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Wildwoods at City Hall
Holy Cow! Look what we just dug out of the vaults. A video (transferred from VHS, no less!) of Wildwoods Foundation founder and executive director Dwain Wilson addressing the Los Angeles City Council in honor of Earth Day in 2005. It may be a decade old, but the words are still true and remain at…
We Can Do Better
In December of 2012, I wrote the following words. Not quite 3 years later, there have been 142 school shootings since the tragedy at Newtown. I can find no other, no better words than these to express what I’m feeling today: the anger and the sadness. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ More than a dozen years ago the horror…
Wildwoods Wins Governor’s Award
The Wildwoods Foundation has been named recipient of the 2012 Governor’s Environmental and Economic Leadership Award (GEELA) in the category of Environmental Education in recognition of the accomplishments of their innovative Full Circle program and its positive impact on students’ science test scores at the schools it serves. The Governor’s Environmental and Economic Leadership Award…
Enough
More than a dozen years ago the horror of the Columbine tragedy changed my life. It was that school shooting in April of 1999 and the subsequent Fort Gibson, Oklahoma school shooting that followed in December that set my life on the course it still holds. Those tragedies indicated to me and a handful of…
Local Sheroes of Nature – Cindy Montañez
Another week, another inspiring leader and champion of nature and the outdoors… This week we honor Cindy Montañez. Raised in the San Fernando Valley, Cindy’s passion for the environment was ignited at an early age by her parents. During by her freshman year at UCLA, she participated in a hunger strike on campus that ultimately…
