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The Greensward: Civitas: Another World Environment Day
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Friday, June 5, 2015. Another World Environment Day. Today, World Environment Day (WED) is celebrated every year on 5 June to raise global awareness to take positive environmental action to protect nature and the planet Earth. It is run by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).It was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1972 on the day that United Nations Conference on the Human Environment began. To our capitalist system that's destroying the environment. Posted by L Barlow.
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The Greensward: Civitas: Canticle of the Sun
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Thursday, June 18, 2015. Canticle of the Sun. State of the World. Laudato Si (“Praise be to You, O my Lord! St Francis of Assisi - Anglican version. Yes, be praised in all your creatures. Brother sun and sister moon. In the stars and in the wind,. Air and fire and flowing water. For our sister mother earth,. She who feeds us and sustains us;. For her fruits, her grass, her flowersfor the mountains and the oceans. Praise for those who spread forgiveness,. Those who share your peace with others,. And frame...
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The Greensward: Civitas: May 2015
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Sunday, May 31, 2015. Is there a way to avert dangerous climate change at this point? That's a position taken by Aubrey Meyer and his calculations in the CBAT online tool. Posted by L Barlow. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). An open turf area. This open space hosts "civitas", the means to foster, mobilize and coordinate civic concern. In the community for sustainable public and private spaces. This includes urban planning. Infrastructure, watershed management, zero impact projects. A space...
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The Greensward: Civitas: Its Keeling Over
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Sunday, May 31, 2015. Is there a way to avert dangerous climate change at this point? That's a position taken by Aubrey Meyer and his calculations in the CBAT online tool. Posted by L Barlow. An open turf area. This open space hosts "civitas", the means to foster, mobilize and coordinate civic concern. In the community for sustainable public and private spaces. This includes urban planning. Infrastructure, watershed management, zero impact projects. The Pages of Greensward. Think Globally Act Locally.
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The Greensward: Civitas: The Sound of Silence
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Monday, February 23, 2015. The Sound of Silence. Fools," said I, "you do not know. Silence like a cancer grows. Hear my words that I might teach you. Take my arms that I might reach you". But my words like silent raindrops fell. And echoed in the wells of silence. Oceanography, geography and the enlarging drought plagued lands across the continents. The willful blindness. If there's information that you could know and you should know. But you somehow manage not to know,. It consists of research, outreach...
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The Greensward: Civitas: Planning Issues
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Jane Jacobs - Center for the Living City. The Image of the City - Kevin Lynch. A Pattern Language - Christopher Alexander. Charter of the New Urbanism. Cradle to Cradle - William McDonough. How Buildings Learn - Stuart Brand. Sustainable Communities - Sim Van Der Ryn and Peter Calthorpe. Arcosanti - Paolo Soleri. Where Am I - The Power of Uniqueness. Here in little-old-lady Pasadena you will find killer community activism beyond the Rose Parade. For information on current projects under city review!
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ArroyoLover: March 2011
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Musings of natural and human life along the world's urban waterways, with a focus on the Arroyo Seco and Los Angeles Rivers in Southern California. Monday, March 28, 2011. Arroyos and Foothills Conservancy Celebrates Rubio Canyon Acquisition. The festivities took place on the property of long-time AFC supporter Heinz Ellersieck on Camp Huntington Drive, directly adjacent to the eastside of Rubio Canyon. The effort to purchase the final acreage to keep Rubio Canyon intact brought together AFC donors, the ...
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CNPS San Gabriel Mountains Chapter
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California Native Plant Society. San Gabriel Mountains Chapter. Field trips and outings. Outings and field trips. Conservation issues past and present. CNPS San Gabriel Mountains Chapter. As of August 15, 2015. Below are some of the conservation issues in our territory (the San Gabriel and eastern San Fernando Valleys). They are in various stages of planning and development. Some are open for hearings and comments. Some are not and are listed here for reference only. CNPS STATE CONSERVATION PAGE. Mdash; ...
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The Greensward: Civitas: January 2015
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Friday, January 16, 2015. Casablanca - We'll always have Paris. News has hit the wire that the planet is rapidly becoming hotter than ever. And the destruction of our ecosystem. Welcome to the anthropocene. Could be a short epoch. Does 2015 mark the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel era? It seems to be the earliest indications of a remarkable progression in the necessary rapid reduction in fossil fuel use, as Architecture 2030 lays out. In its notations of remarkable changes. It notes some signific...
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Arroyo Seco Watershed | Arroyo Seco Foundation
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The Arroyo Seco Watershed. Geographically, the Arroyo Seco Watershed is a subwatershed of the Los Angeles River Watershed. The basin sits between the San Gabriel Valley to the east and the San Fernando Valley to the west, and drains into the L.A. River at the confluence in Lincoln Heights. On this page, you will be able to learn more about the Arroyo Seco Watershed and why it is so important to preserve it for ourselves and future generations. What is a watershed? 8212;John Wesley Powell. Watersheds, als...
