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westernartgirlCrochet As An Act of Mathematics to Save the Environment
Updated May 11 — Science writer Margaret Wertheim is used to pondering complexities of science, mathematics and philosophy, in the process making them accessible to the everyday reader. But even she seems a little awed by all the conceptual layers of her latest project, one which has taken her beyond her comfort zone and into … Read more
Every Day is Earth Day at the Cafe
Carolyn Baer didn’t just recently get on the green bandwagon. On the contrary: you could say she’s been driving it to work for quite a while now. “I’m that way at home; I’m just an avid recycler,” said Baer, director of Cheers Catering, Inc., the company based at the Autry that also manages the Autry … Read more
Earth Day for Beginning Backyard Farmers
It started with a couple of tomato plants and a wish to reduce their carbon footprint. But in just two years, Warren and Lovejoy Ontiveros have managed to turn their modest Highland Park homestead into an urban mini-farm, complete with fruit trees, a couple of bee hives, and, very soon, laying chickens. They even sell … Read more
In Conservation Cause, Not Just Shedding a Tear
One of the most memorable commercials in advertising history is a 1971 public service announcement by the Keep America Beautiful campaign in which a Native American — actor Iron Eyes Cody, actually of Italian descent — makes his way through an increasingly polluted landscape. As he reaches the edge of a highway, a passerby throws … Read more
Holidays for the Living . . . and the Dead
(Updated 10/4/12) Many of us are looking in panic at the calendar and realizing that, as September ends, the holiday season threatens. Ack. There’s one holiday that is somewhat new to the Autry, though it is a long and hallowed tradition in Los Angeles (especially points East), and stretches back centuries in Mexico: El Día … Read more
Earth Day and the “New” Field of Environmental History
Updated Mar. 29, 2011 — Bourbois now works at another institution. Julia Bourbois is assistant curator of colonial Latin American history and arms history at the Autry, but her Ph. D. work at UC Riverside is in the relatively new field of colonial environmental history, which looks at how historical events in the time of … Read more
