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Category Archives: air pollution
Air
This episode, we launch a three-part series from radio art collective, RadioSonideros called Air. Water. Earth. It was first broadcast as part of a floating radio station on the Staten Island Ferry in 2007: The FM Ferry Experiment. Also in … Continue reading
Posted in Air Check Series, air pollution, arts, film, and music, bicycling, City Government, culture in the city, economy and equality, film, Mexico, Neighborhood/Area, Pit Bulls, public health, radio, Special Series, sustainability, transportation, Two Wheels and a Mic, UCLA Film and Television Archive, Uncategorized, urban environment
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Air Check: the problem beneath the park
On our last episode, we heard from residents about the history of oil fields and parkland in the Baldwin Hills, Ladera Heights, Windsor Hills, and Culver City Crest in South Los Angeles. On this week’s show, we hear about two … Continue reading
Posted in Air Check Series, air pollution, arts, film, and music, Baldwin Hills, City Government, community redevelopment, culture in the city, Echo Park, Echo Park, economy and equality, film, infrastructure, Inglewood, local oil production, public health, public radio, Special Series, urban environment
Tagged Air Check, Baldwin Hills, Baldwin Hills Conservancy, Citizen's Coalition for a Safe Environment, Community Health Councils, Echo Park Film Center, Inglewood Oilfield, Ladera Heights, Newsdesk.org, petroleum extraction, PXP, Sara Harris, Spot.us, Sunset and Alvarado, Thandisizwe Chimurenga
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Air Check: voices from the Inglewood Oilfield
Hear in the City will spend then next few shows in the Baldwin Hills at the Inglewood Oilfield. This place is perched on the summit overlooking the past and the future. On one side, the oil discoveries that drew wealth … Continue reading
Posted in Air Check Series, air pollution, arts, film, and music, Baldwin Hills, community arts, culture in the city, Culver City, economy and equality, local oil production, marginalize communities, public health, public radio, sustainability, transportation, urban environment, water resources, work
Tagged Baldwin Hills, BHC, David McNeill, Dexter Story, Inglewood Oilfield, kpfk.org, Ladera Little League, Newsdesk.org, PXP, Sara Harris, Spot.us, Thandisizwe Chimurenga
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Two wheels and a mic: rights and cyclists in the city
On this episode of Hear in the City we resume our conversation with Patrick Miller who is an arts educator, DJ, and avid cyclist. He is also involved in several cycling initiatives both official and more informal across the city … Continue reading
Posted in air pollution, bicycling, culture in the city, Culver City, economy and equality, infrastructure, LAPD, smog, Special Series, street parades, sustainability, transportation, Two Wheels and a Mic, urban environment
Tagged bicycling in Los Angeles, Bike Oven, Bikeside L.A., Culver City, cycling in the city, Hear in the City, L.A. Eco Village, LACM, LAPD, Los Angeles Critical Mass, Patrick Miller, transportation in the city, Two Wheels and a Mic
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04/05/11: Ciclavia & Education in Crisis Series
Environmental Essay
Host Sara Harris shares her point of view on recent responses from government and industry to environmental disasters.
04/05/11: Ciclavia & Education in Crisis Series
Ciclavia 2011
Luis Sierra Campos meets up with the community outreach coordinator for Ciclavia, happening this Sunday, when the city will make seven miles of roads automobile-free for an afternoon, open only to cyclists, pedestrians, and other people moving on their own … Continue reading
3/14/2011: Los Angeles libraries and oil fields
Prop L
For the first time in its nearly 140 year history, the L.A. Central library stopped offering seven-day-a week hours due to sever city budget cuts. The passage of ballot measure L last week brings back services and hours. Martín Gómez, the … Continue reading
3/14/2011: Los Angeles libraries and oil fields
Air Check
On this week’s show we launch our new series Air Check: petroleum and air pollution from a community perspective. With the support of independent news sites –Newsdesk.org and Spot.us– our reporters will follow the path a barrel of oil from … Continue reading
3/14/2011: Los Angeles libraries and oil fields
Project 23
We visit another local treasure: The Page Museum: home to the world’s richest deposits of “Ice Age” fossils and to the LaBrea Tar Pits. Hear In the City, senior producer, Luis Sierra Campos, takes us to a new –and accidental– … Continue reading
3/07/2011: “prop O” is for oil
Where is Hear in the City? We’ve been off the airwaves for two weeks now for KPFK’s fund-drive, but we’re back on Monday, March 14th with a one-hour, post-election special starting with a look at Proposition O on the March … Continue reading
