As of this writing, more than 170,000 Los Angeles County residents are under evacuation orders and warnings. The Palisades fire, the first and largest of the multiple Santa Ana wind-fueled wildfires to break out across the region since January 7, has spread to nearly 24,000 acres—an area larger than Manhattan—and remains just over 20 percent [...]
Alyssa graduated from Barnard College/Columbia University with a double major in Middle Eastern Studies & Philosophy. She left her graduate studies at Columbia’s SIPA to pursue a career in fashion. She enjoyed a 13 year career producing shoots for Vogue Paris, as a Style Editor for Vanity Fair and a stylist for Interview Magazine, Revlon, Vogue Italia, US [...]
Summary California’s 30x30 Initiative highlights the pathways to conserve 30% of the State’s land and coastal waters by 2030 to protect biodiversity. In doing so, climate resilience and public outdoor access goals are also furthered. Working together, the State of California and Esri created CA Nature, a suit of authoritative data and interactive tools [...]
SoCal ASLA’s Climate Action Committee Chair, Ronnie Siegel, organized a session of four landscape architect presenters for the 2022 Net Zero Conference at the LA Convention Center on Sept. 15, 2022. The session’s title was Landscape Architecture—Design for Resilience. The summary of the talks were that Landscape Architecture is at the confluence of carbon, climate, [...]
