Archive for July, 2009
Pollution and IQ scores
A recent study has shown that high levels of pollution may lead to lower IQ scores in children. Â This study was done in New York where pollution is just as much a problem as it is here in LA. Â It was done by researchers at Columbia University which is a very prestigious Ivy league college. [...]
July 31, 2009
· 
Ryan · 
2 Comments
Tags: iq scores, pollution · Posted in: News
Transition Initiatives – Empowering Communities
This Treehugger.com article entitled “Transition Initiative. Can Communities Tackle Peak Oil and Climate?” discusses a new movement called Transition Initiatives, which guides communities around the world on issues of community sustainability in a world threatened by disturbing physical- and social-environmental problems: Transition is a process whereby communities work together to significantly increase local resilience or [...]
July 31, 2009
· Christine · No Comments
Tags: community, Environmental Injustice, Environmental Racism, Sustainability, Transition Initiatives · Posted in: News
Bus Stop
I waited for my friend at the bus stop on Crenshaw at Stocker (Baldwin Hills-Crenshaw Mall) for about 45 minutes on Sunday. During my wait, I witnessed a living validation of the many theories we have discussed at greenRELAY this summer. Massey and Denton’s discussion of an oppositional Culture of Segregation and the cycle of [...]
July 30, 2009
· Christine · 6 Comments
Tags: community, police state, public space, public transportation, Segregation · Posted in: Stories
North Pacific Gyre – Why we need a green world [Video of the Day]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnUjTHB1lvM[/youtube] When I think of environmental justice, I don’t only think of the air supply. I also think about land and water. The North Pacific Gyre is patch of garbage collecting new trash everyday. Most of the trash that ends up in the garbage patch is plastic. The plastic, which not biodegradable, can take up [...]
July 29, 2009
· Cesar · 3 Comments
Tags: garbage patch, ocean, pacific ocean, recycling, sea life, trash · Posted in: Video of the Day, Youth Training Institute
Item 61 – The MTA Postpones LRTP Approval Again
On July 23rd, 2009, the MTA held its monthly board meeting, and a hot ticket item – the 2009 Long Range Transportation Plan – was on the agenda. There were so many supporters that the new chair, Ara J. Najarian, asked supporters to skip the speeches, acknowledge their support and sit down to keep to [...]
July 28, 2009
· Christine · 10 Comments
Tags: MTA · Posted in: Events
Solidarity March
The working class in Los Angeles is being targeted by I-9 audits and by the use of E-Verify. March alongside \the workers of Overhill Farms, American Apparel, Farmer Johns and others call on all immigrant and human rights organizations and supporters to DEMAND THAT OBAMA STOP THE RAMPANT I-9 AUDITS AND E-VERIFY! Wednesday, July 29, [...]
July 28, 2009
· Cesar · 2 Comments
Tags: civil rights, E-Verify, immigrant rights, immigrants · Posted in: Events
MTA Board Meeting
I woke at 6:40 AM to attempt to attend a meeting that started at 9:30 PM. I just have to say that if public transportation was easier to use that I probably could have gotten up at 7:45. If the MTA trip planner which I attempted to use was better I wouldn’t have wasted so [...]
July 28, 2009
· Ryan · No Comments
Tags: MTA, public transportation · Posted in: Events
Cuts That Never Heal
Going to the Rally was something great to experience. I really enjoyed participating in something like it. I don’t see how the Governor thinks that bugdet cuts will help. Arnold needs to realize that he is not helping the people but only making the economy suffer. I, as a rising freshman at Cal State Dominguez [...]
July 28, 2009
· Travis · 4 Comments
Tags: California budget cuts, state budget · Posted in: Events
Pollution in California: What is being done?
Just recently California has received permission from the Environmental Protection Agency to impose new requirements that could become the model for fighting pollution associated with global warming. California finally received a waiver for it to pursue stricter air pollution laws that those that are required by the federal government. It helped clear the way to [...]
July 28, 2009
· Ryan · 6 Comments
Tags: air quality, EPA, federal government, pollution · Posted in: News
Birth of a Movement [Video of the Day]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeBXx0I3B7U[/youtube]
July 28, 2009
· Cesar · 3 Comments
Posted in: Video of the Day
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