As part of Innovate Pasadena’s Connect Week, Michelle Matthews, executive director of Arlington Garden, and Mayita Dinos, the garden’s designer, will encourage attendees to think globally and act locally to regenerate our damaged environment. Topics they will discuss include the importance of urban forest, alternatives to lawn-culture, climate-appropriate public spaces, and gardening’s relationship to the past, present and future of land stewardship. Sign-up for the free event here.

After the talk, attendees are invited to take self-guided tours around the garden.

Innovate Pasadena is a community organization committed to advancing greater Pasadena as a center of technology and design innovation by promoting collaboration across business and education to attract companies, entrepreneurs, innovators, and capital to the broader community. For more information, visit innovatepasadena.org.

Connect Week is a weeklong series of talks, workshops, tours, networking mixers, and more created engage and encourage collaboration among some of the city’s most innovative businesses, organizations, and individuals.