Podcasts about Los Angeles River

Patt Morrison, a veteran Los Angeles journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner, takes us on a journey through the city's ever-evolving landscape. With over five decades of experience chronicling L.A. across print, television, and radio, Morrison shares unique insights into the city's transformation, from its complex power structures to its diverse communities. She shares anecdotes about iconic figures, and discusses her role in reviving interest in the Los Angeles River. As the city prepares for the 2028 Olympics, Morrison's reflections on L.A.'s past and present offer an invaluable perspective on its future.

In this episode of the Vint Podcast Billy Galanko interviews southern California old-vine-winemaker, Abe Schoener. Abe is a former philosophy professor and the innovative winemaker behind the Scholium Project, a Californian micronegociant winery known for its unconventional methods. Although influenced by natural winemaking, Schoener does not strictly adhere to its principles and takes an open approach to the craft with a focus on old-vine fruit.Schoener's latest venture is an urban winery near the Los Angeles River, aimed at aligning with the city's urban demographic. This project began in 2019 with minimal equipment and a focus on sourcing unique vineyards across California, particularly those with old vines.His winemaking philosophy is flexible, using sulfur dioxide (SO2) selectively to enhance the wine's quality. Schoener's approach emphasizes a deep commitment to the vineyard and a willingness to experiment with under-appreciated sites. We hope you enjoy hearing from this SoCal wine icon and learning more about unique winemaking philosophies. Chapters:02:58 Exploring Unique Wine Experiences06:33 Interview with Abe Schoener: LA's Wine Insider07:22 The History and Philosophy of Winemaking08:49 Reviving Old Vineyards in Southern California12:06 The Mystery of Lone Wolf Vineyard22:51 The Legacy of Mission Grapes25:16 Winemaking in Los Angeles Today27:28 The Shift of Vineyards to Cucamonga28:37 The Birth of Los Angeles River Wine Company31:16 Challenges and Innovations in Winemaking37:28 Exploring Cucamonga Vineyards48:54 Future Prospects and Distribution56:11 Conclusion and Final ThoughtsThe Vint Podcast is presented by Coravin, the world's leader in wine preservation systems. Listeners of the Vint Podcast can take 15% off their purchase on Coravin.com by using promo code VINT15 at checkout*. Members of the trade can access exclusive discounts at trade.Coravin.com.The Vint Podcast is a production of the Vint Marketplace, your source for the highest quality stock of fine wines and rare whiskies. Visit www.vintmarketplace.com. To learn more about Vint and the Vint Marketplace, visit us at https://vint.co or Vintmarketplace.com or email Brady Weller at brady@vint.co, or Billy Galanko at Billy@vintmarketplace.com.*Terms and Conditions Apply. Offer valid only on Coravin.com while supplies last. Pricing and discount are subject to change at any time. Coravin reserves the right to limit order quantities. No adjustments to prior purchases. Not valid for cash. Cheers!Past Guests Include: William Kelley, Peter Liem, Eric Asimov, Bobby Stuckey, Rajat "Raj" Parr, Erik Segelbaum, André Hueston Mack, Emily Saladino, Konstantin Baum, Landon Patterson, Heather Wibbels, Carlton "CJ" Fowler, Boris Guillome, Christopher Walkey, Danny Jassy, Kristy Wenz, Dan Petroski, Buster Scher, Andrew Nelson, Jane Anson, Tim Irwin, Matt Murphy, Allen Meadows, Altan Insights, Tim Gaiser, Vince Anter, Joel Peterson, Megan O'Connor, Adam Lapierre, Jason Haas, Ken Freeman, Lisa Perrotti-Brown,...

In the conclusion of our second season, Morrison and Brown are thrown into a chaotic situation along the Los Angeles River.

When you hear the word "river," you probably picture a majestic body of water flowing through a natural habitat. Well, the LA River looks nothing like that. Most people who see it probably mistake it for a giant storm drain. It's a deep trapezoidal channel with steep concrete walls, and a flat concrete bottom. Los Angeles was founded around this river. But decades ago it was confined in concrete so that, for better or worse, the city could become the sprawling metropolis that it is today. All these years later the county is still grappling with the consequences of those actions.A River Runs Through Los Angeles

Why do urban rivers look like they do? What makes one river key to a city's identity and another one largely unknowable? We wrap up Season Four with a trip to the banks of the Los Angeles River, where Cindy Olnick chats with new dual-degree alum Leslie Dinkin about her award-winning master's thesis, Heritage in Practice: A Study of Two Urban Rivers. Leslie wanted to know what happened to set the Los Angeles and San Antonio Rivers on such different courses in the development of their respective cities. In addition to comparing their histories, she walked nearly sixty miles along both rivers. In her thesis, she documents the experience through her written reflections and hundreds of photos by Rio (yes, Rio) Asch Phoenix. In the episode, she shares stories, insights, and part of her conversation with Char Miller, Director of Environmental Analysis and W. M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis and History at Pomona College.  Photos, links, and transcript on episode pageConnect with us on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn

Four Generations of Winemaking Excellence Today, the Los Angeles River is paved and the vineyards have been replaced with businesses and homes. San Antonio Winery remains the oldest and largest producing winery in Los Angeles with over 100 years of winemaking, making it an essential component of the city's cultural and historical landscape. Still sitting on its original location on Lamar Street, the winery is the last vestige of the rich winemaking tradition of greater Los Angeles. In the early 1960's, Los Angeles' Cultural Heritage Board designated the San Antonio Winery Cultural Monument Number 42. Take a listen to what they have to offer.

This week, Erin and Madeline learn about sea turtles that live at the Aquarium, and the wild population nearby at the mouth of the Los Angeles River. They are joined by Volunteer Services Manager and Sea Turtle Monitoring Project Lead Cassandra Davis, and Tropical Reef Aquarist Adam Atlas. In this episode, you'll learn about the mysterious lives of sea turtles, and what it's like to care for them at the Aquarium. Related Aquarium TikTok videos: Turtle scratching its shell Sea Turtle Annual Exam Lou Redecorating Episode Transcript.  Links: Sea Turtle Monitoring Project: Learn how you can get involved in Community Science! Volunteer at the Aquarium! Stranded/Distress Sea Turtle Info Sea Turtle Distance Guidelines References: Aquarium of the Pacific. (n.d.-a). Green sea turtle. Online Learning Center. https://www.aquariumofpacific.org/onlinelearningcenter/species/green_sea_turtle Aquarium of the Pacific. (n.d.-a). Sea Turtle Rescue and rehabilitation. Aquarium of the Pacific. https://www.aquariumofpacific.org/conservation/sea_turtle_rescue_and_rehabilitation Aquarium of the Pacific. (n.d.-b). Olive ridley sea turtle. Online Learning Center. https://www.aquariumofpacific.org/onlinelearningcenter/species/olive_ridley_sea_turtle Aquarium of the Pacific. (n.d.-b). Southern California Sea turtle monitoring project. Aquarium of the Pacific. https://www.aquariumofpacific.org/conservation/sea_turtle_monitoring NOAA Fisheries. (2022, September 15). Green Turtle. NOAA. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/species/green-turtle NOAA Fisheries. (n.d.). Sea turtles. NOAA. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/sea-turtles NOAA. (n.d.). Sea turtles. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. https://www.noaa.gov/education/resource-collections/marine-life/sea-turtles

When I phoned Frank Gehry to ask him to do this podcast, he immediately said yes. And I'm not the only one Frank has said yes to. Ask around and the stories are the same—Frank giving a million dollars for an arts education in underserved communities along the Los Angeles River, or overseeing a program for mentoring children in underperforming elementary schools. His philanthropy is based on personal relationships, and I think his architecture is, too. Every time a new Frank Gehry building opened, Richard and I would make a pilgrimage to visit them—the Disney center in Los Angeles, the Louis Vuitton building in Paris, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. But one summer, in 2008, all we had to do was walk 10 minutes from our house to Hyde Park, because he had built a temporary pavilion for the Serpentine Gallery. He designed the timber-and-glass structure with his son Sammy. For those few months, we met there almost daily, to watch the sunset, to listen to people play music, to eat, and drink. This brave and beautiful structure made the park a better park and, for the summer, London a better city. Today, I have traveled from London to Los Angeles, not to see a Frank Gehry building but to see my dear friend, Frank. Will we have a good time? As always with Frank Gehry, the answer is yes.  Please rate & review the podcast on Apple podcasts, Spotify, IHeart Radio app or wherever you get your podcasts. For more information, recipes, and ingredients, go to: Web: https://rivercafe.co.uk/Instagram: www.instagram.com/ruthiestable4Facebook: https://en-gb.facebook.com/therivercafelondon/ For any podcast enquires please contact: willem.olenski@atomizedstudios.tv For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iheartradio app, apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favourite shows.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pilot season continues as Tread Perilously looks at the TV movie/backdoor pilot for Future Cop. Lazy and slovenly beat cop Joe Cleaver (Ernest Borgnine!) -- who somehow still gets results -- is just the sort of man to aid the police commissioner in proving a "robot cop" would be bad for the force. The robot in question is called Haven (Michael Shannon -- but not the one you're expecting) and while he has the penal code in his programming, he still has a lot to learn about life. Will Cleaver end up liking Haven? And will Haven learn how to pass for a human? Justin wastes no time making a particular reference to Borgnine's process. Erik cannot help but compare Future Cop to RoboCop despite neither being the first robot cop story. Vintage 1976 commercials for Listermint, ABC's election coverage, and Breck shampoo are dissected. The inconsistent tone of the pilot leads the pair to figure out ways to make it actually work. Justin's obsession with the Beach That Makes You Old confounds chatGPT. Geography Corner centers on freeway off-ramps and a junkyard near the Los Angeles River. The Babylon 5 conspiracy once again gets aired. Borgnine proves why we love him -- even at 30% energy -- but will Justin accurately determine if Future Cop made it to series?

On Earth Day, a new climate report paints a grim picture – but hope remains. Meanwhile, thousands of gallons of sewage spill into the Los Angeles River. Residents of a South Florida condo building are forced to evacuate due to structural issues. Safety concerns remain days after a Russian warplane accidentally dropped a bomb on its own territory. And we get reaction after New York state education officials voted to prohibit public schools from using or displaying Indigenous team names, logos, or mascots.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

We know from our storm water experts, that when water flows over soil, many of the pollutants can be removed and microbes in the ground can safely decompose them. In the case of the Los Angeles River, everything goes right into the Pacific Ocean.

I investigate replacing the troubled Twitter.com service with the CB radio community. Plus, I announce a new Pizzaply Media program and launch my first Patreon pledge drive by declaring if I do not gain 50 new patrons by the end of the month, I will drown myself in the Los Angeles River.

Through a series of exercises, Twenty Summers Fellow Brenda Zhang (Bz) guides participants in visual and spatial documentation of their individual experiences and narratives of Place, while exploring the shared meanings of “home” and “elsewhere.” Participants are invited to bring cartographic tools from their own traditions, diasporas, or fictions. Brenda Zhang (Bz) is a visual artist, designer, organizer, and educator based on unceded Tongva land (so-called Los Angeles). They are a core organizer with the Design As Protest Collective and Dark Matter University and a founding member of SPACE INDUSTRIES. In their practice, they investigate physical and cultural construction as entangled processes and use disciplinary tools of art and architecture to imagine futures beyond settler colonialism, racial capitalism, and cisheteropatriarchy. Bz received a Master of Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Visual Arts from Brown University. In their free time, they look for birds and trash in the Los Angeles River.

