Tag results for: County Goal #9: Resources
COUNTY GOALS #4 & #9
Upping Our Recycling Game
Designing an innovative suite of products to reduce waste and promote sustainability through durability, longevity and repurposing.
Projects
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.
MUSHROOM LAB: Developing a Regenerative Future
Experimenting with mushrooms to expand circular and regenerative agriculture and product creation.
S.H.A.P.E.: Sustainable Hubs and Public Engagement
Creating a trash-free Long Beach through community, research and technology.
IT’S ELEMENTARY: Composting to Reduce Organic Waste
A science-based composting program for elementary schools.
THE STIRLING ENGINE: A Table-top Alternative to Solar Panels
A renewable energy solution designed to augment solar panel energy production for individual home and off-the-grid use.
Countywide architecture and design schools take on big junk. Precursor of Pando Days.
COUNTY GOALS #2, #4, & #9
Design for a Sustainable Campus
Creating education modules promoting energy efficiency and water conservation – beginning with building design at community colleges.
SUPER SHADE STRUCTURES: A Cool Solution
Cooling cities with innovative shade structures using nature-based designs.
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.
Middle School teams innovate a water-wise and power-conscious future for LA.
A middle school student showcase for their most innovative water and power sustainability solutions.
Prototype to incarnate the vision of Pope Francis’s “integral ecology” at the Maryknoll Monrovia campus.
Reimagining religious campuses as hubs of community resilience.
A PILGRIMAGE TO THE RIVER
A contemplative journey along the LA River encouraging deep observation, reflection, and action on climate change.
UseMore publicity campaign spurs more conversations about using less.
Magenta House was conceived in a Blitz.
Blog Posts
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
Something Is Growing @ Pando
Maru García reports on her exploration of biomimicry and biodesign as a Pando Artist in Residence.
/ April 29, 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
A Reflective Response to “Junk Raft”
Marcus Eriksen and his friends understand the damage that can be done by plastics far better than the rest of us. But they also know that simply informing us will do little to change our behavior. If we are to be redirected away from our suicidal behavior, we must be grasped by images.
/ October 12, 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
Eco Civilization in China
Residents and visitors breathe dark, smoggy air in the cities, and partly because the problems are so serious, China is committed to work for “ecological civilization.”
/ April 15, 2016
Change in Human History – Fast
We are all indigenous to this Mother Earth. We are not her failed experiment. That is not what we are. We are her immune response.
/ December 30, 2015
A Success Story from China
Instead of modernizing, China should go directly to what we call constructive postmodernism, based on the philosophy of organism, rather than the modernist philosophy of mechanism.
/ November 11, 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
Earth Is One. World, Not Yet
Marilyn Hempel on population: "We're still adding about 220,000 people a day. The question is: what will be left, of civil society and of the non-human world, by the time human population finally stops growing."
/ July 6, 2015