First Wednesdays: Lecture, Cocktail Hour, and Music

Innovation Can Save California from Mega-Droughts and Mega-Floods

Ashley Boren

California just emerged from its worst drought in over two hundred years, only to be deluged with the state’s first tropical storm in 84 years, and record-breaking floods and mudslides. Meanwhile, although California farmers are getting the water they need for their crops in 2023, over one million Californians still lack access to clean drinking water. Too much water, too little water, too dirty water – these are water crises that will only get worse as the planet continues to warm. It is time to rethink the state’s water system and how we manage our priceless water resources.

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DATE

Wednesday
December 6, 2023
7:00–9:00 pm PT

COST

$5.00 per ticket for advance online reservations or $10.00 per ticket on the day of the event at the door (pending availability. Please check first).

Parking is $6.00 for the for 2.5 hours in the structure located directly across from the Aquarium. Cash bar.

About Our Speakers

Ashley Boren

Ashley Boren is the CEO of Sustainable Conservation, a nonprofit dedicated to helping California thrive by uniting people to solve the toughest challenges facing the state’s land, air and water. Sustainable Conservation brings together business, landowners, government, scientists and other non-profit organizations to steward the resources that we all depend on in ways that are just and make economic sense.

Sustainable Conservation currently drives collaborative solutions to meet the water needs of California’s environment, people, and economy for current and future generations – with particular focus on increasing California’s water supply reliability, water quality and the pace and scale of habitat restoration. Ashley received a James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award for her unwavering commitment to innovative, balanced problem-solving to address a variety of critical environmental problems facing California.

Ashley serves on the Board of California Trout, the California Water Data Consortium and Water Solutions Network and the UC California President’s Advisory Commission for the Division Agriculture and Natural Resources. She earned a BA in human biology, MA in applied economics and MBA from Stanford University.

The Aquarium of the Pacific’s First Wednesdays series focuses on animals, nature and conservation efforts. The events bring scientists, authors, and other experts into its Honda Pacific Visions Theater for an illustrated talk paired with book signings or meet and greets and cocktail/social hours with music and crafts. The programs are best suited for high school and college students and adults of all ages. Lectures are also live streamed.