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Designing and Retrofitting Communities with Fire in Mind
The California Fire Science Consortium is sponsoring an upcoming webinar on January 26 from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm.
The title of the webinar is, Planning to Live with Fire: Designing and Retrofitting Communities with Fire in Mind. A description of points to be covered is shown below.
“This webinar will focus on community planning issues that relate to fire’s inevitable visit. Existing and new communities will be addressed, along with individual lot-by-lot development. Best practices will be recommended, fallback positions offered, and tradeoffs described. Issues of sustainability will be included. Case studies will be used to illustrate the process of planning to live with fire.”
There is no cost to participate in the webinar, but you must register in advance to participate. Recordings of previous webinars and a wealth of wildfire resources can be viewed at the California Fire Science Consortium website.
Fighting for Our Environment – fotonovellas
Fotonovellas are a style of comic book.
Michael Marzolla and his Fighting for Our Environment Team have designed fotonovellas to help spread environmental awareness. The fotonovellas highlight easy ways that youth can help improve the quality of their immediate environment and how good stewardship of our local environment benefits us all.
It is easy to see that much fun was had during the development of the Fighting for Our Environment fotonovellas. They can be viewed and downloaded on this page of our website. Some are available in Spanish.
This group also won a Green Shorts Award for their Fighting for Our Environment video. It can be viewed here.
English as a 2nd Language watershed education curriculum
Designed to introduce new U.S. residents and other English as a Second Language (ESL) students to the natural environment in central Los Angeles and to foster environmental stewardship, UC’s Water: An English as a Second Language Curriculum for Adults is a wonderful resource to meet these goals.
The curriculum focuses on issues that are relevant to many recent immigrants living in arid, urban situations. It can be used in conjunction with the Teacher’s Edition.
From the author, UC Cooperative Extension Natural Resource Advisor Sabrina Drill:
In 2004, University of California Cooperative Extension, with support from the Rivers and Mountains Conservancy and in collaboration with the English as a Second Language faculty and students at East Los Angeles College, began to develop a curriculum for English language acquisition based on local environmental issues. The driving principle behind this was that awareness, understanding, and stewardship of one’s environment was an important element of membership in a community, and that this understanding would improve both our environment and our communities. Immigrants to the United States should be aware that they have the right to a clean, healthy environment, that there are avenues they can take individually to influence the quality of their environment, and that the decisions made by communities and governments affect that environment…
…When first embarking on this project, we choose to follow the mainstream ESL education community in embracing the concept of English immersion. Hence, all materials are provided in English and can be used in a classroom where a wide diversity of national origins are represented…
Area Youth Win Green Shorts Award
Ventura and Santa Barbara Youth Development Advisor, A. Michael Marzolla has been working with youth through environmental education throughout his career. Recently, one of his youth groups submitted a short video to the Green Shorts Film Festival. Submissions to this environmentally conscious film festival are open to residents of Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo Counties.
Mr. Marzolla is excited to announce the group has won a Green Shorts Award for the video "Fighting for Our Environment/Luciando por nuestro ambiente". The cast and crew walked the Green Carpet to collect their award at the Lobero Theater in Santa Barbara on Thursday, April 14. Click here to view the winning video!
More information about the Agua Pura program and resources available to support environmental education activities can be found here. The Lunchiando Fotonovela can be viewed here.
Sustainable and Fire-Safe Landscaping Workshop for Ventura County
Join UCCE’s Natural Resources Advisor, Sabrina Drill for a free fire-safe landscaping workshop. The workshops will be held this month in various locations throughout our county.
From the workshop flyer:
"Come find out how to make your landscape beautiful and fire-safe while being a good neighbor to wildlands. Get tips and techniques on planting, maintenance, and building materials to help you and your home survive the next fire.
Learn about defensible space, vegetation management, and invasive plants from experts at U.C. Cooperative Extension and your local fire authority!"
For additional information, including dates and locations please click here . While the workshops are free, registration is required. Register early to save a spot!
