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LAist is part of Southern California Public Radio, a member-supported public media network. For the latest national news from NPR and our live radio broadcast, visitL.A. saw some 33 inches of rain this last season — about double the amount we normally get. That rainfall equated to about 600,000 acre-feet of stormwater captured in local groundwater basins, enough water for some 5 million people for a year.
“We may be right back in the situation we were before this last wet year in a year or two, but it does appear that we're going to have another wet year, and that should set us up again to avoid desperation, for maybe, instead of one to two years, maybe three to five years,” Pierce said. To talk about the current state of climate disinformation, we checked in with three NPR reporters who have reported on climate, disinformation and the media — and they can answer our questions: Climate solutions reporter Julia Simon, media correspondent David Folkenflik, and reporter Huo Jingnan, who writes about conspiracy theories among other things.sometimes paid for by fossil fuel interests
What sort of impact do these conspiracy theories have on the people in the field trying to work on climate solutions?I met with Carlos Moreno, a Franco-Colombian professor who developed this idea of the 15-minute city — these more walkable, bikeable neighborhoods that conspiracy theorists think are preludes to open-air prisons. Moreno says he's gotten death threats, and so have other scientists and researchers.
The committee is also considering a proposal that would expand the size of the council, which would mean each council member would represent fewer people and, ideally, be more responsive to constituents.It's also a vastly different council. Seven of the 15 members joined it in the past year. None of them had ever held elected office. And the council leans decidedly more left.
Martinez was council president at the time and stood at the center of the controversy. Her comments on the tape were the most offensive.“There is no way I could undo what I said, or undo the hurt that I created,” she says on the podcast. “So the only thing I knew how to do was hand over my responsibilities as a council president and make sure that I didn't mess up anything else there.”“The difference is dramatic,” said Councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson.
It helps that Mayor Karen Bass, who took office just two months after the release of the tape, generally opposes the use of LAPD officers to remove unhoused people from encampments and has centered attention on her It's not a new idea. Reformers have been lobbying for it for years. The state and L.A. county already use independent commissions.
Martinez and the others can be heard lamenting that half the city’s population is Latino, but Latinos hold only four of 15 council seats. In the course of the conversation, de León is heard saying essentially that Black people have too much power. Black people represent about 8% of the L.A. population and hold three seats on the council.
Whether the conversation was illegal, it added to the perception that there exists a culture of corruption at L.A. City Hall. Over recent years, three former members of the council, and more than a half dozen City Hall staffers and others have been convicted of various charges, including bribery and obstruction of justice.“That suggests that corrupt intent is widespread..at City Hall and I refuse to accept that’s true,” he said.
Harris-Dawson is well aware of the challenges facing City Hall one year after the bombshell of the tapes.What questions or concerns do you have about civics and democracy in Southern California? We also asked Martinez to engage and think through how her comments were connected to the larger systemic issues of anti-Black racism and colorism in the Latino community. Over the course of our six-hour interview, Martinez largely declined to do so.
Protestors demonstrate outside City Hall calling for the resignations of L.A. City Council members Kevin de Leon and Gil Cedillo in the wake of a leaked audio recording on Oct. 12, 2022.I had already internally, even though I did not say this to anyone, I had already accepted that this was so big that there is nothing that I could say or do to undo this and that I needed to step down. A hundred percent. I knew that there was gonna be consequences, that I needed to pay for this.
Senator Padilla told us he does not dispute Nury’s account of this call. LAist reached out repeatedly to Mayor Bass, described this story to her spokesperson and asked for her comment, but we never heard back. In a later interview with LAist’s Larry Mantle, Bass denied she thought it would blow over, and added, “even if it was, I wanna take a crisis and seize it as an opportunity.
And that is something that I saw not only in the media, but I see in politics. I see in everyday life. When you turn on the television, our stories are not being told. And when we do tell them and when we are frustrated, even in a private conversation, it's turned against us. Like we don't have a right as a community to advocate for ourselves because somehow that goes against another ethnic group. I don't know why we do that.
It was insensitive. It was mean. I never meant to hurt Jacob, and I'm going to have to live with that for the rest of my life, you know? I've never romanticized motherhood. Anybody who knows me and has been around me knows my child is also pretty wild. And now she's a teenager and it's even crazier at a different level. I've never romanticized parenthood. It's really, really hard.
Lyou noted that people who live in the surrounding neighborhoods are predominantly working-class Latinos. Imagine what looks like Boeing 747 wings with movable flaps, set vertically on a ship's deck. The vessel cruises under minimum power from its giant engine as computerized sensors adjust the fiberglass wings to take advantage of the wind's speed and direction. This wind-assisted propulsion saves a substantial amount of fuel and reduces the carbon belching from the ship's stack.
John Cooper, the CEO of BAR Technologies, which developed the WindWings, says it took considerable engineering and computer modeling to move the concept from high-tech racing boats to a commercial bulk carrier. On the America's Cup boats,"the hydrodynamic resistance is quite low," he says, compared to the"humongous" dynamic drag of a commercial ship.
"I would say there's a competition right now," says Matthew Collette, a naval architect who teaches ship design at the University of Michigan. The wings on Pyxis Ocean are"more complicated, potentially more efficient. The rotor sails are very simple, a little bit more limited in what you can do with them.
MC Shipping, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corp., owns the Pyxis Ocean, but Cargill, which operates it on long-term lease, agreed to put up the money for the WindWings installation, with help from a small EU subsidy."We get the fuel savings because the fuel savings go to the operator and that's how we are going to make it work," he says.
"You can see some of those old routes coming back," Cooper says."You know, there's probably an argument for continually circling the world in a single direction rather than going backwards and forwards. Just keep going round the world to take advantage of the trade winds."A family inspects the engine of a new Toyota Prius model during the Electrify Expo In D.C. in Washington, D.C., on July 23, 2023.
But for buyers who qualify, actually accessing the credit will be a matter of extra paperwork at the dealership, instead of a monthslong wait for savings delivered through the tax filing process. Then they'd transfer the tax credit to the dealership, and in exchange, the dealer will either give them that much in cash or as a down payment toward the vehicle. The dealer will submit documentation to the IRS, and the IRS says dealers will be reimbursed"promptly" — within 72 hours or so.
"As we gather for worship this day, we acknowledge that the land on which we gather was for many generations stewarded by theWattman Rosenau first began using a land acknowledgement to open services in 2017, after attending a conference in Canada that also opened sessions with a similar land acknowledgement. She took great care crafting the language for her congregation's version—especially with one word in particular.
"It's not one written document," she says."There are a series of documents — papal bulls — in which the pope gave rights to claim these lands to Portugal and to Spain." But the possibility of the Church's redemption for providing the theological underpinning of colonization gives many hope.Protestant denominations
In addition to her parish duties, Crist works nationally for the Episcopal Church to help the denomination go beyond acknowledgement through education of both clergy and laity — from making Episcopal seminaries more inclusive of Native students to helping average people in the pews understand Christianity's often negative relationship with Indigenous peoples.
"When the land is taken away or destroyed," she says,"we don't have a connection with the Creator that we need to survive." She says if Christians could grasp the revolutionary nature of that statement, they would see that the concern for Native and Indigenous peoples is key. has been active in the Mennonite community," he says,"that was clearly part of what was taken to account" when creating the worship resource.
"That was a real opportunity for Pasadena Mennonite Church to support Apache-Stronghold," says Nafziger.
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