The first step is in your own backyard: One of the easiest ways to restore the wild is to prioritize native plants in your home garden.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nowadays, the world is blanketed with buildings, roads, farms, factories and trash. So where do the wild things go? Answer: anywhere that feels like home, “home” defined as any functional habitat. That could mean your backyard, your front yard, on your rooftop, balcony, office, factory and in hedgerows and ditches on your farm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Every ecosystem has a highly localized plant palette evolved over millennia to suit the local geology and hydrology. When we put these local native plants back into the landscape, we also make homes for the other creatures that depend upon them, including native bees, butterflies, amphibians, and reptiles."</span>Melina Wattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14078892208436817153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152682055441517501.post-15180269267172366582015-01-29T14:39:00.002-08:002015-01-29T15:15:19.744-08:00"Book Review of "Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature In A Post-Wild World,"" article from "Urban Coast: Journal of the Center for the Study of the Santa Monica Bay"<a href="http://www.santamonicabay.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/2013_UrbanCoast_digital_FINversion2.pdf"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.santamonicabay.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/2013_UrbanCoast_digital_FINversion2.pdf</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature In A Post-Wild World" by author Emma Marris covers plenty of fascinating and important work by scientists from across the world, but she advocates on behalf of much of the work she describes, and many of the environmental ideas and practices presented with enthusiasm in this book have troubling implications. Ultimately, this book is worth a read to find out what the hot new ideas are, but definitely be prepared to keep your own counsel about the wisdom of all these new ideas and approaches.</span>Melina Wattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14078892208436817153noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152682055441517501.post-43859168413599967172015-01-29T14:38:00.000-08:002015-01-29T15:15:37.915-08:00"Interview with filmmaker Andy Maser, director of "The Craziest Idea,"" article from "Topanga Messenger"<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.topangamessenger.com/story_detail.php?SectionID=&ArticleID=6435">http://www.topangamessenger.com/story_detail.php?SectionID=&ArticleID=6435</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interview with Annie Little, Co-Star of "Return Flight: Restoring the Bald Eagle to the Channel Islands"</span>Melina Wattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14078892208436817153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152682055441517501.post-82262494086220616332015-01-29T14:34:00.002-08:002015-01-29T15:16:06.787-08:00"Goat Tales: "Weed Wars,"" article from "Topanga Messenger"<a href="http://www.topangamessenger.com/story_detail.php?ArticleID=6152"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.topangamessenger.com/story_detail.php?ArticleID=6152</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interview with "WEED WARS" Filmmaker Rick Addicks and Goat Rancher / Star Mark Harbaugh; Film to Screen at RCDSMM Wild and Scenic Film Festival.</span>Melina Wattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14078892208436817153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152682055441517501.post-14187266955933379302015-01-29T14:33:00.004-08:002015-01-29T15:16:47.959-08:00""Watershed" -- a film by James Redford + Jill Tidman," article from "The Malibu Times"<a href="http://www.malibutimes.com/news/article_09f4660c-8689-11e2-9ea5-0019bb2963f4.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.malibutimes.com/news/article_09f4660c-8689-11e2-9ea5-0019bb2963f4.html</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Watershed", a gorgeous movie, posits that for seventeen million dollars, we could save the Colorado River Delta. Drop everything and see it.</span>Melina Wattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14078892208436817153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152682055441517501.post-60214748883524711682015-01-29T14:32:00.003-08:002015-01-29T15:17:25.529-08:00"Letter to the Editor: Ghost Nets, " published in "Los Angeles Times"<a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/letters/la-le-0402-monday-20120402,0,2285621.story?page=3&track=lat-email-latimesopinion-April22012"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/letters/la-le-0402-monday-20120402,0,2285621.story?page=3&track=lat-email-latimesopinion-April22012</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tracking ghost nets.</span>Melina Wattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14078892208436817153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152682055441517501.post-16596386529385390322015-01-29T14:30:00.004-08:002015-01-29T15:17:52.737-08:00"Chocolate and Raspberry Bruschetta," recipe published in "Sunset Magazine"<a href="http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/chocolate-raspberry-bruschetta-50400000115428/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/chocolate-raspberry-bruschetta-50400000115428/</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Actually, I was wrote a variation on the French baguette + chocolate in the oven treat, but they transformed it into something Italian. The pictures are pretty, so I'm happy enough.