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Jon Christensen
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Teaching and doing research on environmental equity and access at UCLA, among other things.
"There's a big day coming, I can hardly wait." Yo La Tengo at Pappy & Harriet's.
May 8, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Delighted to share some very, very big and good news. The Court of Appeal ruled in our favor directing Metro to decertify the EIR for billionaire Frank McCourt's gondola to Dodger Stadium. Read all about it here: mailchi.mp/stopthegondo.... And join us to save the park and the historic heart of LA.
May 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Earth Day in the high desert.
April 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Glad to be back on my bike for the first time since my ill-fated ride of January 28. Happy to report that everything seems to be in working order after 10 miles along Ballona Creek.
April 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Our Environment + Justice Donor Circle at Liberty Hill Foundation got a perceptive, useful, cautionary, and hopeful "Environmental Justice Landscape Update for SoCal and Beyond" from Angelo Logan and Sean Hecht today. Interested? Ping me, or check us out here: www.libertyhill.org/form/environ...
April 6, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Back to California.
April 4, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Ursula K. Heise champions the power of storytelling to strengthen social awareness in the face of the global environmental crisis during her Biophilia Award lecture at the Fundación BBVA in Madrid. www.biophilia-fbbva.es/en/noticias/...
Ursula Heise champions storytelling in the face of the environmental crisis
Ceremony in the 6th edition of the Biophilia Award with lecture by laureate Ursula Heise: Environmental Futures and the Challenges of Biophilia
www.biophilia-fbbva.es
March 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Ursula Heise, pionera en humanidades ambientales: “El aviso del desastre funciona solo si se combina con una visión de lo que se puede hacer.” Incide en que “es imposible no cambiar o una vuelta al pasado." Interview in El Pais today. Ping me if you'd like a PDF.
elpais.com/clima-y-medi...
Ursula Heise, pionera en humanidades ambientales: “El aviso del desastre funciona solo si se combina con una visión de lo que se puede hacer”
La catedrática de la Universidad de California en Los Ángeles incide en que “es imposible no cambiar o una vuelta al pasado”
elpais.com
March 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
As seen on the street in Madrid today. Looking forward to the talk and celebration tomorrow at the Fundación BBVA!
March 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
If, like me and Ezra Klein, you're interested in a progressivism that can get things done and build things, join us for a discussion about the missing piece in Klein's new book "Abundance" — strategies to organize, build power, and win. April 2, 5:30pm Pacific: www.libertyhill.org/form/liberty...
March 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The war on science is here. Kim Stanley Robinson says it’s just the beginning. Widely regarded as the greatest living sci-fi writer, he’s spent decades crafting visions of the future. Now, he warns a real dystopia is unfolding, in a talk to our Lab for Environmental Narrative Strategies at UCLA.
The war on science is here. Kim Stanley Robinson says it’s just the beginning
Widely regarded as the greatest living sci-fi writer, he’s spent decades crafting visions of the future. Now, he warns that a real dystopia is unfolding.
www.ioes.ucla.edu
March 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
"Environmental Futures and the Challenges of Biophilia," a lecture by Ursula K. Heise and presentation ceremony of the 6th Biophilia Award in Environmental Humanities and Social Sciences on March 27 at 7pm at the Fundación BBVA in Madrid: www.biophilia-fbbva.es/en/eventos/e...
Environmental Futures and the Challenges of Biophilia - Biophilia
www.biophilia-fbbva.es
March 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
"Trump Can’t Kill California Values," a guest essay by Sissy Trinh and me, at LA Progressive: www.laprogressive.com/los-angeles-...
Trump Can’t Kill California Values
Right now, we need to invest in lifting up low-income communities that have often been abandoned in times of trial.
www.laprogressive.com
March 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
"LA Launches National Park Equity Model," a story by Selen Ozturk at Ethnic Media Services, on our briefing on the city's launch of a best in the field park needs assessment that will run through this year: ethnicmediaservices.org/greening-com...
LA Launches National Park Equity Model
As the national park ranking of Los Angeles plunges year after year, access to green space is at the heart of the problem.
ethnicmediaservices.org
February 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
"Los Angeles Asks Residents to Help Plan the Future of City’s Parks," a story by Sophie Craypo on the city's new park needs assessment, part of our collaboration with Ethnic Media Services covering urban greening with translations in Spanish, Chinese, Korean: ethnicmediaservices.org/environment/...
February 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
We're excited to be bringing Kim Stanley Robinson back to UCLA to talk about "Optimism, Optopia, and Climate Change Stories" on March 6 from 2 to 5pm. Join us: www.ioes.ucla.edu/event/optimi...
February 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Reposted by Jon Christensen
Happy to share a paper published in print in the Journal of Urban Affairs. @jonchristensen.bsky.social and I found that the implementation of equitable green space policies is another key step in achieving tangible equity outcomes. We identified several facilitators and barriers in LA County
February 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
If spring break finds you in Madrid, join us in celebrating Ursula K. Heise's Biophilia Award from the Fundación BBVA on March 27 for a discussion of "Environmental Futures and the Challenges of Biophilia" followed by cocktails: www.biophilia-fbbva.es/eventos/futu...
Futuros medioambientales y retos de la biophilia - Biophilia
www.biophilia-fbbva.es
January 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I've been working my way through Aldo Leopold's "A Sand County Almanac and Sketches from Here and There" in preparation for moderating this conversation about "The Land Ethic" and Ojai Valley conservation next Saturday, February 1, sponsored by the Agora Foundation and Ojai Valley Land Conservancy.
January 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Reposted by Jon Christensen
Excellent op-ed on Mike Davis' "Case for Letting Malibu Burn" and finally not just agreement, but a clear-sighted alternative vision by our outstanding UCLA colleague Liz Koslov @koslov.bsky.social:
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/o....
Opinion | There Is No Way to Retreat From the Risk of Wildfires
Some more realistic ways to think about the challenges ahead.
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Home from Lisbon after a wonderful trip to Portugal over the holidays and fall quarter in Ghent, Belgium. Full gallery at www.facebook.com/jon.allan.ch...
January 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Reposted by Jon Christensen
The gondola's CEQA analysis was challenged in court by the LA Parks Alliance, but struck down by a judge.

For yesterday's story I spoke to Jon Christensen, founder of the LA Parks Alliance, who says their appeal is in process and a trial could happen next year

www.torched.la/the-no-build...
The no-build (until-we-need-to-build-something-fast) games
LA could leverage this ordinance to make it easier to create new public spaces, public bathrooms, and even public housing leading up to 2028
www.torched.la
December 21, 2024 at 6:09 PM
Reposted by Jon Christensen
"There was no opportunity for community members to voice their concerns other than a form that asked them to list the concessions they wanted in exchange for the gondola permanently ruining the park."

Here's that form: lastatehistoricparkgpa.com/pdf/Forms/LA...

bsky.app/profile/awal...
December 21, 2024 at 6:04 PM
Reposted by Jon Christensen
In order to accommodate the proposed Dodger Stadium gondola, Los Angeles State Historic Park requires a general plan amendment from the state.

28 organizations sent a letter to state officials yesterday to "express alarm" about how California State Parks is managing the engagement process
December 21, 2024 at 6:00 PM
My review of "Reframing Dioramas: The Art of Preserving
Wilderness" @nhmla.bsky.social just came out in the jorunal Science alongside reviews of five other exhibitions in
@gettymuseum.bsky.social's "PST ART: Art & Science Collide": www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The two cultures meet again
www.science.org
December 13, 2024 at 2:09 PM