I’d like to say how much I like the new park, for it’s highway-blocking capabilities at the Farmer’s Market and along the road to the John’s Garden. It’s fab! From the car, it seems to have some very cunning statuary as well, which I haven’t yet taken advantage of.
Also, I’m pleased the old Malibu Lumber Co. sign has been exchanged. All the poor people who thought they could get nails there and were surprised to find $5 cupcakes instead, are now not falsely lured. However, Malibu still needs supplies for all the various contractors who are wasting gas, time and fresh air by having to chug across the mountains several or more times a week, en masse.
And, as for green living, I want to thank the shopping centers here that, even though their rents reach for the sky, at least supply recycling bins at the back. I’ve discovered recently some very high-end, big-box territories, like Westlake(!) and Ventura, have no such availability. Verizon store’s thick PVC phone packaging, and I presume BevMo’s multitudinous wine crates, are all going into the landfills at Agoura. Home Depot throws every plastic bag away, because the Vineyard shopping center provides zilch in the way of recycling. So, even though this is a big Arrrgh!, and when are we going to learn?, the local center-landlords are doing their part, however much they lean on our wonderful Diesel bookstore to be gone, or sit on the real estate that Granita’s bar could have been providing pleasure in for these five years past.
Beate Nilsen