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An apartment with not too many things. (Flickr user Mary and the Baby Cheeses)

Minimalist Math: A (Brief) Guide to Living Small

Six (or maybe five) quick rules to help you minimize your life.

Mapmaker's Imagination: Finding Our Way Home

Hansel and Gretel's breadcrumbs are a bad idea for finding our way home.

Funeral March to Anthem Blue Cross in Support of SB 810

Occupy L.A. Lives On: A Week Inside the Movement After Eviction from City Hall Park

The movement continues to pull together and merge with natural allies to manifest in an almost daily docket of events and actions. There are so many ways to participate that it would be impossible to do it all.

The Best Soups in Los Angeles

Though we are normally blessed with beautiful weather, this rain gives us an excuse to indulge in pozole, pho, ramen and the rest of our favorite bowls of delicious warmth.

A ranger stands in a grove of knocked-down trees near Rainbow Falls after the November 30, 2011 wind storm | Photo: Courtesy Inyo National Forest

Yosemite Death Highlights Concerns Rangers Have for Public

"The real danger is that a lot of trees haven't completely come down. They are hanging, still buckling," said Nancy Upham of the Inyo National Forest. "More wind will push the trees over eventually."

How to Own a Home (if You're a Chinese Immigrant)

Discriminatory property rights laws made it impossible for Chinese-Americans to own a home - a struggle that continued well into the mid-century.

Solar power tower and surrounding heliostats at the Gemasolar concentrating solar power plant in Spain. The 20-megawatt plant is the first such plant to use molten salt technology for thermal storage. (Greg Glatzmaier/NREL)

Suncatchers: A Solar Tech Rundown

The sun provides enough energy in one hour to power all of society for a year...if we can catch it. Here's a look at current technologies.

Millions of Wilderness Acres in California Threatened Under Legislation, Warns Group

Imagine a new Joshua Tree National Park: Operated by a Border Patrol that allows unregulated building of roads, ignores environmental standards, and shuts down access in the name of national security.

Video: Yosemite Beautifully Time-Lapsed in HD

If you still haven't been to Yosemite National Park, might this be your tipping point?

Ballot Initiatives Have Harmed California

The process designed to guard against special interests, and specifically their influence over legislators, has now been turned on its head and is all but controlled by those interests. In order to qualify an initiative for the ballot one needs money, ...

Laws That Shaped L.A.: How Bunker Hill Lost its Victorians

How did all the grand mansions of Bunker Hill get demolished? Blame a 1949 law that pushed forward the agenda of "redevelopment."

Switching to a Connection: The Limitations of Building Rail in L.A. County

The regional connector is a big deal, but Metro's rail network has all the limitations of the history it's recreating.

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