The Orange County Register reports this morning that the Irvine-based Beckman Foundation has donated $20 million to the City of Hope in Duarte, to help finance cancer research. The Foundation has an excellent sense of timing– because, as every other newspaper in the state is reporting this morning:
Californians breathe the second-dirtiest air in the nation, with residents of Los Angeles and Orange counties exposed to a cancer risk that's about double the national average, according to a ne
Post Factory, an Orange-based film and video production company, recently hooked up with the nonprofit A Way To Help to create a video aimed at raising funds to provide clean drinking water to the people of Northern Uganda. It's the brain child of Jonathan Hicks and Patrick Martinez in Post Factory's motion-design department. The challenge was to quickly sum up the dire need for facilities to clean dirty water in a land that has withstood 22 years of warfare. To immediately drive that point ho
Paradise Bay: drink it in.​Sarah Tulley posts on Orange County Register's Around Disney blog today that Paradise Bay lagoon at California Adventure in Anaheim will soon be refilled with 16 million gallons of water that was recycled through central Orange County's Groundwater Replenishment System, which converts sewage into drinking water. Disneyland Resort won a state award last month for the project, which has already replenished the Rivers of America water at Disneyland. An Orange County Wat
