Environment Now, a private Southern California foundation, recently unveiled its new Speaker Series.
Each month, the series highlights an author, researcher, or activist working on precedent setting environmental issues. We’ve featured research done by the Pacific Institute’s Heather Cooley on water conservation and Los Angeles Sustainability Collaborative Fellow, Clement Lau, on freeway cap parks and Laura Cunningham, environmental activist, artist and author.

All events are open to the public.

Environment Now’s upcoming speakers

June 8, 2011 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
William Roschen, President of the Los Angeles City Planning Commission and
Alexis Lantz, Planning and Policy Director for Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition

Los Angeles City Bicycle Master Plan
Join us in conversation with Commissioner Roschen and Alexis Lantz discussing the Los Angeles City Bicycle Master Plan, approved in March by the City Council. The Bicycle Master Plan calls for an eventual network of 1,680 miles of interconnected bikeways, including more than 200 miles of new bicycle routes every five years. It also calls for a safety campaign to educate drivers about sharing the streets. Learn how the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition, Los Angeles City Planning Commission, and Department of Transportation collaborated to make this vision come true.

August 10, 2011 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Wade Graham, Professor at Pepperdine University School of Public Policy

American Eden: From Monticello to Central Park to Our Backyards: What Our Gardens Tell Us About Who We Are.
Join us in conversation with Wade Graham, the Los Angeles-based garden designer, historian, and writer whose work on the environment, landscape, urbanism, and the arts has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, the Los Angeles Times, Outside, and other publications. Graham will read from and discuss his recently published book American Eden: From Monticello to Central Park to Our Backyards: What Our Gardens Tell Us About Who We Are.

See our past speakers.