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Love and Fear in LA

September 1, 2017 Claire Community, Home, It's Personal, Places anxiety, crime, disadvantaged community, empathy, environmental justice, green infrastructure, gunshot, Los Angeles, mental health, nature, safe streets, Safety, schools, security, social justice, teenagers, trees, urban design, Watts, young adults, youth

Image by Margaret Gerhart Sometimes things happen that make you question everything. Two weeks ago, I walked along 103rd Street toward the corner of Grape in Watts with several community advocates and a selection committee from the California Natural Resources Agency. Viviana Franco and Maria De Leon from From Lot to Spot, the non-profit who […]

A Garden for Drought

November 12, 2014 Claire Community, Home California, drought, garden, green design, green infrastructure, Los Angeles, permaculture, sustainable, urban design

I am not one of those Midwest transports to Los Angeles that basks in the endless sun of summer (and fall and winter) and complains when the thermometer falls below 60. Though I remember the dire sadness of the 109th gray day in a row before spring, I need one every now and then. I […]

Rain and Teenagers in Los Angeles

March 2, 2014 Claire Community, Home, Observations, Places, Work asphalt to ecosystems, Children and Nature, claire latane, cradle to cradle, design, Education, Family, green design, green infrastructure, L.A., landscape, last child in the woods, Los Angeles, nature, seasons, sustainability, sustainable design, teenagers, teenagers and nature, Urban, urban ecology, whole child, Winter

Los Angeles Deluge Part One You’ve probably heard, or been in, the rain this weekend. After months of no rain, we’ve had a deluge in Los Angeles. In a record low rainfall year – the last I heard was 3″ – we got that much in a 48-hour period. For Southern California, that’s a big […]

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