Cisneros was in and out of jail and prison for years before he was finally put away for the 70 year term as the “Los Angeles Riverbed Rapist” who abducted at least eight illegal alien women from 1980 to 1985 by posing as an immigration officer. He handcuffed the women, and raped and sodomized them near the Los Angeles River before letting them go. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/you-betterknow4/message

Cisneros was in and out of jail and prison for years before he was finally put away for the 70 year term as the “Los Angeles Riverbed Rapist” who abducted at least eight illegal alien women from 1980 to 1985 by posing as an immigration officer. He handcuffed the women, and raped and sodomized them near the Los Angeles River before letting them go. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/you-betterknow4/message

Marcos Trinidad is the Center Director at the Audubon Center at Debs Park and also works as a Senior Regional Manager at TreePeople. He was born and raised in Northeast Los Angeles, where his family has lived for 75 years, Marcos has deep roots in the community. Marcos' formal education is in geology and anthropology.For two decades, Marcos has advanced equity, diversity and inclusion in the environmental movement, including co-directing LA's Environmental Professionals of Color chapter. Through that work, Marcos promoted and sponsored forums for people of color working in environmentally-related careers. He was recognized by the North American Association for Environmental Education as the recipient of the Rosa Parks and Grace Lee Boggs Award for his leadership in environmental justice, education and advocacy. Marcos loves to go bird watching with his two children, Paloma and Bija along the Los Angeles River.-----------------------------------------Please SUBSCRIBE, LIKE and COMMENT! Share with your friends.Thank you for listening.Find Marcos Trinidad at:Instagram: @huskynaturalistFind Audoban/Debs Park at:Website: https://debspark.audubon.org---my LINKS:Merch: http://rafa.LA​​​​​​​​​​​​​​/shopMy photography: http://rafa.LA​​​​​​​​​​​​​​NFT: https://opensea.io/collection/dancngsobr Donate at venmo: @ rafa-LA  SPONSOR:MOVITA JUICE BARhttp://movitajuicebar.com​​​​​​​​​​​Instagram: @movitajuicebarSPONSOR:PICARESCA CAFEhttps://www.barrapicaresca.comInstagram: @picarescacafe------------------Recorded at Outer Circle Mediahttps://www.outercirclemedia.com   ------------------

In today's clip, GAS MTA talks about rivalries between his crew and another well known graffiti crew from Los Angeles. He also goes on to speak about the the Historic MTA in the Los Angeles River.

Welcome to the summer feature podcast miniseries—EWN On The Road. As we teased in Episode 5, in this special series, Todd Bridges, Senior Research Scientist for Environmental Science with the US Army Corps of Engineers and the National Lead of the Engineering With Nature® Program, is sharing some highlights of his travels across the country over the past 2 years visiting people, places, and projects relevant to EWN. The miniseries includes 4 episodes and will post August 3, 10, 17 and 24:   Episode 1—The San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge: A Natural Landscape Revived Episode 2—The San Joaquin Valley: Past, Present, Future and from the Air Episode 3—The Heartland Tour: Five Rivers in One Day Episode 4—Rivers as Resources to be Valued   We hope you'll find these special podcast episodes enlightening and easy listening for your summer travels. You can read more about Todd's travels and see additional pictures in the EWN On The Road blog on the EWN Website.    In Episode 4, host Sarah Thorne and Todd Bridges continue their discussion on rivers—their role and value. In the winter of 2022, Todd and his wife (and trusty driver), Anita, traveled nearly 8,000 miles through eight states on the “Southwest Swing” of the EWN On The Road tour. They visited the Hoover Dam and Lake Mead on the Nevada and Arizona border, which is at its lowest level in its history, an alarming indication of the megadrought that has gripped the Southwest. As part of the trip, Todd spent some time exploring the Los Angeles River in California, what he calls, “an important case example of river engineering in the twentieth century.” The Los Angeles River travels 51 miles through the greater Los Angeles area, with nearly a million people living within 1 mile of it. Because of challenges related to flooding and the natural movement of the course of the river, it was “locked down,” engineered into an unchanging, unnatural, concrete channel. This unusual situation caused Todd to ponder whether rivers are “problems to be solved” or “resources to be valued.” To help answer this question, Todd spent time talking to people living and working nearby about what they want the river to be. “I met more than 20 people from a whole variety of organizations that have been working for many years to reintroduce the ‘natural' into the Los Angeles River. And I think what people are looking for is to reconnect to the river. One group was focused on restoration at the Sepulveda Basin, a large 2000+ plus acre area next to the river with huge potential to become basically the Central Park of Los Angeles, or like the Golden Gate Park of San Francisco. . . . There's just a tremendous amount of interest and growing momentum to create value by reintroducing the ‘natural' into the Los Angeles River.” There is a significant opportunity for EWN to be part of this transformation: “I'm quite hopeful that we're going to be able to collaborate in this space so the Los Angeles River can become a model for how we can reengineer to harmonize the natural with human communities.   Related Links EWN Website ERDC Website Todd Bridges at EWN Todd Bridges at LinkedIn EWN On The Road LA County Department of Public Works – LA River Master Plan LA River Master Plan EWN Podcast S3E4: Engineering With Nature for Safe and Livable Cities

The newest bridge in Los Angeles, a $588-million architectural marvel with views of the downtown skyline, opened to great fanfare on July 10. It has already been closed, to great dismay, several times since then amid chaos and collisions.The 6th Street Viaduct — which soars over the concrete-lined Los Angeles River to connect downtown to the historic Eastside — quickly became a hotspot for street racing, graffiti and illegal takeovers that draw hundreds of spectators to watch drivers perform dangerous stunts in their vehicles.LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos everyday. https://bit.ly/3KBUDSK

Did you know that a gratitude practice can actually rewire your brain, helping you to live a happier, more purposeful life?  Do you know the difference between gratitude and fearless gratitude, and why the latter is so much more powerful?Check out my conversation with Omar Brownson to find out.  After listening, I'm quite confident that you will never look at gratitude the same way again!Entrepreneur and public speaker, Omar Brownson inspires Fearless Gratitude, leadership and large-scale culture building.Omar is a frequent guest speaker and storyteller, teaches Gratitude At Work on Simon Sinek Live Online, and co-hosts the Gratitude Blooming Podcast (ranked in the top five percent in the world). Having led a number of social impact initiatives, Omar brings a real world perspective to tackling leadership challenges, design thinking and culture change. He recently launched Long Horizon to advise on and invest in web3 projects and is an advisor to Full Spectrum Capital. Previously, Omar co-founded the gratitude app Gee Thanks, and was the founding executive director of RiverLA where he collaborated with architect Frank Gehry and local leaders to reimagine the 51-mile Los Angeles River. He has held leadership positions across finance, land use, and social impact. Wherever he is, Omar makes sure to take a beat to notice beauty and share his joy.Website:GratitudeBlooming.comTo stay connected with Better Place Project and for updates and behind the scenes info, please follow us on social media:Website:https://www.betterplaceproject.org/Instagram: @BetterPlaceProj  To follow Steve & Erin on Instagram:@SteveNorrisOfficial @ErinorrisFacebook: Facebook.com/BetterPlaceProjectPodcastTwitter: @BetterPlaceProjEmail: BetterPlaceProjectPodcast@gmail.com

Joining us today is Marcos Trinidad, host of the new LAist Studios podcast “Human/Nature” is Center Director at the Audubon Center at Debs Park. During the past 5 years, he has nurtured a growing community of volunteers, youth and community partnerships; implemented a facility and grounds improvement plan; and partnered with the National Park Service to establish a vibrant native plant nursery. Born and raised in Northeast Los Angeles, where his family has lived for 70 years, Marcos has deep roots in the community. Prior to coming to Debs, he served as Director of Audubon Youth Environmental Stewards (a program of the Palos Verdes/South Bay Audubon Society), where he engaged and inspired youth to connect to nature and their community through restoration and volunteer projects. He has also spent time as a Biology Technician for the U.S. Forest Service and an Urban Forester for both Northeast Trees and TreePeople. Marcos is an Army Veteran stationed in Hohenfenls, Germany as part of the 7th Army Training Command and served as a 19D Cavalry scout, Forward Observer. Marcos continues to serve and work toward a more environmentally inclusive Los Angeles. For 2 decades, Marcos has advanced equity, diversity and inclusion in the environmental movement, including co-directing LA's Environmental Professionals of Color chapter. Through that work, Marcos promoted and sponsored forums for people of color working in environmentally-related careers. He was recognized in 2017 by the North American Association for Environmental Education as the recipient of the Rosa Parks and Grace Lee Boggs Award for his leadership in environmental justice, education and advocacy. Marcos loves to go bird watching with his 9-year-old daughter Paloma and his 7-old son Bija along the Los Angeles River. He is a world traveler and feels most complete when he goes on extended camping trips with his family. Sponsor:Is there something interfering with your happiness or is preventing you from achieving your goals? https://betterhelp.com/leo and enjoy 10% off your first month and start talking to mental health professional today!! 1-on-1 Coaching: If you want go from feeling hopeless to hopeful, lonely to connected and like a burden to a blessing, then go to 1-on-1 coaching, go to www.thrivewithleo.com. Let's get to tomorrow, together. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline800-273-TALK [800-273-8255]1-800-SUICIDE [800-784-2433]Teen Line (Los Angeles)800-852-8336The Trevor Project (LGBTQ Youth Hotline)866-488-7386National Domestic Violence Hotline800-799-SAFE [800-799-7233]Crisis Text LineText "Connect" to 741741 in the USALifeline Chathttps://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/chat/International Suicide Hotlines: http://www.suicide.org/international-suicide-hotlines.htmlhttps://www.nowmattersnow.org/skillshttps://sobermeditations.libsyn.com/ www.suicidesafetyplan.com https://scaa.club/

In today's episode, Massimo is joined by Entrepreneur and Co-host of the Gratitude Blooming Podcast, Omar. Omar is inspired by nature, gratitude, and web3. He co-founded the gratitude app gthx (as in “gee thanks”), facilitates Gratitude Circles for leaders across sectors, and recently launched Long Horizon to advise on and invest in web3 projects. Previously, Omar was the founding executive director of RiverLA where he collaborated with architect Frank Gehry and local leaders to reimagine the 51-mile Los Angeles River. He has held leadership positions across the areas of finance, land use, and social impact. Wherever he is, Omar makes sure to take a beat to notice beauty and share his joy. Highlights from today's podcast include: The power of using a beginner's mind to find innovation and solutions The turning point when he realized he needed to direct his focus away from changing the world and more to changing himself How to build trust in order to drive change How to disrupt our default habits to create long-term change Connect with Omar: Website Linkedin Twitter: @Obrownson Instagram: @Omarthanks To download my Conscious Communication Workbook to support you in turning toxic conflict into collaborative gold, please visit Massimobackus.com/workbook

