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Support the Ban on Styrofoam in Pasadena!

4/14/2016

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Good TO-GO & Styrofoam Free Pasadena

Public Support Needed!

Municipal Service Committee – Public Meeting
April 26, 2016 — 4:00 to 6:00 pm
Pasadena City Hall
100 N. Garfield Ave., Pasadena

GOOD TO-GO Campaign and Styrofoam Free Pasadena needs your support to help rid Pasadena of styrofoam/polystyrene Once and For All in our City! 

Please we need you, the citizens, to show up to speak out at the Pasadena Municipal Services Committee April 26 at 4 pm. MSC will be deciding whether to advance the proposed ban on polystyrene to City Council!  (We will post the City Council date once it is determined on our website and Facebook page.)

And, if you can't attend in person, please write a short letter or email in support of the ban!  Email Mayor Terry Tornek at: ttornek@cityofpasadena.net

Let's Make Pasadena Greener and Cleaner! 

— Qrys Cunningham

Good TO-GO & Styrofoam Free Pasadena
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Mulch For The People Supports "Urban Acupuncture"

4/9/2016

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Mulch For The People

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​Urban Acupuncture? What’s that? It’s the brainchild of Melanie Winter, founder of Water LA, a collective of non-profits, local government agencies, small businesses, and people like us working for resilience. Like medical acupuncture needles, lots of small-scale, localized, and less costly projects, rather than capital-intensive municipal programs, are an effective way for cities to become climate and water resilient; urban acupuncture revitalizes the whole by addressing the parts.

Water LA encourages residents to grade their yards to catch water, and to cut into curbs to redirect storm water from gutters to flow into their parking strips, where it can soak down to replenish groundwater; of course mulch is included to slow evaporation. Greywater systems, rain barrels, edible gardens and infiltration trenches across concrete driveways are other ways to capture, conserve and reuse water. And with over 60% of the urban area occupied by residential property, engaging and empowering residents to create thousands of small-scale changes can unite communities.

Sylvia Holmes and Lin Griffith of Mulch for the People visited Melanie Winter recently to learn how people in Pasadena could start an Urban Acupuncture program. They were delighted to learn that we don’t have to: the program that Water LA is planning with both the City and County of Los Angeles will be available to all cities in LA County.

Mulch for the People is ready to sign on! Will you?
 
— Lin Griffith


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