Make your SoCal home garden bloom this summer: Tips from Inglewood-based educator

Our very own ECMS-Inglewood Green Ambassadors educator, Ms. Tashanda Giles-Jones, was recently featured on KCRW’s Greater LA to answer listener questions about gardening: How do you decide what to plant? How do you care for those delicate seedlings? And how do you avoid blowing your entire paycheck at your local nursery? Read her wonderful interview…

BBC Reel: The heat gap dividing a major US city [featuring ECMS-I Green Ambassadors Teacher, Ms. Tashanda Giles-Jones]

As in many US towns, historic disinvestment in certain areas of Los Angeles have created a ‘heat gap’ within the city. Poorer neighbourhoods experience higher temperatures due to a lack of tree cover, vegetation and shade. The city and several nonprofits are now trying to close the gap through a variety of urban programmes. Video…