Events

Location: SCAG Downtown LA Office, policy Room B Email: silva@scag.ca.gov WWW: www.scag.ca.gov/environment/ej.htm Contact Name: Denise Marie Silva Phone: (213) 236-1904

Transit Coalition's monthly meeting has a heavyweight speaker...

Meet at Helms - 3229 Helms Avenue, 90034

Where: Pershing Square - 532 South Olive St., Los Angeles 90013

Overland Ave. Gate near bike path

New human species — Homo Automotivis — emerges from car-dominated environment say authors after road trip around the USA A transportation system based on the private car has so powerfully transformed the American environment that a new human species is emerging, say the authors of a new book. Homo Automotivis is less social, more aggressive, weaker, poorer and worships at the Church of Automobility, say Bianca Mugyenyi and Yves Engler, the authors of Stop Signs — Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay. “We went on safari, by bus, through the prime habitat of Homo Automotivis and what we discovered left us fearful,” said Mugyenyi, a Ugandan-Canadian who lives in Montréal. “The new species that has emerged can barely walk on its own, spends more money feeding its car than itself, is sickly and attains status to the degree it is enthralled to the automobile.”

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WHO: Breathe California of Los Angeles County (BREATHE LA), The 4th annual BREATHE LA Green Salon Series focuses on mobility: Moving Los Angeles County into a clean air future. WHAT: Expert panel discussion with robust Q&A to explore how can the neighborhoods that surround both the Fairfax and La Brea subway stations preserve their history … Continued