 Today we are going to talk about Bridget “Biddy” Mason, the grandmother of Los Angeles, one of the most influential Black women in California. She overcame unimaginable prejudice and inequity and was one of the first prominent landowning citizens of Los Angeles. Briget was born into slavery in Georgia on August 15 of 1818. Her parents were of mixed African American and Native American descent. She wasn't given a last name. Because of this common practice with slaves, many African Americans can only go back so far in their ancestry. Stolen. One of her several slaveholders in Georgia and South Carolina started calling her Biddy. Biddy spent much of her childhood enslaved on John Smithson's plantation in South Carolina, performing tasks in the cotton fields, the South's most important crop. Biddy was forbidden to learn to read or write but she learned about herbs and midwifery from the older enslaved women. Smithson gave her, two other female house servants, and a blacksmith as a wedding gift to his cousins, Robert and Rebecca Smith. The Smiths were successful landowners in Logtown, Mississippi. Biddy was 18. Smith was Mormon convert who cultivated cotton and traded slaves. Although, Mormons were better known as opponents of slavery.  For the Smith family, Biddy did domestic work, toiled hard in the cotton fields and performed farm labor. At other times, she worked as a midwife and house nurse — a job she liked. Biddy took care of Rebecca Smith, who was often ill and helped her during the birth of her six children.  During her years in Mississippi, Biddy gave birth to Ellen, Ann and Harriet, aged ten, four, and a newborn. It's likely that Smith himself fathered these children. Like countless other enslaved women, Biddy was almost certainly the victim of sexual violence. In 1848, Smith decided to follow the call of the church with his fellow Mississippi Saints in the great Mormon Exodus to Utah. He moved his family and his 14 slaves west to the Salt Lake Valley where Joseph Smith established a new Mormon community seventeen years prior. The area was still part of Mexico at the time but would soon become Utah.   Smith, his wife and children sat in the wagon on the journey while  Biddy, her daughters and the other slaves walked barefoot behind the 300 wagon caravan. Biddy was in charge of herding the animals for the 1,700 mile trek.   While they walked from Mississippi through Illinois and Colorado towards Salt Lake City, Biddy had a ton of responsibilities, including herding the cattle, preparing and serving the campfire meals and setting up and breaking down camp. All this while acting as the midwife and herbalist for the party, and still tending to her three young daughters. The trail must have been disturbing, frightening and strange. There were moments when surely there was a chance to escape, and for this reason, Biddy's value increased on the trail. With young children, she didn't have the option to leave. They lived in Utah for three years until Governor Brigham Young authorized another Mormon community, this time in San Bernardino. Brigham Young warned Smith that California, had been admitted to the Union as a free, non-slave state the year prior. Smith ignored his warnings and set out with his family and slaves and a 150-wagon caravan in 1851, to establish the Mormon settlement and extend the reach of his Church.  When Smith arrived in San Bernardino, he became one of the counselors to the bishop and owned a very large property. He was among the wealthiest settlers in San Bernardino. Held in bondage in the Mormon colony were dozens of African Americans as well as an untold number of local Native Americans, as well as an untold number of local Native Americans. San Bernardino was built, in part, by enslaved laborers like Biddy. Even though California was technically a free state, it was a land made up of unfree laborers of various kinds. Many indigenous people weer being forced to work in the Los Angeles "slave mart." This "slave mart" was the second most important source of municipal revenue in Los Angeles after the sale of licenses for saloons and gambling venues. On the weekends, local authorities would seek out and arrest intoxicated natives on dubious vagrancy charges. The Native Americans were thrown in a pen, and their labor for the coming week was auctioned off. If they were paid at the end of that week at all, they were usually paid in alcohol so they could get drunk, be arrested and continue the cycle.  In California, Biddy met two sets of couples who were free blacks. Charles and Elizabeth Flake Rowan and Robert and Minnie Owens. They urged her to legally contest her slave status in California. But she did not. Biddy remained enslaved in a “free” state for five more years as Smith maintained his southern way of life in California. He found himself increasingly at odds with fellow colonists and his own church who favorably disposed toward the practice of slavery. In 1855, the leaders of the Mormon colony in San Bernardino thought they were paying top dollar for 80,000 acres of land but had purchased only 35,000 acres. Fine print fuck up. When the colony sued the people who had sold them the land, they lost. The court allowed them to choose up to 35,000 acres anywhere in the larger area. The church chose Smith's ranch. It was turned over to them without any compensation and Smith was pissed. Without his property in California and in fear of losing his slaves, he sold off his cattle and conspired a plan to quietly leave the colony and move to Texas. Biddy and her fellow slaves did not trust Smith and they feared they were going to be sold and separated from their children. Smith lied to Biddy, promising her and her family's freedom in Texas. He needed her cooperation to get there and considered her valuable property. Without his land, he needed a place for them to all stay as he secured provisions for the ride east. He chose a camp of settlers originally from the American South in the Santa Monica Hills. Surely a more hospitable place for a slaveholder than Mormn san Bernardino.  One of Biddy's daughters was romantically involved with the Owens son. In December, Robert Owens and Elizabeth Rowan tipped off the local authorities. There was a group of Black Americans that were being illegally held in Santa Monica Canyon and they were about to be taken across state lines to the slave state of Texas. The sheriffs from San Bernardino and Los Angeles approached Judge Benjamin Hayes. Hayes issued a writ of habeas corpus, widely used against slaveholders in free states. Late on the night of New Year's Eve 1855, as Los Angeles residents celebrated the new year, sheriffs raided Smith's camp in the Santa Monica mountains.  Biddy's children were taken into protective custody at the city jail at the corner of Spring and Franklin Streets in downtown L.A. They let Biddy stay with the Owens family. Judge Hayes ordered Smith to bear all costs associated with the case and caring for those placed in guardianship of the sheriffs as they prepared for trial.  Los Angeles was then still a small town and the three day court hearing, starting on January 19, 1856 was a huge event.   Smith argued that Biddy and the rest of his slaves wished to go to Texas with him. Under state law, Black Americans could not testify against white Americans. Judge Hayes brought Biddy  and her eldest daughters into his chambers along with two trustworthy local gentlemen who acted as observers. Hayes asked Biddy if she was willingly leaving for Texas and Biddy told him, “I always do what I have been told, but I have always been afraid of this trip to Texas.”  Biddy also told the judge about the kind of treatment they had been subjected to over the years. Hannah, who was one of the women enslaved by Smith, gave an unbelievably damaging testimony in the courtroom. She reluctantly said that she wanted to go to Texas. There were long silences. Hannah had given birth to a baby boy only two weeks earlier and was terrified of what Smith would do to her if she refused to go with him to Texas. Hayes sent the San Bernardino sheriff up to talk with her and she said, I promised I would say in court that I wanted to go but I don't want to go. If you bring me back to court, I'll say I want to go but I don't want to go. The sheriff returned with an affidavit saying that, in fact, she did not want to go. Smith's behavior before and during the course of the hearing made it clear she had good reason to be afraid. It was awful. He threatened the Owens family, a neighborhood grocer and a doctor in the courtroom yelling “If this case isn't resolved on Southern principles, all people of color will pay the price.” A gang of Smith's sons and workers went to the jail and tried to intimidate the jailer and lure Biddy's daughters away from the jail with alcohol. Biddy's lawyer abruptly withdrew from the case after being  threatened and offered a bribe of $200.  Judge Hayes was furious with Smith, and clearly rattled by what he had heard. His family was behaving like thugs. Robert Smith was lying about trying to take them out of California and this disturbed Hayes. Smith, who was not being held, was a no-show on the last day of the trial, Monday, January 21. He ran off to Texas. He knew his reputation was ruined and was unwilling to pay court costs. Judge Hayes stated "all the said persons of color are entitled to their freedom and are free and cannot be held in slavery or involuntary servitude, unless for the punishment of crimes, shall ever be tolerated in this State. It is therefore argued that they are entitled to their freedom and are free forever."    Amasa Mason Lyman was the mayor of San Bernardino and a Mormon Apostle. Biddy was a friend of Lyman and was fond of the Lyman family. Biddy took the surname Mason. It was her first last name.  With Smith gone, her daughters were released from protective custody and Mason moved her family into the Owens family home. They were now citizens in rough-and-tumble Los Angeles, where only around 80 of its 4,000 residents were Black. Her oldest daughter, Ellen, married the Owens' son, Charles. Owing to her experience and quality of work, she became one of the most popular midwives of that state, using the skills she learned as a slave.  Judge Hayes had a brother-in-law famous for being one of the first formally trained doctors in Southern California. Dr. John Strother Griffin, the “Father of East Los Angeles”. Griffin was impressed with her nursing skills and hired her as a nurse and midwife. She made $2.50 per day. That would be about $85 dollars in 2022. About 10 bucks a day for an 8 hour day. Griffin's office was on Main Street in the same county building as the jail in which she'd taken refuge with the 13 other enslaved people fighting for freedom. She offered her services to the prisoners free of charge. Biddy delivered hundreds of babies in Los Angeles and braved a smallpox epidemic, risking her life to tend to the sick. In her big black medicine bag, she carried the tools of her trade, and the papers Judge Hays had given her affirming that she was free. Biddy Mason worked as a midwife for ten years, saving her earnings carefully. When she was 48, she purchased her own property on the outskirts of Los Angeles where there were more gardens and vineyards than paved streets. She was the first African American woman to buy property in Los Angeles. It had a water ditch, and a willow fence running around the plot. Two lots for $250. Mason initially used the land for gardening and lived with the Owens. This purchase made her one of the first pioneers of Los Angeles. A remarkable feat for a woman who had spent the first 37 years of her life enslaved.  In her home, she established the city's first child care center for working parents. The First African Methodist Episcopal Church is the oldest African American church in the city. It was established on her Spring Street property. The initial meetings were held in Mason's home in 1872. She paid taxes and all expenses on church property to hold it for her people. The permanent church was eventually erected on land she donated at Eighth and Towne. Mason was quickly beloved and “known by every citizen” as “Aunt Biddy.”   She was also well received in the Los Angeles Spanish-speaking community. She could not read or write, but had become a fluent Spanish-speaker. She befriended Pio Pico, Mexico's last governor in California. Pico, Owens and Griffin were involved in real estate and all encouraged her to invest her money wisely and purchase property. Biddy invested in real estate in what is now the heart of downtown L.A. Finally, in 1884 Mason finally moved to her own land at 311 Spring Street and what is now Broadway. On one of the two lots, she built a two-story brick building which she rented the first floor to commercial interests and lived in an apartment on the second. Los Angeles was booming, and rural Spring Street was becoming crowded with shops and boarding houses. She sold the north lot for $1,500. A gain of nearly $13,000 today. She sold a property she had purchased on Olive Street for $375 in 1868, for $2,800. $82,000 today. Basically, in 1884, Biddy had over a 100,000 year in today's numbers. There were dirt streets and unpaved sidewalks, with curbs and gutters. The drainage system was primitive. Water was still channeled through the city through open ditches and bricklaid channels. Only fifteen streets had sewers running below their surface via riveted iron pipes. Three hundred foot tall poles holding electric lights had recently been erected on the major streets, illuminating with 3,000 candle power. Early that year, storms in February of 1884 caused the Los Angeles River to swell and cut new channels and the city's streets began to flood. The Aliso Street Bridge broke in two, part of the bridge was pushed down the river with half a dozen homes and they all lodged against the First Street Bridge,  creating a dam. The water rose, the river overflowed its banks and flooded the streets. Finally, the pressure from the rising water and the piled up homes and portion of bridge was too much for the First Street Bridge.  The west bank eroded when the First Street Bridge collapsed and thirty-five more houses were carried away. Along the riverbed, people sifted through the debris. Cradles, baby wagons, doors, cupboards, fences, pigs. Looking for something. Someone. Brooms, chickens, orange trees, beds. It was a dreadful sight. People were killed. Obviously, city lighting could not slow fooding, but it would aid in the recovery from the storm that had put a third of the city under water for hours. After the flood, Biddy arranged a deal with a grocer on Fourth and Spring. All of the families who lost their home were able to sign off for all of their groceries. Biddy Mason would pay the tab. Biddy owned land on San Pedro Street in Little Tokyo and was renting to over twenty tenants on three large plots near the now Grand Central Market. For the next three decades, she continued her real estate venture,  participating in the frontier town's transformation into an emerging metropolis. She used her wealth, a fortune of $300,000, the equivalent to $9.5 million in 2022 to feed and shelter the poor. She would visit the jail to leave a token and a prayerful hope with every prisoner. She opened a foster home, an elementary school for black children and a traveler's aid center. She was charming, effective and was deeply appreciated. In so many ways, she became the backbone of society. She helped her family buy properties around the city. She deeded a portion of her remaining Spring Street property to her grandsons “for the sum of love and affection and ten dollars.” She signed the deed with her customary fancy “X.” Still, never learning to read or write. Too busy making that cash.  Her success enabled her to support her extended family for generations.  Los Angeles had become a bustling city with 50,000 residents in the late 1880's. She was so well-known, at dawn each morning, a line would form in front of Mason's gate. Swarming with people in need of assistance. Her neighborhood developed quickly around her homestead and by the early 1890s, the main financial district of Los Angeles was one block from Mason's property. As she grew old and became too ill to see visitors, her grandson Robert was forced to turn people away each morning.  On January 15, 1891 Bridget “Biddy” Mason died at her beloved homestead in Los Angeles. She was 73 years old, one of the wealthiest Black women in the country. When she was buried at the Evergreen Cemetery in Boyle Heights, her grave was left unmarked. The family held onto Mason's cherished “first homestead” until the Depression. Today the Broadway Spring Center Parking garage stands on the site.  Ninety-Seven years after her death, L.A. Mayor Tom Bradley, and members of the church she founded held a ceremony, during which her grave was finally marked with a tombstone. Biddy Mason Memorial Park in downtown Los Angeles was erected one year later in her honor. Behind the Bradbury Building near Third and Spring, a memorial on an 80-foot-long poured concrete wall shows the timeline of Biddy Mason's life. November 16 was declared “Biddy Mason Day” in Los Angeles. Jackie Broxton said this, "She showed people what could happen when they were free and could set their own destiny". Jackie Broxton is the CEO & President of the Biddy Mason Charitable Foundation. The Biddy Mason Charitable Foundation was established in 2013 and began as an outreach ministry of the church Biddy founded. The Foundation caters to current and former foster youth in the local community. It should also be noted that Biddy's success story was the exception and not the rule. I believe that she attained so much, because she gave so much. As she navigated multiple levels of oppression, Biddy advocated for her community. When it comes to movements advancing our communities, culture, and policies in more equitable directions, it seems that women have always been at the forefront. Biddy Mason once said, “If you hold your hand closed, nothing good can come in. The open hand is blessed, for it gives in abundance, even as it receives.” She is an inspiration that when given the support and opportunity, it is possible to overcome even the toughest of circumstances. Her story is one of resilience, compassion, and triumph. The fight continues today against the inherited systemic racism, sexism, and each and every intersection.  Sources: Los Angeles Almanac  Free Forever: The Contentious Hearing That Made Biddy Mason A Legend By  Hadley Meares The Life of Biddy Mason: From Slave to a Master by Fareeha Arshad Biddy Mason Collaborative National Park Service Biddy Mason: One of LA's first black real estate moguls By Hadley Meares Los Angeles Western Corral Honoring the legacy and 200th birthday of slave-turned-entrepreneur Biddy Mason by Michael Livingston Negro Trail-Blazers of California by Delilah Beasley  The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History by Dolores Hayden https://kentakepage.com/bridget-biddy-mason/ Bridget "Biddy" Mason: From Bondage to Wealth - Kentake Page Biddy Mason Charitable Foundation  

