Tag results for: Community
COUNTY GOAL #10
FOOD WITHIN REACH: Foodways every quarter mile across the County.
Projects
COUNTY GOAL #10
Foodways Connection: Mapping food resources to build food security in LA.
COUNTY GOAL #6
WE ARE THE SEA: Engaging families and neighborhoods with local waterways.
COUNTY GOALS #7B, #8A, & #11
Systems Approach: A solution for local transportation with global impact.
COUNTY GOAL #10
Open Garden: Download App. Unlock Gardens. Reimagine equitable foodscapes in Pomona.
COUNTY GOALS #3 & #6
CREATING ECOLIBRIUM: A mobile performance stage for community engagement.
Pandoing a two-acre garden site in Carson.
Citizen education on agriculture policy and practice, local focus.
Making an impact at LA’s ground zero.
COUNTY GOAL # 4
REPURPOSING LAND: Transforming back-alley wasteland into thriving community space
COUNTY GOALS #3 & #6
Design by Community: A unique tool kit to catalyze community participation in the design of public space.
Pop-up and neighborhood events teach water conservation and power efficiency.
Educational outreach provides homeowners and renters alike DIY tools to turn their homes Magenta.
COUNTY GOALS #7B, #8A, & #11
Mapping Cudahy’s Air: Portable air sensors map patterns of air quality.
COUNTY GOAL # 11
GREEN MAP & GO: Map and engage green resources.
COUNTY GOALS #7B, #8A, & #11
CHARGE TO CHANGE: Marketing EV in Cudahy.
COUNTY GOALS #3 & #6
P3: An architectural green print.
COUNTY GOAL #1
RESILIENCE PROJECT: A virtual landscape for resilience learning.
COUNTY GOAL #2
MEGA MICROS: Small housing on a large urban scale for an underserved population.
Bringing LA’s communities together to focus on issues raised by Pope Francis.
COUNTY GOAL # 5
BIOPHILIA TREEHOUSE: Linking birds and people at the tree level.
COUNTY GOAL #2
COOLING TIME: Bringing climate justice to Skid Row.
UseMore publicity campaign spurs more conversations about using less.
Magenta House was conceived in a Blitz.
Educating the educators for LA’s great watersheds.
COUNTY GOAL #2
Mobile Cooling Rooms of Los Angeles: Mobile cooling walls employ an ancient technology in a modern application.
Blog Posts
Happy Holidays from Pando!
WE ARE ALL CONNECTED.
/ December 22, 2021
Pando Days ’21 Premiere Recap
Showcasing 11 projects from 10 Southland universities tackling LA County sustainability.
/ December 17, 2021
Magenta House: teaching civic engagement when civil society is under threat
Magenta House - at the intersection of youth and civic engagement - is about more than sustainability.
/ November 6, 2021
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
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
Arcadia and the Western Imagination
Artist in Residence Yogan Muller reflects on the "tipping points" and "focal points" that have inspired his work as a photographer and a scholar.
/ April 29, 2020
Something Is Growing @ Pando
Maru García reports on her exploration of biomimicry and biodesign as a Pando Artist in Residence.
/ April 29, 2020
Flowers for Sick People
Tucker Nichols has a solution to spread as much art and connectivity as we can get.
/ March 27, 2020
Deposit Trash Here
What would happen if every design school brought JUNK BATTLE! to the classroom? Onto their campuses? Imagine students, primed for learning and eager to get their hands dirty, getting a first-hand look at their footprint on the world.
/ May 7, 2018
Making Los Angeles the Resilient City by 2028
Pando Populus recently accepted and strengthened the idea of using the upcoming Los Angeles Olympics as an occasion to set high but not impossible goals for LA. With sincere backing from institutions and individuals I believe these goals could move LA a long way in the direction of becoming a model for an ecological civilization.
/ October 18, 2017
Why I’ll Be on the Roadtrip to Pando: Land Use Specialist Claire Robinson
Pando is all about community and connection -- connection to each other, connection to the Earth, connection between all living creatures -- with a focus on the magical role trees play in our lives.
/ August 7, 2017
The Futures of Death Alley
The day brings innovation black belts together with people who are putting it all on the line to make change happen.
/ July 12, 2017
The Emerald Necklace
John Cobb, Jr. prepared these comments for the inaugural docent training program of the Amigos de los Rios Emerald Necklace initiative, a “necklace” of parks and green spaces populating the great watersheds of the Los Angeles region about which docents will be trained. The docent training program is developed in collaboration with Pando Hubs.
/ October 28, 2016
Interview with Claudia Pearce
Claudia Pearce is an author, journalist, and activist based in Southern California. Pearce is involved with developing Huerta del Valle‘s gardens and founding Pando Hub projects there and at the Natural Ivy Foundation in Koreatown.
/ August 25, 2016
Way Too Many 1,000-Yr Floods
The climatologically abnormal is the new normal.
/ October 10, 2015
Announcing: Pando Hubs
A Pando Hub is a place where life is being rethought and reworked from the ground up, with the planet in mind.
/ September 29, 2015
The EPA, US and Me
The EPA reinvented itself and began seeing the world through the eyes of polluters. The choice was stark: change or die.
/ August 31, 2015