Do something about climate change and learn about plans to alter the Hahamongna Watershed Park. Plus: a seed swap, a new watering schedule, this week's random read and more.
Hahamongna Watershed Park. The LA County Flood Control District recently released the final Environmental Impact Report for the Devil's Gate Sediment Management Program in Hahamongna Watershed Park.
It will present the plan to the City of Pasadena at a council meeting on Monday. In addition,
a series of three public meetings will allow the public to comment on the Flood Control District's plan before it goes to the County Board of Supervisors for their review and possible approval. The first meeting is on Saturday afternoon.
Local sustainability groups including the Arroyo Seco Foundation strongly oppose the plan.
Climate change. Interested in climate change?
The Citizen’s Climate Lobby will meet on Saturday morning.
Pasadena's watering schedule for the winter begins on Saturday. Going forth, Pasadena Water and Power customers may water on one day a week only. It must be a Tuesday, a Thursday or a Saturday.
The Free Food Garden at the Arroyo Food Co-op is hosting a seed swap
on Saturday with a work party in the garden to precede it. The co-op is now open on Saturdays and Sundays for pick-ups and shopping. Orders placed online by Sunday midnight will be available for pick-up starting next Tuesday.
Gardening.
Transition Pasadena's Throop Learning Garden meets on Sunday morning.
Petition, vulnerable road users.
The Pasadena Complete Streets Coalition has initiated
a petition for the City to adopt an ordinance to protect vulnerable road users, including pedestrians, bicyclists, skateboarders and persons with disabilities.
Survey. Pasadena Water and Power is conducting a survey on the city's energy future. To participate go to
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PWP_Energy_Future2014. (Note: PWP has not posted any information on when the survey period ends, but as of this printing the link was still up.)
Cycling. On Sunday morning
Pasadena Cyclery will hold
Gwen's Group Ride and the
Sunday Morning Neighborhood Stroll.
For details see the calendar page of Pasastainable, CA.
Exhibition 1. As part of the Pasadena Arts Council's
AxS Festival, the Armory presents
Karin Apollonia Müller's World’s Edge, a photographic exploration of the intersection between the natural landscape and complex urbanization. Ends next summer.
Exhibition 2.
An exhibition at Descanso Gardens in La Canada titled
Signs of Life aims to look at water "in all its moods and states." Ends November 30.
Got kids? On Saturday morning, the
Eaton Canyon Nature Center is hosting a
family nature walk. Bring your small children, walking shoes, sunscreen, water and a hat. Also on Saturday morning at the Nature Center: the weekly
Nature Tails Story Hour which includes stories, nature walks and puppet shows for children ages 3-5.
Random read. An environmental disaster story with a happy ending: In the November/December issue of
Orion Magazine Rowan Jacobsen explores the history of Yuma, Arizona, a "kiln-dry city of ninety thousand people and 3 billion heads of lettuce."
His narrative, Down by the River, shows how upstream damming of the Colorado which was once "an unruly god of creation and destruction" wreaked havoc on the environment and in the local communities; the river's wetlands turned to desert, and the native Quechan and the residents of Yuma fought "a cold war". The turnaround came with the new millennium. Thanks to the persistence and vision of a community developer and a landscape architect the wetlands and a sense of identity have been restored — with water that runs off from the lettuce fields.
Unless otherwise noted, all events take place in Pasadena. For times, addresses and other details please see the calendar page of Pasastainable, CA or the event owner's webpage. This post was last updated on 10/31 at 7 p.m.
