G3 Green Gardens Group

It looks as though the EPA Watersmart Innovations conference is becoming more receptive to the principles of Watershed Wise Landscapes, as agency and city representatives from across the country engaged in productive dialogue with G3′s Managing Member, Pamela Berstler, at her talk: Pledges and Promises – Are We Really Changing Landscape Behaviors? Gus Meza, Conservation [...]

G3′s Voice of the Watersheds (VOW) Project, lifted off last week with the first G3 Communication Workshop Focus Group.  Seven G3 educators and activists from across California, joined G3 Associate, Marianne Simon in a day-long workshop designed to hone their personal presentation styles into dynamic and effective voices for the environment. Completion of a Communication [...]

Arriving in Tucson, Arizona in the middle of the day, one realizes immediately that one is in a place completely different from Los Angeles or the succulent-loving San Diego, California.  Sunny? Yes. Dry? Very. Lawn? Little. The difference in place apparently extends beyond the climate and rainfall to the landscape aesthetic response to that climate. [...]

What do you think about when you see this picture?  Does the “ordinary person” (read that: “not particularly tuned into the environmental message”) connect this picture with what happens in the winter in Los Angeles? (ie. RAIN)   We don’t think so. Of course, it makes sense to all of us.  But to the AVERAGE [...]

Thursday March 8, 2012 – Thursday March 8, 2012 Newport Beach Public Library Map and Directions | Register Description: It’s time for the 4th annual WaterMiser Workshop located at the Central Library.  The focus of the evening will be on Ocean Friendly and native planting with emphasis on water conservation and water quality (reducing and [...]