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Jon Christensen

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Jon Christensen is a founder of the Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA and a producer on the "Earth Focus" series. 

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A thick haze of smog sits above homes in San Bernardino, California.
The fourth season of "Earth Focus" explores how our environments affect our health. Stories of collective resistance and human agency reveal how geography itself is shaped by people, and how people act so that their destinies might not be determined by their geographies.
Sen. Harry Reid
Former Nevada Senator Harry Reid protected wildlands and rivers and helped transform the image of his state from a wasteland into a home worthy of love and care.
Getty Images - Filibuster - Harry Reid
Former Nevada Sen. Harry Reid along with 18 Democratic senators say the filibuster may need to be reformed or abolished to break the partisan logjam holding up legislation on the most urgent crises facing our nation, including climate change.
Kai Anderson's power map of the environmental campaigns led by Sen. Harry Reid in Nevada during his long career in Congress.
Kai Anderson’s eye-catching, multi-colored, hand-drawn thematic maps have developed a cult following in conservation circles in the American West. He walks us through a map he created of Sen. Harry Reid's major environmental campaigns.
Booming Las Vegas (Courtesy of KCET)
"The New West and the Politics of the Environment," a feature-length documentary for the public television environmental news magazine “Earth Focus,” makes the case for placing former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid and Nevada at the center of a green new deal.
Jocelyn Torres of the Conservation Land Foundation
As an advocate for public lands, Jocelyn Torres is shaping the future of conservation by protecting wide-open landscapes of the American West from destructive industries.
Joe Ely and his grandkids
After a groundbreaking settlement that ended a century-long water war over Pyramid Lake, Joe Ely went on to help Native American tribes craft water settlements throughout the western U.S.
Alexandria Villaseñor and other youth activists demonstrate with posters on the steps of San Francisco City Hall. | Courtesy of of Thomson Reuters Foundation
Four new “Earth Focus” documentaries explore environmental politics and power: from global youth climate activists to the United States Senate, via South Africa and the Peruvian Amazon.
A group of women in Zanzibar sits at a table full of electric eqiupment. | Nicky Milne/Thomson Reuters Foundation
If you have eaten avocado or driven in a car fueled by gasoline recently, you could be personally implicated in some of the stories told in this season of "Earth Focus."
People working on a sustainable sea cucumber farm in Madagascar.  | Nicky Milne/Thomson Reuters Foundation
"Adaptation” was until recently a bad word in certain environmental circles. Now we know that we are already beginning to see and feel some of the effects of climate change. That’s why we have to talk about adaptation.
Taylor Yard (large) | Courtney Cecale
What happens at the 42-acre Taylor Yard parcel on the banks of the Los Angeles River will set the stage for the future of the river and the diverse communities surrounding it for decades to come.
Sharks May 2017 | Cristine Blanco
Often times people are not fully represented in public spaces, this includes the beach. An art exhibit addresses questions of inclusion as it relates to beach access and surfing. 
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