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Jeanne Kuang CalMatters A pesar de mudarse a su nuevo alojamiento hace apenas un mes, Darlene Pizarro y su perro, Angel, ya son clientes habituales del parque canino local. El nuevo lugar de Pizarro no es exactamente un vecindario de la ciudad y el lugar donde vive no es...
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Jeanne Kuang CalMatters Despite moving in to her new digs just a month ago, Darlene Pizarro and her white dog, Angel, are already regulars at the local dog run. Pizarro’s new place is not quite a city neighborhood and where she lives isn’t quite a home, but a tiny...
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Selen Ozturk Ethnic Media Services A recent UCLA study found that bringing green space in LA County to median levels could add up to 908,800 years of collective life expectancy to residents in under-resourced communities. The peer-reviewed study, published in Environment International, is the first in the U.S. to...
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Kristen Hwang CalMatters The high cost of insulin has been a niggling thorn in the side of regulators and patients for decades: Prices for the 100-year-old drug have increased more than 600% in the past 20 years, and stories of patients rationing doses abound. Even the most conservative economists point to...
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Manuela Tobias CalMatters Los residentes de casas móviles en California enfrentan un riesgo enorme de fallas en los sistemas de servicios públicos, inundaciones e incendios como resultado de una infraestructura que con frecuencia no ha sido actualizada o reparada en décadas. En 1984, California aprobó una ley para ayudar a remediar...
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Manuela Tobias CalMatters Mobile home residents in California face an outsize risk of failing utility systems, flooding and fires as a result of infrastructure that frequently hasn’t been updated or repaired in decades. In 1984, California passed a law to help remedy this: a loan program, paid into by the residents...
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Outside Lands The Bay Area’s crown jewel, Outside Lands, returns to celebrate 15 years of world-class music, food, wine, beer, art and cannabis in Golden Gate Park on August 11 – 13. Over the last decade and a half, the festival has become a vital part of the Bay Area’s...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Los teléfonos inteligentes ciertamente se han vuelto ubicuos, con alrededor del 85 por ciento de los estadounidenses y el 67 por ciento de los adultos en todo el mundo que poseen uno. Los fabricantes venden casi 1.500 millones de ellos por año. Y...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Smartphones have certainly become ubiquitous, with some 85 percent of Americans and 67 percent of adults worldwide possessing one. Manufacturers sell almost 1.5 billion of them per year. And every year these manufacturers come out with upgraded models to lure customers into trading...