The 2025 Pando Sustainability Awards honor the project-based work of LA’s young people and practical visionaries who care. The event will be held on October 5, 2:00-5:00 p.m. and celebrate the success of Pando Days projects produced over the 2024-25 school year.
The 2025 Pandos celebrate the amazing work of young people and their instructors in developing a more sustainable California Southland and world.
Twenty-one Pando Days projects will be celebrated at our upcoming Caltech event on Oct. 5, with awards of excellence given out.
The event provides a unique opportunity for teams to move their projects forward with support from local communities, and involves public agencies, businesses, NGOs, philanthropists, sustainability professionals, and media. And networking galore!
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2024 Pando Awards
The 2024 Pando Awards honored outstanding achievement from the 2023 Pando Days program season.
To see photos of the 2024 event, go HERE. For the 2024 event program, go HERE. To download a PDF copy of The Pando Sustainability Awards book (2024) go HERE.
Following are the awardees (note, for more information, see the full program and range of projects):
Magenta House awardees from the ’23-’24 season include the following (note, for more information, see the full program and project range.
Practical Visionaries Who Care:
Every year, we honor those in Southern California who are making a difference for young people of all ages in sustainability. We honor them in the following categories: the Immortal Earthkeeper Award for Lifetime Achievement, Earth Visionary, Earth Champion, and Earth Guardian. Honorees are given fine art prints by Pando Artist-in-Residence Tucker Nichols.
Honorees:
Immortal Earthkeeper Award for Lifetime Achievement:
Father Greg Boyle, founder of Homeboy Industries
Earth Visionary Award:
Kaiser Permanente Community Health Fund, Metropolitan Water District, LA County Sanitation Districts, LA United School District, LA Department of Water and Power, Clean Power Alliance, Calpine Energy Solutions, LA County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Alexandria Technology, Plante Moran, California Institute of Technology, Floe Financial Partners, John Buchanan, John B. Cobb, Jr., Jay and Bonnie Farbstein
Earth Champion Award:
Holly Mitchell, Lindsey Horvath, Katy Yaroslavsky, Jason Lyon
Earth Guardian Award:
Betty Yee, Rita Kampalath, Mikala Rahn, Maximilian Christman
Pando Sustainability Awards Host Committee: Mick Dalrymple, Chief Sustainability Officer, University of Southern California; Karen Hofmann, President, ArtCenter College of Design; Rita Kampalath, Chief Sustainability Officer, County of Los Angeles; Paul Koretz, Los Angeles City Councilmember Emeritus, 5th District; Paul Krekorian, President, Los Angeles City Council and Member, 2nd District; Ann McElaney-Johnson, President, Mount Saint Mary’s University; Peter Laugharn, President, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation; James M. Limbaugh, President, West Los Angeles College; Heidrun Mumper-Drumm, Chair, Chief Sustainability Officers Taskforce; Ravi S. Rajan, President, California Institute of the Arts (CalArts); Kecia Washington, Director of Innovation, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
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Pando Days is a collaboration with the CSO Taskforce for LA County with the ’24/25 season made possible in part by the support of our generous partners:
