Dialogs
Sustainability Dialog Presentations
Check the Home Page for upcoming presentations!
Sponsored by:
- • Sustainable Claremont,
- • Pomona College,
- • The League of Women Voters, and
- • The Interfaith Sustainability Council
2009
- Mar 15, 2009 Transition Towns. Toward Sustainability
- Nov 2, 2009 Local California Native Plants for Sustainable Gardens
- Dec 7, 2009 Clarermont’s Water Future: A Three Valleys MWD perspective
2010
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Feb 1, 2010 Claremont Energy Retrofit project: Home Energy Efficiency
(Title used by the Colleges:
Addressing Climate Change Here and Now) - Feb 24, 2010 Workshop: Home Energy Retrofit Project
- Mar 1, 2010 After Copenhagen: What Next?
- Apr 5, 2010 “Building a Green Claremont”
- Apr 12, 2010 What’s Behind the Fence? The Bernard Field Station
- May 3, 2010 Home and Community Farming
- Jun 7, 2010 Bicycling in Claremont
- Aug 2, 2010 Water-Wise Irrigation
- Sep 11, 2010 Workshop: Landscaping with Beautiful Native Pants and Efficient Irrigation Systems
- Sep 13, 2010 Project Green Haiti
- Oct 4, 2010 Perspectives on Sustainability: A Conversation with Mary Nichols
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Oct 23, 2010 Proposition 23. Stop the Dirty Energy Proposition
- Dec 6, 2010 The Region’s Water problems --- And How to Solve Them
2011
- Feb 7, 2011 Environmental Justice
- Mar 7, 2011 Toward Zero Waste
- Apr 4, 2011 Cultivating Youth Earth Connections; Edible School Gardens
- May 2, 2011 Green China?
- Jun 6, 2011 Desert Defenders!
- Jul 18, 2011 John Muir in the New World
- Aug 22, 2011 Solar Now
- Sep 12, 2011 Your Food: Benefits of Local Food-Reliance
- Nov 7, 2011 The power of Energy Efficiency. A Claremont Celebration
- Dec 5, 2011 Farmscape Home Gardens
2012
- Feb 6, 2012 Keystone XL “Pipe Dreams” Screening
- Mar 5, 2012 Product Stewardship
- Apr 2, 2012 Don’t Keep Food Down on the Farm: Making the Case for Urban Agriculture
- May 7, 2012 Toward Freedom from imported Water. Reclaimed Water for Landscape Irrigation
- Jun 4, 2012 Sustainability at the Claremont Colleges
- Jul 21, 2012 Claremont’s Sustainable Future
- Aug 25, 2012 Your Energy Efficient Home
- Oct 15, 2012 Water System Ownership and Governance Structures. Speaker: Brian Thomas
- Nov 7, 2012 Film: American Meat. Our meat is changing – for good
- Dec 3, 2012 New Sustainable Architecture by the Claremont Environmental Design Group
2013
- Mar 4, 2013 Sustainability: Changing the Operating System
- Apr 8, 2013 OVERSHOOT! The Fierce Urgency of NOW. A dialogue with Marilyn Hempel
- Apr 9, 2013 Perspectives on a Sustainable Future: Economic, Social, Environmental
- May 6, 2013 Food Waste: Unlocking its Full Potential. A dialogue with Andrew Jolin
- Jun 3, 2013 The Hillcrest Sustainability Plan. A dialogue with Michael Wolfsen
- Sep 9, 2013 New Sustainable City Plan. What’s New. What’s in our future
- Nov 4, 2013 Workshop on Transportation and bicycle Priorities
2014
- Jan 6, 2014 Apple's iPad: How it Can Benefit the Planet. A dialogue with Michael Rosenthal
- Feb 3, 2014 Our Sustainable Home. A dialogue with Michael Shea
- Mar 17, 2014 OVERHEATED: The Human Cost of Climate Change. A discussion with author Andrew Guzman
- Apr 7, 2014 Create a Drought Proof Landscape with Greywater. A dialogue with Leigh Jerrard
- Apr 19, 2014 Hands-on Greywater Workshop
- May 12, 2014 Climate Change and Air Quality in Southern California
- Jun 2, 2014 Why the EPA is Failing to Protect the Public
- Jul 14, 2014 ClaremontFLOW (Claremont Friends of Locally-Owned Water)
- Sep 8, 2014 DRIP: Beautiful, Water-wise Landscapes for our Claremont Homes
- Nov 10, 2014 Claremont Energy Challenge
- Dec 15, 2014 Drought-Tolerant Landscaping: A story of one Claremont home
2015
- Jan 5, 2015 Claremont's Urban Forest: What's Next?
