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Projects

COUNTY GOAL #10
FOOD WITHIN REACH: Foodways every quarter mile across the County.

COUNTY GOAL #6
WE ARE THE SEA: Engaging families and neighborhoods with local waterways.

COUNTY GOAL: OurCountyLA plan
INNOVATION ENGINE: Identifies strategic sustainability needs, fosters collaboration, and predicts impact.

Countywide architecture and design schools take on big junk. Precursor of Pando Days.

Ten Southland colleges and universities come together to implement County resiliency.

Ten of the most creative college and university minds take on four challenges within the LA County sustainability plan.

COUNTY GOAL # 3
AI: FUTURE OF HOUSING: Employing artificial intelligence to map affordable housing opportunities and match construction resources.

COUNTY GOAL # 5
BIOPHILIA TREEHOUSE: Linking birds and people at the tree level.

COUNTY GOAL # 8
CAR SICK: Getting us on track for life without cars.

COUNTY GOAL # 2
SALTWATER GARDENS: Innovations for the twin threats of underground saltwater incursion and food scarcity.

Blog Posts

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.

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.

The Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead

For me and my fellow Whiteheadians, the need to keep this kind of thinking alive was intensified by the global environmental crisis. The victory of value-free research disciplines has rendered universities more part of the problem than part of the solution.