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Altadena Watershed Next Meeting: Monday, April 16, 5:30 pm. Archived Meeting Notes May 8, 2006 March 20, 2006 01/11/06 Agenda Feb 21, 2005 Oct 11, 2004 Sept, 13, 2004 Aug 9, 2004 Followups to Meetings |
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Michele Zack discovered she was a water wonk a few years ago while writing Altadena: Between Wilderness and City. Ever since, she's been using her long experience as a writer/journalist to engage people in thinking about water in different ways. She brings an environmental perspective to Altadena's Town Council and wrote the story of local water pioneer Benjamin Eaton recently adapted into Eaton's Water, a short film being shown to middle and high school students. She started the Watershed Committee in 2004 to work with friends and organizations in bringing environmental education to the community. Deena Capparellia is an artist living in Altadena. She is co-coordinator of "Moisture," an ecologically based project in the Mojave Desert that explores water collection, retention, and diversion to native gardens on land exploited by mining and over grazing. Her interest in gardening with native California plants spans 25 years and she is a tenured faculty of Art at Pasadena City College. Susanna Dadd is a painter living in Altadena who has shown her work in Los Angeles and she has undertaken muralling projects in Los Angeles and many cities in the United States. She is also a plantsperson with an interest in drought tolerant and native or native-compatible gardening, and is now beginning to design gardens for others who wish to lessen their footprint on the land. Mark Goldschmidt is a landscape designer with a broad range of experience in site design at many scales and in many places, in the US and abroad. He now lives and practices in Altadena. Mark received his BA in architecture from UC Berkeley, and a Masters of Landscape Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design. Bev Huntsberger has a lifelong passion for home-grown, organic, vegetables and herbs. She advocates for native plant landscaping, backyard composting and protecting our precious, natural resources. Bev also maintains this web site, and is a retired mechanical engineer and university computer science instructor. Paula Sirola is the Watershed Coordinator for the Arroyo Seco Foundation where she organizes, trains, and encourages people to become stewards of the Arroyo. This is an extension of years working for social change with indigenous communities, women, and immigrants in Latin America and Los Angeles. An avid gardener and long distance runner, she's enthused about restoring Arroyo habitat and exploring its many trails. Nancy Steele has had a life-long interest in the natural world, which she has indulged by earning three degrees in biology and environmental science and working as a research scientist, teacher, hazardous waste inspector, public health and air pollution control regulator, and currently as executive director of a non-profit that focuses on improving our water and land resources in the Los Angeles basin through research, education and planning. She founded and is president of a land trust, the Altadena Foothills Conservancy, and is a partner in the family beekeeping business. John Zoraster is a civil engineer focusing on water resources. He works for Bookman-Edmonston in Glendale. John has participated in the development of water supply plans for agencies within the Raymond Basin (the groundwater basin under Altadena), in the Inland Empire, Coachella Valley and Kern County. He has degrees from Occidental College and Cal State LA, and lives in Altadena. |
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