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Cal-Earth Makes Disaster-Resistant Superadobe Construction a Reality

August 14, 2024August 14, 2024admin

By Natasha Spencer-Jolliffe* Source: https://www.theearthandi.org/post/cal-earth-makes-disaster-resistant-superadobe-construction-a-reality Building safe and sustainable housing is a challenge, especially in disaster-prone regions, and ensuring that it is affordable and accessible can seem impossible. At last,…Continue readingCal-Earth Makes Disaster-Resistant Superadobe Construction a Reality

Indigenous Stewardship

Indigenous Voices and Stewardship in Urban Landscapes

August 12, 2024August 12, 2024admin

Webinar Date (Wednesday, 7/10/2024, 1 – 2:15pm EDT) Source: https://research.fs.usda.gov/products/multimedia/webinars/indigenous-voices-and-stewardship-urban-landscapes It is a surprise for many to learn that 70-percent of American Indians and Alaska Natives live off reservation in urban settings.…Continue readingIndigenous Voices and Stewardship in Urban Landscapes

Community Identity

Advancing Indigenous Housing Rights in Los Angeles: International Best Practices and a Legal Framework

August 10, 2024August 10, 2024admin

by the Promist Institute for Human Rights, UCLA School of Law Urban Reserves (p. 11) Urban spaces posit a particular challenge for land-back, as “settler states continue to pursue the…Continue readingAdvancing Indigenous Housing Rights in Los Angeles: International Best Practices and a Legal Framework

Indigenous Wisdom

Western Washington University to partner in $30M NSF Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science

August 6, 2024August 6, 2024admin

Based at UMass Amherst, the five-year, $30 million international National Science Foundation (NSF) Science and Technology Center will focus on addressing the impacts of climate change, threats to cultural places…Continue readingWestern Washington University to partner in $30M NSF Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science

Communal Healing

PUTTING DOWN ROOTS

August 3, 2024August 3, 2024admin

Source: https://cso.lacounty.gov/media/blog/putting-down-roots/ Cover Photo Credit: https://www.buzzfeed.com/pernellquilon/los-angeles-tree-tunnels Plans to equitably manage the tree canopy in greater L.A. are finally taking hold. Having a healthy urban forest is an essential part of…Continue readingPUTTING DOWN ROOTS

One Health, One Heart

Where have the trees gone? L.A. area’s green cover down dramatically in just 10 years

August 3, 2024August 3, 2024admin

USC Dornsife researchers say mass-produced dwellings and home expansion have reduced residential green cover as much as 55 percent Source: https://today.usc.edu/mass-produced-dwellings-home-expansion-reduce-l-a-areas-residential-green-cover/ May 01, 2017Ian Chaffee Plant a tree, save the…Continue readingWhere have the trees gone? L.A. area’s green cover down dramatically in just 10 years

One Health, One Heart

Is Tree Canopy Equitably Distributed Across Los Angeles’ Neighborhoods? (2019 Report)

August 3, 2024August 3, 2024admin

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The Unheard

The Four Steps to Power of the Dominated

August 2, 2024August 2, 2024admin

Source: https://www.irenees.net/article250_en.html Introduction This tool was designed for use in situations of conflict of interest that are strongly asymmetrical in terms of power. It describes the necessary processes to construct the conditions…Continue readingThe Four Steps to Power of the Dominated

One Heart

Environmental Justice for Los Angeles

July 31, 2024July 31, 2024admin

Source: https://planning.lacity.gov/odocument/f9be4657-3596-4869-af59-9cdb6ddf6b88/Environmental%20Justice%20Working%20Group%20Meeting%202%20-%20Presentation.pdf

Community Identity

Zoning in a Pluri-Ethnic / Multicultural Context: a Case Study of Bogota

July 29, 2024July 29, 2024admin

The Governmentality of Multiculturalism: from National Pluri-ethnicity to Urban Cosmopolitanism in Bogotá Source: https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2021.1994228 Torino, G. (2021). The governmentality of multiculturalism: from national pluri-ethnicity to urban cosmopolitanism in Bogotá. Identities, 28(6), 699–716.…Continue readingZoning in a Pluri-Ethnic / Multicultural Context: a Case Study of Bogota

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