Vicious Circles/frame narrative (Prologue) It's almost time for your YouTube video to upload, you've got all the footage edited and complete. You re-watch the footage to make sure all the victims that died on-camera look good, so your stardom can rise. You say to yourself "Where is my snickered flat brim Yankees hat?" Obviously, it's located in your truck to match your truck nuts, and "Boss" and "Champ" stickers. Before you send the video, you remember to thank all your fans for sticking with you through all the exploited content you've provided, because of course you're a man of the people. Dante The Great: If you could become the real Cris Angel, and float to the moon by way of the dark emo arts, then by God you would. Now, becoming a homicidal maniac because you're in love with your apprentice so much, that it leads you down the serial killer route. It would be in your best interest to stick with bunnies appearing out of top hats. Unless of course, you enjoy being scum. The Douchery displayed from Dante The Great, bodes well with the ending. Vicious Circles (Interlude 1) - You would think standing on the edge of a bridge, leaning over without support would keep you leveled. But, of course, gravity. Hopefully, this fine gentleman of society got his footage before eating a pavement skillet sandwich. Maybe this footage will get him that fame he would kill for. Parallel Monsters - Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and most likely the lizard alien Mark Zuckerberg, have the means and funds to time travel or visit different universes. I'm intrigued to know what Zuckerberg's parallel self would be like. Maybe someone with a personality? Do they blink? They don't shed skin in the heat? The possibilities are endless. Maybe the crotch monsters in this universe destroy the bad eggs? Or are they all evil? Vicious Circles - (interlude 2) If I was on death row for a mass-murdering spree or some other heinous crime, I would never EVER harm an animal. Now would I commit another murder spree if you killed, let alone harmed my animal? You would be crucified, torched, and pissed on, to say the least. What this man did to avenge his said sweet puppers, is beyond warranted. Bonestorm - Tony Hawk would be proud of these fellas, hittin' their sick nasty flip tricks. Hittin' a rad Ollie off a desecrated corpse, ya know the usual activities teenage skateboarders do. Día de Muertos is a sacred thing in Mexico, unfortunately for these kids, they don't listen and disturb the peace of the dead. In doing so, they alert some sort of blood cult God servants to dispatch a couple of them, while leaving the. To fend for their Red Bull drinkin' asses. Vicious Circles (Interlude 3) - Kevin is still trying to chase the truck that is holding his girl hostage. He runs into a pedestrian who's caught on the iPhone trance and begins to bleed out, that statement alone is beyond true. He makes a failed attempt of grabbing a taxi. It reveals that the taxicab is in the middle of shooting some very explicit "Taxi cab confession" episode. Luckily the woman hired on reveals something close to her brought her here, and has other plans for this disgusting dweeb directing it. Vicious Circles (epilogue) - Kevin reaches the van abandoned in the Los Angeles River, back door open, inviting him inside with intercom footage speaking right to his soul. Upon entering, what he discovers and the choice he has to make opens up a world of different outcomes this series holds. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/drekculazunderworld/support

LA Times columnist Patt Morrison is back with an updated version of her 2011 bestseller: “Río L.A.: Tales from the Los Angeles River.” Mark Oliver Everett, singer of the LA band Eels, talks about the lack of a warm relationship with his quantum physicist dad, and eating strawberries and popcorn for dinner.

Join hosts Dylan Almendral (The Gentleman Historian) and Ryan Friesen (distiller) for this week's episode as they share some news about Dylan's new mode of transportation, rules about the production of bourbon, and chat in depth about The Spirit Guild's Astral Pacific Gin (now known as Star Keeper Gin). Bonus- you'll get a chance to meet King Size Dylmand and hear about his affinity for The Whiskey Vault. Don't miss the part where Ryan loses his mind about terroir. About Star Keeper Gin (Formerly Known as Astral Pacific Gin) All gins start with a base spirit. Typically, it is grain-based and industrially manufactured to be as flavorless as possible. Star Keeper Gin's base spirit is made from clementines, and is purpose distilled to subtly retain some of the character of its source fruit. With a silky texture and a slight lingering sweetness, its proprietary distillate allows our head distiller to compose a gin with structure, a longer finish, and greater definition of component flavors. It is a gin in the classic style, while welcoming some novel flavors to the mix. About The Spirit Guild Dedicated to celebrating the fruits and flavors of California through the traditional art of distillation. Their tasting room and distillery are situated in Los Angeles' Arts District on a site where once thrived the state's first commercial vineyards and orange groves, just blocks from the scenic Los Angeles River.

https://entrearchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/MichaelTodoran.jpg ()Architecture Documentary Film Michael Todoran is a native Angeleno practicing landscape design at Zanja Madre Studios in Los Angeles, CA. He has worked in small, mid-size, and global landscape architecture firms and designed projects from the smallest residential gardens to complex international podium projects. Michael’s interest in discovering and sharing stories of landscape architecture led him to launch The Landscape Architecture Podcast. Since its inception, he has produced over 60 interviews with the luminaries in the profession. This week at EntreArchitect Podcast, Architecture Documentary Film with Michael Todoran. Connect with Michael online at https://www.zanjamadrestudios.com/home (Zanja Madre Studios), preorder the http://www.superfiskyfilm.com (documentary about the Los Angeles River), check out the https://www.larchitect.org (The Landscape Architecture Podcast), or connect with him on https://www.linkedin.com/in/todoran/ (LinkedIn).https://entrearchitect.com/podcast/entrearch/business-by-design/ () Please visit Our Platform Sponsors http://Twinmotion.link/EntreArchitect (Twinmotion) offers simple, real-time visualization for architects to view and edit your scene on-the-go. Present your biggest idea in the easiest way possible to differentiate your projects from your competitors! Download a FREE trial at http://Twinmotion.link/EntreArchitect (Twinmotion.link/EntreArchitect). https://arcat.com (ARCAT) is the online resource delivering quality building material information, CAD details, BIM, Specs, and more… all for free. Visit ARCAT now and subscribe to http://arcat.com (ARCATECT Weekly and ARCATAlert). http://EntreArchitect.com/Freshbooks (Freshbooks) is the all in one bookkeeping software that can save your small architecture firm both time and money by simplifying the hard parts of running your own business. Try Freshbooks for 30 days for FREE at http://EntreArchitect.com/Freshbooks (EntreArchitect.com/Freshbooks). http://EntreArchitect.com/Monograph (Monograph) is a time tracking and project management tool built by architects for architects. Visit https://entrearchitect.com/monograph/ (EntreArchitect.com/Monograph) to learn more and try it for free today. Additionally, you can join other firm owners, operations leaders and project leaders for a one-day virtual conference to improve your business by registering at http://SectionCut.com (SectionCut.com). Visit our Platform Sponsors today and thank them for supporting YOU… The EntreArchitect Community of small firm architects.   The post https://entrearchitect.com/podcast/entrearch/architecture-documentary-film/ (EA398: Michael Todoran – Architecture Documentary Film) appeared first on https://entrearchitect.com (EntreArchitect // Small Firm Entrepreneur Architects).

At a time of drought in the area of Southern California, and in the Southwest region of the United States, award-winning Novelist, Barbara Crane, gives us hope with her compelling and beautifully written story, WHEN WATER WAS EVERYWHERE. Fictional characters are set in the history of California at the dramatic moment when it passes from being part of Mexico to joining the United States as a result of the Mexican American War in the middle of the 19th century. Crane's novel contributes to a greater understanding of the original population of the region by the indigenous tribe, the Tongva, which was a time when water was in abundance. We learn as we follow what happens to the people populating her novel, about the Los Angeles River, and in the Podcast conversation, how drought in California has developed. WHEN WATER WAS EVERYWHERE by Barbara Crane, entertains us with her fascinating story and at the same time, inspires us to consider our current water crises given new understandings of what is possible for better outcomes in the future. The book is available at Amazon and can be ordered at any bookstore. It can be found on Kindle or most E-book platforms. The website is Whenwaterwaseverywhere.com

The Los Angeles River hardly looks like a river. It's concrete channels are emblematic of an era when complete dominance over the landscape was considered progress. But times are changing. In this episode, we talk with Andrea Dell'Apa from the Council for Watershed Health and Wendy Katagi from Stillwater Sciences about the Los Angeles River Fish Passage & Habitat Structures Design Project and the potential for bringing the iconic steelhead trout back to Southern California waters. Links to resources from the show: LAR Fish Passage Project Description Project GIS StoryMap Against the Current video --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

From pet pigs to pajamas to perms, Dana and Jessica wax on these items from the week.  Dana is frustrated by suction cups and hate corsets.  Jessica is equally mad about too many people offering to help instead of no one at all.  Oh Snap Corner is a savvy wife who takes her husband's sneaky behavior into her own hands.  Oh Wow Corner is about Bruce's Beach, a part of Manhattan Beach once owned and developed by a black family only to be run out of town.  Rave #1 is Friends of the LA River, a non profit whose mission is to ensure an equitable, publicly accessible, and ecologically sustainable Los Angeles River by inspiring River stewardship through community engagement, education and advocay.  Rave #2 is the Giving Closet, started by an LA Celebrity Stylist who  coordinates and presents entire wardrobes to deserving women around the country.   Friends of the LA River - https://folar.org/ Giving Closet - https://www.givingcloset.net/about/  

The 51-mile Los Angeles River, more known for its barren stretches of concrete, is undergoing a long-term Master Planned greening and revitalization. Big questions remain about how to restore biodiversity, provide water resiliency in the face of climate disruption, and protect the local neighborhoods from green gentrification that has already presented problems along sections of the river. On this show, our host Jessica Aldridge is joined by representatives from a coalition of organizations, Friends of the Los Angeles River [http://folar.org], Heal the Bay [http://www.healthebay.org], and East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice (EYCEJ) [http://eycej.org/]. The coalition has concerns with the plan’s vision, lack of community input, human rights, and environmental protections. *Liliana Griego serves as Director of Policy, Advocacy, and Engagement for Friends of the LA River. As a native Angelino who grew up along the Arroyo Seco, she has had an intimate relationship with LA’s living waterways and uses her story and scientific background to advocate for a healthy, resilient, and equitably accessible LA River. *Katherine Pease, Director of Science & Policy for Heal the Bay, has a background in biology, receiving her undergraduate degree from Barnard and her PhD from UCLA. She became passionate about protecting our local rivers and streams through her graduate research on tadpoles in the Santa Monica Mountains and visits to the LA River. Katherine has been at Heal the Bay for nine years, working to make our coastal waters and watersheds safe, healthy, and clean. *Jessica Prieto, Community Stability Policy Organizer for EYCEJ, was born and raised in East Los Angeles and has a Masters of Urban and Regional Planning from UCLA Luskin. She has extensive experience working at the grassroots level on various planning issues and their impact on communities of color. She has been an EYCEJ member since 2015, and currently leads EYCEJ's community stability efforts throughout Southeast LA cities. -Comment portal for the Master Plan: https://folar.org/county-plan/ -Link to Facebook recording of advocacy training by HtB, FoLAR, EYCEJ: https://www.facebook.com/295656805868/videos/3706811629406761 -Guardian piece highlights how CBOs like East Yard need to hold polluters and agencies accountable. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/19/citizen-regulators-epa-pollution-environment -LA Times write-up on the action at the federal courthouse after the Exide bankruptcy was announced: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-19/exide-cleanup-bankruptcy-march -Article: http://folar.org/county-plan Podcast Website: http://ecojusticeradio.org/ Podcast Blog: https://www.wilderutopia.com/category/ecojustice-radio/ Support the Podcast: https://socal350.org/contribute-to-socal-350-climate-action/ Host and Producer: Jessica Aldridge Engineer: Blake Lampkin Executive Producer: Jack Eidt Show Created by Mark and JP Morris Music: Javier Kadry Episode 95 Image: William Preston Bowling

