The 2025 Pando Sustainability Awards honored the project-based work of LA’s young people and practical visionaries who care. The event was held on October 5, 2:00-5:00 p.m. and celebrated the success of Pando Days projects produced over the 2024-25 school year.
The 2025 Pandos celebrated the amazing work of young people and their instructors in developing a more sustainable California Southland and world.
Twenty-one Pando Days projects were celebrated at our upcoming Caltech event on Oct. 5, with awards of excellence given out.
The event provided 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!
2025 Honorees
The 2025 Pando Awards honored outstanding achievement from the 2024/25 Pando Days program season.
For the 2025 event program, go HERE. For the booklet honoring the projects, see HERE.
Following are the awardees (note, for more information, see the full program and range of projects):
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:
Dan Siegel
Earth Visionary Award:
Neil Fromer, California Institute of Technology, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Athens Services, Alexandria Technology, Floe Financial Partners, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority, The Happold Foundation, Plante Moran, John Buchanan, Jill Apperson, Andrew Tobias, Christine Johnson, Hope Hendricks-Bacon and Ed Bacon, Jay Farbstein and Bonnie Berman, Stephanie Landregan
Earth Champion Award:
Rita Kampalath, Los Angeles County Chief Sustainability Officer, Holly J. Mitchell, Los Angeles County Supervisor, District 2, Lindsey Horvath, Los Angeles County Supervisor, District 3, Katy Yaroslavksy, Los Angeles City Council Member, District 5
Earth Guardian Award:
Rich Binnell
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:
