LA Mayor Karen Bass picks new top advisor
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. Mayor Karen Bass is bringing on someone new to be her top advisor on homelessness. Lourdes Castro Ramirez, who oversees much of the state’s homelessness and housing spending, will start as Bass’ chief of housing and homelessness on Nov. 6.
And under the new regime of automation and the factory owners who saw a chance to use that stuff purely to profit, the Luddites saw their way of life being threatened and technologies being used in ways that they had no control over. And then, when there was an economic depression and the factory owners of the time used it as an excuse to hit the gas on automation, all of these trends really coalesced and the Luddites rose up. It was an explosive rebellion. There were battles, it was really almost like a guerrilla war at the front lines of the Industrial Revolution. And the state decided to send in the military, send in tens of thousands of troops, ultimately.
“We're committed to ending the fentanyl crisis, to preventing gun violence, to taking down human trafficking rings, to combating retail theft, dismantling gangs, and working with our partners as we have today in local, state, and federal law enforcement to make all those things happen,” Bonta said. “For those that would continue to be involved themselves in gun trafficking and narcotic trafficking and the poisoning of what we see in Angelenos, know that your time is measured,” Moore said.The military is among the largest buyers of independent power systems known as microgrids. They make tactical sense; and environmentalists hope they can help the transition from fossil fuels.
"I half-jokingly refer to Miramar as the USS Miramar. If you think about the installation as an aircraft carrier, suddenly the need to have redundant power to have energy-resilience, water, food-resilience makes complete sense," he said.: The Pentagon's stated goal is that all bases be"power resilient." The best path to resilience in case of a disaster is often a local renewable source, and that pairs well with another Pentagon goal — for bases to be.
The progress is mostly driven by the fact that it makes tactical sense. It can save soldiers' lives at war. Producing energy on base means trucks don't have to haul in fuel Newell retired as colonel, and started a company promoting the mobile combat energy solutions he says will be even more important in the next war. He spent his last years in the Marine Corps helping stand-up the microgrid at Miramar Air Base.
"We need to be part of this solution. And if we are negatively impacting the climate change that is causing societal disruption, that's not working ourselves out of a job. That's creating the problem that we're wanting to solve," he said.Wind turbines are seen in Big Spring, Texas. Humans are driving global warming; that means humans can find solutions to change our trajectory.Climate change is here.
"I push back against any individuals or organizations that will say, 'Well, we can't do anything about this challenge.' Wedo something about it. But it would mean that we have to make up our minds that this is a challenge that we must address on a societal basis and on a global basis," he says."We should not and cannot accept climate change as the norm.
And we have to remember that some individuals and companies are more responsible for climate change than others. So how do we hold them accountable? This summerClimate Emergency Questions COVID-19 vaccines that rely on the technology have been administered more than 13 billion times and have saved millions of lives, the Nobel Prize committee noted.
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