THE EMERGENCY WATER CHEST: Staying Clean When Disaster Strikes
A portable sanitizing solution for personal use during water-scarce emergencies.

THE X FOLIATE SHOWER PROJECT: When Water Is in Short Supply
Water-efficient solutions that address cleansing needs during emergencies.

FROM HERE TO THERE IN 2045: Reimagining Transportation
A bold vision to move away from a car centric culture through sustainable mobility solutions with Long Beach as a case study.

COUNTY GOALS #1, #2, #5 & #6
Colorado Lagoon
Visitors engage in site-specific augmented reality experiences – interactions make the value of preserving coastal wetlands personal – heightening the desire to protect this essential resource.

COUNTY GOALS #1, #2, #5 & #6
Visions of the Long Beach Breakwater
Community engagement through augmented reality – envisioning a sustainable future where natural waterway processes are disrupted.

COUNTY GOALS #1, #5, & #6
Restoring the Sepulveda Basin
Building broad-based support for a plan to transform the Sepulveda River Basin into an accessible green space featuring responsible water management.

MUSHROOM LAB: Developing a Regenerative Future
Experimenting with mushrooms to expand circular and regenerative agriculture and product creation.

CONFLUENCE: The Turtle Connection
A novel multi-sensory experience telling the story of endangered green sea turtles at the confluence of San Gabriel River and Coyote Creek.

S.H.A.P.E.: Sustainable Hubs and Public Engagement
Creating a trash-free Long Beach through community, research and technology.

Stories for Sustainability: Whispers of the Coast and the Path to Impact
A project to uncover forgotten voices of Long Beach through audio storytelling and empower involvement with the city’s unique ocean-urban interface.

KEEPING NATURE ACCESSIBLE
Helping a greater number of blind and visually impaired people get out in nature by removing obstacles to their participation.

Stories of Sustainable San Fernando Valley
A project that uses storytelling to thicken the connective tissue of LA’s San Fernando Valley, promoting healing, restoration, and more resilient communities.

COUNTY GOALS #1, #2 & #3
Training the Next Generation
Producing a podcast series that shares the wisdom and experience of environmental leaders across generations.

Helping to create an eco-homeless shelter.

Making an impact at LA’s ground zero.

COUNTY GOALS #1, #5, & #6
Probing for Resilience
Employing a data-driven approach to advocate for the replacement of traditional landscaping with native plants.

PROBING FOR RESILIENCE PHASE 2: Planting the Garden
Implementing plans developed during last year’s Pando Days season to replace traditional landscaping with native plants.

Mount Meadow
Replacing campus lawn with a dense, native-plant meadow that supports biodiversity and strengthens ecological connections with the nearby Santa Monica Mountains.

Prototype to incarnate the vision of Pope Francis’s “integral ecology” at the Maryknoll Monrovia campus.

Reimagining religious campuses as hubs of community resilience.

COUNTY GOAL #1
RESILIENCE PROJECT: A virtual landscape for resilience learning.

TEST PLOT: RAINBOW CANYON COMMUNITY CROSSROADS Transforming landcare traditions to address modern challenges and unite communities.