"Fire in the Sky" by manmadepants via LAist Featured Photos Pool on Flickr Sacramento to California's teachers: I love you, but I just can't pay you. Thousands of teachers across the state this week could receive pink slips in the wake of the $14.5 billion budget gap. Teachers to Sacramento: I'd like to see you try and force us out. The Air Quality Management District loves clean air so much they decided to impose......

I hope you haven't had enough of the Great Coffee Debate that has been ROCKING the Southland ever since hip joints like LA Mill and Intelligentsia have hit the scene. (Although you all know that we prefer a cup of the working man's brew, Dunkin' Donuts coffee, over here.) A new coffeehouse, Lot 44, is set to hit downtown sometime this spring. Downtown blogger Angelenic has the, um, scoop from founder Ariel Graham: “We......

Not sure what to buy your environmentally conscious friend or family member for the holidays? Opting to make this holiday season's giving more earth-friendly? You may want to check out this weekend's Eco Gift Expo, which:will provide everything you would hope to find including beauty products, fashion, yoga products, sports, bags, shoes, candles, home decor, toys and much more... and everything at the expo is good for the planet, mind, body and spirit. You......

If you saw last night's Dallas - Philly game during "Football Night in America" you saw NBC dim the studio lights of the Costas set because it would allegedly save enough electricity to power the homes of 1,000 American households for a year or some nonsense. If only they would do us all a favor and cut Costas' mic. Some of us would live in the dark for a week if such a deal......

Just a week before the biggest candy-shopping holiday of the year, yesterday the Sixth District Court downtown held the first hearing in the case brought against Nestle, Cargill and Archer Daniels-Midland by the International Labour Organization (ILO). The ILO is charging that these three corporations knowingly supported the trafficking, torture and forced labor of child slaves in Cote d'Ivoire, one of the major cocoa-producers in West Africa. The three companies have been targeted because......

LAist could have once been accused of being obsessive about coffee but lately we've kicked the habit. The same can't be said for green LA girl, who has made local fair trade coffee a delicious cause worth fighting for. Her recent discussion of why some local bean brewers don't go for fair trade certification is illuminating of how the entire industry works. Digging around her site, we found her guide to living more green......