Southern california

The neighborhood I have chosen is Watts, California. Before it was known as Watts it was a part of Rancho La Tajuata specializing in livestock grazing and beef production. In the 1870's there was a population boom of White Americans in Southern California. La Tajuata was divided and sold into smaller farms and homes. By the 1900's the development of the railroads brought good things. The town became a city and built it's first station known as Watts Station. In 1926 the city annexed itself to Los

It was the summer of 2008 in southern California when a mere eight college students were exposed to the true horrors of the global water crisis. After they learned that 1.1 billion people were suffering from a serious lack of safe and clean drinking water, these college students had raised an astounding $1,700 on their own. They had been able to raise a good amount of money for a community to have safe and clean drinking water. What more could they do? However, schools began to reach out to these

air pollution in the San Joaquin Valley in California. Those components are the main reason for the air to be polluted and causing harm to the residents of the valley. The San Joaquin Valley is known very well for its agriculture. This according to an article called “Move Over, Los Angeles” By Marylin Berlin Snell talks about the main point of how serious the air quality has been and how it has been becoming worse than the city of Los Angeles. The southern part of the great central valley has now been

uses – poses a growing threat to food production and drinking water quality.” If there is no solution to the problem, it means that California will lose significant portions of prime agricultural land which provides food for the state, the nation and throughout the world. In a March 2009 study, The Economic Impacts of Central Valley Salinity, the University of California, Davis reported that if salinity increases at the current rate until 2030, the direct annual costs will range from $1 billion to $1

drought, and light yellow abnormal drought. As you can see, the worst part of the drought is shown in most of the western part of Nevada; however, this does not mean that the rest of the state has not been affected. Western Nevada borders eastern California, which is one of

in the 1950s, ushering in junkyards, auto-wrecking operations, plating and chemical companies, and now, a legacy of environmental and air condition issues. In 1967, community leaders began demanding a neighborhood park under the bridge. When the California Highway Patrol started building a substation there, hundreds of residents formed a human shield to stop construction. They displayed signs in Spanish with statements like, “More houses, fewer junkyards,” and they hoisted a Chicano flag from a telephone

donate to the local communities. Some of the top recognized organizations include Center for Food Safety, Eco Agriculture Partners, Farm Labor Organizing Committee, Feeding the 5000, Food-X, Food & Water Watch, Sustainable Harvest International, California Sustainability Alliance, US Green Chambers of Commerce, Santa Monica Green Business Certification Program, Monterey Bay Area Green Business Program, USGBC Central

food. Through their industriousness and capability to survive in an unstable physical and political environment, the Morongo tribe began a small bingo venture in 1983. On February 25, 1987, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that neither the state of California nor Riverside County could control the bingo and card

and friends as well. For citizens living in the Pacific Northwest our building codes are only half that of those enforced in California who ranks 2nd in earthquake frequencies. Washington is ranked 5th and Oregon is ranked 10th in earthquake frequencies which should draw more attention

Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park were both established between the 1890s and 1940s. Both National Parks are located in the southern east of California. In Sequoia National Park, it covers over 400,000 acres making it at least one of the largest parks in America. Moreover, it is also famous for the giant trees it produces. For example, the Giant Forest, which is located within Sequoia park. The forest produced some of the largest trees in America. Most notably, the General Sherman tree. In Kings