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LiveCoolDavis Vlog 2: Line Drying Your Laundry

Submitted by Cool Davis on Thu, 02/18/2021 - 1:44pm
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This video goes through the benefits of line drying your laundry as well as some tips-and-tricks to make it fun and efficient. I also cover how to save energy on washing your laundry.

Please share your line drying tips in the comments and post pictures and videos of your line laundry on social media using #LiveCoolDavis​

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LiveCoolDavis Vlog1: Changing Your Filter Heating and Cooling

Submitted by Cool Davis on Thu, 02/18/2021 - 1:35pm
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This video describes how to change your home heating and cooling system filter.

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In The Studio - Climate-ready Landscaping

Submitted by Davis Media Access on Tue, 02/09/2021 - 1:42pm
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Alex Silva-Sadder hosts Erin Donley Marineau, Executive Director of Tree Davis.

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topics discussed include: what is a climate-ready landscaping and how trees are an important component, using a variety of tree species, collaboration with City of Davis and CalFire on 40 year master plan, how you can get a free tree and advice, the Davis Great Tree Search, the Tree Davis Memorial Grove, and the May 1st Celebration of Lois Wolk.

Recorded 02/09/21.

Talking Point - Got Milk? Professor German, UC Davis Department of Food Science and Technology

Submitted by Lin Weaver on Thu, 01/14/2021 - 3:11pm
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Lin Weaver interviews Professor German of the UC Davis Department of Food Science and Technology. Topics include the benefits of milk, mother's milk, and lactation. The discussion also centered on the new understanding of the microbiome in the gut, and how its composition affects the body and the brain.

The 27th Annual City of Davis Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration

Submitted by Jeff Shaw on Wed, 01/13/2021 - 12:01pm
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The 27th Annual City of Davis Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration presented by City of Davis and City of Davis Human Relations Commission.   Partnering with Davis Media Access.    Presented virtual this year on youtube, DCTV Ch. 15 and KDRT 95.7fm.      Featuring footage from previous years as well as new video submissions.    Again, click here to view the show on the City of Davis Youtube Channel on Monday Jan 18 at 9am.

TRAC - Fences & Locks to Jobs & Paychecks

Submitted by Alexander Silva... on Wed, 12/09/2020 - 3:36pm
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A documentary on the TRAC program at the Washington State Corrections Center for Women. A pre-apprenticeship training program that teaches the basics of the building trades skills and life skills. The program is offered in the last year of incarceration so that the graduate can step out of prison and into their choice of 8 different unions as apprentices. TRAC is a huge success. About 40% of the women who complete their sentences will return within a couple of years having reoffended. The TRAC graduates? 3% Women who return to the community but not the same old life.

Kim Stanley Robinson's "The Ministry for the Future"

Submitted by Lin Weaver on Tue, 12/01/2020 - 1:52pm
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Lin Weaver interviews science fiction legend, Kim Stanley Robinson, about his latest novel, "The Ministry for the Future"

Topics include a discussion on how changing climate brings devastation, suffering, and death; and what a transnational agency (the Ministry for the Future) is doing to combat those woes.