I just met with Fred Koch the other day for a cup of java.  We were at a local hang-out on the Pacific Coast Highway, Patrick’s Roadhouse, and talking about one of the most important areas of green living:  our homes.  We’re both California natives.  I think we both have seen how much this region changed in the last few years.  In many ways, the region has coped extremely well with the burgeoning and largely impoverished population.  I mean, we’ve both seen some of our oceans definitely mucked up and the freeways become altogether too crowded at times–but a lot of folks like Koch envision a very environmentally friendly south bay.  This is a very beautiful area of the California coast and continues the tradition of beauty along the coast that is California.  This is the stretch that, from the sea, is atop hills, lots and lots of homes banked up against the sea, growing vertically more than horizontally, tightly knit affluent communities of both conservatives and liberals who altogether share this concept of being environmental patriots.  It is one of the interesting phenomenons of California, a nation on the edge of another nation, because here everyone, whether they are blue or red, is an environmentalist.  It is essential.  We’re crowded.  Being environmental makes sense. 

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