26. Dispatches from the Rebuild – Kim on the Street Reportage

A year and a half after the Eaton and Palisades fires, host Kim Marshall takes listeners on a ground-level tour of the two fire zones — from the Altadena Rebuild Trade Show, where hope looks like soil science and a “Sears catalog” of home with a sense of place.  To the Palibu Rebuild Expo, where facing the reality of living in a warming world and saying no to fossil fuel products like astroturf, giving hope to displaced seniors and embracing the healing power of nature are reshaping what recovery means.Along the way: a Red Cross board member and a volunteer firefighter-dentist making the case that "Ready is the New Well," how leaders of a burned down YMCA are keeping community alive without a building, and the people refusing to let the fire have the last word.Our episode begins and ends with a symbol of resilience named Bernard. The power of inspiration and renewal from that 170-year-old tree is the whole episode in one story.  Dispatches from the Rebuild is living history, told by the people living it. https://caer.earth – Center for Applied Ecological Remediation https://www.foothillcatalog.orghttps://www.resilientpalisades.orghttps://www.wiseandhealthyaging.orghttps://www.wiseandhealthyaging.orghttps://monarch-nursery.comDonate to help support #L.A. RisingProduced by NOVA