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Age restriction: 21 and over. Local urban planner/community activist James Rojas' Building Sustainable L.A. is an interactive urban planning art project that allows participants to re-imagine a green L.A. by using a medley of found objects. The model, and groups including the U.S. Green Building Council on LEED Certification (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) are on all day hand with resources to elucidate a sustainable L.A. At 12:30 p.m., Rojas will speak. As co-founder of the Latino Urban Forum, an advocacy group of architects, planners and activists, he'll discuss Latino settlement patterns in the U.S. Because of the way the Latinos retrofit the auto-oriented built form - with walking, the use of public transit and street vending - they are, advertently or not, transforming the suburbs into sustainable places. Then at 2:30 p.m., Conservation International's Amphibian Conservation Officer, Robin Moore, takes the idea of sustainability and interprets it globally. Because the skin of frogs and other amphibians is very permeable, these animals are sensitive to changes in their environment and they effectively telegraph the state of their ecosystems. Moore and colleagues at Conservation International are leading the way to halt the decline of amphibians throughout the planet. Learn more about this and other Sustainable at www.nhm.org/sustainablesunday.