L.A. Fires and a Repost: Earth Day

Gabrielle Birchak/ January 15, 2025/ Late Modern History/ 0 comments

This week, due to lack of time, I will be repost­ing an old­er pod­cast that I did years ago about Earth Day because it serves as a valu­able reminder dur­ing the cur­rent mis­for­tune in Los Ange­les, as well as the mis­for­tune of oth­er areas afflict­ed by cli­mate change. No doubt, our plan­et is hurt­ing. If you are inter­est­ed in help­ing the vic­tims of this dev­as­ta­tion, first, thank you for your love! For those who want to donate, I rec­om­mend the fol­low­ing orga­ni­za­tions:
Emer­gency Net­work Los Ange­les https://enla.org/
Amer­i­can Red Cross https://www.redcross.org/local/california/los-angeles/about-us/our-work/california-wildfires-response-january-2025.html
The Sal­va­tion Army https://give-sc.salvationarmy.org/give/654073/
Cal­i­for­nia Com­mu­ni­ty Foun­da­tion https://www.calfund.org/funds/wildfire-recovery-fund/
Baby2Baby https://baby2baby.org/
Los Ange­les Coun­ty Ani­mal Care Foun­da­tion https://lacountyanimals.org/
Pasade­na Humane https://pasadenahumane.org/
Best Friends Ani­mal Soci­ety https://bestfriends.org/emergency-response/los-angeles-wildfires

There are so many oth­er won­der­ful orga­ni­za­tions that are mak­ing them­selves avail­able to those affect­ed by these hor­ri­ble fires. If you are inter­est­ed in donat­ing to those I have men­tioned or would pre­fer to donate to one of your favorite char­i­ties, my advice is to vis­it charitynavigator.com. Char­i­ty Nav­i­ga­tor lists a mul­ti­tude of char­i­ties based on

Impact and Measurement

Account­abil­i­ty and Finance

Lead­er­ship and Adaptability

Cul­ture and Community

https://www.charitynavigator.org/discover-charities/where-to-give/palisades-fire-2025/#charity_list

Final­ly, if there is one thing you can do to help with all the dev­as­ta­tion hap­pen­ing around the world, please do your best to reduce your car­bon foot­print. For each oth­er, and for the ani­mals. We only have one plan­et to live on. Let’s do our best to keep it healthy.

Thank you again for tun­ing in to Math! Sci­ence! His­to­ry! Stay tuned for more pod­casts com­ing in the near future, as we begin to roll out the rebrand of the pod­cast! Until next time my friends, carpe diem. Stay safe!