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VOL. 2 • NUM 11 www.LaPrensaTEXAS.com 17 de Marzo de 2019 Cambios Ambientales About the Cover Non-Profit Our Environment Meat Based Live SPURSCAST at Artist Highlight Matters Environmental Guadalupe Patricia Ortiz Gardopia Here Is Why Destruction Cultural Arts Center By AnArte Gallery By R.Eguia By Dr. Ricardo Romo By Isa Fernández By R.Eguia 2 La Prensa Texas SAN ANTONIO 17 de Marzo de 2019 This grass roots publication is the life Let’s Talk About it... source for a community that is not easily afforded viable access to diverse and ac- Facebook cessible media. San Antonio and the sur- rounding counties have become accustomed By Yvette Tello Eliseo Moreno: doomed regardless of what over and tell you what to do, to relevant news brought to them in both English and Spanish since 1913. Climate change causes rising “Climate change will happen we do.” drive, eat, hike up gas prices sea levels due to the melting as it’s happened for 4 bil- and so on. It’s the only pur- Steve A Duran Sr. CEO/Publisher of the polar ice caps which lion years on earth; it never David Martin Repya: pose is control. The climate [email protected] contribute to greater storm has remained the same. Our “Just look at what has been is and will always change, Ramon Chapa Jr. damage; warming ocean lives are short and human going on in Australia..It is regardless of our efforts.” Co-Publisher [email protected] temperatures are associ- beings have only been on shocking.” Yvette Tello ated with stronger and more Penelope Perez: Executive Vice President frequent storms; additional “Climate change has [email protected] rainfall, particularly dur- such an awful stigma Roxanne Eguia Editor In Chief ing severe weather events, associated with the [email protected] leads to flooding and other semantics. I see a lot Victoria Ward damage; an increase in the of really important Graphic Designer [email protected] incidence and severity of work being done on Steve Walker wildfires threatens habitats, the grounds of sus- Ricardo Romo homes, and lives; and heat tainability and resil- Jessica Duran waves contribute to human ience. Even if it is a Isa Fernández Contributors deaths and other conse- huge ploy to control [email protected] quences. I read this in an every aspect of our article today: “I’ve seen the lives, there is still so worst-case projections, and much more we can it’s a scary world out there be doing for the earth if we don’t do something. I that would benefit us looked at maps of the areas personally. Especially in the US most vulnerable to the planet for about 200,000 in this city. We give so much climate change — Florida, years which is a small frac- Javier Antonio Guzman: love to the Edwards Aquifer the Carolinas, New York, tion of time in comparison to “95% of the earth’s life has recharge zones, but little Texas, California — and I re- 4 billion. It is an illusion of been hotter than it is in this to nothing for the sacred The mission of the Westside Develop- alized I had a lot of family in our time that makes us think current cold cycle; this is watershed areas that are ment Corporation (WDC) is to foster these areas. So then I pulled it should and will always the lowest amount of co2 in intimately connected to the economic development, promote the de- velopment and redevelopment of real estate up maps showing the areas be as it is as we know it in the earth’s recorded natural San Antonio River. If we within its target area, create viable urban with the fastest-growing La- our brief period of time. We history. Banks would never are worried about being con- communities, and preserve the character, culture and history of the Westside. tino populations. They were are changing things with make loans or investments if trolled, we should battle big The vision is a vibrant Westside com- almost identical.” What can pollution no doubt. We are the area was gonna flood in agriculture, big consumption munity where people want to live, work, and visit. we do to make a difference? changing the composition the next 10 decades.” and big pharma. We can help Leonard Rodriguez Should we be concerned? of our atmosphere and that ourselves and our tierra and President /CEO Let’s talk about it… will have a reaction. We can Candace Price: it begins with the soil, our [email protected] buy some time for future “Climate change is a ploy gente must be willing to dig.” La Prensa Texas San Antonio is published once generations but this planet is a week by La Familia Duran Inc. 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All Rights Reserved. Published and printed in the United States of America. La Prensa Texas 210-686-0600 17 de Marzo de 2019 La Prensa Texas SAN ANTONIO 3 About the Cover Artist Patricia Ortiz The cover features a have we all observed in a “If I could choose one framed photographic print glance a moment which word to describe San Anto- by Patricia Ortiz titled took our breath away or nio, it would be enchanting. “Sunday’s Paper”. The evoked an emotional re- Our city captivates people piece was featured in an sponse? Instances like these from all over the world with exhibition for Anarte Gal- are reasons I began my its history, culture, tradi- lery last September called journey into the world of tions, food, music and folk- “An Enchanted City”. It photography, which has al- lore. I too am constantly features a series of Com- lowed me to suspend these captivated by the charm of posites( photographs made moments in time. I began this city.” by combining several dis- taking photos with my cell For more information tinct photographs either phone as we all do, but as I visit made one over another on fell more and more in love https://www.patricia-or- the same plate or made on with capturing real life, tiz.com/ one print from a number of I decided to buy my first negatives). Ortiz special- camera about a year and izes in photography and a half ago. Thus began an “untitled” 22”x27” composite photography. interpretation of life thru PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT She speaks on her journey my eyes and lens.” Courtesy of AnArte Gallery below: Her“An Enchanted City” “Life is full of unpredict- series featured works fo- able moments. How often cused on San Antonio life. “Havana Nocturne” 25’x23’ Framed Photographic Print Courtesy of AnArte Gallery 4 La Prensa Texas SAN ANTONIO 17 de Marzo de 2019 CAMBIOS Our Environment Matters Here Is Why By Dr. Ricardo Romo 56 million to 94 million these wells that supply tatives Natural Resources nor Greg Abbott. Earth is the only planet residents over the next water to cities need not Committee, estimated “the There are more than 175 in the universe discovered 20 years. Demographic disappear. Underground amount of rain the storm such storage units in the thus far that can sustain growth will result in ad- shortage reservoirs may dropped on the state could United States, but Texas life. Thus we have an ob- ditional stress on our exist- help immensely. meet all its water needs has only three. The reality ligation to protect our en- ing natural resources. The San Antonio state rep- — household, agricultural is that Texas can expect to vironment and leave it in most immediate challenge resentative Lyle Larson and otherwise — for at see more droughts in the better condition than when is an ever-dwindling sup- told the least eight years.” What coming years as climate we came into the world. ply of water. The Texas Tribune that is urgently needed is what change brings drier weath- Our children and their When an extreme in the aftermath of Hur- Larson previously pro- er and stirs up hurricanes children deserve nothing drought occurs in Texas, ricane Harvey, we passed posed in a 2017 bill: “aqui- on the Gulf of Mexico. less. There are things that as happened several years up the opportunity to cap- fer storage and recovery” each of us can do daily to ago, we are asked to sig- ture the estimated 35 tril- projects in which water is RECYCLING improve life on earth. Here Our environmental well- are a few suggestions and ness is also threatened by thoughts. what we put back into the According to the Na- earth. In a recent article tional Climate Assessment in The Report, we live in the “hot- Atlantic, “Is This the test and driest region” in End of Recycling?” (Mar.