Tag results for: County Goal #6: Re-creation
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.
Projects
COUNTY GOAL #6
WE ARE THE SEA: Engaging families and neighborhoods with local waterways.
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.
COUNTY GOALS #3 & #6
CREATING ECOLIBRIUM: A mobile performance stage for community engagement.
COUNTY GOALS #5 & #6
Sea Studio
Designing an immersive holding space for artists, scientists, and the greater public to create kinship with our oceans.
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.
COUNTY GOALS #3 & #6
Design by Community: A unique tool kit to catalyze community participation in the design of public space.
COUNTY GOAL #6
Watts Next: The Nature Walk
Designing a three-mile green-space pedestrian walk along the Watts train tracks to improve the neighborhood microclimate and quality of life.
THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT: Linking Pierce College to the LA River Through Biodiversity
A network of butterfly planters, bird boxes, and beehives designed to link the massive Pierce College campus to the LA River and rebuild biodiverse systems.
SUPER SHADE STRUCTURES: A Cool Solution
Cooling cities with innovative shade structures using nature-based designs.
COUNTY GOALS #1, #5, & #6
Probing for Resilience
Employing a data-driven approach to advocate for the replacement of traditional landscaping with native plants.
COUNTY GOALS #3 & #6
P3: An architectural green print.
Prototype to incarnate the vision of Pope Francis’s “integral ecology” at the Maryknoll Monrovia campus.
Reimagining religious campuses as hubs of community resilience.
Educating the educators for LA’s great watersheds.
Blog Posts
Finding Hope Amid Conflicting Currents
Pando Populus Board Member Rev. Ed Bacon recently spoke with the Zen Buddhist priest Rev. angel Kyoto williams about Pando and contemporary issues.
/ March 6, 2021
Christmas Greetings from Tokyo, 2020
All throughout, trees outside my window stood firm and accompanied me by extending and waving their branches and invited me to listen to the circular rhythm of life. “Stay put where you are planted,” the trees reminded me.
/ December 30, 2020
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
Can There Be a Pando Theology?
In this fascinating discussion, two Pando thought leaders, John B. Cobb, Jr. and Ed Bacon, sat down together over Zoom to talk about Pando Theology and what it means.
/ October 3, 2020
Letter from Tokyo
In this post Sr. Teruko Ito, MM offers a brief reflection on the coronavirus, Mother Earth, and what the blooming cherry blossoms might be able to teach us.
/ April 9, 2020
Flowers for Sick People
Tucker Nichols has a solution to spread as much art and connectivity as we can get.
/ March 27, 2020
Our Mother Earth
Ronald Phipps generously shared this poem with us, in honor of our Common Home, our Mother Earth, on Mother's Day.
/ May 11, 2019
Circle Dance of Oneness
This prayer was recently offered up at a meeting of the leadership of the Western Region of Maryknoll Sisters during their conference and retreat in Monrovia, CA.
/ March 22, 2019
Defending the Boundary Waters
Joseph Goldstein explains why the fight for our planet is "all about the small steps forward...about getting back up despite setbacks, about consistently showing up, and about staying even when you’re discouraged," like the defense he and his peers have mounted on behalf of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
/ August 19, 2018
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 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
Cancer and Mining Suck (the Joy Out of You)
Cancer and mining can suck the joy and energy right out of you.
/ November 16, 2015
What Can I Say to Farmers?
I have been told that many of you in this gathering are farmers. In your hands now lies the destiny of the world. I would like to speak directly to you.
/ October 28, 2015
What and When Exxon Knew
ExxonMobil's online defense appeals for confidence in its “scientific and engineering mindset.” It’s because of mindsets like this that we need a new worldview.
/ October 19, 2015
Pando — Utah’s Own
Fourth grade students recruited State Senator Okerlund as a quaking aspen advocate and spokesperson on the senate floor and he, along with colleagues, passed Senate Bill 41 to change the state tree from the Colorado Blue Spruce to the quaking aspen – Pando, of course, being the oldest and largest example. Then the governor signed it into law.
/ August 3, 2015