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City of Santa Monica Hires Chief Resilience Officer to Head Office of Emergency Management

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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...

South Central Farmers Cooperative: A Weekly Vegetable Adventure in a Box

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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...

“Culture of Health” in Santa Monica Highlighted at Foundation Symposium

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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...

Video : Pico Improvement Association’s Fitness Crawl

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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...

Reducing Its Footprint, Santa Monica Is a Leader in Fighting Climate Change

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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...

Santa Monica Honored for Cultivating “Culture of Health”

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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...

Photos and Video from this Weekend’s “Buy Local” Health and Fitness Festival

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https://youtu.be/KOcuEKZX_NY 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...

For a Great Workout, Without a Gym Membership, There’s the Memorial Park Fitness Room

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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...

Main Street Could Get Santa Monica’s First Two Parklets

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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...

Coming Up: BUSted! is Back, Donate to Handbags of Hope, and Santa Monica’s Fall...

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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...

Westside Urban Forum Tackles “Healthy Communities”

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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...

Coming Up: Wellbeing Buy Local Festival, the Sun Sets on the Twilight Concert Series,...

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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...
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