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Metro Los Angeles County Clubs & Organizations Comm-Unity Communicating for Unity 7-17-2007 Habitat Steward Going Strong Greetings to all you wildlife habitat advocates. Greg has asked me to update you all on my activities since completing Habitat Steward training in April 2004. Having obtained Habitat Certif more... 9-13-2006 Thailand Winter 2007 Trip Orientation Meeting An orientation meeting will be held on Saturday, 30 Sep 2006 at 6:30 pm (Hong Kong 88 Sushi, 5658 Sepulveda Blvd Ste 101, Van Nuys, CA 91411; map link http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?addr=5658+Sepul more... 8-22-2006 Thailand Project Summer 2006 Reports on the Web Summer 2006 Thailand reports are now posted on the Rural Training Center-Thailand (RTC-TH) website (www.neighborhoodlink.com/org/rtcth or you can use the link in the "Our Hotlinks" section of the gree more... 5-8-2006 NWF Visits LA Area Habitat Stewards Photo: Melinda Hughes (left) with Alan Pollack and Erika Rodriguez with Alan’s Backyard Wildlife Habitat sign and a flyer promoting his next habitat activity. Melinda Hughes, NWF Volunteer more... 1-27-2006 Announcing the 3rd Annual Free Fruit Tree Distribution ANOTHER CORRECTION: If you printed info for this event before 6:35 pm, Sat, 04 Feb 2006, please note the correct time and location for the tree preparation is 1 pm on Sat, 11 Feb 2006 at the Treepeopl more... 8-27-2005 Laying the Foundation for 2006-2007 International Effort Photo (c) 2005, S. Lee: Non-toxic pest control training gets the attention of the students, teachers and host families as ESSI encourages reducing the use of synthetic pesticides, herbicides, and othe more... 2-15-2006 Successful 3rd Annual Free Fruit Tree Distribution at Wat Thai The 3rd Annual TreePeople Free Fruit Tree Distribution at Wat Thai Los Angeles successfully gave out 150 fruit trees to local residents. ESSI volunteers turned out to launch the 2006 community servic more... 3-20-2006 ESSI Co-Founder Moves On The leadership of ESSI has changed hands. The next generation steps forward to lead the innovative community-based environmental education group. Greg Lee co-founded ESSI in Jan 2002 with Patrick Mc more... 4-29-2006 ESSI / RTC-TH Winter 2007 Thailand Project Earth Systems Science, Inc. (ESSI) will be cooperating with the Rural Training Center-Thailand (RTC-TH) in its Winter 2007 Thailand Project trip. The full announce and tentative trip plan is posted t more... 5-19-2005 LA County Parks and Recreation Positions Available Attention ESSI Habitat Stewards!! The LA County Department of Parks and Recreation is currently recruiting “Recreation Service Leaders” on a recurring basis. The particular focus is for pe more... 5-27-2005 ESSI Summer 2005 Volunteers Ready for Thailand The Earth Systems Science Inc. (ESSI) Thai Summer 2005 Volunteer team is poised to go! The 8-person team is being co-led by Gregory and Saifon Lee (ESSI co-founder and Director of Programs, respectiv more... 6-29-2005 ESSI Advance Team in Thailand for Summer 2005 The advance team for the ESSI Summer 2005 Thailand project is on the ground in Nan Province. Two reports have been sent back and posted to the ESSI webpage under the new "Our PDFs" section in the gre more... 3-24-2005 Get Your Wildlife Habitat Featured in an NWF Video! We just got this item in from Stephanie Stowell, now National Wildlife Federation Senior Manager, Regional Education Programs in the Seattle, WA office. Hi Greg and Garry, Thought you' more... 3-26-2005 Second ESSI-EcoAcademy Manzanar PLC Trip A Success Photos (c) 2005, ESSI. Top (left): EcoAcademy students clear foundations at the Chicken Ranch. Top (right): Chipping large branches in the historic orchard. Bottom (left): Ranger Sarah Bone gi more... 10-18-2005 Manzanar PLC Continues Photo: ©2005, by GK Lee. LACC EcoAcademy students at Manzanar NHS next to a WWII era dining hall (to be restored) with the Eastern Sierras in the background. Manzanar National Historic Sit more... 3-10-2005 Street Tree Survey Opportunity Volunteers are needed to learn to survey street trees and input the data to a GIS (Geographic Information System). The end game is to be able to calculate the $$$ value of a given street tree. < more... 3-14-2005 2nd Annual Free Fruit Tree Distribution At Wat Thai-Los Angeles Photos, top left: People line up for free fruit trees as Mr. Boonna Sonchai, of the Royal Thai Consulate General’s Office – Los Angeles, talks with ITV news. Bottom: Impartial