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About the Author
- Marianne Simon
- Marianne has been working as a landscape designer since 2000. She received her certificate in Landscape Architecture from UCLA Extension, and spent two and a half years with Katherine Spitz Associates, Landscape Architects. With a passion for sustainability, she became a Certified Sustainable Landscape Professional with G3, and is now one of their regular instructors. In 2010 she was selected as one of 3 designers to develop a sustainable demonstration garden at Santa Monica's Airport Park. In a previous life she was also a writer, performer and director, and is now bringing all her passions home once more.
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Native Garden Goes in at West High School in Torrance
Kudos to the science teachers at Torrance’s West High School! And the City of Torrance for supporting them in creating an outdoor learning laboratory in the form of a native garden on campus. I, along with Tom Rau, as instructors … Continue reading
Posted in Being Part of the Solution, Current Events, Stormwater Management
Tagged Arctostaphylos, Carex pansa, Ceanothus, infiltration pits, muhlenbergia, native garden, Native Habitat, native habitata, rain garden, science teachers in torrance, stormwater managment, torrance, west high school
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Are You Smarter Than a Slime Mold?
Are You Smarter Than a Slime Mold? Now that may seem like a ridiculous question. Of course I’m smarter than a slime mold. Wait, what’s a slime mold? I actually had little information on what they were or what they … Continue reading
Department of Public Works – Sediment Management Plan
Earlier this year I wrote about the crime that was committed when the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works bulldozed a priceless oak woodland in Arcadia to create a dumping ground for river sediment that had built up in … Continue reading
Santa Monica Airport Sustainable Demonstration Garden
It is in my search for divinity, in my need to connect to something greater, that I write about the garden. It is where magic can happen, where healing and joy can happen. It is a place laden with power … Continue reading
H.R 1 – Passage of New Funding Bill
“Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Sir Winston Churchill What is it about some of our politicians that they are so forgetful of lessons learned less than a century ago: Unions were established to protect … Continue reading
Priceless Oaks Demolished
So they did it. The chose the lazy, shortsighted option. They butchered a century old oak grove to make way for a mud pit. Now, how’s that for value added in Los Angeles. They used propaganda and fear to convince … Continue reading
