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• Bottles And Cans Recycling: A Social Contract In Peril
  Posted on September 27, 2019 | No Comments

  Susan V. Collins, President of Container Recycling Institute, speaks with host Jessica Aldridge about how California underwent a recent wave of redemption center closures (those places where consumers can drop off their recyclable beverage containers for cash). So what needs to happen to fix the California bottle bill?

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• Shaping our Water Future: Through Water Quality, Equity & Nature Based Solutions
  Posted on September 13, 2019 | No Comments

  Los Angeles currently imports a whopping 70% of their water. And getting it to LA is the largest use of electricity in the state of CA. When water is not captured and utilized within the system, it traverses through the city and out to the ocean. In order to shape a strong water future, we must manage the flow in way that ensures high quality, social equity, and solutions based in nature.

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• Sustaining the Legacy of the Tongva: Before and After “Los Angeles”
  Posted on September 5, 2019 | No Comments

  Grandmother Gloria Arellanes speaks on the heritage of the Tongva people, who inhabited and stewarded the area referred to as the "Los Angeles Basin" as well as the Southern Channel Islands. Grandmother Gloria offers her insights about the state of our world, youth, elderhood and the intergenerational cycle of learning, as well as how we might honor proper protocols, First Nations and all that is Sacred, amidst the backdrop of increasing urbanity, and the numerous perils now facing our environment.

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• Preserving the Wild in the Anthropocene Era – EcoJustice Radio
  Posted on August 27, 2019 | No Comments

  Hear from David Lamfrom, Director of California Desert and National Wildlife programs at the National Parks Conservation Association, who discusses with EcoJustice Radio the particular challenges of protecting and preserving our national parks in the Anthropocene era, including this current stage of global industrialization.

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• Pakistan: Connecting Climate Change, Women Empowerment, and Art
  Posted on August 23, 2019 | No Comments

  Ayla Sohail, Climate Change and Livelihood Project Coordinator at PODA, Potohar Organization of development and advocacy in Pakistan, speaks with Jessica Aldridge from EcoJustice Radio on how climate change, women's empowerment, and art activism come together in her home country.

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• Earth-Honoring Traditions of the Acjachemen with Spiritual Leader Adelia Sandoval
  Posted on August 14, 2019 | No Comments

  Carry Kim talks with Rev. Adelia Sandoval, the Spiritual Leader for the Juaneño Band of Mission Indians/Acjachemen Nation. The Acjachemen people are the indigenous people of Orange County in Southern […]

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• Pasture Based Carbon Farming with SonRise Ranch – EcoJustice Radio
  Posted on July 30, 2019 | No Comments

  Carry Kim speaks with Doug Lindamood, from SonRise Ranch in San Diego County, California. He and his family own and operate this pasture based livestock operation dedicated to changing industrial, factory farming into a local, sustainable, integrity, food movement through education and outreach one family at a time.

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• Green New Deal Tour Comes to Los Angeles – EcoJustice Radio
  Posted on July 22, 2019 | No Comments

  In the spring of 2019, the Sunrise Movement, building an army of young people to make climate change an urgent priority across the US, put on the Road To A Green New Deal Tour, visiting eight cities across the US to share what a Green New Deal would look like in different communities as well as spotlighting local politicians and organizers throughout the country.

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• Public Banking and a Sustainable Economy – EcoJustice Radio
  Posted on July 10, 2019 | No Comments

  Ellen Brown writes that public banking is the only way to finance the transition to a green economy. EcoJustice Radio's Mark Morris speaks with Madeline Merritt, Core Organizer for Public Bank LA and Member of California Public Banking Alliance.

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• Women in Politics and the Environment – EcoJustice Radio
  Posted on June 27, 2019 | No Comments

  On this show, Jessica Aldridge talks with Aura Vasquez, Environmental and Social Justice organizer and Candidate for Los Angeles City Council District 10, on how we change the “old boys club” and what this could mean for bringing social equity to the table.

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