Sprint Into Action!
March 17-25, 2023
This statewide 11-day event kicks off Friday, March 17th with a big splash of activities occurring on Saturday, March 25th. The goal is to work together to clean up our communities and spread the word about taking pride in keeping California clean.
Show pride in your community at a local volunteer cleanup event. Join one already scheduled or plan your own. Once you sign up, your cleanup event will appear on the statewide Clean California Community Day map so others can join! It can be a large group of people beautifying a beach or even a single person picking up around their block. Learn how you can hold a cleanup in your community here.
Learn more at the Clean California website!
As in past years of Spring into actions, California Institute of Environmental Design & Management (CIEDM) actively participates in the 2023 Clean California Community Days, March 17-27, throughout the 11-day event. We have hosted private community cleanups at Arcadia EcoHome, Arcadia, with a focus on the property’s front yard and the street public right-of-way (PROW) adjoining the front yard including sidewalk, parkway, curb & gutter and parking lane of the street. Specifically on Fridays March 17 & 24, with the help of our gardeners we cleaned up a large amount of the fallen leaves & twigs all over the street PROW and our front yard from three large, wide-canopied mature street trees, meganolia, growing in the parkway, and we continued our “leave the leaves” practice by dumping and spreading all the trashed leaves into our backyard for sheet mulching and soil sponging instead of dumping into the trash bin as a “waste”. To keep up the streetscaping and the property’s curb appeals, we removed weeds in the front yard and sidewalk garden that we’ve created in the parkway and also transplanted a number of seedlings of Butterfly Iris from back yard to the pollinator friendly sidewalk garden. The cleanups and beautification efforts are timely for me as an Adjunct faculty of the CSULB’s International Training Programs (ITP) to host a field workshop at the EcoHome on Thursday March 23 for 18 attendants in the ITP Visiting Fellow program. As part of the educational workshop, I provided a brief teaching-in to introduce the Clean California Community Days to raise the Fellows’ awareness and led a walking tour of/around the EcoHome property and the neighborhood for showcasing the site, building and landscaping features that reflect the workshop theme of “Weather, Climate, & Water”, the very theme of World Meteorological Day 2023.