witnesses verify the co more... 2-4-2005 Manzanar PLC On Track for Spring 2005 The Spring 2005 season for the Manzanar National Historic Site Public Land Corps grant took off with a new collaborative among some old National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA)– Los Angeles Comm more... 1-17-2005 Habit Stewards Volunteer at Native Plant Walk Area Garry George, a National Wildlife Federation (NWF) Host & Steward, led the effort to re-plant the Native Plant Walk in Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area (KHSRA). On the morning of 17 Jan 2005, he wa more... 1-13-2005 Warming Up for Manzanar! The Spring 2005 Manzanr PLC work is being planned for the weekend of 28-30 Jan. Primary participants are LA Conservation Corps EcoAcademy and Clean & Green. Others are welcome to sign up: more... 12-10-2004 Thailand Volunteers: Heads Up! Plans are going strong for the ESSI Thailand Summer 2005 Volunteer trip. The theme is “Sustainable Communities”. In addition to the usual environmental / agricultural sustainable and land stewardshi more... 12-28-2004 Alternate National Wildlife Federation Habitat Steward Training Due to funding constraints, previoius plans to hold the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) Habitat Steward Volunteer training using the past community organization sponsored venue is not possible. more... 12-5-2004 Second Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook Trail Planting Effort Twenty-two brave souls turned out in the cool, cloudy Culver City weekend weather to volunteer 3 hours to the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook Trail native planting effort. This was the second native pl more... 12-4-2004 Workday for Wildlife Follow-Up Continues The Expo Greenway native plant bird and butterfly demonstration gardens created by the Workday for Wildlife event got a big boost when 13 Pasadena City College Geography student volunteers arrived on more... 11-28-2004 Workday for Wildlife: Celebrating the Expo Greenway Thanks to the persistence of Stephanie Stowell and Nicole Fernandes (National Wildlife Federation), funds were secured through a grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to hold an event called more... 11-28-2004 Fall 2004 Habitat Steward™ Volunteer Training The second Habitat Steward™ Volunteer Training in Los Angeles was conducted through the sponsorship of the Baldwin Hills Conservancy (BHC). A total of 32 trainees were enrolled with 27 completed cert more... 9-6-2004 Planting Seeds Today to REEEPP Benefits Tomorrow Earth Systems Science, Inc. (ESSI) and the Na Fa Elementary School (NFES) students, faculty, and staff have joined hands in an ambitious Rural Environmental Education Enhancement Pilot Program (REEEPP more... 7-1-2004 Education Happenings: First Habitat Stewards Trained in L.A. The first-ever group of Habitat Stewards volunteers was trained this past spring in Los Angeles. A variety of youth and adult volunteers representing various environmental and community organizations- more... 6-12-2004 ESSI CALIFORNIA NATURE TRIP: THE GRUNION RUN The California Grunion (Leuresthes tenuis), was the subject of a recent ESSI Y.E.S. California Nature Trip. [Note: Y.E.S. stands for Youth, Environment, and Sustainability. It is one of the underly more... 5-3-2004 Manzanar Volunteers Help Prepare for Grand Opening In just two days (12-13 April), 19 volunteers donated more than 250 hours of time as Volunteers in the Park to help prepare Manzanar National Historic Site (Manz NHS) for the 35th Annual Pilgrimage an more... 3-15-2004 Geotechnologies featured in Nature Magazine The following message below from the Association of American Geographers (with ESSI editorial inserts in brackets) is just one more sign that ESSI is on the right track! The key difference more... 3-8-2004 Call for Volunteers at Manzanar The National Park Service Staff at Manzanar NHS has put out a call for Volunteers in the Park (VIP) to assist in general site preparation for the annual pilgrimage on Saturday, 24 April 2004. Equipmen more... 3-8-2004 Manzanar NHS Press Release Manzanar National Historic Site News Release For Immediate Release: February 19, 2004 Contact: Alisa Lynch or Kim Linse Phone: 760-878-2194 MANZANAR PREMIERES NEW WEBSITE more... 2-2-2004 Successful Fruit Tree Distribution at Wat Thai Los Angeles It was a chilly and windy Saturday morning at Wat Thai Los Angeles, 31 Jan 2004. A hardy group of volunteers from Earth Systems Science, Inc. (ESSI) led by Saifon (Suttisan) Lee arrived to distribute more... 1-21-2004 NEIGHBORHOOD GPS TRAINING IN THE WORKS Sports Spectacular USA, headed by James Hawkins, has teamed up with Earth Systems Science, Inc. (ESSI, led by Gregory Lee and Patrick McCullough) and the Expo Neighbors Environmental Group (ENEG, led more... 1-18-2004 FREE FRUIT TREES Earth Systems Science, Inc. (ESSI, a California educational non-profit) in collaboration with TreePeople, will distribute 120 bare-root free fruit trees on Saturday, 31 January 2004, from 9am-12 noon more... 1-18-2004 ESSI CONNECTS WITH UH TROPICAL PLANTS & SOIL SCIENCE DEPT. Photo: Dr. Joe DeFrank and Gregory Lee in a no-till living mulch test field. (c)2004, ESSI. Photo by Saifon Lee. Saifon and Gregory Lee recently met with Dr. Joe DeFrank, a weed control s more... 12-25-2003 LA Geographical Society 50th Annual Banquet The 50th Annual banquet of the Los Angeles Geographical Society (LAGS) was celebrated on 5 December 2003. Sixteen past presidents of the Society were in attendance. Among them, Gregory Lee was the o more... 1-18-2004 ESSI TEAM LEADERS GET TRIMBLE CERTIFIED GPS TRAINING On Nov 20-22, core ESSI team leaders (Alex Arboleda, Jim Hawkins, Tatsunori Ikeda, Gregory Lee, Saifon Lee, Patrick McCullough, Erika Rodriguez, Julie Slagle) and Manzanar Public Land Corps (PLC) gran more... 11-30-2003 Joint Ventures 2003 Conference Success Photo (c) 2003, ESSI. L to R: Chris La Pointe, Gregory Lee, Lisa Eschenbach, Saifon Lee, Frank Hays, Charles Taylor, Tatsunori Ikeda (kneeling), Patrick McCullough, Gaynell Stinson. The Jo more... 10-17-2003 Re-Connecting with the National Wildlife Federation Patrick McCullough and Gregory Lee co-founded ESSI after talks and walks in the Exposition Greenway in front of McCullough’s house. They wanted to combine the success of the Exposition Greenway proje more... 10-9-2003 Grants for Schoolyard Habitats Available Schools and community groups with youth-centered after school programs should explore these Schoolyard Habitat grant opportunities that were sent to me by an NWF contact. http://www.vivagar more... 8-27-2003 ESSI-Expo Rangers Awarded Conference Registration Fee Waivers All 9 ESSI-Expo Ranger Public Land Corps panelists received full fee waivers for registration fees for the Joint Ventures Partners in Stewardship 2003 Conference, Nov 18-20 at the LA Convention Center more... 8-14-2003 Networking Rather Than Notworking ESSI expanded its network this summer. New connections were made with the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) and Neighbor Acting Together Helping All (NATHA). About mid-July, Nicole Fern more... 7-16-2003 Expo Rangers in the 'News' Earth Systems Science, Inc. (ESSI) actively supports the Expo Ranger youth program of the Expo Neighbors Environmental Group (ENEG). The ESSI innovative, non-traditional community-based curriculum an more... 6-23-2003 Grunion Run for ESL Students ESSI coordinated a beach dinner picnic and Grunion Run activity for some ESL students from the Community Education Center of Pasadena City College. The group consisted of Korean, Chinese, Thai, and V more... 2-11-2003 More ESSI Photos on the Web You can see more ESSI photos on our alternate website at www.essi.4t.com We are able to post more photos about our activities and projects here than on this site. So visit our photo site a more... 7-8-2003 Santa Monica Mtns & Manzanar PLCs to be Featured in Conference The Expo Rangers, supported by Expo Neighbors Environmental Group (ENEG) and Earth Systems Science, Inc. (ESSI), will feature their Public Land Corps grants with Santa Monica Mountains National Recrea more... 6-3-2003 African Americans Concerned About Environment .... The following article was received via an environmental information network. It is presented as information and awareness as it relates to cultural diversity and sustainable communities. After rea more... 5-13-2003 Building Bridges from National Parks to Communities Once again, Earth Systems Science, Inc. (ESSI) is actively building bridges between the National Parks and communities. This time the focus is Manzanar National Historic Site. ESSI collaborated with more... 4-23-2003 ESSI Supports Expo Rangers at Manzanar NHS On the weekend of 18-20 April 2003, two vans with 26 volunteers arrived at Manzanar National Historic Site (NHS). Funded by a Public Land Corps (PLC) grant, these Expo Rangers (youth members of the E more... 5-6-2003 GPS Surveys and Water Color Artists During the first weekend of May, a core