- Feb 2, 2015 Claremont City Priorities: Sustainability
- Mar 2, 2015 Food Security in Claremont
- Apr 6, 2015 The Claremont Sustainability Projectt
- May 4, 2015 The Next Big Thing in Solar Power--a lead role for Claremont
- Jun 1, 2015 Poisonous Herbicides
- Jul 6, 2015 Carbon Pricing to Stave Off Climate Disruption
- Aug 3, 2015 Backyard Orchard Culture--Drought Emergency Management
- Sep 8, 2015 Greening Claremont Schools: a San Francisco Case Study
- Nov 2, 2015 Healing Gardens--How Your Yard Can Save the World
- Dec 7, 2015 Claremont's Energy--Join in the Fun and Help Us Win!
2016
- Feb 15, 2016 Gold Line to Claremont!?
- Mar 21, 2016 Climate Action in Claremont
- Mar 25, 2016 Community Action to Protect the World’s Oceans
- May 2, 2016 Claremont Hills Wilderness Park Master Plan
- May 16, 2016 Claremont Schools Potential Facilities Bond
- Jun 6, 2016 South Claremont Goes Net Zero
- Aug 1, 2016 Community Composting at Urban Farms
- Aug 29, 2016 Claremont’s Urban Forest, a Community Treasure
- Nov 7, 2016 Intertwined Visions
- Dec 5, 2016 A Carbon Fee and Dividend Program (Videos: highlights, full talk, Q&A)
2017
- Jan 23, 2017 Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer and its Effect on Claremont Trees (Video)
- Feb 6, 2017 City Council Candidate Forum: Claremont’s Heritage and Sustainability (Video)
- Mar 20, 2017 News Growing on Trees (Video)
- Apr 17, 2017 Education Rooted in the Environment (Video)
- June 5, 2017 Toward Ecological Civilization: Where's it all heading?
- July 17, 2017 Tree Speak: Interpretations of the rustlings
- July 17, 2017 Alternate Energy for All? (Video)
- Sept 19, 2017 Foothill Gold Line Update with the Construction Authority
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Nov 8, 2017 Claremont's Energy Choice: A Special Sustainability Dialog Before the City Council Decides
(Video - Part 1, Part 2)
2018
- Nov 5, 2018 Safe & Sustainable Rainwater Harvesting (Video)
- Sept 21, 2018 Claremont City Council Candidates Forum (Video)
- July 23, 2018 The Latest on Claremont's Village South Specific Plan (Video)
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June 4, 2018 Greywater 101 (See Greywater Action's similar presentation
Greywater 101 and Greywater & Fruit Trees for Southern California) - May 7, 2018 Measure SC (Video)
- April 16, 2018 Managing Claremont's Urban Forest
- April 2, 2018 Are You Ready to Drive Electric? (Video)
- Jan 8, 2018 Tips on Proper Pruning of Shrubs and Trees (Video)
- Feb 5, 2018 Tips on Proper Pruning of Fruit Trees (Video)
2019
- Mar 4, 2019 Claremont’s Choices for Clean Energy – Clarified! (Video)
- May 20, 2019 Action Through Effective Climate Communication (Video)
- June 3, 2019 Gerrymandering and Voter Suppression (Video)
- July 1, 2019 Update on the Clean Power Alliance (Video)
- July 15, 2019 Can Claremont’s Village South development achieve net-zero-energy? (Video)
- Aug 5, 2019 Home Ground: The San Gabriels in the Anthropocene (Video)
- Sept 16, 2019 How to Deal with Plastics (Video)
- Nov 4, 2019 The Green New Deal (Video)
- Nov 13, 2019 A Sustainable Future for South Village (Video)