To expand access to parks nationwide, the Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership (ORLP) Program funds green spaces in low-income, urban communities. While the program has supported important projects throughout the country, program benefits could be more fully realized. For instance, millions of grant dollars have been left on the table in recent years. Since funding for...
Every year, the global economy produces 40 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions, pushing our planet toward irreversible climate tipping points. Learn how LA Sanitation & Environment (LASAN) is leading the City to evaluate the biggest levers to reduce carbon and other climate-warming emissions through converting our fleets toward electrification and other necessary measures. REGISTER...
In this talk, Candace Fujikane begins with arguments from her recent book, Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawaiʻi, contending that global climate change events are not apocalyptic but rather are bringing about the demise of capitalist economies of scarcity, making way for Indigenous economies of abundance. She...