Expo Ranger team returned to Manzanar to complete the GPS (global positioning system) survey of the historic roads at the Manzanar NHS. The GPS survey requires more... 4-5-2003 NPCA-LACP: ESSI-Expo Volunteers in Death Valley (Update: 17 Apr 2003; photos of this trip are available for viewing at www.pbase.com/essi) The initial phase of the ESSI-Expo Neighbors NPCA-LACP volunteer project to survey Mosaic Canyon more... 4-5-2003 MANZANAR PLC Call Up The initial GPS training and road survey for Manazanar National Historic Site will take place Apr 18-20, 2003. Volunteers are needed for this Public Land Corps grant. All participants MUS more... 4-4-2003 Three Rivers of Yunnan Trip Cancelled We regret to announce the cancellation of the Three Rivers of Yunnan trip for summer 2003. After numerous discussions with various prospective travelers, the Three Rivers of Yunnan trip wil more... 2-9-2003 Happy New Year of the Sheep! According to the Chinese calendar, the new year of the Sheep marks year 4700. Tradition calls for best wishes for good health, happiness, and properity. ESSI got off to a good start. The more... 1-29-2003 SAMO Follow-onTraining at Rocky Oaks On Saturday, January 25, 2003, Expo Ranger and THEFLABA volunteers met Jim Anderson (SAMO NRA) at Rocky Oaks. This was a follow-on trail survey training session to the initial training at the Rising more... 1-18-2003 Expo Rangers Hit the Trail for SAMO NRA PLC The Expo Ranger Core Team hit the trail for the Public Land Corps (PLC) grant in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (SAMO NRA). The group met with Jim Anderson of the SAMO vegetation more... 12-24-2002 Why Travel Internationally? The Geographic Systems Model is one of the fundamental guiding concepts for Earth Systems Science, Inc. (ESSI). It shows our world is highly interconnected. Many people are caught up in the daily ch more... 11-9-2002 ESSI Supports T.H.E.F.L.A.B.A. ESSI accepted the invitation to attend T.H.E.F.L.A.B.A. (To Help the Environment and the Future of Los Angeles for a Better America) picnic. This group is essentially the Los Angeles Community Partne more... 11-9-2002 Cultural Diversity---Alive and Well at Sequoia NP During a recent trip to Sequoia National Park, some members of the Los Angeles Community Partners and T.H.E.F.L.A.B.A. (the LACP Youth Council group) enjoyed eating a meal with chopsticks! Ethnic div more... 10-28-2002 Test Run at Manzanar Student volunteers from Mr. Lee's GEOG 30 Field Methods class completed a recon test of field survey methods at the Manzanar National Historic Site in direct support of the Service Learning Options fo more... 8-9-2002 ESSI's Global Reach 2 Seeds were planted for a possible future outdoor environmental training program in P.R. China. ESSI submitted an informal proposal to the Shanghai Hengshang Travel Group and Aurora Schools (a leading more... 7-9-2002 ESSI's Global Reach In an effort to expand horizons for community-based education, ESSI began discussions in Thailand to follow-up on the Los Angeles Geographical Society's (LAGS) international volunteer program that Gre more... 4-6-2002 A Practice Neighborhood Teachback On a quiet Sunday afternoon in the Crenshaw District of Los Angeles, CA, it was a special day. A small group of people gathered for some outdoor science lessons taught by students. This was a demons more... 7-9-2002 Public Land Corp Grants Awarded to Expo Neighbors NPS Public Land Corps Grants Awarded Expo Neighbors Association, a member of the NPCA Los Angeles Community Partners (LACP), was recently awarded two Public Land Corps (PLC) Grants. The Expo Ran more... 6-6-2002 ESSI Gives Technical Support to Expo Rangers Manzanar Project National Park Service (NPS) officials at Manzanar National Historic Site (NHS) confirmed an award of $18,000 Public Land Corps (PLC) grant for the Expo Ranger collaborative project to GPS survey featu more... 1-28-2002 The Origins of ESSI Community-based Education The community-based education methods of Earth Systems Science, Inc. (ESSI) has roots that go back more than 35 years and spans the globe. It is an effective teaching approach with a proven track rec more... 1-27-2002 Earth Systems Science Focuses on Neighborhoods Earth Systems Science, Inc., a newly formed California public benefit non-profit educational corporation, has landed in Los Angeles. Patrick McCullough teamed up with Gregory Lee to form the non-profi more... Privacy Statement Neighborhood Link Terms of Use © 1997 - 2006 Neighborhood Link, Inc.