Behind the environmental conservation buzzwords there are complex and fascinating stories about how us humans are reimagining how we interact with our environment. From revitalizing the concrete channels of the Los Angeles River to preserving the salmon rich waters of Southeast Alaska to rethinking the sprawling agricultural empires of the American Midwest, the Greener Us podcast explores the science, philosophy, and artistry driving the green revolution. Living sustainably starts with knowledge, and this podcast is our quest to find and share that knowledge. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Your morning news today: California is revamping its plan to help eligible residents in underserved communities get COVID-19 vaccines; The public comment period is open for you to weigh in on the future of the Los Angeles River, and more. This program is made possible in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people. Support the show: https://support.laist.com/laistnav

AUDIO FILE Hey Dude, I riff and ramble about taking a second crack at the "podcast novel" using a new program that might really tie the room together.QUOTE: "When I first saw S-Town in my mind's eye."PEOPLE: Individual-1, Caryl Chessman, Barbara Graham, Al Matthews, Blayney Matthews, Joan Anderson, Yogi Berra, John Clellon Holmes, Lewis MacAdams, Jack KerouacPLACES: Venice, The Gas House, Burbank, Wildwood Canyon, Downtown Los Angeles, Universal City, East Valley, Cahuenga Pass THINGS: "I Want to Live", FOIA request, DAW, Descript, S-Town, mind's eye, Peabody Awards, "podcast novel", pettibone, Healthy Human, L.A. River, Friends of the L.A. River, "Go", Beat Generation, "The Lonesome Traveler"SOUNDS: footsteps, gravel path, Laguna Sawdust Cowbell Chimes, helicopter, dogs, car horn, squirrel, train, airplane, crowGENRE: storytelling, personal narrative, personal journalPHOTO: "Lonesome Jack" shot on my "new" iPhone6RECORDED: November 20, 2020 on the "Wawona Lawn" under the flight path of the Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, California GEAR: Sony ICD PX370 digital voice recorder and Sony ECM CS3 "tie-clip" microphone.HYPE: "It's a beatnik kinda literary thing in a podcast cloak of darkness." Timothy Kimo Brien (cohost on Podwrecked and host of Create Art Podcast)DISCLAIMER/WARNING: Proudly presented rough, raw and ragged. Seasoned with salty language and ideas. Not for most people's taste. Please be advised.

When Anne Louise Bannon heard her husband, then archivist for the City of Los Angeles, speak about the how early Angelenos dug a large ditch (a zanja) to cull water from the Porciuncula River (now known as the Los Angeles River), her first thought was that the Zanja would be an interesting place to find a dead body. Death of the Zanjero and Death of the City Marshall were the first two in her Old Los Angeles series (both delightful), and now comes Death of the Chinese Field Hands (Healcroft House, 2020). Protagonist Maddie Wilcox is a widowed doctor who owns and manages a ranch and vineyard. When she isn’t supervising her wine production, ranch business, and a sizable staff, Maddie is called upon to treat the injuries and diseases of her neighbors. Solving murders is just a past-time, but luckily, she has a keen eye for details and knows what it means when a boot print with a gaping hole is discovered near the bodies of several Chinese workers. The story is loosely based on the lynching of eighteen Chinese men on October 24, 1871 and reminds us that small-minded bigotry and xenophobia is a shameful part of American history we have yet to overcome. Anne Louise Bannon is an author and journalist who wrote her first novel at age 15. Her journalistic work has appeared in Ladies' Home Journal, the Los Angeles Times, Wines and Vines, and in newspapers across the country. She was a TV critic for over 10 years, founded the YourFamilyViewer blog, and created the OddBallGrape.com wine education blog with her husband, Michael Holland. She is the co-author of Howdunit: Book of Poisons, with Serita Stevens, and author of the Freddie and Kathy mystery series, set in the 1920s, the Operation Quickline Series, and the Old Los Angeles series, set in the 1870s. Anne and her husband live in Southern California with an assortment of critters. When not reading or writing, she sews, and is currently learning how to make men's pants. If you enjoyed today’s podcast and would like to discuss it further with me and other New Books network listeners, please join us on Shuffle. Shuffle is an ad-free, invite-only network focused on the creativity community. As NBN listeners, you can get special access to conversations with a dynamic community of writers and literary enthusiasts. Sign up by going to www.shuffle.do/NBN/join G.P. Gottlieb is the author of the Whipped and Sipped Mystery Series and a prolific baker of healthful breads and pastries. Please contact her through her website (GPGottlieb.com) if you wish to recommend an author (of a beautifully-written new novel) to interview, to listen to her previous podcast interviews, to read her mystery book reviews, or to check out some of her awesome recipes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Anne Louise Bannon heard her husband, then archivist for the City of Los Angeles, speak about how early Angelenos dug a large ditch (a zanja) to cull water from the Porciuncula River (now known as the Los Angeles River), her first thought was that the Zanja would be an interesting place to find a dead body. Death of the Zanjero and Death of the City Marshall were the first two in her Old Los Angeles series (both delightful), and now comes Death of the Chinese Field Hands (Healcroft House, 2020). Protagonist Maddie Wilcox is a widowed doctor who owns and manages a ranch and vineyard. When she isn’t supervising her wine production, ranch business, and a sizable staff, Maddie is called upon to treat the injuries and diseases of her neighbors. Solving murders is just a past-time, but luckily, she has a keen eye for details and knows what it means when a boot print with a gaping hole is discovered near the bodies of several Chinese workers. The story is loosely based on the lynching of eighteen Chinese men on October 24, 1871 and reminds us that small-minded bigotry and xenophobia is a shameful part of American history we have yet to overcome. Anne Louise Bannon is an author and journalist who wrote her first novel at age 15. Her journalistic work has appeared in Ladies' Home Journal, the Los Angeles Times, Wines and Vines, and in newspapers across the country. She was a TV critic for over 10 years, founded the YourFamilyViewer blog, and created the OddBallGrape.com wine education blog with her husband, Michael Holland. She is the co-author of Howdunit: Book of Poisons, with Serita Stevens, and author of the Freddie and Kathy mystery series, set in the 1920s, the Operation Quickline Series, and the Old Los Angeles series, set in the 1870s. Anne and her husband live in Southern California with an assortment of critters. When not reading or writing, she sews, and is currently learning how to make men's pants. If you enjoyed today’s podcast and would like to discuss it further with me and other New Books network listeners, please join us on Shuffle. Shuffle is an ad-free, invite-only network focused on the creativity community. As NBN listeners, you can get special access to conversations with a dynamic community of writers and literary enthusiasts. Sign up by going to www.shuffle.do/NBN/join G.P. Gottlieb is the author of the Whipped and Sipped Mystery Series and a prolific baker of healthful breads and pastries. Please contact her through her website (GPGottlieb.com) if you wish to recommend an author (of a beautifully-written new novel) to interview, to listen to her previous podcast interviews, to read her mystery book reviews, or to check out some of her awesome recipes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Abe Schoener has been a disrupter and part of the avant garde of the new school of California wine for so long he’s old school new school. Since 2000 he has been the mind behind The Scholium Project – his winery/philosophical pursuit of a natural, vineyard-specific wine experience. Recently he has moved his base of operations to downtown Los Angeles, and is beginning to make wines from unique old vineyards in Southern California under the auspices of the Los Angeles River Wine Company. Some of the vineyards Abe is working with predate prohibition, and have been untouched by human hands since the 1950’s or 60’s.In our conversation, Abe digs into how he has begun to carefully care for these special vineyards and make wine from them, and what these wines taste like now and promise to taste like in the future. We also talk about Abe’s non-dogmatic perspective on being in the Natural Wine category, and his desire to make wine a unique experience rather than a something defined by grape variety.Abe’s temporary winery location is outdoors in downtown LA industrial zone, and we had the great fortune of recording this podcast while someone was jackhammering nearby throughout the entire interview. So, please bear with the authentic audio background texture. Other than that, it’s a fantastic interview that I hope you’ll get as much out of as I did.

Our guests discuss the history of water upon Tongvalands aka Los Angeles: from free-flowing rivers to concrete-engineered flood control and back again. Hear about the historical impacts of channelization, the formation of dams and the current movement toward dam removal across Turtle Island (aka. the Americas). Once an unbridled, seasonal river wending from the mountains to the ocean, by the 1960s, the entire length of the 51-mile long Paayme Paheight (aka. Los Angeles River) was concretized, destined to become infrastructure and a functional sewer. However, this is no longer the river's destiny as advocacy for freeing the river and its tributaries, restoring native habitat and wildlife grows. Hahamongna is the rare spot in the Arroyo Seco at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains of Southern California where the mountainous watershed meets the urban plain. Periodically floods roar into this basin. Hahamongna contains five unique habitat zones that only exist in alluvial canyons near the mountains. Most sites like this in Southern California have been destroyed. The word means "Flowing Waters, Fruitful Valley" in the native Tongva language. The Hahamongna Native Plant Nursery in Pasadena was so named by revered Chief Yanna (also known as Vera Rocha), a Gabrieliño Shoshone who taught the nursery's community indigenous life ways and how to "see" and care for Hahamongna. More info on Saving Hahamongna: http://www.savehahamongna.org Tim Brick is Managing Director of the Arroyo Seco Foundation [http://www.arroyoseco.org], and has been involved in promoting environmental awareness and sustainability for many years. He served on the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California for 28 years including two terms as chair. Parker Davis is Director of Marketing and Communications at the Hahamongna Native Plant Nursery [http://www.hahamongna.org]. A Pasadena native with a background in fine arts, he has an aesthetic obsession with California native plants. He works with volunteers, propagating plants for restoring natural areas & beautifying the local community’s neighborhoods and public spaces. Interview by Carry Kim Hosted by Jessica Aldridge Engineer: Blake Lampkin Executive Producer: Jack Eidt Show Created by Mark and JP Morris Music: Javier Kadry Episode 75 Photo by One Arroyo Foundation

The year is 1924. Things are blowing up in California, France makes the Winter Olympics happen, and movie mogul Thomas Ince mysteriously dies...or maybe just ate too many salted almonds.All of this, plus the year's top 5 songs and top 5 silent films.*******Intro Music: "Just Like a Rainbow" by The Columbians, licensed under the public domain license, found at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Columbians/Antique_Phonograph_Music_Program_08252015/Just_Like_A_Rainbowhttps://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/i_r/mulholland.htmhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/california-scheming-69592006/https://www.asce.org/project/first-owens-river-los-angeles-aqueduct/http://yourlariver.com/http://www.conservationsolutions.org/https://mrca.ca.gov/los-angeles-river/https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Los+Angeles+River,+California/Owens+River,+California/@35.6223969,-120.1969623,7z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x80c2b7c873c06f81:0xa44a2d47e68ffb3b!2m2!1d-118.2231868!2d34.0154242!1m5!1m1!1s0x80be39a0d6711293:0x2f8f5d0ff53fdcd7!2m2!1d-118.3104015!2d37.2713485!3e0https://lacounty.gov/government/about-la-county/history/https://www.pge.com/includes/docs/pdfs/about/edusafety/training/pec/toolbox/arch/climate/california_climate_zone_06.pdfhttps://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-feb-02-me-annual-rain-graphic2-story.htmlhttps://viewer.nationalmap.gov/advanced-viewer/https://www.quotetab.com/quote/by-william-randolph-hearst/truth-is-not-only-stranger-than-fiction-it-is-more-interesting https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-apr-04-me-24119-story.html%3f_amp=true https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/mysterious-death-newport-movie-mogul-thomas-ince/ https://www.filmsite.org/1924.html http://www.films101.com/y1924r.htm https://popculturemadness.com/Music/Charts/1924.php https://www.musicvf.com/songs.php?page=year&year=1924 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1924_Winter_Olympicshttps://www.olympic.org/chamonix-1924https://time.com/4993522/first-winter-olympics-1924-chamonix-france/

