Environmental Charter High School Named One of Three So Cal Green Ribbon Schools

ECS Outdoor science classroom with underground water cistern, recycled plastic furniture, living wall, superadobe planter, aquaponics, and chicken coop

Our client Environmental Charter High School, wins the first ever national Green Ribbon Schools award. It was one of three in Southern California, and one of 78 schools nationwide to win top honors in environmental and sustainability education.

The Green Ribbon Schools have three pillars of sustainabilty: Pillar one: Net zero environmental impact which includes, reduced or eliminated green house gas emissions, improved water quality, efficiency, and conservation, reduced waste production, use of alternative transportation to, during, and from school;

La Loma Hosts Tour for Pasadena Garden Club

Marco Barrantes leads a La Loma project tour to the ladies of the Pasadena Garden Club

Marco Barrantes was delighted to give a tour of some of our projects to about twenty members of the Pasadena Garden Club. The club was founded in 1916 and boasts an active membership of enthusiastic gardeners and Pasadena locals. We took the club on a tour of several of our projects including a front yard kitchen garden, dry-stacked broken concrete terraces, an ornamental front yard with rusted metal planters, a chlorine to natural pool conversion, and a backyard with custom earthbag planters. It was nice to see how some of the new gardens are starting to grow in.  You can view more photos from the tour on our Facebook page