Health news for Santa Monica.
The following is a press release issued by the City of Santa Monica. City Manager Rick Cole has selected Lindsay M. Barker to join his executive team as the City of Santa Monica’s Chief Resilience Officer (CRO). The CRO oversees…
One of Santa Monica’s four weekly farmers markets, or the ones in nearby Mar Vista, Venice, and Brentwood, offers fresh, locally grown, in-season fruit and vegetable options. Typical or not, a trip to the farmers market costs me about $40,…
Last month, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announced that Santa Monica is one of the 2016 winners of the coveted “Culture of Health” award for the city’s work to “ensure all residents, workers and visitors have the opportunity to live…
The Pico Improvement Organization held its first ever event Saturday, the Pico Fitness Crawl. Seventeen fitness businesses along Pico Boulevard in Santa Monica, spanning from the beach to the city’s eastern border, offered 10-minute workouts throughout the morning to participants.…
In its quest to be the greenest of the green, Santa Monica wants to achieve the rarified environmental designation of being “carbon neutral” by 2050. Carbon neutrality means the city’s greenhouse gas emissions would be so low that they could…
Standing in front of one of the city’s brightly-colored Creative Crosswalks and adjacent to the Santa Monica Farmer’s Market, city officials and elected leaders celebrated the honor of winning a coveted award for communities that excel in creating healthy places…
The Buy Local Health and Fitness Festival, sponsored by the Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce, was held Saturday at the Santa Monica Civic Center. It featured dozens of local businesses and organizations promoting a variety of activities, from yoga to…
When Santa Monica’s Annenberg Community Beach House opened in 2009, among the many amenities offered to the public was a fitness center with a variety of exercise equipment. The thinking was that Annenberg visitors would engage in strenuous bench presses…
Update: The Santa Monica City Council unanimously approved three locations for the city’s pilot parklet program. The three locations include the two recommended by staff and a third at Main and Hill in front of Finn McCool’s. The Santa Monica…
This week, BUSted!, a storytelling show about living in L.A. without a car, is back at its monthly Santa Monica venue; you can help women escaping domestic abuse by donating handbags and toiletries all month long; and Santa Monica’s Fall…
What is a healthy community? And what role does the built environment play in creating a healthy community? These were the questions tackled by a Westside Urban Forum panel Friday, moderated by UCLA Professor, Fred Zimmerman, who chairs the Department…
It may be a short week, but there’s always plenty to do. This week, you can catch the last Twilight Concert of 2015 at the Santa Monica Pier, hear another installment of the award-winning transit-oriented storytelling show, BUSted!, support the…
