Green Pockets: Neighborhood-Wide Survey Day Saturday, May 1

In partnership with Big Sunday, the DLANC Sustainability Committee is looking to survey the ENTIRE Downtown community for left-over spaces that could be potentially transformed into small gardens. Our Green Pockets project is looking to identify these small opportunities for more greenery around Downtown Los Angeles, map these areas, and help property owners create a more livable urban environment through the transformation of these spaces.

REGISTER WITH BIG SUNDAY TO VOLUNTEER! Click here.

More details on the volunteer day to be provided later this week so make sure you're on our mailing list!

Public Vice-Chair Position OPEN - please apply if you are interested

The Sustainability Committee has two chair positions: the Board Chair and Public Vice-Chair. Currently, we are looking for interested community members to consider applying for the Public Vice-Chair position.

The general requirements for the job include: general outreach skills (multi-media, multi-tasking) - web design would be great for the "online toolkit"; available for weekly office hours for project management and meetings; co-organize and document general Sustainability Committee meetings. If you are nominating someone other than yourself, please get his/her written permission. We need to know if you can commit approximately 10-12 hours per month (or share with a team to fulfill that commitment). Consider hosting office hours to volunteer for community projects - should be a fun year!

Please send letter of interest to: sustainability@dlanc.com or drop it off at the DLANC Office (453 S. Spring Street, Suite 1040) by Monday, January 4, 2009 at 2:00pm.


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The Sustainability Committee will review the nominations at the January 5, 2010 meeting (Central Public Library, 6:30pm). Advanced copies will be available that day (posted by 9am). If you have any questions, please email us at sustainability@dlanc.com

Sustainability Committee partners with Project Butterfly for exciting new Downtown conference

The Sustainability Committee of the Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council has partnered with Project Butterfly, Electric Lodge, Evolution Jewels and Downtown Independent to present: THE FIRST BIONEERS CONFERENCE SIMULCAST IN LA!

This event will take place October 16-18 at the Downtown Independent Theater: 251 S. Main Street, Los Angeles Ca 90012

Tickets are $15-$100 [Early bird discounts through Oct 13]
Official EVENT WEBSITE: www.labeaming.org

Come check out the Sustainability Committee throughout the event and hear Chair Ashley Zarella Hand present on Saturday! If you want to volunteer, you can get a free day pass to the event. Email us at sustainability@dlanc.com to get involved with this exciting educational conference!

Headlining this year's event are nationally prominent luminaries, some of whom include:

Andrew Weil M.D.: international bestselling author and considered the nation's foremost authority on holistic medicine.

Michael Pollan: award-winning author and one of the most influential thinkers on food and agriculture.

Joanna Macy: author, celebrated Buddhist teacher, eco-philosopher and activist in the peace, justice, and ecology movements.

Jerome Ringo: president of the Apollo Alliance, and the first African-American to head a major conservation organization, the National Wildlife Federation

LIVE LA PRESENTATIONS and PANELS on: SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES, LA TRANSPORTATION and LA COMMUNITIES IN ACTION featuring:

Woodrow Clark, MA3, Ph.D.: Founder of Clark Strategic Partners. Nobel Peace Prize recipient and Senior Advisor on Renewable Energy to California Governor Gray Davis from 2000-2003.

Denny Zane: Executive Director of of Move LA, former Mayor and for 12 years a city councilmember in Santa Monica, former Executive Director of Coalition for Clean Air.

Larry Santoyo: Director of EarthFlow Designs. Land use planner and green business consultant. Larry is among the most experienced Permacutlure Designers and Educators in the US.

Charles Eisenstein: Healer, traveler, teacher, writer, integrated holistic visionary and evolutionary proactivist.

Russel Vare: Renewable Energy Analyst for Los Angeles Community College District. Vare has worked in both policy development and implementation of sustainable technologies, including solar PV and hydrogen fuel cells.

Hillary Norton: Executive Director for FastLA, a non-profit, public-private partnership dedicated to designing and supporting the implementation of fast-term strategies to reduce LA County’s traffic congestion.

PLUS: FILMS, LIVE ENTERTAINMENT, COCKTAIL RECEPTION, COMMUNITY + MORE

For more information and to purchase tickets visit: www.labeaming.org

Volunteer opportunity: Tree Planting Survey Day, Friday June 26, 2009 9:45am

We look forward to the kick-off of our tree planting project with a survey day scheduled for the end of this week.

The plan is to meet up at the Neighborhood Council Office on Friday, June 26 at 9:45am. We will divide up the route so everyone has a small portion of the pilot project area. We plan on finishing no later than 12:45pm - and look forward to a fun community day!

If you're interested in participating, please email us at sustainability@dlanc.com

2009 Project 7: Event and Education Programming & Calendar

Create calendar of engaging and educational sustainable programming aimed at fostering a culture of sustainability in and around downtown. (J. Regan)

EDUCATION: DLANC to create publicly accessible educational programming on topical environmental issues.

OUTREACH: DLANC to partner with other Environmental event calendars and event organizations to help promote attendance at all environmentally related events occurring in Downtown. Create a system for ongoing maintenance and update of this information as well as a network of contacts that will help maintain this resource for our community. DLANC to determine which groups of stakeholders are currently not engaged in the conversation and to create program aimed at attracting participation from a broad spectrum of stakeholders.

Project Lead: Volunteers wanted! If you're interested, please email us at sustainability@dlanc.com