Malibu Emergency Preparedness
The city of Malibu is hosting its annual Public Safety Expo in person again this year. The event takes place on Saturday, October 2, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. in the front parking lot at Malibu City Hall, 23825...
Coast and Canyon Autumn Almanac
Welcome to TNT’s quarterly Coast and Canyon Almanac. Our goal is to provide an easy-to-access guide to the seasons, featuring important natural events like the full and new moon, meteor showers, and plant and animal life cycles. If you...
Join a Conversation on Los Angeles Wildlife Corridors
On September 21, UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge is hosting a conversation on Los Angeles wildlife corridors and a pending city of Los Angeles ordinance designed to protect them, which is currently open for public comment. Wildlife corridors connect...
Waves and Woodgrain
One may start to float away in thought peering closely at a handcrafted piece of furniture or sculpture by contemporary artist and designer Chad Hagerman. His work hovers closely between precision and spontaneity — many of his creations appear...
Tarantula vs Tarantula Hawk: The Miniature Monster Movie in Our Backyard
The tarantula hawk has a fairy-like beauty—metallic blue-body, brilliant orange wings. Males are peaceful, they spend their short lives as an adult sipping nectar from milkweed flowers and seeking a mate. Female tarantula hawks are ferocious warriors, armed with...
Watersheds: Every River (and Creek) Flows to the Sea
The Hyperion sewage spill disaster highlights the immediate impact pollutants can have on the Santa Monica Bay, but water quality in the Santa Monica Mountains and along the coast is a complex issue, and pollution sources are not always...
Madame Gandhi
Wildfires are out of control in other parts of California and COVID-19 numbers are skyrocketing again, but it’s been a picture-perfect August in Topanga so far: No fire scares so far this month, fog at the coast, hot summer...
Sewage Spill and Beach Water Quality
Peak beach season is here, but many beachgoers continue to have questions and concerns about water in the aftermath of a major sewage spill at the Hyperion water treatment plant in Los Angeles. The disaster—debacle may be the better...
Madame Gandhi: Sunflower in the Canyon
Madame Gandhi is fixing me a matcha tea before our meditation. “Would you like to add some elixirs to your cup?” she asks. She is incandescent, “yes”, I say without hesitation. Anything to radiate as she does. “Every cup...
When Calabasas Was the Wild West
It’s hard to imagine it now, but Topanga’s peaceful, upscale neighbor Calabasas was once a lawless Wild West stagecoach town, with cattle rustlers, gunfighters and brutal frontier justice. In the mid 19th century, this small agricultural outpost became part...
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