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• LA River Revitalization: The Story of Master Plan Gone Awry
  Posted on April 2, 2021 | 1 Comment

  Environmental and social justice groups speak with EcoJustice Radio on the lack of vision and environmental, land use, and community protections in the LA River Revitalization Master Plan

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• Biotonomy: Designing Nature-Based Autonomous Buildings and Cities
  Posted on March 26, 2021 | 1 Comment

  LISTEN to the EcoJustice Radio discussion with the lead architectural designer for the firm Biotonomy using a holistic and Nature-based approach for buildings and cities to address the climate and biodiversity emergency.

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• Paul Bowles Documentary: ‘Let it Come Down’
  Posted on March 26, 2021 | 1 Comment

  Expatriate writer, composer, and traveler Paul Bowles (1910-1999) stepped away from it all and reported back to us through his novels and short stories and is featured here in a documentary 'Let it Come Down'. He lived 52 years in Tangier, Morocco, and wrote evocatively of the place and its peoples. His most famous for his influential 1949 novel, The Sheltering Sky, was filmed by Bernardo Bertolucci.

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• Foray into Fungi: The Art of Farming
  Posted on March 18, 2021 | 1 Comment

  Artist and mycologist Sam Shoemaker talks with Carry Kim of EcoJustice Radio about his sustainability journey from art school to creating an urban mushroom farm in Los Angeles.

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• Trees Please: Saving and Serving the Urban Forest
  Posted on February 25, 2021 | 2 Comments

  Two Los Angeles arborists talk urban forestry with EcoJustice Radio, and about the need to plant and care for trees to strengthen urban ecosystems and heal the climate.

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• The Call to Decolonize: Thoughts, Actions, and Spaces
  Posted on February 18, 2021 | 1 Comment

  Listen to Marria Evbuoma of Race to Zero Waste in San Francisco talk with EcoJustice Radio about the social justice meaning and importance of decolonization in thoughts, actions, and spaces.

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• Ecological Succession: Moving Toward Regeneration with Linda Gibbs
  Posted on February 12, 2021 | 3 Comments

  Permaculture Educator Linda Gibbs from Woodshed Gardens speaks with EcoJustice Radio on Ecological Succession, Fire Resiliency, and Soil Regeneration Principles.

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• Recipe for Abuse: Palm Oil, Child Labor, and Girl Scout Cookies
  Posted on February 5, 2021 | 1 Comment

  EcoJustice Radio discusses the dangers palm oil plantations present to tropical rainforest biodiversity and Indigenous communities in Southeast Asia, Central and South America, and Africa. We talk with Olivia Chaffin, […]

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• Ch´ol Creation Story: The Origin of Life on Earth
  Posted on February 4, 2021 | 3 Comments

  Here we re-tell the creation myth of Ch'ujtiat from the Ch'ol People. Stories director Gabriela Badillo’s 68 Voices, 68 Hearts, a series of one-minute animations that preserve indigenous Mexican stories with narration provided by native speakers.

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• Dam-Free: Indigenous Peoples Reclaim the Klamath River
  Posted on January 28, 2021 | 4 Comments

  An agreement announced in November 2020 paves the way for demolition of four hydroelectric dams on the Lower Klamath River, the largest dam removal in U.S. history. This would reopen […]

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