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• Amazon Defenders Part One: Protecting Biodiversity from Big Oil
  Posted on November 19, 2020 | No Comments

  EcoJustice Radio celebrates the land and water protectors of the Amazon Rainforest in a Four-Part series called Amazon Defenders. We begin Part One in the Western Amazon to understand how activists are confronting the dirty legacy of oil extraction, stopping the expansion of new oil leases, and protecting the rainforest biodiversity.

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• The Fight for Self Determination between Armenia and Azerbaijan
  Posted on November 6, 2020 | No Comments

  In this episode of EcoJustice Radio, we seek to gain a broader understanding of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. We discuss the fight for self determination over the region known as Artsakh or Nagorno-Karabakh, with guests Vache Thomassian, Glendale Board Member of Armenian National Committee of America and Dr. Djene Bajalan, Assistant Professor at Missouri State University.

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• LA Public Utility Methane Leak Poisons Sun Valley Community
  Posted on October 29, 2020 | No Comments

  Recently, the City of Los Angeles public utility admitted that its Valley Generating Station had been leaking methane gas into the community for three years. The utility knew about the leaks as part of efforts to fix two compressors, but failed to notify the community. Veronica Padilla-Campos, Executive Director of Pacoima Beautiful joins EcoJustice Radio for, “Broken Trust: LA Public Utility Methane Leak Poisons Sun Valley Community.”

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• Radical Mycology: The Future is Fungi with Peter McCoy
  Posted on October 16, 2020 | 1 Comment

  EcoJustice Radio speaks with Peter McCoy, Founder of Mycologos, the world's first mycology school, and Founder and Creative Director of Radical Mycology, a mushroom and fungi advocacy foundation. He and host Carry Kim discuss the grassroots movement and social philosophy behind using regenerative natural mushroom farming to promote ecological restoration and create food and medicines.

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• After the Burn: The Benefits of Bioremediation with Taylor Bright
  Posted on October 2, 2020 | 1 Comment

  Listen to applied mycologist, educator, and ecosystem restoration practitioner Taylor Bright, speak with Carry Kim from EcoJustice Radio in detail about post-fire remediation and regeneration, particularly mycoremediation, where fungi-based technology is used to decontaminate the environment and heal the water and soil.

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• Permaculture Lessons From Fire: Restoring Paradise with Matthew Trumm
  Posted on September 17, 2020 | 2 Comments

  Hear Permaculture Designer/Educator & consultant Matthew Trumm of Treetop Permaculture discuss lessons learned during the Camp Fire which burned through the town of Paradise, California, in November 2018. At the time, it was the most devastating wildfire in California history, burning 240 square miles in its wake.

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• Samoan “Chief Tuiavii” on the Desperation of ‘The Papalagi’
  Posted on September 10, 2020 | No Comments

  In 1920, Erich Scheurmann translated into German the speeches of Samoan Chief' Tuiavii from the village of Tiavea, a work called The Papalagi (The White People) that describes his impressions of European culture formed during a tour as part of a traveling show. Tuiavii's depictions of the greed and hypocrisy of the civilized Europeans has become a post-hippie inspiration for a counterculture movement to break out of the rigid confines of corporate capitalism.

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• Candidate Forum for Environmental Justice in South LA with Fatima Iqbal-Zubair
  Posted on September 3, 2020 | No Comments

  EcoJustice Radio speaks about how to confront the issues of institutional racism, environmental justice, and massive economic inequality with Fatima Iqbal-Zubair, Candidate for California State Assembly in South Los Angeles. The incumbent Assembly Member and candidate Mike Gipson was asked to be on the show, but did return requests. 

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• Flood Control to Free Rivers: The Tale of Water on Tongvalands
  Posted on August 27, 2020 | No Comments

  EcoJustice Radio discusses the history of water upon Tongvalands aka Los Angeles: from free-flowing rivers to concrete-engineered flood control and back again Tim Brick of the Arroyo Seco Foundation and and Parker Davis of the Hahamongna Native Plant Nursery.

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• Ocean Desalination vs Conservation and Human Rights
  Posted on August 13, 2020 | No Comments

  EcoJustice Radio guests Andrea Leon Grossman from AZUL and Conner Everts from Southern California Watershed Alliance discuss the proposal by Poseidon Water Company to build a $1 billion desalination plant in Huntington Beach, California. When the price tag is more than 2x the cost of our current water system, is desal necessary? Can existing and future conservation opportunities provide the solutions necessary to ensure local water resilience in California and elsewhere?

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