</span>Melina Wattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14078892208436817153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152682055441517501.post-90449321287972982842015-01-29T14:29:00.001-08:002015-01-29T15:18:16.848-08:00"Thoughts from a Mom on Bedrest," article from "New York Times motherlode blog"<a href="http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/thoughts-from-a-mom-on-bed-rest/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/thoughts-from-a-mom-on-bed-rest/</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A personal essay.</span>Melina Wattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14078892208436817153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152682055441517501.post-10277790278591342952015-01-29T14:28:00.001-08:002015-01-29T15:18:41.120-08:00"Undercut Endangers Topanga Canyon Boulevard and Southern Steelhead Trout," article from "Topanga Messenger"<a href="http://www.topangamessenger.com/story_detail.php?SectionID=&ArticleID=2870"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.topangamessenger.com/story_detail.php?SectionID=&ArticleID=2870</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Topanga Canyon Boulevard could collapse at the next rain storm.</span>Melina Wattshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14078892208436817153noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152682055441517501.post-24490242650717829822014-11-20T10:47:00.001-08:002014-11-20T10:47:48.139-08:00GO WILD with the RCDSMM NATIVE PLANTS SALE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We have an incredible array of speakers so I hope that you can make it.</div>
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Ask your sushi-ya, grocery store, fish retail shop to STOP selling bluefin tuna. And can we declare these fish endangered while there are still some out there swimming?</div>
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Yes the study is from 200<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">6, but the essential drivers in the research remain all too plausible.</span></span></div>
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GO WILD with the Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains Native Plants Sale on Saturday December sixth at the Topanga Ranch Motel. See attached flyer. Please forward to those who you think might want to join us. </div>
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Looking to help your garden GO WILD but not sure what to do first? Hire one of our biologists to spend ninety minutes with you on site planning. Email Steven Williams <<a href="mailto:keepyourgreen@rcdsmm.org" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">keepyourgreen@rcdsmm.org</a>></div>
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Sincerely,<br />Melina Watts<br />Santa Monica Mountains Watersheds Coordinator<br /><b>Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains</b><br /><br /><a href="mailto:malibucreekwatershed@gmail.com" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">malibucreekwatershed@gmail.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.rcdsmm.org/santa-monica-mountains-watersheds-council" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.rcdsmm.org/santa-<wbr></wbr>monica-mountains-watersheds-<wbr></wbr>council</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Location: King Gillette Ranch</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Should be AMAZING.</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">Speakers at next SMMWC Meeting: </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"The Nature Conservancy’s Coastal Resilience Ventura Project”</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">by Lily Verdone, the Nature Conservancy (45 minutes)</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Desalination Plant Presentation by Diane G., West Basin Municipal Water District </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-right;">30</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> minutes)</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Evergreen Fund: Solar in the Santa Monica Mountains by Robert Metcalf </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">20</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> minutes)</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Making of a Modern Day Chief: Charlie Cooke.”</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> Presentation + book sigining by Dr. Mary Gordon </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-right;">30</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> minutes)</span></span></b></div>
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<b>GO WILD with the RCDSMM: Annual Native Plants Sale on December </b><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">6th.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">To pre-order plants, contact … me.</span></span></div>
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Melina Sempill Watts at: <a href="mailto:malibucreekwatershed@gmail.com" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">malibucreekwatershed@<wbr></wbr>gmail.com</a><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<b>ABOUT THOSE NATIVE PLANTS…</b></div>
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<b>A Look at National Wildlife Federation Certified Wildlife Habitat Program by UCLA IOES </b></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">UCLA IOES recently conducted a study of how the Certified Wildlife Habitat supports water conservation, habitat restoration and carbon </span></span><span style="color: black; line-height: 22px;">sequestration of primary greenhouse gas CO2.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 22px;">See: </span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.environment.ucla.edu/newsroom/welcoming-wildlife-to-the-neighborhood/#" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.environment.<wbr></wbr>ucla.edu/newsroom/welcoming-<wbr></wbr>wildlife-to-the-neighborhood/#</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>PROGRESS ON A GILL NET BAN</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Great work by HTB staffer Dana Murray:</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.healthebay.org/blogs-news/you-can-help-outlaw-harmful-drift-gillnets" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.healthebay.org/<wbr></wbr>blogs-news/you-can-help-<wbr></wbr>outlaw-harmful-drift-gillnets</a></div>