First Known Coronavirus Death Weeks Earlier Than Previously Thought The first confirmed deaths from the novel coronavirus in the United States look like they took place in Santa Clara County, more than a month earlier than initially thought and reported. Reporter: Kate Wolffe, KQED PG&E's CEO Steps Down The CEO of embattled utility Pacific Gas and Electric is stepping down. The utility's plan for leaving bankruptcy has been approved and will allow it to tap a state insurance fund in case of future fires. Reporter: Lily Jamali, KQED Governor Newsom Warns Against Re-opening State Golf courses, beaches and parks are opening again as some California cities and counties begin to ease stay-at-home orders put in place to slow the spread of the coronavirus. But Governor Gavin says the number of positive tests, hospitalizations, and deaths have actually ticked up, not down. New Poll Illuminates Coronavirus Concerns With the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths still climbing, a new poll finds many Californians are very worried about their health, and their finances. Reporter: Scott Shafer, KQED California EPA Fights Federal Regulatory Relaxation This Earth Day, California’s Environmental Protection Agency is carrying an extra burden. In March, its federal counterpart said that it would stop enforcing most environmental regulations for an open-ended period of time. Reporter: Craig Miller, KQED Diary of a Bay Area Nurse When hospital workers show up for work, they have to take extraordinary precautions to make sure they don’t spread the coronavirus inside hospitals. And those precautions don’t stop once they leave work and go home. Bay Area ER nurse Douglas Frey offers a snapshot of what he does after a shift at the hospital. Producer: Leslie McClurg, KQED 'Trailers for Nurses' Helps Health Workers Isolate Health care workers are exposed to the coronavirus more than anyone else. After their shift is over, many worry about passing the sickness onto their families. So they’ve had to find ways to isolate after work with some even pitching tents in their garages and backyards. Now, in Ventura County north of L.A., they’ve got another option. Reporter: Kathryn Barnes, KCRW Lewis MacAdams, advocate for LA River, Dies Lewis MacAdams has died. A poet and environmentalist, for more than thirty years, MacAdams championed the restoration of the Los Angeles River through his art and activism by founding the group the Friends of the L.A. River.

All along the Anaheim Street corridor, new businesses are sprouting up. This is especially noticeable on the corridor's western portion, where historic homes eventually give way to industrial warehouses before the street meets the Los Angeles River. Here, new businesses have begun to fill once-vacant buildings and bring new offerings to the neighborhood. We met with The Hawk's Kyle Flavin and Long Beach Rising's Grayston Leonard to discuss the "renaissance" of Anaheim Street.

We were all set to release this audio time travel exploration of the history, happenings and colorful characters that comprise the 94 year story of the one and only club of hospitality when word came to us that longtime Breakfast Clubber (and former club president) Darrell Hughes had died. So, this month's show begins with a tribute to Darrell courtesy of our beloved Reverend Barbara Adams. Our exercise guru Carole Nese introduces Doug Spice, who discusses L.A.'s aviation history. Renaissance woman Mandy Lacy introduces Dr. Tilly Hinton, who celebrates the indelible geographical feature that is the Los Angeles River. Globe-trotting academic Charles Coulombe introduces City Controller Ron Galperin, who ... Tells us what a controller does. Renowned 3-D expert Eric Kurland introduces Suzanne Lloyd, the granddaughter of true Hollywood royalty, Harold Lloyd, who regales us with tales of her grandfather's passion for 3-D photography. Pop culture maven Kevin Segall introduces and interviews rock star turned magician Rob Zabrecky. Host Phil Leirness gets better acquainted with special guest Jonathan Reich. All that plus Club President Lily Leirness initiates two new members into the Democracy of Ham an' Eggs and previews the upcoming events at the Shrine of Friendship, and several mystery guests treat us to a rousing musical performance.

Marissa Christiansen, Executive Director of Friends of the LA River (FOLAR), wants you to forget what you think you know about the Los Angeles River. Hear about the troubled history and idyllic future of the LA River and learn about Marissa's work with FOLAR. Founded in 1986, FOLAR is a 501c3 nonprofit whose mission is to ensure a publicly accessible and ecologically sustainable Los Angeles River by inspiring River stewardship through community engagement, education, advocacy, and thought leadership.

Maggie Pitts talks about ways to slow down and savor the precious moments amidst the frenzied pace of everyday life. Catherine Price explains how to analyze your relationship with your phone and identify signs that you may need to get some distance from screens. Michael Atkins from Friends of the Los Angeles River tells us about how residents are restoring their environment. Michael Batty covers cities, their changes and growth, and how best to adapt to an urban future.

If a river could talk, who’s story would it tell? Running 51 miles through one of the most urbanized landscapes in the world, the Los Angeles River is overflowing with a rich history, a complex present, and a contested future. Travel down its concrete banks with producer Cameron Tenner, as he uncovers a story of power, exploitation, and resilience. Special thanks to Catherine Gudis, Robert García, Irma Muñoz, Steven Appleton, Johanna Hackett, and all those who spoke with and guided me along the way. Music:​ Memory Wind by Podington Bear, Los Angeles New Years by Woody Guthrie

Mercedes and Ryan live near the Los Angeles River and spend lots of time on the river picking up trash, admiring the wildlife, and walking their dog Penny. Learn more about their experiences and their observations on the river.

Alexander Robinson is an Assistant Professor in the USC Landscape Architecture & Urbanism program, an Affiliate of both the Spatial Sciences Institute and Wrigley Institute of Environmental Studies, and principal of the Office of Outdoor Research/LMLab in Los Angeles, California. A landscape architect, researcher, and scholar he is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and a lifelong explorer of California. His research advances the design craft, resilience, and societal value of large-scale, multifunctional infrastructures through a synthesis of historical analysis, advanced design tools, and public engagement. Subjects include Owens Lake, Los Angeles River, Salton Sea, and Tevere (Tiber) River, as well as other infrastructure/open-space hybrids. Prior to his academic appointment, Alexander worked at SWA Group, MLA-Studio, and Stoss and contributed to major regional infrastructure master plans, including the award-winning 2005 Los Angeles River Revitalization Master Plan that has guided the city for the last decade. His own practice, the Office of Outdoor Research won a 2018 ASLA (Southern California Chapter) Merit Award for the RebArena.

Deborah Weintraub's work over nearly two decades with the Los Angeles Bureau of Engineering displays her commitment to maintaining public facilities and respecting Los Angeles' arid environment. Much of her career has been focused on issues surrounding the Los Angeles River and her participation has been critical in the development of the Los Angeles River Masterplan, the LA River ARBOR Plan, as well as in efforts to create nature focused bike paths along the river.

Our guest today is Tim DeRoche, a McKinsey alum and independent consultant who is also the author of The Ballad of Huck & Miguel, a novel published in February 2018 by Redtail Press. The Ballad of Huck and Miguel is a retelling of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in which Tim imagines that Huck is alive today and instead  of traveling on the Mississippi with an escaped slave, Huck is living in Los Angeles and travels along the Los Angeles River with an undocumented immigrant. It is a fabulous novel with wonderfully inventive language and great fun to read. In this episode, Tim and I discuss how he came to write the novel, and how he combines this creative pursuit with his management consulting practice. Independent consulting provides the career flexibility to pursue a career as an artist in parallel, and Tim’s experience is a great example of that. I hope you enjoy this discussion as much as I did.

If you love Ray Wise on TWIN PEAKS, if you love cop shows, and if you love robots, then this is the series for you! It's COPS WITH ROBOT PARTNERS MONTH on CANCELED TOO SOON, and this week we're reviewing CONDOR, a failed pilot for a futuristic series about a sexist jerk and the female robot partner who's obviously too good for him. CONDOR predicted online credit card transactions, but it couldn't predict its own, almost immediate cancelation. But was it... CANCELED TOO SOON? Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are here to find out, by analyzing every futuristic prognostication, every unenlightened line of dialogue, and every dune buggy chase through the Los Angeles River! Subscribe on Patreon for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, exclusive videos, Google Hangouts and much, much more! And visit our TeePublic page to buy CANCELED TOO SOON shirts, mugs and other exciting merchandise!  Follow us on Twitter at @CanceledCast, "Like" us at Facebook.com/CanceledTooSoon, follow Bibbs at @WilliamBibbiani and follow Witney at @WitneySeibold!  Do you have a suggestion for a TV show that was "canceled too soon" (i.e. lasted only one season or less)? You can email us at canceledtoosoon@gmail.com, or you can head over to our Amazon Wish List to send us more exciting one season wonders that we can review on the show! Theme Song: "The C2S Team" by Andy Hentz See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Los Angeles Susan Marling speaks to Frank Gehry. The famous architect has been charged with creating a master plan for the improvement of the Los Angeles River. It is a tough job. Since the 1930s when the river was straightened and lined with concrete to mitigate flooding, the waterway has been a hidden, polluted channel that many Angelenos did not even know existed. But now the money and the political will (we speak to mayor of LA, Eric Garcetti) are in place to ‘green' the river, create parks, continue the development of cycle paths and to spark a swathe of new housing and connections between neighbourhoods. The big question is whether this can be done without displacing the poorer people and the small businesses who currently live and work close to the river. And if LA becomes host of the 2024 summer Olympics, will it have a new clean river to show the world? Producer: Victoria Ferran (Photo: The Los Angeles River)

Lynda V. Mapes has been reporting on environmental issues for the Seattle Times since 1997 with a specific focus on river health and Native American communities. These points of focus merged in her 2016 coverage of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests at Standing Rock. On January 24, 2017, Mapes was joined in conversation by mark! Lopez, executive director of East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice. Much of Lopez’s organizing takes place in communities adjacent to the southern portion of the Los Angeles River. In this conversation, Mapes and Lopez spoke about what we’ve learned from Standing Rock, and how those lessons relate to LA River revitalization. This event was co-presented with California State Parks and Friends of the Los Angeles River. Suggested Reading & Listening Will the Los Angeles River Become a Playground for the Rich? Richard Kreitner, The Nation, March 10, 2016 Reporting on the Dakota Access Pipeline… ft. Lynda V. Mapes, The Overcast podcast, November 4, 2016 Exposing Injustice at the LA River Christian L. Guzman, Random Lengths News, September 2, 2016 This event was part of Clockshop’s Counter-Inaugural, a series of talks addressing the misogyny, hate speech, and climate change denial that dominated the 2016 presidential campaign. It was recorded by Andrew Kim.

TOPICAdvancing Racial, Social, and Environmental Equality IN THIS EPISODE[01:23] Mike announces the Infinite Earth Lab training program. [02:44] Mike explains this episode of Infinite Earth Radio. [03:11] Robert Garcia is introduced. [04:07] Robert explains when he realized fighting for civil rights would be his life’s work. [05:37] Robert describes the victory of the Bus Riders Union versus the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority. [07:51] Robert shares why Title VI of the Civil Rights Act is an important tool in the battle for environmental justice. [12:24] If those who receive federal funding violate the agreement of Title VI, what can the federal government do? [16:19] Robert explains why The City Project is focused on equal access to natural resources. [21:00] Robert discusses his efforts to restore the Los Angeles River. [25:07] Robert shares what it was like for The City Project to be involved in creating new national monuments. [28:47] How will the communities with newly restored natural areas going to benefit from the investment and the restoration and not become displaced? [33:33] Robert shares one change that would lead to smarter, more sustainable, and more equitable communities. [33:59] Robert describes the action that listeners can take to help build a more equitable and sustainable future. [34:19] Robert explains what California, our national parks, our natural resources and monuments look like 30 years from now. GUEST Robert García is a civil rights attorney who engages, educates, and empowers communities to seek equal access to public and natural resources. He is the Founding Director and Counsel of The City Project, a non-profit legal and policy advocacy organization in Los Angeles, California. Robert graduated from Stanford University and Stanford Law School and is an Assistant Professor at Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science. Robert has extensive experience in public policy, legal advocacy, mediation, and litigation involving complex social justice, civil rights, human health, environmental, education, and criminal justice matters. He has influenced the investment of over $43 billion in underserved communities, working at the intersection of equal justice, public health, and the built environment. He served as chairman of the Citizens’ School Bond Oversight Committee for five years, helping raise over $27 billion to build new, and modernize existing, public schools as centers of their communities in Los Angeles. He has helped communities create and preserve great urban parks and preserve access to beaches and trails. He has helped diversify support for and access to state resource bonds, with unprecedented levels of support among communities of color and low-income communities, and billions of dollars for urban parks. He served on the Development Team for the National Park Service Healthy Parks, Healthy People Community Engagement eGuide. Robert served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and an attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund. He received the President’s Award from the California Attorneys for Criminal Justice for helping release Geronimo Pratt, the former Black Panther leader, from prison after 27 years for a crime he did not commit. He represented people on Death Row in Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi. Stanford Law School called him a “civil rights giant” and Stanford Magazine “an inspiration.” Robert served on the Justice and Peace Commission for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles under Cardinal Roger Mahony. He is an immigrant who came to the U.S. from Guatemala at age four. http://www.cityprojectca.org/senior-staff (Mr. Garcia’s Publications) Organization The City Project, a non-profit legal and policy advocacy team in Los Angeles, California. The City Project works with diverse allies on equal access to (1) healthy green land use through community planning; (2) climate justice; (3)...

