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CCEP Podcasts - Exploring Policy and Ethics in CaliforniaUncertain Forecast, Episode 7 - How the Unhoused Experience Climate ExtremesWelcome to Uncertain Forecast, a podcast series created by the California Center for Ethics and Policy--or “CCEP”--at Cal Poly Pomona. The focus of our podcast is on climate justice, an issue that affects people worldwide, particularly where inequality is greatest, but which is often disguised or invisible.
In this episode of the series, CCEP student fellows Ana Ruiz and Cristian Arduz examine the connection between housing insecurity and climate change. Specifically, they ask the difficult question of how unhoused individuals deal with current and future climate extremes. Their two episodes include powerful interviews with a variety of s...
2023-01-3059 minCCEP Podcasts - Exploring Policy and Ethics in CaliforniaUncertain Forecast, Episode 6 - The Gold of CaliforniaWelcome to Uncertain Forecast, a podcast series created by the California Center for Ethics and Policy--or “CCEP”--at Cal Poly Pomona. The focus of our podcast is on climate justice, an issue that affects people worldwide, particularly where inequality is greatest, but which is often disguised or invisible.
In this episode of the series, CCEP student fellow Victoria Tran examines what it means to be Asian American in the Golden State. She navigates the turbulent history of Asian immigrants in California, issues if environmental justice, and white supremacy. Her narrative is personal and moving, and highlights the like...
2022-12-0644 minCCEP Podcasts - Exploring Policy and Ethics in CaliforniaUncertain Forecast, Episode 5 - Looking for Nature in the San Gabriel RiverWelcome to Uncertain Forecast, a podcast series created by the California Center for Ethics and Policy--or “CCEP”--at Cal Poly Pomona. The focus of our podcast is on climate justice, an issue that affects people worldwide, particularly where inequality is greatest, but which is often disguised or invisible.
In this episode of the series, CCEP student fellow Rebecca Prentice records a walking journey along the San Gabriel Valley, capturing the sound of the environment around her and reflecting on the meaning of nature as it relates to cities and the built environment. In doing so, she forces us t...
2022-11-0939 minCCEP Podcasts - Exploring Policy and Ethics in CaliforniaUncertain Forecast, Episode 4 - California Wildfires and Climate JusticeWelcome to Uncertain Forecast, a podcast series created by the California Center for Ethics and Policy--or “CCEP”--at Cal Poly Pomona. The focus of our podcast is on climate justice, an issue that affects people worldwide, particularly where inequality is greatest, but which is often disguised or invisible.
In this episode of the series we share with you a panel discussion hosted by CCEP on the topic of wildfires, an important topic for California. For this conversation, which I had the pleasure of moderating, we brought together four individuals leading the fight for equitable access to wildfire miti...
2022-10-131h 29CCEP Podcasts - Exploring Policy and Ethics in CaliforniaUncertain Forecast, Episode 3 - Three Stories of Extreme HeatWelcome to Uncertain Forecast, a podcast series created by the California Center for Ethics and Policy--or “CCEP”--at Cal Poly Pomona. The focus of our podcast is on climate justice, an issue that affects people worldwide, particularly where inequality is greatest, but which is often disguised or invisible.
In this episode of the series, CPP political science student Melane Olmeda takes a close look at how the most invisible yet deadliest climate change-related issue, that of extreme heat, affects the lives of ordinary people. Melane is interested specifically on how extreme heat is affecting three different communities: a yo...
2022-09-2820 minCCEP Podcasts - Exploring Policy and Ethics in CaliforniaUncertain Forecast, Episode 2 - How the Unhoused Experience Climate ChangeWelcome to Uncertain Forecast, a podcast series created by the California Center for Ethics and Policy--or “CCEP”--at Cal Poly Pomona. The focus of our podcast is on climate justice, an issue that affects people worldwide, particularly where inequality is greatest, but which is often disguised or invisible.
In our second episode of the series, CPP philosophy student Emily Reyes looks specifically at the impact of climate change on houseless people in Pomona, the surrounding community outside of the Cal Poly Pomona campus. Emily interviews key organizers and stakeholders to highlight two key issues in Pomona: access to f...
2022-09-0145 minCCEP Podcasts - Exploring Policy and Ethics in CaliforniaUncertain Forecast, Episode 1 - What Is Plastic?Welcome to Uncertain Forecast, a podcast series created by the California Center for Ethics and Policy--or “CCEP”--at Cal Poly Pomona. The focus of our podcast is on climate justice, an issue that affects people worldwide, particularly where inequality is greatest, but which is often disguised or invisible.
In this first episode, CPP bio student Alec Iskenderian takes a close look at what people think of plastics. Inspired by an exotoxicology class where Alec learned that it takes about 500 years for plastic to degrade into a form of energy that can be used for living things, Alec inte...
2022-08-1722 minCCEP Podcasts - Exploring Policy and Ethics in CaliforniaSecuring Justice Episode 8 - Three Stories About Housing and MusicThis is the eighth and final episode in our series, and therefore we wanted to offer something special. CCEP recently hosted Betto Arcos, who is a journalist and storyteller, to recite three stories at the intersection of housing and music. A native of Xalapa in Veracruz, Mexico, Betto now lives in LA where he is a frequent contributor to KPCC and PRX Radio. He is also the author of Music Stories from the Cosmic Barrio.
