Damien Newton

Damien Newton

Damien is the executive director of the Southern California Streets Initiative which publishes Santa Monica Next, Streetsblog Los Angeles, Streetsblog San Francisco, Streetsblog California and Longbeachize.

Featured Event: Coastal Cleanup Day

It’s billed as the largest volunteer day on the planet, bigger than Santa Monica, bigger than California, bigger even than all of America. Coastal Cleanup Day has become a world-wide volunteer event, where literally millions of pounds of waste is…

What is Santa Monica Next?

Today, we formally launch Santa Monica Next, a new online news magazine that looks at what Santa Monica can do now to become a more resilient and durable city in the next ten, thirty and one hundred years in the…