Keeping Up with The Environment Listen the newscast here!(5:06) EL NUEVO SOL Do you care about the environment? Although you may want the best for your planet, keeping up with the right ways to do so isn’t always easy. Reporters from El Nuevo Sol have discovered tips on how you can help with keeping your
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Por KARLA HENRY y KATHERINE ACUÑA
EL NUEVO SOL
“La medicina natural tiene muchos usos y creo que es muy importante”, dice el doctor Félix Aguilar, director del South Central Family Health Center de Los Ángeles. “En realidad creo que debemos aprender más de ella, tenemos que integrarla más a nuestra medicina occidental”.
By PAUL LAVERACK
POLITICAL MUSCLE
This series of videos highlights several speakers from the “RePower LA” community meeting at the Pacoima Community Center on November 5, 2011. Speakers include Ricardo De Los Santos, a DWP trainee weatherizing low-income homes for energy efficiency; Eric Garcetti, the president of the Los Angeles City Council; Kent Minault, volunteer coordinator for the Sierra Club’s “Beyond Coal” campaign; and Ron Nichols, the general manager of Los Angeles Department of Water & Power.
By PAUL LAVERACK
POLITICAL MUSCLE
A coalition of civil society groups, including the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE), Pacoima Beautiful, and the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign, meet in the Pacoima Community Center on November 5, 2011 in the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles, CA, to share the thinking behind the RePower LA project, which seeks to achieve financial and environmental savings by improving energy-efficiency in the homes of area residents, and creating hundreds of new “green” jobs in the process.
By PAUL LAVERACK
POLITICAL MUSCLE
Kent Minault, the Volunteer Coordinator for the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign in the San Fernando Valley discusses the economic benefits of moving LA away from coal as an energy source, the steps to increasing our energy efficiency, and the rise of the Beyond Coal movement, a volunteer-driven effort that is gaining momentum across the city.
By PAUL LAVERACK
POLITICAL MUSCLE
Citizens organize a petition drive in the San Fernando Valley of northern Los Angeles on September 24, 2011, as part of the Sierra Club’s “Beyond Coal” campaign. Los Angeles currently gets around 40% of its electricity from two dirty coal-fired power plants in Arizona and Utah, and while the city already has a plan to move away from coal over time, the Sierra Club wants to accelerate the pace of change, so that LA is beyond coal by 2020.
San Francisco fue el punto de partida del festival ecológico de este año que se llevó acabo en el Concourse Exhibition Center durante el 9 y el 10 de abril de 2011. Por MARINA SANDOVAL EL NUEVO SOL English version: A Project for Green America Este festival muestra productos verdes sostenibles, servicios e ideas.
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RACHEL COSTAHAUDE, JULISSA REYES
EL NUEVO SOL
Residents of Kettleman City are fighting the continued dumping of toxic waste in the city, citing incidents of birth defects and infant deaths.
