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Every Park Needs a Steward
The Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust is investing in a model that puts community members in charge of their local parks.
The Bus Stop Fig Tree
In this story, a community finds a common cause at a bus stop where a fig tree is threatened.
Reclaiming Water’s Transformative Potential for South LA
Many South L.A. residents have historically lacked access to clean and safe drinking water, but one community organization is empowering them to speak out to shape their water future.
Beauty & Bounty
A poem born from the fight to save Elephant Hill reminds us that we're not separate from nature but its architects, and that protecting our hills is protecting our own lifeblood.
Lessons From Underground
The soil networks that bring our worlds to life also offer key lessons in how we build more resilient cities and heal old wounds
What is Living Infrastructure?
Living infrastructure is all around you. We define it as an approach to designing and caring for our neighborhoods so that all life can thrive.
In the Space Between Parks: A Walk Through LA’s Missing Green
Writer Alissa Walker explores her neighborhood on foot to imagine where new parks could thrive.
What if the strongest infrastructure isn't concrete?
As Altadena rebuilds after the Eaton Fire, mutual aid leads the way toward a just and equitable recovery, creating systems of care that distribute resources where they're needed the most.
How water — and a decades-long community effort — is saving Elephant Hill
A conversation with community organizer Elva Yañez
Living infrastructure invitation
Explore the evolving, reciprocal partnership between human activity and the living environment.
Remedy Explorer
Learn practical ways to build community resilience—from habitat gardens and cooling splash pads to rainwater collection systems.
Think differently about water
Watch the unexplored potential of what’s possible when adopting a living systems approach to healing the water and land right here in L.A.
Landscape transformation
Learn the benefits and tradeoffs of different landscaping approaches through one yard’s transformation.
See living infrastructure in action
See how living infrastructure helped a community heal in the aftermath of environmental injustice.
