Posts by Pando Populus


“We could easily process almost 100% of the school’s food waste,” says Carlos Marin who is continuing CSUN’s 2023 Pando Days composting project. “Do you understand what that means?”

October 22, 2024

How can we get Angelenos to love recycled sewer water? This year’s Pando Days Blitz got teams together to brainstorm innovative ways to make recycled sewer water sexy — and learn the art of thinking wrong.

October 16, 2024

Mine Ucok Hughes, Cal State LA, and Joseph Burton, Hearts for Sight Foundation, discuss the multi-faceted benefits involved in working with students on meaningful projects.

October 15, 2024

Pando Populus chats with Adrian Jones of Mount Saint Mary’s on the success of her Pando Days team’s low-water landscape plans and the campus improvements it’s launching.

October 8, 2024

Pando’s student-professor model of project development has roots going back to when John Cobb was the professor and Eugene Shirley the student — some 40 years ago. The Pando co-founders reflect back on the occasion of Pando’s 10th anniversary.

We sat down with Beth Abels, Pando Days team lead for Pierce College, to discuss the ways her multi-phase project is changing the College’s sense of connection to the LA River.

September 25, 2024

Prof. Marcela Oliva of LA Trade Tech comments on her and her students’ history with Pando Days and the role of community colleges in creating on-the-ground change and change makers.

September 17, 2024