Welcome to Pando.
We create hope through action.
We’re making LA a community of more resilient communities.
Pando works at the intersection of culture, education, and public agencies to innovate bold opportunities to implement Los Angeles County’s sustainability goals.
We forge collaborations, and generate solutions and practical plans.
We make courageous things happen in solidarity with the Earth and its people.
Collaboration
We bring together people who show every day that they are passionate about Los Angeles and its future.
Because if you care about LA’s future, you care about sustainability and other people.
Work
We have a process for project acceleration that can light fires in the hearts of the best and brightest to implement sustainability in the LA basin.
But these are not pie-in-the-sky projects. They are practical, sensible efforts at dozens of locations across the Southland.
Inspiration
Pando is about the bravest of our better angels working to muster and inspire the people who are imagining the unimaginable:
A brighter and better future for the 10 million people who call LA home.
What’s happening
Some of our successes
Pando Days ’21
2021
The most creative minds within higher ed tackle the biggest sustainability challenges facing Southern California.
Magenta House – Events
2019
Pop-up and neighborhood events teach water conservation and power efficiency.
Blog Posts
Finding Hope Amid Conflicting Currents
Pando Populus Board Member Rev. Ed Bacon recently spoke with the Zen Buddhist priest Rev. angel Kyoto williams about Pando and contemporary issues.
Garden Mysteries
Rilke speaks of the gardener’s participation in the Universe’s Mysteries this way: “In spite of all the farmer’s work and worry, he can’t reach down to where the seed is slowly transmuted into summer. The earth bestows.”
Christmas Greetings from Tokyo, 2020
All throughout, trees outside my window stood firm and accompanied me by extending and waving their branches and invited me to listen to the circular rhythm of life. “Stay put where you are planted,” the trees reminded me.