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<b>STOKED TO RECYCLE STYROFOAM?</b></div>
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<b>City of Malibu Can Turn Your Fluff Into a Surfboard</b></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">City of Malibu is stoked to be working with Sustainable Surf Waste to Waves on America Recycles Day Malibu! Drop off polystyrene foam packaging at the collectio</span><span style="display: inline; font-size: 12px;">n event at Malibu City Hall Nov 1-15 to keep it out of landfills and the ocean, and it will be recycled into environmentally friendly surfboards! Event info at <a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftiny.cc%2Fqkzjox&h=nAQEE46yi&enc=AZPW25UbuNe6Wy358F__BHipOKjyQMd1P76s6o1BiY4GIYkunokUuazdv_e6H4K0FIIXjM9nz0kpgIn2mLSJtp0HKRHvtA1V7SMNCv2vCPXsMblnzGABQ73qtYxKJ7VB7UMa1Kht83uH5oBDOsDul1rT&s=1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://tiny.cc/qkzjox</a></span></span></div>
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<b>IN THE NEWS</b></div>
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<b>Are Microfibers the New Microbead?</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/oct/27/toxic-plastic-synthetic-microscopic-oceans-microbeads-microfibers-food-chain?CMP=share_btn_tw" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" target="_blank">http://www.theguardian.com/<wbr></wbr>sustainable-business/2014/oct/<wbr></wbr>27/toxic-plastic-synthetic-<wbr></wbr>microscopic-oceans-microbeads-<wbr></wbr>microfibers-food-chain?CMP=<wbr></wbr>share_btn_tw</a><b><br /></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">BPA Bans?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>"I</b><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">n France the decision has been taken to ban BPA from food packaging from 1 January 2015 as a result of health fears."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-29631355" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-<wbr></wbr>england-29631355</a></span></div>
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<b>Cash Receipts = BPA Source?</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129031013" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.npr.org/templates/<wbr></wbr>story/story.php?storyId=<wbr></wbr>129031013</a></div>
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<b>Drivers' Toll on Wildlife</b></div>
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Thanks to Beth Pratt, NWF for the share.</div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/opinion/our-highways-toll-on-wildlife.html?smid=fb-share&_r=1" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/<wbr></wbr>10/24/opinion/our-highways-<wbr></wbr>toll-on-wildlife.html?smid=fb-<wbr></wbr>share&_r=1</a></div>
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<b>Santa Monica Mountains Watersheds Council Twitter Link</b></div>
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Walk in beauty.</div>
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And take some time to go outside and sit in the sun. Serenity matters.</div>
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Sincerely,<br />Melina Watts<br />Santa Monica Mountains Watersheds Coordinator<br />Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains<br /><br /><br /><a href="mailto:malibucreekwatershed@gmail.com" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">malibucreekwatershed@gmail.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.rcdsmm.org/santa-monica-mountains-watersheds-council" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.rcdsmm.org/santa-<wbr></wbr>monica-mountains-watersheds-<wbr></wbr>council</a></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Need some beauty in your life? </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;">Join us at the RCDSMM Wild and Scenic Film Festival at Pepperdine University.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b>Watch the trailer for the RCDSMM Wild and Scenic Film Festival </b></span><b><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://youtu.be/xE1A5k_BQsY" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">here</a></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">.</span></span></b></div>
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<b>Buy tickets here:<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://wildscenicbu.eventbrite.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">WildScenicBu.eventbrite.<wbr></wbr>com</span></a></span></b><div>
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<b>Special Guest: Theresa Tico, Environmental Lawyer + Filmmaker</b></div>
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<b>Films About Water</b></div>
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<b>RCDSMM Wild and Scenic Film Festival</b></div>
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<b>Saturday November </b><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">8th</span><b><br /></b><div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Reception: 6</span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">:30</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Time: 7:00 - 10:00</span></div>
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