If you’ve been listening to this podcast all season, these stories bridge many of the themes we’ve already explored, such as i...
2022-02-171h 29CCEP Podcasts - Exploring Policy and Ethics in CaliforniaSecuring Justice Episode 7 - Reflections on Housing and HomeThis is the seventh episode in our series, which focuses on housing insecurity in California. This episode was created by two CCEP’s 2020-21 student fellows, Octavio Cuevas and Victoria Torres. As I mentioned in past episodes, each year CCEP recruits a new group of student fellows, whose coursework and research focuses on the year’s theme.
For Octavio and Victoria’s episode on “housing insecurity”, they offer us a unique listening experience. It begins with their own meditations on the meaning of home and how housing access has shaped their lives. Then, they interview a friend and fellow...
2021-12-2018 minCCEP Podcasts - Exploring Policy and Ethics in CaliforniaSecuring Justice Episode 6 - Racial Gaps in Homeownership, Income, and Savings (And Why They Matter)In this episode, we share with you our final 2021 panel discussion hosted by CCEP, titled “Racial Gaps in Homeownership, Income, and Savings”, which brought together three experts on the history of housing and wealth inequality in the US, and Los Angeles more specifically.
This conversation is special because the moderator, Alvaro Huerta, Associate Professor in Urban and Regional Planning and Ethnic and Women’s Studies at Cal Poly Pomona, provokes our panelists to talk about their personal experiences--experiences with housing, poverty, and racism. These personal reflections lay the foundation for a discussion about historical and contemporary forms of disc...
2021-12-1359 minCCEP Podcasts - Exploring Policy and Ethics in CaliforniaSecuring Justice Episode 5 - #Cancel Rent: Digital Organizing and Collective Struggle in a Global PandemicThis episode tells a story about collective struggle during the pandemic by tuning into the ways the Healthy LA coalition navigates the bureaucratic dissonance of a call-in public comment system. It was recorded back in early 2020 and first aired on the “Digital Salon Podcast”, a project of the UCLA Urban Humanities Initiative.
In re-airing this episode, we thought we would do something a little different. We start with a brief conversation between the episode creator, Brady Collins, Assistant Professor of Political Science at CPP and his colleague, Dr. Cory Aragon, Professor of Philosophy at CPP, about the episo...
2021-12-0143 minCCEP Podcasts - Exploring Policy and Ethics in CaliforniaSecuring Justice Episode 4 - The Eviction Crisis on the Horizon: Rent Relief and Pandemic Recovery in CaliforniaIn this episode, we share with you another 2021 panel discussion hosted by CCEP, titled “The Eviction Crisis on the Horizon: Rent Relief and Pandemic Recovery in California”. For this conversation, which I had the pleasure of moderating, we brought together three individuals leading the fight for rent relief in California, and particularly in Los Angeles. As with previous panels you’ll certainly hear some policy analysis here. However, we wanted to make sure we invited community organizers working at the grassroots level so listeners can also hear how the pandemic, and concomitant eviction crisis, is impacting the lives of tenant...
2021-10-181h 06CCEP Podcasts - Exploring Policy and Ethics in CaliforniaSecuring Justice Episode 3 - Moving Forward in Affordable Housing: The Role of ArchitectsIn our third installment of Securing Justice, we share with you an episode created by one of CCEP’s 2020-21 student fellows, Itzia Salinas Cortes. To better understand the role that architects can play in addressing housing affordability, she interviews Jim Broeske, an architect with 40 years of experience working in Southern California. In their discussion, they talk about the ways in which building codes and design standards pose unique challenges to architects working in affordable housing construction, as well as creative solutions that architects--and cities--should consider to overcome them.
This project was made possible with support from Cal...
2021-10-0427 minCCEP Podcasts - Exploring Policy and Ethics in CaliforniaSecuring Justice Episode 2 - Representations of Place, Home, and SecurityIn this episode of Securing Justice, we share with you a second panel discussion hosted by CCEP, titled “Representations of Place, Home, and Insecurity”. For this conversation, we invited three creatives--a filmmaker, a visual artist, and a theater maker--whose creative work somehow examines these themes in Southern California. The impact of art and artists on the city is a widely studied topic, and something that any urban resident has probably seen or felt in their day-to-day lives. For this reason I think listeners outside of California will still find this conversation relevant to their own experiences.
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2021-09-201h 06CCEP Podcasts - Exploring Policy and Ethics in CaliforniaSecuring Justice Episode 1 - Housing Justice: From Trump to BidenWelcome to Securing Justice, a podcast series created by the California Center for Ethics and Policy--or “CCEP”--at Cal Poly Pomona.The focus of our podcast is housing insecurity, an issue that affects millions in the United States and is particularly acute here in California. This podcast will explore housing insecurity through a variety of means--panel discussions, interviews, and creative works by faculty and students.
Our aim is not necessarily to debate solutions to housing insecurity in California--though you will find some of that here--but rather to examine the multiple ways in which housing insecurity is experienced by d...
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