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.
/ March 6, 2021
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.”
/ December 30, 2020
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.
/ December 30, 2020
Welcome to the End…and the Beginning
As this year's event comes to a close, John Cobb's hope is that other universities will now realize that their reluctance to help save humanity from self-destruction must be transformed into enthusiasm for actualizing their vast potential contributions.
/ November 20, 2020
How can we make Los Angeles families fall in love with our ocean?
We Are The Sea engages and invites families through a people-powered and people-empowered welcome: a bike path that rings the city.
/ November 9, 2020
What is the future of LA housing, and how can artificial intelligence help?
“AI: The Future of Housing,” SCI-Arc's Pando Days initiative, presents a near future for Los Angeles where AI and new technologies are tools in the fight for housing equity.
/ November 3, 2020
University of Southern California Dreams of Revolutionizing Freeways
Matthew Manos is fascinated by the way a simple set of instructions can alter the way we see a place and our relationship to it.
/ November 3, 2020
The Innovation Engine from CalTech
The Innovation Engine is a knowledge management and impact assessment system tailored for sustainability, and it’s the first of its kind.
/ October 20, 2020
Can There Be a Pando Theology?
In this fascinating discussion, two Pando thought leaders, John B. Cobb, Jr. and Ed Bacon, sat down together over Zoom to talk about Pando Theology and what it means.
/ October 3, 2020
The Resilience Project at Pasadena City College
The Resilience Project uses art and interaction to create games, media archives, and virtual reality meditations that explore resilience, both on practical and personal terms.
/ September 14, 2020
Imagining Interconnected Foodways Across LA County
Food Within Reach is a project of Cal Poly Pomona that envisions interconnected foodways every quarter mile across LA County.
/ September 1, 2020
UCLA embarks on Year Two of Biophilia Treehouse
We’re focused on birds because they are indicators of the overall health of our ecosystem—especially during this sixth mass extinction, which is entirely due to human activity.
/ August 28, 2020