Pando Days offers extensive educational resources to help you with your project development. Resources run the gamut from seminars and advisory opportunities with experienced and passionate professionals to specialist content resources. Not finding what you need? Don’t hesitate to ask!
Field trips and Seminars
Throughout the Pando Days season, we host seminars and field trips on topics related to LA County sustainability. Take advantage of these opportunities! Email alexi@pandopopulus.com for more information.
- Field trips: Metropolitan Water District and LA County Sanitation Districts want you and your teams to get up close and personal with the extraordinary water reclamation work that’s being done in the County – and are offering field trips, with transportation, so that you can see for yourself what’s happening and talk with their specialists. Teams are signing up now.
- Sustainability content: Noted regional planning authority Mark VanderSchaaf, who wrote the book — literally — on Southland sustainability planning (see below), is available for specialist seminars with Q&A on a per request basis. It’s likely that no one knows more across the board about the sustainability plans of Greater LA.
CSO Taskforce Publications:
New Study Analyzes Sustainability Planning in Metropolitan Los Angeles.
Mark VanderSchaaf’s Sustainability Planning in Metropolitan Los Angeles: Products and Processes is the first volume to identify and analyze the wide variety of contemporary sustainability plans affecting the Greater Los Angeles region.
Comments Taskforce co-founder Andy Shrader: “Meticulous research and deep understanding of the subject matter.”
“It has such clarity and depth,” writes Charles Landry, international urban creativity adviser and co-founder of the Creative Bureaucracy Festival in Berlin.
A CSO Taskforce publication in collaboration with the Regional and Intergovernmental Planning Division of the American Planning Association.
Free download here.
New Report Providing Comprehensive Water Spotlight Resources.
Resources for the Pando Water Spotlight: 2024-25 by noted regional planner Mark VanderSchaaf provides a compact collection of important information related to water sustainability as it relates to the OurCounty LA sustainability plan and the Metropolitan Water District’s water sustainability strategies. Additionally, it offers some reflections on the One Water philosophy.
A must-read for planners and policy experts, and Pando Days instructors and students.
A publication of the CSO Taskforce in collaboration with the Regional and Intergovernmental Planning Division of the American Planning Association.
Free download here.
Sustainability- and water-related posts
See also content presented at meetings of LA’s Chief Sustainability Officer Taskforce.
“One Water,” Resilience, and Advanced Water Recycling
Mark VanderSchaaf discusses exciting new developments in advanced water recycling in LA County and beyond.
The “One Water” revolution and sustainability
Mark VanderSchaaf discusses revolutionary approaches to water management called One Water.
A new sustainability plan for metropolitan Los Angeles
Regional planner Mark VanderSchaaf discusses the tension between urban development and natural resource conservation.
Strong Sustainability
Mark VanderSchaaf talks about the differences between “strong” and “weak” sustainability.
Project development and narrative posts
What is a Pando Days project?
An interview with Pando Days Series Producer Doug Chang on what exactly is a Pando Days project.
Telling a good (Pando Days) story
Pando Days Creative Producer Lyn Goldfarb shares her thoughts on what a good Pando Days story looks like and how to tell it.
Ongoing project highlights
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?”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pando Days coming to life: UCLA’s Biophilia Treehouse
UCLA’s submission for Pando Days 2019/20 is currently being installed in Encino. We get an update.
Pando Days Update: Marcela Oliva, LA Trade Tech
Expanding green space for resilience and prosperity.
Pando Days Update: Gina Valona, Otis
Otis is mapping sustainability across the California Southland.
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.
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.
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.