Speaker: Kipp McMichael Break out your rulers, scales and metrics for a tour of California flora with an eye toward maxima and minima. We'll start with familiar status-holders like giant sequoia and duckweed but move on to more esoteric categories and the biggests and smallests therein: The largest flower? The longest vine? The biggest fruit?...
TRUE Zero Waste and Circular Economy Training Series: HOW TO APPLY CIRCULARITY TO YOUR BUSINESS AND REDUCE OPERATING COSTS Via Zoom Zoom link sent upon completion of registration Register Here REDUCE, REUSE, AND COMPOSTING HOW TO APPLY CIRCULARITY TO YOUR BUSINESS AND REDUCE OPERATIONAL COSTS Without urgent action, global waste will increase by 70 percent...
This summer the Nature Gardens and Tar Pits are coming over to your place. Fix yourself a DIY botanical cocktail and join our events happening LIVE. Turn up the DJ tunes and join in on a talk with Museum Staff who’ll be getting to the root of plants from the present day all the way...
By: Andrea Williams, CNPS Director of Plant Science California Board of Forestry and Fire Protection (aka CAL FIRE)'s proposed program to treat vegetation on public and private land across California to improve public safety, protect natural resources, and reduce fire suppression costs. CNPS Chapters have the opportunity to build local relationships to ensure the work...
Safety is Metro’s top priority while we continue to do the work to chart our path forward, especially as LA County reopens in stages. Throughout the year, Metro is hosting a series of conversations on resiliency concepts and solutions. Metro is seeking innovative, cost effective solutions that will help us reduce our waste streams, like...
Each year, the LABBC Building Technology Showcase helps property owners quickly get up to speed on the latest building technologies through a combination of live case studies and fast-pitch presentations from technology companies vetted by our Partners. This year’s virtual event will focus on technologies for Multifamily Residential properties, where efficiency investments make the biggest...
2020 Municipal Green Building Conference + Expo DAY 1 of MGBCE: Municipal Green Friday, August 21st, 2020 MGBCE 2020 is a virtual event--see you online! **(Please note that this date has been rescheduled from the previous date on May 29th. If you had previously registered, your registration will automatically be moved to the new dates. If...
2020 Municipal Green Building Conference + Expo DAY 2 of MGBCE: Community Green Saturday, August 22nd, 2020 MGBCE 2020 is a virtual event--see you online! **(Please note that this date has been rescheduled from the previous date on May 30th. If you had previously registered, your registration will automatically be moved to the new dates.) This...
About NetZeroBuild Summit August 25-28, 2020 NetZeroBuild Summit 2020 brings together the key stakeholders involved in the Midwest’s value chain for net-zero construction in residential, commercial, academic and government buildings for the very first time. Hosting the Midwest’s leading architects, policymakers, contractors, system manufacturers, building owners and real estate executives, this essential new event is...
Nita Winter and Rob Badger take you behind the scenes of their 27-year journey photographing wildflowers throughout California. It began in 1992, when they discovered and fell in love with California’s spectacular wildflower blooms in the Mojave Desert’s Antelope Valley California Poppy Preserve. Photographing these beautiful landscapes and individual flowers evolved into their documentary art...