LA’s housing crisis and what’s being done about it
Mark VanderSchaaf discusses both good news and challenges associated with LA's housing crisis.
/ November 25, 2024
Mark VanderSchaaf Pando Days Water Spotlight: 2024-25
A new report by Mark VanderSchaaf provides a framework for LA County's work on pressing water sustainability issues and the role of regional agencies in support of these goals.
/ October 24, 2024
The wisdom of the rainforest in Northridge
“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
Bottled at the Source: The Pando Days 2024/25 Blitz
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
Pando Days – the student experience
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
Restoring the land, one plot at a time
Alex Robinson of USC speaks with Pando about his continuing Pando Days work in native plant restoration and sustainability stewardship.
/ October 9, 2024
When your campus is your community partner
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
What the humanities can offer a world in crisis
Chris Doran, Pepperdine, reflects on his multi-year Pando Days effort to focus the resources of religious communities on the growing challenge of climate migration.
/ October 8, 2024
Pando Is 10
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.
/ October 8, 2024
The butterfly effect
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
There’s a food app for that (and it’s student developed)!
Interview with Pando Days team lead Rohan Kunchala, student from CSU Fullerton, about next steps for the food pantry software they've developed that's changing the game on getting food to those who need it.
/ September 20, 2024
Community college and challenging the status quo
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