Barbara Crane recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 19, 2017. Crane is a novelist, journalist and teacher. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Sun magazine and other publications.

Our second conversation from 'Next Up: The LA River' is with Marissa Christiansen, Senior Policy Director of Friends of the Los Angeles River. FOLAR, as the non-profit is known, turned 30 this year, and was founded on the mission to "protect and restore the natural and historic heritage of the Los Angeles river and its riparian habitat through inclusive planning, education and wise stewardship." Its role in much of the river's discourse has often included reminding all parties involved that the river is indeed a natural river, and host to a diverse ecosystem—despite its characterization as the "world's largest storm drain" ever since the Army Corps of Engineers paved most of it for flood control in the 1930s. Christiansen trained as an urban planner before joining FOLAR this year, and spoke with Archinect's Nicholas Korody about the organization's history within the river's redevelopment, its focus on reconnecting people with the river's immense natural resources, and the delicate balance between conservation, revitalization and gentrification.

Los-Angeles based architect Michael Maltzan may be best known for his multiple residential projects with the Skid Row Housing Trust, and the longer-than-the-Empire-State-Building-is-tall residential mixed user, One Santa Fe. But Maltzan’s office is also designing Los Angeles’ new Sixth Street Viaduct, a since-demolished infrastructural icon of the city that bridged the Los Angeles River between downtown and Boyle Heights. Michael shares his relationship with the growing identity of downtown Los Angeles, and his perspective on the style of urbanism arising on LA’s westside in the “Silicon Beach” neighborhood of Playa Vista. We also discuss the effect of China’s ban on “weird” architecture for LA-architects practicing there. This episode originally aired on March 14, 2016.

TOPICAdvancing Racial, Social, and Environmental Equality IN THIS EPISODE[01:23] Introduction of Robert Garcia. [02:30] Robert explains when he realized fighting for civil rights would be his life’s work. [04:00] Robert describes the victory of the Bus Riders Union versus the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority. [06:15] Robert shares why Title VI of the Civil Rights Act is an important tool in the battle for environmental justice. [10:47] If those who receive federal funding violate the agreement of Title VI, what can the federal government do? [14:43] Robert explains why The City Project is focused on equal access to natural resources. [19:23] Robert discusses his efforts to restore the Los Angeles River. [23:30] Robert shares what it was like for The City Project to be involved in creating new national monuments. [27:10] How will the communities with newly restored natural areas benefit from the investment and the restoration and not become displaced? [31:56] Robert shares one change that would lead to smarter, more sustainable, and more equitable communities. [32:23] Robert describes the action listeners can take to help build a more equitable and sustainable future. [32:42] Robert explains what California, our national parks, and our natural resources and monuments look like 30 years from now. GUEST Robert García is a civil rights attorney who engages, educates, and empowers communities to seek equal access to public and natural resources. He is the Founding Director and Counsel of The City Project, a non-profit legal and policy advocacy organization in Los Angeles, California. Robert graduated from Stanford University and Stanford Law School and is an Assistant Professor at Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science. Robert has extensive experience in public policy, legal advocacy, mediation, and litigation involving complex social justice, civil rights, human health, environmental, education, and criminal justice matters. He has influenced the investment of over $43 billion in underserved communities, working at the intersection of equal justice, public health, and the built environment. He served as chairman of the Citizens’ School Bond Oversight Committee for five years, helping raise over $27 billion to build new, and modernize existing, public schools as centers of their communities in Los Angeles. He has helped communities create and preserve great urban parks and preserve access to beaches and trails. He has helped diversify support for and access to state resource bonds, with unprecedented levels of support among communities of color and low-income communities, and billions of dollars for urban parks. He served on the Development Team for the National Park Service Healthy Parks, Healthy People Community Engagement eGuide. Robert served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and an attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund. He received the President’s Award from the California Attorneys for Criminal Justice for helping release Geronimo Pratt, the former Black Panther leader, from prison after 27 years for a crime he did not commit. He represented people on Death Row in Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi. Stanford Law School called him a “civil rights giant” and Stanford Magazine “an inspiration.” Robert served on the Justice and Peace Commission for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles under Cardinal Roger Mahony. He is an immigrant who came to the U.S. from Guatemala at age four. http://www.cityprojectca.org/senior-staff (Mr. Garcia’s Publications) http://www.cityprojectca.org/major-cases (Mr. Garcia’s Major Cases) ORGANIZATIONThe City Project, a non-profit legal and policy advocacy team in Los Angeles, California. The City Project works with diverse allies on equal access to (1) healthy green land use through community planning; (2) climate justice; (3) quality education including physical education; (4) health equity;...

Heal the Bay released yesterday a landmark study of water quality in the Los Angeles River. Dr. Katherine Pease, the study's author, explains why improving the river's water quality should be an integral part of any plan to restore it.Last week's massive 2.4 million gallon sewage spill into the Los Angeles River and subsequent closure of local beaches illustrates the serious water-quality challenges facing our inland waterways.http://www.breitbart.com/clinton-cash-movie/Heal the Bayhttp://www.healthebay.org/blogs-news/water-quality-study-la-river-rec-zonesFULL Reporthttp://www.healthebay.org/sites/default/files/LA-RIVER-STUDY-FINAL-FOR-RELEASE.pdfhttp://www.presstelegram.com/environment-and-nature/20160727/la-river-polluted-with-harmful-levels-of-fecal-bacteria-study-finds

Heal the Bay released yesterday a landmark study of water quality in the Los Angeles River. Dr. Katherine Pease, the study's author, explains why improving the river's water quality should be an integral part of any plan to restore it.Last week's massive 2.4 million gallon sewage spill into the Los Angeles River and subsequent closure of local beaches illustrates the serious water-quality challenges facing our inland waterways.http://www.breitbart.com/clinton-cash-movie/Heal the Bayhttp://www.healthebay.org/blogs-news/water-quality-study-la-river-rec-zonesFULL Reporthttp://www.healthebay.org/sites/default/files/LA-RIVER-STUDY-FINAL-FOR-RELEASE.pdfhttp://www.presstelegram.com/environment-and-nature/20160727/la-river-polluted-with-harmful-levels-of-fecal-bacteria-study-finds

Massive Long Beach Sewage Spill Grows to 2.5 Million Gallons. Who is going to PAY for all of this?!? A pipeline burst in downtown Los Angeles Monday, releasing an estimated 2.45 million gallons of raw sewage into the Los Angeles River, which flowed into Long Beach Harbor late Monday and into Tuesday, prompting several beach closures along the coastline, according to Long Beach Health officials. Long Beach has about seven miles of public beaches, visited by some 50,000 people during the summer months.Here are the beaches that are closed:•5th Place Beach•10th Place Beach•Moline Ave. Beach•Coronado Ave. Beach•Westside of Belmont Pier•Prospect Ave. Beach•Granada Ave. Beach•55th Place Beach•72nd Place BeachHere are the beaches that remain open:•56th Place on Bayside•Alamitos Bay shore Float•2nd St. Bridge & Bayshore•Mothers’ Beach•Colorado Lagoon-South•Colorado Lagoon-NorthMassive LA sewage spill may close Long Beach beaches into weekendhttp://www.presstelegram.com/environment-and-nature/20160719/massive-la-sewage-spill-may-close-long-beach-beaches-into-weekendUPDATE: Sewage Spilled Grows to 2.5 Million Gallons, Officials Sayhttps://lbpost.com/life/health/2000009224-la-sewage-spill-shuts-down-long-beach-coastal-beaches-mondayLONG BEACH EARNS EXCELLENT GRADES FOR WATER QUALITY FROM HEAL THE BAYhttp://www.longbeach.gov/common/templates/city-news.aspx?id=67872

Massive Long Beach Sewage Spill Grows to 2.5 Million Gallons. Who is going to PAY for all of this?!? A pipeline burst in downtown Los Angeles Monday, releasing an estimated 2.45 million gallons of raw sewage into the Los Angeles River, which flowed into Long Beach Harbor late Monday and into Tuesday, prompting several beach closures along the coastline, according to Long Beach Health officials. Long Beach has about seven miles of public beaches, visited by some 50,000 people during the summer months.Here are the beaches that are closed:•5th Place Beach•10th Place Beach•Moline Ave. Beach•Coronado Ave. Beach•Westside of Belmont Pier•Prospect Ave. Beach•Granada Ave. Beach•55th Place Beach•72nd Place BeachHere are the beaches that remain open:•56th Place on Bayside•Alamitos Bay shore Float•2nd St. Bridge & Bayshore•Mothers’ Beach•Colorado Lagoon-South•Colorado Lagoon-NorthMassive LA sewage spill may close Long Beach beaches into weekendhttp://www.presstelegram.com/environment-and-nature/20160719/massive-la-sewage-spill-may-close-long-beach-beaches-into-weekendUPDATE: Sewage Spilled Grows to 2.5 Million Gallons, Officials Sayhttps://lbpost.com/life/health/2000009224-la-sewage-spill-shuts-down-long-beach-coastal-beaches-mondayLONG BEACH EARNS EXCELLENT GRADES FOR WATER QUALITY FROM HEAL THE BAYhttp://www.longbeach.gov/common/templates/city-news.aspx?id=67872

LA Times columnist Patt Morrison speaks with Matthew Gandy, geographer, urbanist, and Professor of Cultural and Historical Geography at the University of Cambridge, about the elusive and infamous Los Angeles River. 

The 204th of a series of weekly radio programmes created by :zoviet*france: First broadcast 4 June 2016 by Resonance 104.4 FM Thanks to the artists and sound recordists included here for their fine work. track list 01 Id M Theft Able - There Were Two People Smoking, There Was a Little Bit of Snow on the Ground [extract] 02 Peter Wullen - Haunted Forest in the Rain 03 Fossil Aerosol Mining Project - Beyond Belief 04 Ultra-red - 990614 Los Angeles River and 134 Freeway at Bette Davis Park 05 Filipo Laresca (Rizomas) - Taxonomía 06 [unknown sound recordist] - Dooropen 07 Freiband - Vrijdag [extract] 08 Ivan Black - The Wandering 09 Harold Nono - Otōsan 10 Snezhana Reizen - IceExp (Act I) 11 Mathieu Lamontagne & Emmanuel Toledo - Anthracite

This week's One-to-One guest, the Los-Angeles based architect Michael Maltzan, may be best known for his multiple residential projects with the Skid Row Housing Trust, and the longer-than-the-Empire-State-Building-is-tall residential mixed user, One Santa Fe. But Maltzan’s office is also designing Los Angeles’ new Sixth Street Viaduct, a since-demolished infrastructural icon of the city that bridged the Los Angeles River between downtown and Boyle Heights. Michael shares his relationship with the growing identity of downtown Los Angeles, and his perspective on the style of urbanism arising on LA’s westside in the “Silicon Beach” neighborhood of Playa Vista. We also discuss the effect of China’s ban on “weird” architecture for LA-architects practicing there.

