Urban Dreams - Remaking our Cities for Sustainability

Urban Dreams - Remaking Our Cities for Sustainability
by Andy Lipkis.

Presentation by Andy Lipkis of TreePeople (www.treepeople.org) about how Los Angeles is helping nature heal our cities by reversing the waste of rainwater. Rather than allowing polluted storm water to flow into the ocean, TreePeople has created several demonstration projects that capture, clean and store rainwater through a network of large cisterns and infiltration fields.

Introduction by Breene Kerr, Mayor of Los Altos Hills and Beth Ross, Executive Director of Hidden Villa. This lecture took place on Jan 30, 2006. For further lecture detail, see the Los Altos Town Crier (http://www.latc.com/2006/01/25/community/community3.html).

This lecture was made possible through a partnership between Hidden Villa and the Town of Los Altos Hills. Hidden Villa’s mission is to inspire a just and sustainable future through its programs, land, and legacy.

Hidden Villa (www.hiddenvilla.org) is a nonprofit educational organization that uses its organic farm, wilderness, and community to teach and provide opportunities to learn about social justice and the environment. Hidden Villa stretches over 1600 acres of open space in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains, about 40 miles south of San Francisco. From the time it was acquired by our founders, Frank and Josephine Duveneck, in 1924, Hidden Villa has been a place for environmental discovery, social awareness, and incubation of social reform. Its site and its approach to teaching and learning make Hidden Villa unique. Located just five minutes from Hwy. 280, Hidden Villa’s organic farm, rustic barns, sustainable structures and pristine riparian, woodland and chaparral wilderness provide children with opportunities to experience the beauty of our environment first hand and to understand the interrelatedness of all living things. In the tradition of its founders, Hidden Villa's core values are sustainability, diversity, excellence, stewardship, and organizational health.




Produced by Trish Combs of Hidden Villa. Videography by volunteers Mark Zaller & Greg Zaller.

TreePeople: Andy Lipkis
Hidden Villa: Trish Combs

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