We engage higher ed, K-12, and community stakeholders to take on LA’s biggest challenges.
Our ongoing programs and single events bring educators, students, and stakeholders together to support the region we love. .
Ongoing programs
These extend over successive years.
Pando Days | Higher ed
Pando Days Series
Yes, there is hope for LA! Because we have a not-so-secret goal. To connect educators and college students to a big plan. The one that really matters. The Los Angeles County Sustainability Plan—the boldest county sustainability plan in the nation. With dedicated courses and labs that implement real-world projects to meet our biggest sustainability challenges
Pando Days ’23
2023 Season
Pando Days ’23 brings together colleges and universities from across the Southland to solve local sustainability challenges.
Pando Days ’22
2022 Season
Pando Days ’22 brings 15 colleges and universities together to create a more sustainable region.
Pando Days ’21
2021 Season
Ten of the most creative college and university minds take on four challenges within the LA County sustainability plan.
Pando Days 2019-20
2019-20 Season
Southland colleges and universities come together with courses, studios, and labs to build County sustainability.
Magenta House | Middle school
Magenta House Series
A civic engagement program to create a more water-conscious and power-wise future. We bring middle schools together with community-based organizations for project acceleration and neighborhood service.
Magenta House Expo
2022 Season
A middle school student showcase for their most innovative water and power sustainability solutions.
Magenta House Accelerator
2022 Season
Middle School teams innovate a water-wise and power-conscious future for LA.
Magenta House – Resources
2020-21 Season
Educational outreach provides homeowners and renters alike DIY tools to turn their homes Magenta.
Magenta House – Events
2019 Season
Pop-up and neighborhood events teach water conservation and power efficiency.
Junk Battle | Higher ed and high school
Students come together to tackle one of LA’s largest challenges: waste.
Junk Battle
2018 Season
Countywide architecture and design schools take on big junk. Precursor of Pando Days.
Roadtrip to Pando | Pando community
Peer-to-peer brainstorming meets wilderness adventure at the site of our namesake and one-tree-forest in Utah.
Campando | Intergenerational
Community leaders unplug, recharge, and make new connections across generations and traditions for service.
Events
We produce single events that respond opportunistically to needs and prototype new ideas that might be worth taking for a longer ride.
Interconnected
Pando means we’re interconnected.
Pandotopia Blitz
Reimagining religious campuses as hubs of community resilience.
City Blitz
Executive-level education and innovation for sustainable cities.
Futures of Death Alley
Making an impact at LA’s ground zero.
Fellowship Program
This is an in-residence arts and humanities opportunity aiming both to contribute to Pando’s mission and to the Fellow’s own artistic, research, or service work.
Maru Garcia
2020-21
Maru spent her time growing “plastic” and re-building soil and community as a fellow.
Aubrey Burgess
2019-20
Aubrey spent her time photographing and facilitating events as well as designing educational materials as a fellow.
Yogan Muller
December 2019
Yogan spent a short weekend photographing trees, reconnecting with nature and finding an artistic direction as a fellow.
Geneva Bielenberg
2018-19
Geneva helped launch the Pando at Maryknoll program, painted murals, grew produce and helped manage the Magenta House program as a fellow.
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INTENDED AUDIENCE
Higher ed
Youth
Professional development
Community
Philosophy & faith
COUNTY GOAL
County Goal #1: Resilience
County Goal #2: Buildings
County Goal #3: Land
County Goal #4: Economy
County Goal #5: Biodiversity
County Goal #6: Re-creation
County Goal #7: Climate
County Goal #8: Mobility
County Goal #9: Resources
County Goal #10: Food
County Goal #11: Governance
County Goal #12: Partnerships