In 1938, the Los Angeles River overflowed its banks causing such loss of life and property damage that the Red Cross called it the fifth largest flood in history. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was brought in to create flood control and protect the city, which resulted in the pouring of 3 million barrels of concrete to tame the river. Environmental degradation and loss of biodiversity were upshots of the project, but 77 years later, the US Army Corps Civil Works Review Board unanimously adopted Alternative 20 – a $1.35 billion plan to break up the concrete and restore 11 miles of LA River habitat. Today we'll be joined by Lewis MacAdams, founder and President of FoLAR (Friends of the Los Angeles River) and Shelly Backlar, Vice President of Programs for FoLAR, to discuss how the L.A. community is working with the federal government to restore the river and its natural beauty. @FoLARtweets

Carla and guest host Chantal discuss the weekly news including iPhones taking a trip to space, the dramatic rescue of a dog from the Los Angeles River and recording breaking ballon flights.

What the Los Angeles River can teach us about God's presence…

Author, poet, and revolutionary environmental performance artist, Lewis MacAdams, joins Johnny on a beautiful summer day for an epic riverside conversation at the FrogSpot. Lewis is the co-founder of Folar (Friends of the Los Angeles River). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Colin Marshall sits down at the top of the Hotel Wilshire with Lynn Garrett, proprietor of popular online community Hidden Los Angeles and fifth-generation Angeleno. They discuss how best to prepare Germans for their Los Angeles vacation, since their guidebooks have failed; which human needs the many persistent myths about this city fulfill; how here, you are your own salvation; the revitalization of the Los Angeles River, as against the notion that "all it is is dead bodies and gang members"; Los Angeles as reflector of the observer's own particular hatreds; getting to know the city not as a city, but as a constellation of villages; her art-school exploration of the city back when she "didn't know not to"; who hangs out and talks on Hidden Los Angeles, and which topics get them most fired up; the human tendency to get upset about change of any kind, whether positive or negative, and to adjust perceptions accordingly; what happened when Hidden Los Angeles went viral, attracting 250,000 followers; Caine's Arcade, Skid Row charities, and all the other ways she's found the community can help (when not arguing); what the followers teach her about Los Angeles, the city no one person can possibly know; and what she learns from leaving the city, as well as how she makes herself an outsider when in it. (Photo: James Acomb)

William Deverell explores the history of the Los Angeles River and investigates the ways in which large-scale environmental projects such as cementing a river can inevitably reveal much about regional culture and identity. Deverell is professor of history at USC and the director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.

Colin Marshall sits down in Pasadena with journalist Patt Morrison, best known for her "Patt Morrison Asks" column in the Los Angeles Times, her years hosting Life and Times and Bookshow with Patt Morrison on public television as well as Patt Morrison on KPCC, and her book Rio L.A.: Tales from the Los Angeles River. They discuss her childhood in an Ohio town of 2,000 people, where the nearest cool place was a book; how and why her family decided to pull up stakes and stay on the move before suddenly deciding to settle in Tuscon, Arizona, a bustling metropolis by comparison; how she developed a kind of historical fourth-dimensional vision, letting her see what's been here as well as what is here; how she came to Los Angeles for Occidental College, and what she discovered here; what others have discovered in Los Angeles, like the individuality of expression, bordering on eccentricity, that comes with a certain type of property; how reading about Nellie Bly as a child convinced her then and there to become a journalist; the lessons she's learned from working across several major media; what she read to better understand Los Angeles, and what books she'd put in the city's welcome wagon kit; her drive to collect stories about "then" as well as "now"; Los Angeles' authentic-ness, as opposed to its authenticity; what you need to master to live the ever-growing number of lifestyles possible in the city; retaining that Los Angeles sense of perpetual astonishment, and reinforcing it by regularly traveling abroad; why we seem to have forgotten the importance of clothing on the West Coast, and whether $500 sweatpants and $100 filp-flops say something meaningful about Los Angeles; popular confusion about the real eastside-westside border, and what she's done to fight the misconceptions; and what to keep in mind when you, too, come to Los Angeles.

William Deverell explores the history of the Los Angeles River and investigates the ways in which large-scale environmental projects such as cementing a river can inevitably reveal much about regional culture and identity. Deverell is a professor of history at USC and the director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.

This week's Hear in the City wraps up our series on natural elements in the the urban space with "Water" by Radiosonideros collective featuring the poetry of Lewis McAdams, co-founder of Friends of the Los Angeles River. We also offer you a guide to a proposed landmark urban plan on the L.A. River and a meditation on the multiplicity of love.

Two celebrated poets read from their most recent work and discuss how Los Angeles has influenced their writing, how some influences overlap and others diverge. Born in Watts, Wanda Coleman witnessed Simon Rodia working on the Towers firsthand. Coleman's work is often concerned with the outsider, both in terms of race and poverty in California. Lewis MacAdams is a poet, journalist, filmmaker, and activist who has written on topics ranging from cultural history to the environment. Known as the Los Angeles River's most influential advocate, he co-founded the Friends of the LA River (FoLAR) and dubbed it "a forty year art work."

Colin Marshall sits down at the Los Angeles Central Library downtown with Map Librarian Glen Creason, author of Los Angeles in Maps. They discuss the point at which Los Angeles becomes not just a place to live but a subject; riding the old Pacific Electric streetcars that prompted the city to grow so large in the firs place; using maps to see the influence of trains, water, the movies, and oil on the city's spread, growing up in the "Leave it to Beaver territory" of South Gate; early Los Angeles-boosters selling the city by employing mapmakers' sleight of hand; downtown's death in the sixties and seventies, and its more recent revival; learning little but having a lot of fun at UCLA during the Summer of Love; when the city "took a breath and reinvented itself," Los Angeles' uniquely dramatic geographical setting; how multiculturalism took hold from the very beginning; what it took to build the Third Street Tunnel; how miracles of civic engineering turned into freeway frustration; the non-disaster of "Carmageddon"; where the water in the Los Angeles River went, and how it remains useful as a navigational aid; the American notion of creating an Eden; whether Los Angeles is, as the posters say, "a world in itself"; former Italian and German communities, and current Indian and Chinese ones; the city's surprising new walkability; whether the "driver's paradise" days of twenty minutes to everywhere really happened at all; becoming the Map Librarian serendipitously; Los Angeles' past of rabbits, gambling ships, and Central Avenue jazz clubs; what happened in Chavez Ravine; how good intentions in Los Angeles' development have often led to reconsideration; how even longtime Angelenos learn from the ways the constant influx of new Angelenos approach the city; and the endless last rites given to Los Angeles that it never quite needs.

Los Angeles has had an unusual amount of precipitation in resent weeks yet, the watershed of the city loses 70% of that water because it is channeled directly to the ocean. This is a fundamental part of city history. The reason for it dates back to decisions made in the 1930’s to channel the Los Angeles River in order to avoid floods. But, the L.A. River is a meandering body of water that can be powerful in times of generous rain and anemic in the summer. Now, almost 85% of the water we use in the City of Los Angeles is imported from the Colorado River and from Northern California. But, what if we could capture and save the water that falls from the sky in quantity as it has in the past few weeks so as not to take water from other places that need it, too? The Los Angeles Department of Public Works has been working hard on that question. In collaboration with dozens of national and local non-profits ranging from the Natural Resources Defense Council and Heal the Bay, the City of Los Angeles has been changing the landscape and helping Los Angeles residents to collect rain water from heavy rains so that it can be stored for use during dry months. Hear in the City's host, Sara Harris spoke with Department of Public Works Director of Stormwater Management, Shahram Kharaghani--She asked him the following question: what do could we ideally do with all that rain water? (c) Hear In The City. 2011 . www.hearinthecity.org Airs Mondays on KPFK 90.7FM in Los Angeles at 2:00pm or www.kpfk.org

“Art in the Streets” is set to debut in April of this year at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (MOCA). This show is planned to be a comprehensive statement on international street art, cholo graffiti art, tattoo art, and skater art from the 1970’s to the present moment. The exhibition has already drawn attention in artists’ circles and in international press prior to the scheduled opening, primarily because of the whitewashing of one of its commissioned works. As part of the “Art in the Streets” exhibition, the Italian street artist known as BLU was hired by MOCA to paint a mural on the north wall of the Geffen Temporary Contemporary in Little Tokyo. The images of coffins draped in dollar bills- a direct commentary on the U.S. Defense Department’s refusal to allow photography of soldiers’ coffins returning from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The museum had the mural was removed just after its completion. New museum director Jeffrey Deitch explained to the Los Angeles Times that the work could be seen as offensive by other members of the Little Tokyo community that is home to a Japanese-American veterans war memorial and to the Veterans Affairs hospital. We wanted to get a sense of how street art and white-washing continue to affect local artists in Los Angeles. Hear In The City Producer Luis Sierra Campos, spoke with Alex Poli, who goes by the name of MANONE, and who directs CREWEST Gallery in Downtown LA. MANONE was instrumental in organizing a permitted 10,000 square foot graffiti mural on the Los Angeles River in 2008. The mural was later ordered whitewashed by county supervisor Gloria Molina. (c) Hear In The City. 2011 . www.hearinthecity.org. Airs Mondays on KPFK 90.7FM in Los Angeles at 2:00pm or www.kpfk.org

For 80 years the Los Angeles River has been less a river than a flood control channel winding from Simi Valley to Long Beach. Its concrete-lined course seemingly carries little more than a trickle of water, and its banks lie largely fallow and off limits despite long-running efforts to restore public access to and green spaces along its edges. Now, an ambitious plan to turn 125 acres of an under-utilized downtown rail yard into a thriving public space could transform not just the river but the entire city, uniting its residents as well as its urban and natural environments. As architects and planners grasp the rare opportunity to work on a site in the heart of the city, they’re focusing on a broader question: what would an integrated, healthier city look like? Zócalo invited a panel including Cal Poly Pomona’s Michael Woo, Marc Salette of Chee Salette Architecture, Jim Stafford of Perkins+Will, Mia Lehrer of Mia Lehrer + Associates, and Michael Maltzan of Michael Maltzan Architecture to discuss the promise of a revitalized Los Angeles, and how to build it.

Subscribe to the Homegrown Evolution Podcast in itunes here.Download Homegrown Evolution Podcast Episode #1 (mp3)On this first episode of the Homegrown Evolution podcast we talk food preservation with author Ashley English who blogs at small-measure.blogspot.com. English will have two books out next year on food preservation and chickens, part of a series entitled "Homemade Living," (Lark Books). She also has a weekly column every Friday on Design*Sponge at www.designspongeonline.com/category/small-measures.In the second part of the show we talk to Wing Tam, assistant division manager for the Watershed Protection Program in the City of Los Angeles' Bureau of Sanitation about a new rainwater harvesting pilot project. You can find out more about the program at www.larainwaterharvesting.org. We conclude with a reaction to this new program from river activist Joe Linton, author of Down by the Los Angeles River and one of the bloggers behind lacreekfreak.wordpress.com.As we say on the podcast, we prefer gardening to staring at computer screens and putting a podcast together involves a hell of a lot of the latter. Don't look for frequent updates, but we'll put out another one later this year. Please excuse the mike popping and other technical flaws, as we're still working out the technical side of podcasting.Music on the program is from archive.org:A bluegrass cover of DEVO's Mongoloid, recorded in 1980 in Cleveland, Ohio by the Hotfoot Quartet. Bob Frank, guitar and lead vocal, Jim Blum, upright bass and vocals; Paul Kovac, banjo and vocals; Bob Smakula, mandolin and vocals. Available here.Also from archive.org, a collection of surf music.

New Nukes for North America / Row Over Roadless Area / New Marching Orders for the Army Corps of Engineers / Lake Okeechobee At Risk / Shelter from the Storm / Emerging Science Note/Backs to the Future / Remaking the Los Angeles River

New Nukes for North America / Row Over Roadless Area / New Marching Orders for the Army Corps of Engineers / Lake Okeechobee At Risk / Shelter from the Storm / Emerging Science Note/Backs to the Future / Remaking the Los Angeles River

New Nukes for North America / Row Over Roadless Area / New Marching Orders for the Army Corps of Engineers / Lake Okeechobee At Risk / Shelter from the Storm / Emerging Science Note/Backs to the Future / Remaking the Los Angeles River

New Nukes for North America / Row Over Roadless Area / New Marching Orders for the Army Corps of Engineers / Lake Okeechobee At Risk / Shelter from the Storm / Emerging Science Note/Backs to the Future / Remaking the Los Angeles River

New Nukes for North America / Row Over Roadless Area / New Marching Orders for the Army Corps of Engineers / Lake Okeechobee At Risk / Shelter from the Storm / Emerging Science Note/Backs to the Future / Remaking the Los Angeles River